2025年6月15日

Introduction to Jenkins and build failures

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log out Dashboard node-test-commit-ibmi #1945 Status Changes Console Output View Build Information Metadata

Environment Variables Git Build Data Parameters Test Result

打开 Blue Ocean Previous Build Next Build FailedFailed #1945 (2025年5月28日 上午3:00:00) Started 17 days ago Took 3 hr 30 min on test-mnx-ubuntu2204-x64-2 Started by upstream project node-daily-master build number 3794 originally caused by:

Started by timer Revision: 4be147351a512cf42198fc0071e996146e7bf736 Repository: git@github.com:$GITHUB_ORG/$REPO_NAME.git refs/remotes/origin/_jenkins_local_branch Test Result (失败) parallel.test-http-proxy-fetch parallel.test-process-cpuUsage 显示全部失败单元测试 »> Parameters NODEJS_VERSION 25.0.0 NODEJS_MAJOR_VERSION 25 GITHUB_ORG nodejs REPO_NAME node GIT_REMOTE_REF refs/heads/main COMMIT_SHA_CHECK The SHA of the git commit to build. This is used to check that the PR has not been modified between the job being started and code checked out. REBASE_ONTO Optionally, rebase onto the given ref before testing. Leave blank to skip rebasing. POST_REBASE_SHA1_CHECK After rebasing, check that the resulting commit sha1 matches the given one. If left blank, no check is performed. CONFIG_FLAGS Add arguments to ./configure. CERTIFY_SAFE true IGNORE_FLAKY_TESTS true NODES_SUBSET auto 配置 Faileddefault REST API Jenkins 2.504.2

介绍一下jekins


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从您提供的 Jenkins 页面截图来看,我可以为您介绍一下 Jenkins:

Jenkins 是一个开源的自动化服务器,主要用于持续集成(CI)和持续交付(CD)。 简单来说,它帮助开发团队自动化软件开发过程中与构建、测试和部署相关的工作。

从您提供的页面中,我们可以看到 Jenkins 的一些核心功能和特点:

  1. 自动化构建与测试:页面显示了一个名为 node-test-commit-ibmi 的构建任务,并且有构建编号 #1945,表明 Jenkins 正在执行或已经执行了与 Node.js 相关的测试或构建任务。它记录了构建的开始时间、持续时间 (Took 3 hr 30 min) 以及在哪台机器上运行 (on test-mnx-ubuntu2204-x64-2)。
  2. 持续集成:构建任务由上游项目 node-daily-master 触发,这体现了持续集成的概念——代码提交后会自动触发构建和测试。
  3. 版本控制集成:它与 Git 集成,显示了仓库 (git@github.com:$GITHUB_ORG/$REPO_NAME.git) 和提交的 SHA 值 (4be147351a512cf42198fc0071e996146e7bf736),确保每次构建都基于特定的代码版本。
  4. 构建状态与结果:页面清楚地显示了构建的状态 (Failed) 和测试结果 (Test Result (失败)),甚至列出了失败的单元测试 (parallel.test-http-proxy-fetch, parallel.test-process-cpuUsage)。这对于快速识别问题非常有帮助。
  5. 参数化构建Parameters 部分显示了构建时可以配置的各种参数,例如 NODEJS_VERSIONGITHUB_ORGREPO_NAME 等。这使得构建过程更加灵活和可配置。
  6. 可视化界面DashboardBlue Ocean(一个更现代的 Jenkins UI/UX)的提及表明 Jenkins 提供了用户友好的界面来管理和监控自动化流程。
  7. 可扩展性:Jenkins 拥有庞大的插件生态系统,可以与各种工具和技术集成,满足不同的自动化需求。

总结来说,Jenkins 是一个强大的工具,能够帮助开发团队实现以下目标:

  • 提高开发效率:自动化重复性的构建和测试任务,让开发者专注于编写代码。
  • 及早发现问题:通过频繁的自动测试,可以更早地发现代码中的错误。
  • 确保软件质量:自动化测试有助于维护代码质量和稳定性。
  • 简化部署流程:可以将构建好的软件自动部署到目标环境。

您看到的页面就是 Jenkins 在展示一个特定构建任务的详细信息,包括其运行状态、结果、使用的参数以及相关的代码信息。


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tannal@desktop:~/tannalwork/projects/node-new$ NODE_OPTIONS=’–max-heap-size=750’ ./node inspect test.js < Debugger listening on ws://127.0.0.1:9229/87dfe3a0-d0fc-4103-8820-83bdb2d5f29a < For help, see: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/inspector < connecting to 127.0.0.1:9229 … ok < Debugger attached. < break in node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:892 890 return null; 891 }

892 debugger; 893 // Check for node modules paths. 894 if (StringPrototypeCharAt(request, 0) !== ‘.’ || debug> n step in node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:894 892 debugger; 893 // Check for node modules paths. 894 if (StringPrototypeCharAt(request, 0) !== ‘.’ || 895 (request.length > 1 && 896 StringPrototypeCharAt(request, 1) !== ‘.’ && debug> n step in node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:901 899 900 /** @type {string[]} / 901 let paths; 902 if (parent?.paths?.length) { 903 paths = ArrayPrototypeSlice(modulePaths); debug> n step in node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:902 900 /* @type {string[]} */ 901 let paths; 902 if (parent?.paths?.length) { 903 paths = ArrayPrototypeSlice(modulePaths); 904 ArrayPrototypeUnshiftApply(paths, parent.paths); debug> p paths undefined debug>

这是什么玩意?


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您提供的这串内容是 Node.js 内置调试器(inspector)的使用过程。

简单来说,这是一个用于帮助开发者查找代码问题、理解程序执行流程的工具。让我来逐行解释一下:

  1. NODE_OPTIONS='--max-heap-size=750' ./node inspect test.js

    • NODE_OPTIONS='--max-heap-size=750': 这是一个环境变量,它告诉 Node.js 进程在启动时,将其 V8 JavaScript 引擎的最大堆内存限制为 750 兆字节(MB)。这通常用于控制 Node.js 应用程序的内存使用,避免内存溢出或在内存受限的环境中运行。
    • ./node: 这表示您正在执行当前目录下的 node 可执行文件。
    • inspect test.js: 这是核心命令。inspect 是 Node.js 提供的内置调试模式。它会启动 test.js 文件,但会在代码开始执行时暂停,并等待一个调试客户端连接。
  2. < Debugger listening on ws://127.0.0.1:9229/87dfe3a0-d0fc-4103-8820-83bdb2d5f29a

    • 这表示 Node.js 进程已经启动并进入了调试模式,它正在本地 IP 地址 127.0.0.1 的 9229 端口上监听调试器连接。这个端口是 Node.js 调试器的默认端口。
    • For help, see: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/inspector: 提示您可以访问 Node.js 官方文档了解更多调试器信息。
  3. connecting to 127.0.0.1:9229 ... ok

    • Debugger attached.: 这表示您当前终端的调试器客户端(默认情况下,当您使用 node inspect 启动时,终端会自带一个简单的调试客户端)已成功连接到正在监听的 Node.js 进程。现在,您可以开始与调试器交互了。
  4. break in node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:892

    • 890 return null;
    • 891 }
    • >892 debugger;
    • 893 // Check for node modules paths.
    • 当调试器连接后,它会自动在代码的起始点暂停。这里,它暂停在了 Node.js 内部的 CommonJS 模块加载器文件(node:internal/modules/cjs/loader)的第 892 行。
    • > 符号指示了当前执行暂停在哪一行。debugger; 语句是 JavaScript 中的一个特殊关键字,当调试器开启时,它会在这里暂停。
  5. debug> n

    • debug> 是调试器的命令行提示符,表示现在可以输入调试命令。
    • n: 这是调试命令 next(下一步)的缩写。它的作用是让程序执行当前行,然后跳到下一行代码暂停。如果当前行是一个函数调用,n 会执行完整个函数,而不会进入函数内部。
  6. step in node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:894

    • 892 debugger;
    • 893 // Check for node modules paths.
    • >894 if (StringPrototypeCharAt(request, 0) !== '.' ||
    • 在您输入 n 之后,调试器执行了 892 行的 debugger; 语句,并暂停在了 894 行。
  7. 后续的 debug> nstep in 消息

    • 这些都表示您在持续输入 n 命令,让调试器一步步地执行 Node.js 内部的模块加载代码。
  8. debug> p paths

    • p: 这是调试命令 print(打印)的缩写。它的作用是评估一个表达式或打印某个变量在当前作用域中的值。
    • paths: 您在尝试打印一个名为 paths 的变量的值。
  9. undefined

    • 这是 p paths 命令的输出。它表示在当前执行暂停的位置(例如,node:internal/modules/cjs/loader 文件的第 902 行),变量 paths 已经被声明 (let paths;) 但还没有被赋值,所以它的值是 undefined

总结:

您看到的这个过程是您在尝试使用 Node.js 的命令行调试器来单步执行 test.js 文件。在执行过程中,您进入了 Node.js 内部模块加载的代码,并尝试检查了某个内部变量 paths 的值。

这个调试器对于:

  • 理解代码执行流程:可以一行一行地看代码是如何运行的。
  • 查找错误:当程序出现问题时,可以在错误发生前暂停,检查变量值,找到问题根源。
  • 检查变量状态:随时查看任何变量在特定时刻的值。

是一个非常有用的工具。


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什么叫不承认排中律在无限集合中的应用?那有限集合可以排中律,整数之间有排中律么?


