Advancing Transformer's Capabilities in Commonsense Reasoning

Recent advances in general purpose pre-trained language models have shown great potential in commonsense reasoning. However, current works still perform poorly on standard commonsense reasoning benchmarks including the Com2Sense Dataset. We argue that this is due to a disconnect with current cutting-edge machine learning methods. In this work, we aim to bridge the gap by introducing current ML-based methods to improve general purpose pre-trained language models in the task of commonsense reasoning. Specifically, we experiment with and systematically evaluate methods including knowledge transfer, model ensemble, and introducing an additional pairwise contrastive objective. Our best model outperforms the strongest previous works by ~15\% absolute gains in Pairwise Accuracy and ~8.7\% absolute gains in Standard Accuracy

Block-Randomized Stochastic Methods for Tensor Ring Decomposition

Tensor ring (TR) decomposition is a simple but effective tensor network for analyzing and interpreting latent patterns of tensors. In this work, we propose a doubly randomized optimization framework for computing TR decomposition. It can be regarded as a sensible mix of randomized block coordinate descent and stochastic gradient descent, and hence functions in a double-random manner and can achieve lightweight updates and a small memory footprint. Further, to improve the convergence, especially for ill-conditioned problems, we propose a scaled version of the framework that can be viewed as an adaptive preconditioned or diagonally-scaled variant. Four different probability distributions for selecting the mini-batch and the adaptive strategy for determining the step size are also provided. Finally, we present the theoretical properties and numerical performance for our proposals

Unsupervised Hierarchical Domain Adaptation for Adverse Weather Optical Flow

Optical flow estimation has made great progress, but usually suffers from degradation under adverse weather. Although semi/full-supervised methods have made good attempts, the domain shift between the synthetic and real adverse weather images would deteriorate their performance. To alleviate this issue, our start point is to unsupervisedly transfer the knowledge from source clean domain to target degraded domain. Our key insight is that adverse weather does not change the intrinsic optical flow of the scene, but causes a significant difference for the warp error between clean and degraded images. In this work, we propose the first unsupervised framework for adverse weather optical flow via hierarchical motion-boundary adaptation. Specifically, we first employ image translation to construct the transformation relationship between clean and degraded domains. In motion adaptation, we utilize the flow consistency knowledge to align the cross-domain optical flows into a motion-invariance common space, where the optical flow from clean weather is used as the guidance-knowledge to obtain a preliminary optical flow for adverse weather. Furthermore, we leverage the warp error inconsistency which measures the motion misalignment of the boundary between the clean and degraded domains, and propose a joint intra- and inter-scene boundary contrastive adaptation to refine the motion boundary. The hierarchical motion and boundary adaptation jointly promotes optical flow in a unified framework. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments have been performed to verify the superiority of the proposed method

Coastal sediment modelling (TELEMAC-2D / TOMAWAC / GAIA): scour in offshore wind farm

Hydrodynamic

Simulation of urban waterlogging with TELEMAC-2D/SWMM coupled model

Hydrodynamic