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这是一个关于**排中律(Law of Excluded Middle)**在不同数学语境下应用的哲学和逻辑问题。

1. 什么是排中律(Law of Excluded Middle)?

排中律是经典逻辑的三大基本定律之一(另外两个是同一律和矛盾律)。它表述为:

对于任何命题 P,P 要么是真的,要么是假的,不存在第三种可能性。

用符号表示就是:P 或 非 P (P ∨ ¬P) 永远为真。 例如:

  • “天在下雨” 或者 “天没有下雨”。
  • “2 是偶数” 或者 “2 不是偶数”。

2. 为什么有些数学流派“不承认排中律在无限集合中的应用”?

这主要是**直觉主义(Intuitionism)构造主义(Constructivism)**数学学派的观点。

  • 经典数学:认为一个数学对象是独立于我们认识存在的,一个命题的真假是客观存在的,无论我们是否能证明它。所以,在经典数学中,排中律对于无限集合的命题也是成立的。例如,对于一个无限集合 S 和一个性质 P,经典数学认为“存在一个元素 x 使得 P(x) 为真”或者“不存在这样的元素 x(即所有元素 x 都使得 P(x) 为假)”这两者中必有一个为真,即使我们无法通过有限步骤找到那个 x 或证明它不存在。

  • 直觉主义/构造主义数学:他们认为数学对象只有在我们能够构造它们时才存在,一个命题的真假必须通过构造性证明来确定。对于无限集合,他们认为我们无法“遍历”所有元素,因此,对于某些涉及无限集合的命题,我们可能无法通过有限步骤来构造性地证明它是真或假。

    举个例子: 考虑命题“在圆周率 π 的十进制展开中,存在一个连续的 100 位数字序列,其全为 7。”

    • 经典数学:认为这个命题要么是真的,要么是假的,即使我们目前还没有能力去证明或证伪它。
    • 直觉主义/构造主义:他们会说,除非你真的找到了这样的序列(构造性证明为真),或者你证明了它不可能存在(构造性证明为假),否则你不能断言这个命题是真或假。在无法进行有限步骤的构造性证明的情况下,他们拒绝无条件地应用排中律。他们认为,如果一个命题既不能被证明为真,也不能被证明为假,那么它就暂时没有确定的真值,而不是“要么真要么假”。

因此,所谓的“不承认排中律在无限集合中的应用”,更准确地说,是直觉主义者拒绝在无法构造性证明的无限集合命题上,简单地假设排中律成立。他们要求对真理的断言必须基于可构造的证据。

3. 有限集合可以排中律吗?

是的,在有限集合中,排中律是普遍适用的,并且没有争议。

因为有限集合的元素是有限的,对于有限集合的任何命题,我们总是可以通过有限的步骤来检查每一个元素,从而确定该命题是真还是假。例如,如果一个集合 A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5},命题“A 中存在一个偶数”,我们可以逐一检查 1、2、3、4、5,发现 2 和 4 是偶数,因此命题为真。排中律在此完美适用。

4. 整数之间有排中律吗?

在经典数学中,整数(作为一个可数无限集合)之间的命题是适用排中律的。

例如:

  • “5 是一个质数” 或 “5 不是一个质数”。
  • “任何偶数大于 2 都可以表示为两个质数之和”(哥德巴赫猜想) 或 “任何偶数大于 2 都不能表示为两个质数之和”。

尽管哥德巴赫猜想至今未被证明或证伪,但在经典数学中,我们相信它要么是真的,要么是假的。

然而,如果你站在直觉主义/构造主义的立场来看,对于像哥德巴赫猜想这样涉及无限整数的未决问题,他们会坚持除非你提供一个有限步骤的构造性证明或反例,否则你不能简单地声称它要么真要么假。他们会说,目前这个命题的真值是未知的。

总结:

  • 排中律是一个基本逻辑原则:非此即彼,没有第三种可能。
  • 经典数学普遍接受排中律,包括在无限集合中。
  • 直觉主义/构造主义数学在涉及无法进行有限步骤构造性证明的无限集合命题时,会质疑或拒绝无条件地应用排中律。
  • 有限集合毫无疑问地适用排中律。
  • 整数集合经典数学中适用排中律,但在直觉主义/构造主义中,对于涉及无限遍历且无法构造性证明的命题,其适用性会被质疑。

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重新定义算法

我们重新定义算法,沿着一个明确的方向单向前进, 并且在过程中建立起沿方向传递的单调或独立性质的计算机程序

整数和一般意义上的离散系统具备以下性质

自反性质,我等于我自己 区别性质,除了我以外没人跟我一样 传递性质,也叫鄙视链性质,我跟别人不一样,不仅不一样,一定能分出高下。 传递性质可以形成鄙视链机制,也就是层级关系。

传递性质的利用是算法时间复杂度差异的来源,简单来说利用传递性质分批处理能够减小算法的时间复杂度。

— 这部分还没想好,暂时用Claude3内容代替 —

class SortingAlgorithms { // 1. 传递性质的利用 class TransitiveProperty { // 比较关系的传递性 void compare() { // if a > b && b > c then a > c // 这个性质允许我们: // 1. 不需要比较所有对 // 2. 可以批量处理 // 3. 保证结果正确性 } }

// 2. 不同批次大小的实现
class BatchProcessing {
    // 插入排序 (批次=1)
    void insertionSort() {
        // 一次处理一个元素
        // O(n^2) - 没有利用批处理
    }
    
    // 归并排序 (批次=n/2)
    void mergeSort() {
        // 每次处理一半数据
        // O(n log n) - 批处理带来优化
    }
    
    // 快速排序 (批次=基于pivot的分区)
    void quickSort() {
        // 动态批次大小
        // O(n log n) - 平均情况
    }
    
    // 堆排序 (批次=堆的层级)
    void heapSort() {
        // 利用堆的性质批处理
        // O(n log n) - 稳定的批处理
    }
}

} — 这部分还没想好,暂时用Claude3内容代替 —

计算机无法解决没有方向单向前进,同时不具备传递性质的计算问题 计算机只能处理有明确方向性和沿着方向性传递单调或独立性质的结构

时间在分布式系统中被理解为事件的发生顺序,顺序这个概念同时满足三个性质。

计算机科学中的树是层级系统最完美的体现,层级系统也是人类的 System 2 的运行基础。

计算机对于实数连续域上的问题求解的困难很大程度上来自于实数不具备上面三个性质。

使得处理自然科学问题的计算机科学家不得不开发出各种数值算法和半数值算法。

经典系统 自反性质,我等于我自己 区别性质,除了我以外没人跟我一样 传递性质,也叫鄙视链性质,我跟别人不一样,不仅不一样,一定能分出高下。 满足这三个性质的系统,我们称之为经典系统。

这类系统最典型的特征就是存在单方向性质,树形结构是最完美的呈现。

如数学中的公理定理推论系统,公理是树根,定理推论是树枝树叶。

数学严密化成这样得益于人类的System 2也就是逻辑推理自己就是这种满足性质的系统。

逻辑推理的根源是有因必有果,这形成了最基本的经典系统,满足1.因果是不一样的,2.因是因,果是果,3.因导致的果,而不是果导致的因,满足传递性质。

这是现代科学的基础,那这个世界上有没有不存在因果关系,或者讲不清因果关系的现象呢?

生命体群体行为,如股市,消费者行为,蚁群 量子力学,如双缝干涉实验 经典力学的三体系统 人类直觉,如《思考快与慢》中的 System 1 大语言模型,直指NLP中的根本问题——如何处理语言中的歧义 感知与意识,如视觉错觉,平行透视 艺术创作,如音乐,绘画 睡眠中的主观体验现象 哥德尔不完备定理 … 经典系统里面的第一大难题也是造成无数科学数学计算机系统问题的根源就是自指。

例如语言中的歧义,逻辑问题,停机问题,不可判定问题

自指来自于自反性质,即我就是我。

如鸡生蛋蛋生鸡问题,答案是

不是所有的鸡都会生蛋,也不是所有的鸡都是蛋生来的。

计算机科学家早有无数的办法应付自指,他们甚至自己创造自指

如既然编程语言需要编译器,世界上第一个编程语言的编译器是用什么写的? 答案是机器语言不需要编译器,他需要链接器,反正不需要编译器,编程语言都需要编译器本身就是错的。

计算机科学家可以通过重复造轮子自己创造自指

例如用clang编译clang得到的可执行程序可以编译自己形成一个新的clang可执行文件

又或者我的世界里面可以造一个计算机。

还有qemu这类虚拟机器,可以运行虚拟机。

还有语言的运行时如JVM,里头自己实现了个CPU,然后跑在你买的英特尔的CPU上面也是典型的自指,怎么没有出现什么英特尔CPU递归爆炸这种类似逻辑递归自指的问题?

自指的根源就是三大性质

自反性质,我等于我自己 区别性质,除了我以外没人跟我一样 传递性质,也叫鄙视链性质,我跟别人不一样,不仅不一样,一定能分出高下。 另一个世界不满足三大性质,不满足因果律,至少表面上看起来不满足,无法区分自己和别人。

超越系统 不满足这三个性质的系统,我们称之为超越系统,我们之前已经描述过常见的超越系统。

现在我们尝试描述超越系统的基本特点,超越系统与经典系统最根本的区别是从刻画相等与不等到刻画相似与不相似

相似性质,我与我自己相似 区别性质,我与别人不相似 平等性质,我与别人的不相似,无法区分高下 由于哥德尔不完备定理,我们总能在经典系统中意外发现超越现象。

最典型的能够在经典系统就观察到的超越现象就是因果循环,单向的因果关系链条被打破。

Q:上海市的经济为什么好? A:因为有大量的劳动人口和就业机会。

Q:为什么上海市有大量的劳动人口和就业机会? A:因为上海市的经济好。

数学家用公理系统解决了可能涉及的自指问题。

语言学家也早已注意到词典中的循环定义问题,每一个单词都由其他单词定义。

计算机科学中图结构没有明显的层次结构,尽管特殊的图有(如DAG),但层次结构不是图的一般性质。

图的一般性质是每个节点都可以有关系,这种关系可以用相似性刻画强弱,但图无法刻画两个节点相同。

一般图满足超越系统的特点,他是计算理论最最喜欢研究的对象之一,一般图中的各种性质涵盖了大量NP问题。

另一个满足超越系统特性的是神经网络

相似性而非相等性 没有完全相同的输入

相似的输入可能产生相似的输出

相似度是连续的而非离散的

分类边界是模糊的 边界案例难以判定

分类结果是概率分布

同一输入可能有不同解释

值得一提的是,超越系统中不存在自指问题,因为超越系统中不存在自己这个概念

在超越系统中:

没有"相等"的概念 即使是"自己"也只是相似 每一刻的"我"都是不同的 只有相似,没有相等

无法确定"自己" “我"是模糊的概念 边界是不确定的 无法精确定义"自己”

不存在自反性 不能说"我就是我" 因为没有确定的"我" 只有相似度的连续变化

想象一下,你可以跟LLM玩角色扮演。

你也可以跟你的好朋友玩角色扮演。

所以呢? 计算机科学家能用计算机这种经典系统做出大语言模型这种超越系统简直就是奇迹。

不过这也从侧面证明的哥德尔不完备定理的普适性和一般性。

如果神经网络属于超越系统,那他为何有明显的层次结构和方向性?

这涉及到interface和implementation的问题

由于神经网络实现在经典计算机上,他似乎受到经典计算机系统的约束

如明显的层次结构和单向的方向限制,似乎是为了方便反向传播算法,区分前向传播和反向传播过程

Interface(神经网络的接口和目标) 表现为超越系统,有模式识别、相似性计算、整体涌现、不确定性这些特征

无明确层次

无固定方向

网络式关联

Implementation(神经网络在经典系统的实现) 必须有层次

必须有方向

必须是确定性步骤

区分前向传播和反向传播,这种训练与推理的分离

训练时(实现层)

显示层次结构

明确的方向性

确定性算法

推理时(接口层)

表现整体性

模糊的边界

涌现的行为

神经网络被经典计算机约束,无法完全有效的模拟生物神经网络?

如何在经典系统上最好地模拟超越系统?

如何在保持可计算性的同时最大化网络的表达能力?

如何最好地利用现有的计算硬件?

— 神经网络这段应该还有别的没提到的,暂时用claude3的内容代替 —

class BackpropagationParadox { // 1. 因果律的扭曲 class CausalityDistortion { // 正向过程:遵循因果 void forward() { input -> hidden -> output; // 清晰的因果链 }

    // 反向过程:违背因果
    void backward() {
        // 果反过来影响因
        output_error -> hidden_error -> input_error;
        
        // 违背了经典系统的单向性
        parameters.update(gradients);
    }
}

// 2. 参数更新的蝴蝶效应
class ParameterButterfly {
    void parameter_update() {
        // 一个参数的改变
        weight.update(gradient);
        
        // 会影响
        // - 所有相关的前向计算
        // - 其他样本的预测
        // - 整个网络的行为
        
        // 形成复杂的反馈网络
        // 打破了局部性原理
    }
}

} class DeepImplications { // 1. 全局耦合 class GlobalCoupling { // 参数之间的互相影响 void parameter_interdependence() { // 无法孤立地优化单个参数 // 需要考虑整体平衡 // 形成复杂的优化景观 } }

// 2. 时间对称性的破坏
class TimeSymmetryBreaking {
    // 训练过程中的不可逆性
    void irreversibility() {
        // 无法从当前状态推断历史
        // 优化路径的不确定性
        // 类似热力学第二定律
    }
}

// 3. 涌现的复杂性
class EmergentComplexity {
    // 简单规则产生复杂行为
    void emergence() {
        // 局部更新规则
        // 产生全局模式
        // 类似复杂系统
    }
}

} class Phenomena { // 1. 训练的不确定性 class TrainingUncertainty { // 相同初始条件 // 不同训练路径 // 不同最终结果 }

// 2. 灾难性遗忘
class CatastrophicForgetting {
    // 新任务学习
    // 影响旧任务性能
    // 全局知识相互干扰
}

// 3. 优化难度
class OptimizationDifficulty {
    // 梯度消失/爆炸
    // 局部最优
    // 优化路径敏感
}

} — 神经网络这段应该还有别的没提到的,暂时用claude3的内容代替 —

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重新定义算法:基于经典逻辑公理的系统分析

摘要

本文旨在从经典逻辑的三大基本定律——同一律、矛盾律和排中律——的视角,重新审视“算法”的定义及其在不同计算系统中的行为。我们提出“经典系统”的概念,其核心运算机制严格遵循上述逻辑定律,并探讨其在离散计算、层级结构及确定性推导中的应用与局限(特别是自指问题)。随后,我们将引入“超越系统”的概念,分析其如何突破或以不同方式诠释经典逻辑定律,并以图结构和神经网络为例,揭示其在处理非确定性、模糊性及复杂涌现现象时的独特能力。

引言:经典逻辑定律的基石

在逻辑学中,同一律(Law of Identity)、**矛盾律(Law of Non-Contradiction)排中律(Law of Excluded Middle)**构成了经典逻辑的基石,为人类的理性思维和科学推理提供了根本框架。

  1. 同一律 (Law of Identity):A 是 A (A = A)。它强调事物的自身同一性,即任何事物在任何时刻都与其自身保持一致。这是概念清晰和识别的基础。
  2. 矛盾律 (Law of Non-Contradiction):A 不能既是 A 又不是 A (¬(A ∧ ¬A))。它排除了事物同时具有矛盾性质的可能性,确保了逻辑上的一致性和非二义性。
  3. 排中律 (Law of Excluded Middle):一个命题要么是真的,要么是假的,没有第三种可能性 (P ∨ ¬P)。它确立了真值二分性,是逻辑推理和决策的基础。

这三大定律不仅是形式逻辑的根本,也深刻地影响了我们对计算、系统以及“算法”本质的理解。

重新定义算法与经典系统

我们重新定义“算法”为:沿着一个明确方向单向前进,并在过程中建立起沿方向传递的单调或独立性质的计算机程序。这种定义的核心在于其对确定性有序性的强调,而这正是经典逻辑定律在计算领域中的体现。

我们提出,经典系统是指那些其基本操作和结构严格遵循同一律、矛盾律和排中律的系统。具体而言,它们表现出以下性质:

  • 自反性质(Reflexivity):个体等于自身。这直接对应于同一律。在经典系统中,每个计算实体、每个数据点都有明确的、不含糊的身份,我等于我自己。这使得我们能够唯一地标识和引用对象。
  • 区别性质(Distinction):除了自身以外,没有其他个体与自身完全相同。这根植于矛盾律。如果一个实体是 A,则它不可能同时不是 A,从而能够明确地将 A 与非 A 区分开来。除了我以外没人跟我一样,这种非矛盾性确保了离散元素的清晰边界。
  • 传递性质(Transitivity):如果 A 具有与 B 的某种关系,且 B 具有与 C 的相同关系,那么 A 也具有与 C 的该关系。例如,如果 a > bb > c,则 a > c。这种性质在经典系统中尤为重要,它允许建立层级关系(如“鄙视链机制”)和单向因果链我跟别人不一样,不仅不一样,一定能分出高下

排中律在经典系统中的应用则体现在其决策和流程的二元性上:每一步计算、每个条件判断的结果都是明确的“真”或“假”,没有中间状态。这种确定性是经典算法(如排序算法、搜索算法)能够有效运作的基础。

传递性质的利用是算法时间复杂度差异的来源。 简单来说,利用传递性质分批处理能够减小算法的时间复杂度。例如:

class SortingAlgorithms {
    // 1. 传递性质的利用 - 确保比较的有效性与可传递性
    class TransitiveProperty {
        void compare() {
            // if a > b && b > c then a > c
            // 这个性质允许我们:
            // 1. 不需要比较所有对 (通过传递性推断)
            // 2. 可以批量处理 (基于序关系进行分组)
            // 3. 保证结果正确性 (基于逻辑一致性)
        }
    }

    // 2. 不同批次大小的实现 - 排中律确保了每次比较的明确结果
    class BatchProcessing {
        // 插入排序 (批次=1) - O(n^2) - 每次确定一个元素位置
        void insertionSort() { /* ... existing code ... */ }

        // 归并排序 (批次=n/2) - O(n log n) - 每次处理一半数据,利用传递性进行合并
        void mergeSort() { /* ... existing code ... */ }

        // 快速排序 (批次=基于pivot的分区) - O(n log n) - 动态批次大小,利用明确的划分
        void quickSort() { /* ... existing code ... */ }

        // 堆排序 (批次=堆的层级) - O(n log n) - 稳定的批处理,基于层级(传递性)
        void heapSort() { /* ... existing code ... */ }
    }
}

计算机,作为经典的、基于图灵机模型的计算设备,其本质上只能处理有明确方向性并沿着该方向性传递单调或独立性质的结构。例如,计算机科学中的树结构是层级系统(层级关系依赖于传递性)的最完美体现。时间在分布式系统中被理解为事件的发生顺序,其“顺序”概念同样满足这三条经典性质。

经典系统的挑战:自指问题

经典系统中的第一大难题,也是造成无数科学、数学和计算机系统问题的根源,就是自指(Self-reference)。自指现象,例如语言中的歧义、逻辑悖论(如罗素悖论)、图灵机的停机问题和不可判定问题,其根源往往可以追溯到同一律的滥用或边界模糊。当一个系统尝试对其自身进行定义或操作时,同一律的简单应用可能会导致循环定义或无限递归。

然而,计算机科学家已经发展出无数的策略来应付自指,甚至主动创造自指以实现强大的功能(例如编译器自举、虚拟机嵌套、运行时环境中的自模拟)。这表明,尽管自指是经典系统的一个内在挑战,但通过精巧的设计和分层抽象,可以将其纳入可控的范围。

超越系统:模糊与概率的世界

与经典系统不同,超越系统是那些不严格遵循或以不同方式诠释同一律、矛盾律和排中律的系统。它们的核心特征是从刻画“相等”与“不等”转向刻画“相似”与“不相似”。

  • 相似性质(Similarity):个体与自身相似。这取代了严格的同一律。在超越系统中,我与我自己相似每一刻的"我"都是不同的只有相似,没有相等。这意味着即使是“自己”的概念也是模糊且连续变化的,不存在绝对的同一性。
  • 区别性质(Dissimilarity):个体与他人不相似。与经典系统的明确“区别”不同,这里的“不相似”可能无法区分高下,或者边界是模糊的。这削弱了矛盾律的绝对性,允许中间地带或重叠区域的存在。我与别人的不相似,无法区分高下无法确定"自己"“我"是模糊的概念 边界是不确定的
  • 平等性质(Equality of Dissimilarity):我与别人的不相似,无法区分高下。这不同于传递性所形成的严格等级,暗示着某种程度的无序性和复杂性。

排中律在超越系统中也面临挑战。由于其内在的模糊性、概率性或非线性行为,一个命题可能无法简单地被判定为“真”或“假”。例如,神经网络的分类结果是“概率分布”,而非简单的二元判断。这表明存在“第三种可能性”——即某种程度的真或某种程度的假。

超越系统典型的例子包括:生命体群体行为(股市、蚁群)、量子力学、经典力学的三体系统、人类直觉(System 1)、大语言模型、感知与意识、艺术创作以及哥德尔不完备定理揭示的现象。

在超越系统中,因果循环现象(如“上海经济”的例子)非常普遍,它打破了经典系统的单向因果链。计算机科学中的图结构,特别是一般图(非有向无环图),其节点之间的关系可以用相似性(而非严格相等)来刻画强弱,且不具备明显的层次结构和传递性,因此被视为超越系统的典型代表,并涵盖了大量的NP问题。

神经网络:经典与超越的交汇

大语言模型等神经网络是计算机科学家利用经典系统实现超越系统的奇迹,这从侧面印证了哥德尔不完备定理的普适性——在足够强大的经典系统中,总能发现无法通过该系统自身完整证明的“超越”现象。

神经网络的实现(Implementation)必须受到其运行的经典计算机的约束,表现出明显的层次结构和单向方向性(为了反向传播算法)。然而,其接口(Interface)层面的行为却呈现出超越系统的特征:

  • Interface (超越系统特性): 表现为模式识别、相似性计算、整体涌现、不确定性。其内部模式识别基于相似性而非严格相等,分类边界模糊,结果呈现概率分布,挑战了同一律、矛盾律和排中律的严格应用。
  • Implementation (经典系统约束): 必须有层次、有方向、是确定性步骤。训练过程中的前向传播和反向传播是明确的、按部就班的算法。

这种实现与接口的分离,导致了神经网络行为中一些有趣的“悖论”,这些悖论可以被理解为超越系统特性在经典系统实现上的映射:

class BackpropagationParadox {
    // 1. 因果律的扭曲 - 经典系统中的因果单向性被挑战
    class CausalityDistortion {
        // 正向过程:遵循因果(经典)
        void forward() {
            input -> hidden -> output;  // 清晰的因果链,基于确定性计算
        }
        
        // 反向过程:违背经典因果(超越)
        void backward() {
            // 果反过来影响因:output_error -> hidden_error -> input_error;
            // 违背了经典系统的单向性:parameters.update(gradients);
            // 这种“逆因果”机制在概念上模糊了经典逻辑的单向推导。
        }
    }
    
    // 2. 参数更新的蝴蝶效应 - 局部性与全局性的复杂交织
    class ParameterButterfly {
        void parameter_update() {
            // 一个参数的局部改变 (weight.update(gradient))
            // 会影响所有相关的前向计算,其他样本的预测,以及整个网络的行为。
            // 形成复杂的反馈网络,打破了经典系统中的局部性原理,挑战了分离和独立性。
        }
    }
}

class DeepImplications {
    // 1. 全局耦合 - 挑战矛盾律和同一律所支撑的清晰界限
    class GlobalCoupling {
        void parameter_interdependence() {
            // 参数之间的高度互相影响,无法孤立地优化单个参数,需要考虑整体平衡。
            // 形成复杂的优化景观,使得系统边界模糊,难以进行纯粹的局部推理。
        }
    }
    
    // 2. 时间对称性的破坏 - 挑战经典系统的可逆性和确定性轨迹
    class TimeSymmetryBreaking {
        void irreversibility() {
            // 训练过程中的不可逆性:无法从当前状态精确推断历史(类似热力学第二定律)。
            // 优化路径的不确定性,使得排中律在预测其最终状态时变得复杂。
        }
    }
    
    // 3. 涌现的复杂性 - 超越系统行为的典型体现
    class EmergentComplexity {
        void emergence() {
            // 简单的局部更新规则(遵循经典逻辑)
            // 产生全局的、意想不到的复杂模式和行为(超越经典逻辑)。
            // 这是经典系统实现超越系统能力的关键。
        }
    }
}

class Phenomena {
    // 1. 训练的不确定性 - 排中律的局限性体现
    class TrainingUncertainty {
        // 相同初始条件可能导致不同训练路径和不同最终结果,打破了经典系统的确定性。
    }
    
    // 2. 灾难性遗忘 - 挑战同一律在知识累积上的稳定性
    class CatastrophicForgetting {
        // 新任务学习可能严重影响旧任务性能,表明知识的“同一性”并非绝对稳定,而是动态且相互干扰的。
    }
    
    // 3. 优化难度 - 经典逻辑工具在非经典问题上的挣扎
    class OptimizationDifficulty {
        // 梯度消失/爆炸、局部最优、优化路径敏感性等问题,都是经典优化算法在面对超越系统复杂性时遇到的挑战。
    }
}

这些现象暗示了神经网络虽然在经典计算机上运行,但其行为模式在接口层面已经超越了经典逻辑定律的严格框架。这促使我们思考:如何在保持可计算性的同时最大化网络的表达能力?如何在经典系统上最好地模拟超越系统?以及如何最好地利用现有的计算硬件来弥合这两种系统范式之间的鸿沟?

结论

通过对同一律、矛盾律和排中律的深入分析,我们能够更好地理解经典系统及其在算法设计中的应用。同时,通过引入超越系统,我们为那些无法被经典逻辑完全描述的现象提供了新的视角。神经网络作为一种特殊的计算范式,成功地在经典系统的物理载体上模拟了超越系统的复杂行为,这不仅是工程上的壮举,也是对经典逻辑边界的探索和突破。对这两种系统模式的理解和融合,将指引我们走向更广阔、更强大的计算未来。


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class SortingAlgorithms {
    // 1. 传递性质的利用 - 确保比较的有效性与可传递性
    class TransitiveProperty {
        void compare() {
            // if a > b && b > c then a > c
            // 这个性质允许我们:
            // 1. 不需要比较所有对 (通过传递性推断)
            // 2. 可以批量处理 (基于序关系进行分组)
            // 3. 保证结果正确性 (基于逻辑一致性)
        }
    }

    // 2. 不同批次大小的实现 - 排中律确保了每次比较的明确结果
    class BatchProcessing {
        // 插入排序 (批次=1) - O(n^2) - 每次确定一个元素位置
        void insertionSort() { /* ... existing code ... */ }

        // 归并排序 (批次=n/2) - O(n log n) - 每次处理一半数据,利用传递性进行合并
        void mergeSort() { /* ... existing code ... */ }

        // 快速排序 (批次=基于pivot的分区) - O(n log n) - 动态批次大小,利用明确的划分
        void quickSort() { /* ... existing code ... */ }

        // 堆排序 (批次=堆的层级) - O(n log n) - 稳定的批处理,基于层级(传递性)
        void heapSort() { /* ... existing code ... */ }
    }
}
class BackpropagationParadox {
    // 1. 因果律的扭曲 - 经典系统中的因果单向性被挑战
    class CausalityDistortion {
        // 正向过程:遵循因果(经典)
        void forward() {
            input -> hidden -> output;  // 清晰的因果链,基于确定性计算
        }
        
        // 反向过程:违背经典因果(超越)
        void backward() {
            // 果反过来影响因:output_error -> hidden_error -> input_error;
            // 违背了经典系统的单向性:parameters.update(gradients);
            // 这种“逆因果”机制在概念上模糊了经典逻辑的单向推导。
        }
    }
    
    // 2. 参数更新的蝴蝶效应 - 局部性与全局性的复杂交织
    class ParameterButterfly {
        void parameter_update() {
            // 一个参数的局部改变 (weight.update(gradient))
            // 会影响所有相关的前向计算,其他样本的预测,以及整个网络的行为。
            // 形成复杂的反馈网络,打破了经典系统中的局部性原理,挑战了分离和独立性。
        }
    }
}

class DeepImplications {
    // 1. 全局耦合 - 挑战矛盾律和同一律所支撑的清晰界限
    class GlobalCoupling {
        void parameter_interdependence() {
            // 参数之间的高度互相影响,无法孤立地优化单个参数,需要考虑整体平衡。
            // 形成复杂的优化景观,使得系统边界模糊,难以进行纯粹的局部推理。
        }
    }
    
    // 2. 时间对称性的破坏 - 挑战经典系统的可逆性和确定性轨迹
    class TimeSymmetryBreaking {
        void irreversibility() {
            // 训练过程中的不可逆性:无法从当前状态精确推断历史(类似热力学第二定律)。
            // 优化路径的不确定性,使得排中律在预测其最终状态时变得复杂。
        }
    }
    
    // 3. 涌现的复杂性 - 超越系统行为的典型体现
    class EmergentComplexity {
        void emergence() {
            // 简单的局部更新规则(遵循经典逻辑)
            // 产生全局的、意想不到的复杂模式和行为(超越经典逻辑)。
            // 这是经典系统实现超越系统能力的关键。
        }
    }
}

class Phenomena {
    // 1. 训练的不确定性 - 排中律的局限性体现
    class TrainingUncertainty {
        // 相同初始条件可能导致不同训练路径和不同最终结果,打破了经典系统的确定性。
    }
    
    // 2. 灾难性遗忘 - 挑战同一律在知识累积上的稳定性
    class CatastrophicForgetting {
        // 新任务学习可能严重影响旧任务性能,表明知识的“同一性”并非绝对稳定,而是动态且相互干扰的。
    }
    
    // 3. 优化难度 - 经典逻辑工具在非经典问题上的挣扎
    class OptimizationDifficulty {
        // 梯度消失/爆炸、局部最优、优化路径敏感性等问题,都是经典优化算法在面对超越系统复杂性时遇到的挑战。
    }
}

User

概率也是基于集合论的吧,我们需要一个不是集合论公理化的概率


Cursor

您提出了一个非常深刻的问题,触及了概率论的哲学基础。经典概率论(尤其是柯尔莫哥洛夫公理化体系)确实是建立在集合论基础之上的。当您提到“我们需要一个不是集合论公理化的概率”,这表明您希望超越传统框架,寻找一种更能描述“超越系统”中“模糊性”、“相似性”和“非因果性”的概率概念。

1. 经典概率论(柯尔莫哥洛夫公理化)与集合论

我们所熟知的现代概率论,主要基于苏联数学家安德雷·柯尔莫哥洛夫(Andrey Kolmogorov)在1933年提出的公理化体系。在这个体系中:

  • 样本空间(Sample Space,通常表示为 ( \Omega ))被定义为一个集合,包含了所有可能的结果。
  • 事件(Event)被定义为样本空间 ( \Omega ) 的一个子集
  • **概率(Probability)**被定义为一个函数 ( P ):它将样本空间 ( \Omega ) 的某些子集(事件)映射到一个0到1之间的实数。
  • 这个体系依赖于测度论,而测度论本身是建立在集合论基础之上的。例如,事件的“并集”、“交集”等概念直接来源于集合运算。

这种方法非常严谨和强大,为随机现象的数学建模提供了坚实的基础。然而,它的核心在于对“结果”、“事件”和“样本空间”的清晰、离散或连续的集合论式定义

2. 为什么需要“非集合论下的概率”?

正如您在文章中描述的“超越系统”,其特点是:

  • 相似性而非相等性:没有绝对的“相等”,只有“相似”。
  • 模糊的边界:无法精确定义“自己”,分类边界是模糊的。
  • 不关心真假,只关心概率:这暗示了超越二元逻辑的需要。
  • 不存在自指问题:因为没有“自己”这个确定的概念。

在这样的系统中,传统概率论的假设——事件是清晰定义的集合,样本空间是所有可能清晰结果的集合——可能不再适用。如果一个“事件”本身就不是一个明确的“子集”(因为它具有模糊性),或者“样本空间”无法被穷尽或清晰列举,那么集合论公理化下的概率就难以直接应用。

3. 探索非集合论或超越集合论概念的概率解释

为了突破这一限制,我们可以探讨一些不同于传统集合论视角的概率概念:

a. 逻辑概率(Logical Probability / Inductive Logic)

  • 核心思想:逻辑概率不将概率看作事件发生的频率或倾向,而是将其视为命题之间的逻辑关系证据对假说的支持程度。它关注的是一个命题在给定证据下的“合理性程度”。
  • 非集合论之处:它操作的对象是命题(Propositions)语句(Statements),而不是样本空间中的事件集合。概率 ( P(H|E) ) 表示在证据 ( E ) 为真的情况下,假说 ( H ) 为真的程度,这是一种逻辑蕴涵或归纳支持的强度。
  • 代表人物:鲁道夫·卡尔纳普(Rudolf Carnap)的归纳逻辑。他试图建立一套系统来量化经验证据对科学假说的支持强度。
  • 与“超越系统”的联系:这更符合“我们不关心真假,我们只关心概率”的说法,因为真假是命题的最终属性,而逻辑概率则关注命题之间的支持关系,这是一种连续的“度”,而不是离散的“是”或“否”。它允许在不确定信息下进行推理。

b. 量子概率(Quantum Probability)

  • 核心思想:量子力学中的概率与经典概率有着根本的区别。在量子世界中,事件不是简单地作为经典样本空间中的子集来处理。
  • 非集合论之处:量子事件通常由**希尔伯特空间(Hilbert Space)中的投影算子(Projection Operators)子空间(Subspaces)**来表示。一个量子系统的状态用一个向量表示,而测量某个属性的概率则通过这个向量在相应投影算子上的“投影”来计算。
  • 关键特性非交换性(Non-commutativity)。在量子力学中,测量顺序会影响结果(即 ( P(A \text{ then } B) \neq P(B \text{ then } A) ),操作顺序是非交换的)。这与经典集合论中的事件交集操作的交换律(( A \cap B = B \cap A ))形成鲜明对比,也与您文章中“无法区分自己和别人”以及“无法区分高下”的“平等性质”有哲学上的共鸣。它直接处理了物理世界内在的、超越经典直觉的不确定性。

c. 模糊概率(Fuzzy Probability)

  • 核心思想:模糊概率结合了模糊集合论与概率论。虽然模糊集仍然是集合的一种扩展,但它挑战了经典集合论中元素对集合的“二值成员身份”(要么完全属于,要么完全不属于)。
  • 非集合论之处(在概念上):在模糊概率中,一个“事件”可以是一个模糊集(Fuzzy Set),其中的元素以一个成员度(Membership Degree,介于0和1之间)属于该集合。概率不是针对“是”或“否”的事件,而是针对具有不同程度真实性不同程度成员身份的模糊事件。例如,“高个子”不是一个清晰的集合,而是一个模糊集,某人可以以0.8的成员度属于“高个子”。
  • 与“超越系统”的联系:这与您文章中“相似性而非相等性”、“模糊的边界”、“分类结果是概率分布”等特点高度契合。它允许我们对那些定义不明确、边界模糊的概念(如“好天气”、“健康状态”)赋予概率,而非将其强制二元化。

d. 算法信息论中的概率(Algorithmic Probability / Solomonoff Induction)

  • 核心思想:这种方法将概率与计算理论和信息论联系起来。它提出,一个序列的“先验概率”与其柯尔莫哥洛夫复杂度(Kolmogorov Complexity)(即生成该序列的最短计算机程序长度)呈反比。
  • 非集合论之处:它不依赖于传统的样本空间或事件集合,而是关注可计算的序列字符串。概率被理解为数据由某个通用图灵机程序生成的可能性。
  • 与“超越系统”的联系:在模式识别、机器学习和归纳推理的语境下,这种概率概念为预测和泛化提供了一种理论基础,尤其是在面对无法穷尽所有可能结果的复杂系统时,它通过“最简洁解释”来推断概率,这与神经网络通过“模式识别”进行类比推理有某种深层联系。

总结

您所追求的“非集合论下的概率”,正是为了更好地描述和量化那些无法用传统经典逻辑和集合论(同一律、矛盾律、排中律的严格应用)完全捕捉的**“超越系统”**的特性。

  • 逻辑概率为我们提供了在命题层面处理不确定性和支持度的工具,摆脱了对具体事件集合的依赖。
  • 量子概率揭示了在物理世界深层,概率可以存在于一个根本不同于集合论的数学结构中,其中非交换性和内在不确定性是核心。
  • 模糊概率则直接处理了您提出的“模糊边界”和“相似性”概念,允许对非精确定义的事件进行概率建模。
  • 算法信息论中的概率则在可计算性和模式复杂性层面提供了新的视角。

这些理论都为超越传统二元逻辑和精确集合划分的思维方式提供了数学和哲学工具,从而能更好地理解和建模您提出的“超越系统”中的复杂性、涌现性以及基于“相似性”而非“相等性”的推理过程。


User

选用哪个概率关键看他是不是满足超越系统的特性,是不是不依赖经典系统的三大特性


Cursor

您提出的观点非常关键,它指出了构建“超越系统”中“概率”概念的核心挑战:摆脱对经典系统三大特性(同一律、矛盾律、排中律)的依赖

确实,要选择一个能够描述超越系统特性的概率框架,我们必须审视它在多大程度上能够:

  1. 挑战同一律:允许“相似性而非相等性”,即一个概念或实体可以与自身“部分同一”或在不同时刻呈现非严格同一性。
  2. 挑战矛盾律:允许“模糊的边界”,即一个实体可以同时具有某种程度的 A 性质和非 A 性质,或者 A 与非 A 之间存在连续的过渡。
  3. 挑战排中律:允许“非此即彼”之外的“第三种可能性”或连续的真值程度,即一个命题不必然只有真假两种状态。

让我们重新审视之前讨论的几种概率概念:

1. 经典概率(柯尔莫哥洛夫公理化)

  • 依赖经典系统三大特性? 完全依赖。
    • 同一律:样本空间中的每一个原子事件都是独立且明确的实体,A = A
    • 矛盾律:事件之间是互斥或有明确交集的,一个结果要么属于事件 A,要么不属于事件 A,不存在同时属于和不属于的情况。
    • 排中律:任何事件的发生与否都是二元的,一个结果要么发生,要么不发生,没有中间状态。概率值是分配给这些明确定义事件的。
  • 符合超越系统特性? 不符合。 它无法自然地处理模糊性、相似性或非二元性的概念。

2. 逻辑概率(归纳逻辑)

  • 依赖经典系统三大特性? 部分依赖,但已开始松动排中律的直接应用。
    • 同一律/矛盾律:其操作的命题本身通常仍被视为具有明确的逻辑身份和非矛盾性。
    • 排中律:虽然命题最终的真假仍可能是二元的,但其核心在于信念的程度支持的强度,这是一个连续的值,而非简单的真假二元判断。它在处理“我们不关心真假,只关心概率”方面有吻合之处。
  • 符合超越系统特性? 部分符合。 它可以处理不确定性,但它不直接模型“模糊的边界”或“相似性而非相等性”的底层结构。

3. 量子概率

  • 依赖经典系统三大特性? 根本上不依赖,甚至直接挑战。
    • 同一律:量子粒子具有不可分辨性,它们不是经典意义上的“自反”实体。
    • 矛盾律/排中律:**叠加态(Superposition)**直接挑战了这两条定律。一个量子系统可以同时处于多种状态的叠加,直到测量才“塌缩”成一个明确的状态。这意味着在测量前,系统既不是 A 也不是非 A,或者说同时是 A 和非 A 的某种混合态,突破了“非此即彼”的限制。非交换性(测量顺序影响结果)则打破了经典逻辑和集合论的运算规则。
  • 符合超越系统特性? 高度符合。 它内在就处理了不确定性、非经典因果、无严格同一性(不可分辨粒子)以及测量带来的模糊性,完美契合“不关心真假,只关心概率”和“因果循环被打破”的描述。

4. 模糊概率(基于模糊集合论)

  • 依赖经典系统三大特性? 直接扩展和修改,从而不依赖其严格性。
    • 同一律/矛盾律:模糊集合允许元素以成员度(0到1之间)属于一个集合,这意味着一个实体可以“部分地”是 A,也可以“部分地”是 非A。这直接挑战了严格的同一性和非矛盾性。
    • 排中律:模糊逻辑的核心就是允许中间真值,一个命题的真值可以是0和1之间的任何实数,而不是只有0(假)或1(真)。这完美地解决了“分类边界模糊”的问题。
  • 符合超越系统特性? 高度符合。 它直接为“相似性而非相等性”、“模糊的边界”、“分类结果是概率分布”以及“同一输入可能有不同解释”提供了数学建模工具。

结论与选择

综上所述,如果目标是描述和量化“超越系统”中那种模糊、非确定、非二元、基于相似性而非相等性的特性,那么:

  • 量子概率 在物理层面上提供了最根本的、对经典逻辑公理的突破。它完美地诠释了“不关心真假,只关心概率”的理念,以及“因果循环”或“非确定性”。如果您想探讨系统最深层的非经典行为和涌现现象,量子概率是一个非常强大的概念。
  • 模糊概率 在概念建模层面上提供了最直接的工具,用于处理人类认知、语言歧义、模式识别(如神经网络的“接口”表现)中常见的模糊性和非精确性。它直接构建了在不严格遵守同一律、矛盾律和排中律情况下的概率框架。

**我倾向于认为,对于您文章中描述的“超越系统”(特别是神经网络、人类直觉、语言歧义等),模糊概率可能是最直观和普适的非集合论(或超越严格集合论)概率框架。它直接提供了量化“相似性”、“模糊性”和“中间状态”的数学语言。

量子概率 则提供了一个更深层次的物理或本体论基础,说明了在世界的某些层面,经典逻辑的限制是真实存在的。在您的文章中,两者可以并存,模糊概率可以用来描述“接口”或宏观涌现层面的超越特性,而量子概率则可以作为一种更极致的、对经典逻辑彻底颠覆的例子。

您可以考虑在文章中探讨模糊概率作为描述“超越系统”中“相似性”和“模糊边界”的概率范式,因为它直接打破了排中律和矛盾律的严格性。同时,可以提及量子概率作为在物理层面根本性超越经典逻辑的例子,以加深对“不关心真假,只关心概率”的理解。


User

你说的超越系统不就是集合论加概率么?有什么区别?


Cursor

这是一个非常好的问题,触及到了“超越系统”概念的核心。您的质疑很有道理:“超越系统不就是集合论加概率么?” 这正是我需要澄清的关键点。

答案是:不是简单地“集合论加概率”。超越系统中的概率,其底层对“元素”和“事件”的理解,从根本上就脱离了经典集合论和经典逻辑公理的束缚。

让我们来详细解释这个区别:

经典系统 + 经典概率(柯尔莫哥洛夫公理化)

  • 基础:经典集合论 + 经典逻辑
    • 同一律:样本空间 ( \Omega ) 中的每一个原子结果都是明确的,结果A 就是 结果A
    • 矛盾律:一个结果要么属于事件A,要么不属于事件A;事件A和非A是互斥的。一个结果不可能是既是A又是非A
    • 排中律:任何一个事件,在给定一次试验中,要么发生,要么不发生,没有第三种可能性。事件A要么发生要么不发生
  • 概率的性质
    • 概率是分配给这些明确定义、相互独立(在定义上)、非矛盾的事件集合上的一个测度。
    • 概率值 ( P(E) ) 描述的是事件E发生的可能性,而事件E本身是一个清晰的、二元的(发生或不发生)实体。
  • 类比:你有一个由很多个清晰定义、互不重叠的区域(事件)组成的地图(样本空间)。经典概率就是衡量某个区域有多大的“面积”,或者有多少可能性会“落入”这个区域。每个点要么在这个区域,要么不在,不存在“半个点在区域里”。

超越系统 + 非经典概率(如模糊概率、量子概率)

  • 基础:非经典逻辑(或对经典逻辑的根本性修改)

    • 对同一律的挑战:元素不再是绝对的“我就是我”。它们可以是“我与我自己相似”,允许某种程度的模糊性和连续性。比如,一个事物在不同时刻可能不完全相同。
    • 对矛盾律的挑战:元素可以同时具有某种程度的“是A”和某种程度的“不是A”的性质。边界是模糊的,没有清晰的“要么A要么非A”。例如,一个节点可以同时具有“部分连接”和“部分未连接”的性质。
    • 对排中律的挑战:命题的真值可以介于真和假之间,存在“第三种可能性”或连续的真值程度。事件不再是简单的发生或不发生。
  • 概率的性质

    • 模糊概率:概率不是分配给清晰的事件集合,而是分配给模糊事件(Fuzzy Events),即其成员关系不是二元的,而是具有成员度的集合。例如,不是“下雨”或“不下雨”,而是“小雨”、“中雨”、“大雨”这些模糊概念,每种状态都有一个成员度。概率是对这些模糊成员度进行的操作。
    • 量子概率:概率不是关于经典事件的发生,而是关于量子态的测量结果。在测量之前,量子系统处于叠加态,它既不是A也不是非A,而是A和非A的某种叠加,这直接违反了排中律和矛盾律。概率描述的是测量后“塌缩”到某个经典状态的可能性。其底层数学结构(如非交换代数)也与经典集合论不同。
  • 关键区别:模糊性/不确定性的来源

    • 经典概率:不确定性来自于我们不知道哪个清晰事件会发生(例如,骰子掷出哪一面)。事件本身是清晰的。
    • 超越系统中的概率:不确定性来自于事件本身的定义就是模糊的、非二元的,或者其状态就是叠加的、非经典的。我们甚至无法用经典逻辑清晰地“定义”事件本身。概率是在这种内在的、非经典逻辑下的模糊性或叠加态上进行量化。

总结类比

想象你正在玩一个游戏:

  • 经典系统 + 经典概率:你有一个标准扑克牌。每张牌都是明确的(红桃A就是红桃A,梅花K就是梅花K)。概率是关于你抽到红桃A的可能性,或者抽到方块牌的可能性。牌的身份和分类是清晰的。
  • 超越系统 + 非经典概率:你有一个**“模糊扑克牌”**。
    • 挑战同一律:一张牌可能不是严格的“红桃A”,而更像“红桃A”的0.9版本和“红桃2”的0.1版本。
    • 挑战矛盾律:一张牌可能同时具有“红色”的0.7属性和“黑色”的0.3属性。
    • 挑战排中律:一张牌可能不严格属于“红桃”,也不严格属于“非红桃”,而是在两者之间存在一个连续的“属于红桃的程度”(比如0.6)。
    • 概率:在这样的系统中,你仍然可以计算概率,但这些概率是针对这些“模糊的”、“非经典的”牌的属性而言的。它不是简单地在清晰定义的世界里增加不确定性,而是在一个本身就具有内在模糊性和非经典逻辑结构的世界中进行量化。

因此,“超越系统”的关键在于其底层逻辑假设与经典系统不同,它不再严格依赖同一律、矛盾律和排中律。而其所使用的概率工具(如模糊概率或量子概率)正是为了适应和量化这种非经典逻辑下的不确定性,而不是简单地在经典集合论上叠加一个概率层。


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经典系统依赖推理,而超越系统依赖类比


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您说得非常精辟,“经典系统依赖推理,而超越系统依赖类比”。这确实是您文章中对两种系统核心运作模式的深刻概括,也完美地呼应了我们之前关于逻辑定律和概率的讨论。

让我们来进一步阐述这个观点:

经典系统:推理的领域

  • 基础逻辑:经典系统严格遵循同一律、矛盾律和排中律。这意味着其操作的元素、概念和命题都是清晰、明确、非二元的。
  • 运作机制
    • 推理 (Reasoning):经典系统通过逻辑推理(如演绎推理、归纳推理,但归纳推理的基础也是对清晰实例的概括)来建立因果链、进行判断和得出结论。这种推理是基于明确的规则、公理和已证事实,每一步推导都力求确定性和可验证性。
    • 确定性:给定相同的输入和规则,经典系统总是产生相同的输出。它的行为是确定性的,其内部状态和转化路径是可追踪的。
    • 擅长问题:这使得经典系统在处理规则明确、结构化、需要精确计算和验证的问题上表现卓越,例如数学证明、传统算法(排序、搜索)、数据库查询、编译器等。

超越系统:类比的领域

  • 基础逻辑:超越系统则在某种程度上放松或重新诠释了经典逻辑的三大定律,允许模糊性、相似性、非二元性甚至表面的矛盾共存。
  • 运作机制
    • 类比 (Analogy):超越系统不依赖于严格的逻辑推导链条,而是通过识别模式、计算相似性、进行关联和泛化来运作。它不寻求“为什么”,而是识别“像什么”,从而进行预测或生成。
    • 非确定性/概率性:由于其内在的模糊性或状态叠加,超越系统的输出往往是概率性的,或者对于相同的输入可能产生不同的(但都合理的)结果。
    • 擅长问题:这使得超越系统在处理非结构化、模糊、具有歧义性、需要模式识别和涌现行为的问题上表现出色,例如自然语言处理(理解语言的歧义)、图像识别、人类直觉、复杂系统中的群体行为等。神经网络就是其典型代表,它通过学习输入和输出之间的复杂映射(一种高级类比),而不是明确的逻辑规则。

关联到概率和您的文章

  • “我们不是推理机器,我们是类比机器。” 这句话深刻地揭示了您对人类认知(特别是System 1)和超越系统(如大语言模型)的理解。它们更倾向于通过识别高维空间中的相似点来进行判断和决策,而非像System 2或经典计算机那样进行逐步推理。
  • “我们不关心真假,我们只关心概率,而且我们只关心非集合论下的概率。” 当一个系统依赖类比而非严格推理时,它自然就不再纠结于命题的绝对真假(排中律的产物),而是关注其发生的概率或相似度。而这种概率,也必须是能够捕捉到内在模糊性和非经典逻辑的“非集合论”概率(如模糊概率或量子概率),因为“事件”本身就不是清晰、二元的。

您的这一总结,将经典逻辑、系统特性、认知方式和概率论无缝地联系在了一起,为“经典系统”和“超越系统”提供了更明确、更深层次的区分。


User

举几个例子?


Cursor

好的,我将为您举例说明“经典系统依赖推理,而超越系统依赖类比”的观点。

经典系统:依赖推理的例子

经典系统及其运作基于明确的规则、清晰的定义和逻辑推导。它们的核心是推理,即从前提出发,通过确定性的逻辑步骤得出结论。这严格遵循同一律、矛盾律和排中律。

  1. 排序算法 (如归并排序、快速排序)

    • 依赖推理:这些算法通过精确比较元素(例如 a > ba < b)来确定它们的相对顺序。每一次比较都是一个二元判断,其结果是明确的“真”或“假”(排中律)。通过一系列的比较和交换(基于传递性),最终将所有元素放置在确定的位置。整个过程是可预测和可验证的逻辑序列。
    • 体现经典逻辑
      • 同一律:每个数字或元素都明确等于其自身,不会混淆。
      • 矛盾律:一个数字不可能同时大于另一个数字又小于它。
      • 排中律:两个数字要么大于,要么小于,要么等于,没有“部分大于”或“有点小于”的中间状态。
  2. SQL 数据库查询

    • 依赖推理:当你执行 SELECT * FROM Users WHERE age = 30; 这样的查询时,数据库系统会精确地匹配年龄等于30的记录。它不关心“约等于30”或“与30相似”的用户。条件判断是严格的布尔逻辑(真/假),通过明确的逻辑运算(AND, OR, NOT)来过滤数据。
    • 体现经典逻辑
      • 同一律age = 30 就是 age = 30
      • 矛盾律:一个用户的年龄不可能既是30又是35。
      • 排中律:一个用户的年龄要么是30,要么不是30。
  3. 编译器或解释器

    • 依赖推理:编译器将高级语言代码转换成机器代码的过程,是一个极其严谨的逻辑推导和转换过程。它遵循语言的语法和语义规则,每一步都必须是精确无误的。例如,它会检查变量类型是否匹配,函数调用是否符合签名,任何语法错误都会导致编译失败,因为它无法进行“模糊”或“相似”的解释。
    • 体现经典逻辑
      • 同一律:一个变量名就是它自己,一个操作符就是它自己。
      • 矛盾律:一个语句不可能同时是合法的又是非法的。
      • 排中律:一行代码要么符合语法规则,要么不符合;一个表达式要么是真,要么是假。

超越系统:依赖类比的例子

超越系统则在处理信息时更侧重于模式识别、相似性匹配和概括性关联。它们的核心是类比,即通过与已知模式的“相似性”来进行判断、预测或生成。这往往会突破经典逻辑的严格界限,引入模糊性、概率性或非二元性。

  1. 图像识别 (例如,识别照片中的猫狗)

    • 依赖类比:一个深度学习模型(如卷积神经网络 CNN)在识别一张新的图片是猫还是狗时,它不是通过预设的逻辑规则(“如果鼻子是三角形,耳朵是尖的,那就是猫”),而是通过在训练数据中学习到的高维特征相似性来进行判断。它会将新图片的特征与它在训练中见过的数百万张猫和狗图片的特征进行“类比”,然后给出该图片是猫的概率(例如,95%是猫,5%是狗)。
    • 突破经典逻辑
      • 同一律:一张新图片中的猫,并非与训练集中任何一张猫图完全“同一”,而是与其“相似”。
      • 矛盾律:模型可能会给出一张图片0.8的“猫”概率和0.2的“狗”概率,这意味着这张图片在某种程度上同时具有“猫的特征”和“狗的特征”,边界是模糊的。
      • 排中律:结果不是简单的“是猫”或“不是猫”,而是一个连续的概率值,存在很多“似猫非猫”或“亦猫亦狗”的中间状态。
  2. 大语言模型 (LLMs,如 ChatGPT 生成文本)

    • 依赖类比:当你给 LLM 一个提示时,它不是通过逻辑推理来“理解”并生成文本。相反,它通过在其训练数据中找到与你提示最相似的上下文模式,然后根据这些模式类比性地预测下一个最可能的词或句子。这种生成过程是基于统计关联和高维空间中的语义相似性,而非严格的语法或语义规则推导。
    • 突破经典逻辑
      • 同一律:一个词的含义不再是严格固定的,而是通过其在不同上下文中的“相似用法”来动态确定,允许词义的模糊边界。
      • 矛盾律:LLMs 可能会生成看似矛盾的观点,因为它们学习的是数据中的模式,而不是逻辑真理。它可能在不同情境下“认为”一个概念同时具有A和非A的某些方面。
      • 排中律:模型在生成下一个词时,会从数万个可能的词中选择,并为每个词分配一个概率,而不是二元地判断“这个词是唯一的正确词”或“这个词是错误的”。生成过程充满了概率性和多样性。
  3. 人类直觉 (System 1,来自《思考快与慢》)

    • 依赖类比:当我们快速做出决策(例如,看到一个陌生人就感觉他“不靠谱”),这往往不是通过逻辑步骤分析他的特征,而是通过将他的整体形象类比于我们过去经验中遇到的“不靠谱”的人。这种判断是基于快速的模式匹配和情感关联,而非严谨推理。
    • 突破经典逻辑
      • 同一律:一个直觉并不依赖于对个体特征的精确识别,而是基于某种模糊的“感觉”或“印象”的匹配。
      • 矛盾律:我们可能对一个人同时产生“有点喜欢又有点不喜欢”的模糊感受,没有明确的爱憎界限。
      • 排中律:直觉的判断往往不是简单的“是”或“否”,而是一种强度或倾向,存在很多中间地带。

这些例子清晰地展示了两种系统在处理信息和解决问题时的根本差异,以及这种差异如何体现在它们对经典逻辑定律的应用和突破上。


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‪Shriram Krishnamurthi‬ ‪@shriram.bsky.social‬ · 7 分钟前 12/ Albania is also home to a rather odd gimmick: an attempt to create a new sovereign state within the capital (à la Vatican), to headquarter the Bektashi. ↵ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soverei…

Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org

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‪Shriram Krishnamurthi‬ ‪@shriram.bsky.social‬ · 7 分钟前 13/ I’ve read these in bits and pieces in the past, but never had a framework with which to make sense out of any of them. But reading this book helped everything fall in place. Abrahams is on X x.com/fredabrahams and less so @fredabrahams.bsky.social , and continues to write about the country. •

Fred Abrahams (@fredabrahams) / X Fred Abrahams (@fredabrahams) / X x.com

‪Xe‬ ‪@xeiaso.net‬ · 8 分钟前 Seeing an increase of abuse from AS7018, is their admin team responsive to abuse reports?

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‪Henri Helvetica 🧑🏾‍🚀🇭🇹‬ ‪@henrihelvetica.bsky.social‬ · 10 分钟前 Today was the type of morning I want – gorgeous, sunrise during my run, but I would love more heat and less wind. One more week til 1st day of summa! Image of the CN Tower from a distance with a sunrise in behind, with buildings around, including the Toronto Skydome. ALT

‪Dave Parisi‬ ‪@daveparisi.bsky.social‬ · 10 分钟前 Ok maybe pick a different night for fireworks over the Hudson, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

‪Tim A.‬ ‪@flipperpa.bsky.social‬ · 11 分钟前 Simple Minds may have nailed the 80s light show better than anyone, ever.

‪Freya Holmér‬ ‪@freya.bsky.social‬ · 13 分钟前 why is the sony FX2 so much more expensive ($4000) than the A7CII ($2400) and yet they’re incredibly similar in terms of features

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‪Robert C. Seacord‬ ‪@rcs.bsky.social‬ · 1 小时前 If he wanted a large crowd, he should have attended one of the protests.

‪Adam Schwarz‬ ‪@adamjschwarz.bsky.social‬ · 2 小时前 Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he’s their boss.

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‪Jess Morrissette‬ ‪@decafjedi.com‬ · 17 分钟前 Triumph of the Welp.

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‪Bloomberg News‬ ‪@bloomberg.com‬ · 17 分钟前 The UK will seek to restart trade negotiations with Canada, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on his way to meet his counterpart, Mark Carney as he strives to insulate Britain’s economy from the fallout of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war

Starmer Indicates Prospect of Fresh UK-Canada Trade Talks The UK will seek to restart trade negotiations with Canada, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on his way to meet his counterpart, Mark Carney as he strives to strengthen commercial ties around the world to better insulate Britain’s economy from the fallout of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war. bloom.bg

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‪Mike Rhone‬ ‪@mikerhone.bsky.social‬ · 19 分钟前 I may have reserved two under a fake name and email address…

‪Emily Baker-White‬ ‪@ebakerwhite.bsky.social‬ · 1 小时前 Over the past 48 hours, TikTokers — and BlueSkiers, Threaders, and even Twitterers — took a cue from 2020 K-Pop stans and reserved tickets to a trump rally they weren’t gonna use.

www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb

TikTokers Say They Trolled Trump’s Birthday Parade By Reserving Tickets They Didn’t Use TikTokers Say They Trolled Trump’s Birthday Parade By Reserving Tickets They Didn’t Use www.forbes.com

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‪1000 Lesbo DJs‬ ‪@erin-p.bsky.social‬ · 22 分钟前 回复 Emily Baker-White bsky.app/profile/erin…

‪1000 Lesbo DJs‬ ‪@erin-p.bsky.social‬ · 21 天前 Okay, I couldn’t resist… I just RSVP’d! Gosh, what a pity it would be if a whole bunch of us did that, and then didn’t show up. Or did show up, all queered up to the max. It’ll be Pride Month, after all!

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‪Sonia Cuff‬ ‪@soniacuff.com‬ · 18 分钟前 Is it even a weekend if you don’t go to Hammerbarn? The entrance to Bunnings Warehouse ALT

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‪hattie;‬ ‪@saltyplumsoda.bsky.social‬ · 1 小时前 linux people are the weedheads of computer the way they;re like “no just try it bro its a different distro bro just take this thumb drive and put it in your computer bro itll be so fast bro its not addictive”

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‪Ben Holmes‬ ‪@bholmes.dev‬ · 23 分钟前 Alright, I’m building a markdown editor. Some initial designs here. Wanted to play with fonts, title bars, and colorful cursors. Maybe you can pick your own color! Also loving this font called “Satoshi” 4 artboards, each showing a markdown document with headers, bullets, and the Satoshi font. The first shows a tall title bar with the traffic light icons in the corner. The second shows the title bar shortened to show state when typing. The third shows how the title bar expands when hovered again, and the fourth shows a dashed line that gets applied to the title as you scroll ALT

‪Tim Kellogg‬ ‪@timkellogg.me‬ · 24 分钟前 cool cool cool

‪Unusual Whales‬ ‪@unusualwhales.bsky.social‬ · 41 分钟前 BREAKING: Israel has asked the US to join war with Iran, per Axios

‪Adrian Roselli‬ ‪@aardrian.bsky.social‬ · 34 分钟前 So what I’m hearing is that #Buffalo in the ’80s put on a better military parade. bsky.app/profile/dave…

Also, I may have been at that parade (the one in Buffalo, not today’s in DC).

‪Dave Levinthal‬ ‪@davelevinthal.com‬ · 2 小时前 Can confirm that they are not throwing candy or little army toys or beads from the tanks, and my 9-year-old self who got candy and little army toys and beads from a tank soldier on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1980something is a little sad.

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‪Adrian Roselli‬ ‪@aardrian.bsky.social‬ · 28 分钟前 Although today’s parade in #Buffalo certainly looks more fun (and better attended). bsky.app/profile/lize…

‪Liz Evans‬ ‪@lizevans22.bsky.social‬ · 3 小时前 Classic #heyheyhoho chant at the #NoKings protest in #Buffalo. What a beautiful and encouraging day ❤️

‪vector‬ ‪@vector-of-bool.bsky.social‬ · 30 分钟前 If ever you feel sad on your birthday, because you’re lonely, you’re feeling old, or you didn’t achieve your year’s goals,

Console yourself with the fact that there aren’t millions of people across a half dozen time zones publicly filling the streets to express how much they hate your guts.

‪Laine Nooney‬ ‪@lainenooney.bsky.social‬ · 32 分钟前 25 million FOR THAT. gurl.

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‪ryan cooper‬ ‪@ryanlcooper.com‬ · 1 天前 truly bleak that while Padilla was being tackled by Noem’s goons, his Dem Senate colleagues were working with Republicans on a bill that would legalize Trump’s crypto bribes and touch off a global financial crisis sooner or later prospect.org/politics/202…

Padilla Assault Fails to Stop Senate Business as Usual Democrats did not withhold votes for pro-crypto legislation even when DHS goons were handcuffing their own colleague. prospect.org

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‪Patrick Monahan‬ ‪@pattymo.com‬ · 1 小时前 Executive order making it illegal to comment on the attendance at the birthday parade

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‪Clara Fernandez-Vara‬ ‪@clarafv.bsky.social‬ · 36 分钟前 The break from the world that I need right now is to hop on a plane and go to Japan to see the Castlevania show from the Takarazuka Revue this summer.

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‪Helen Kennedy‬ ‪@helenkennedy.bsky.social‬ · 50 分钟前 My two seats: Photo of the tank going by bleachers that are almost entirely empty. Two arrows point to two empty spots. ALT

‪Helen Kennedy‬ ‪@helenkennedy.bsky.social‬ · 4 天前 I reserved two parade viewing tickets under the name of the guy who killed Musso. Tips: any old phone number will work, it seems, except 867-5309. No matter what area code, it’s taken. (Gen X represent!) Also any made up email seems to work. You’d think they would have learned from Tulsa. But nooooo

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‪Clara Fernandez-Vara‬ ‪@clarafv.bsky.social‬ · 38 分钟前 This immigrant sends a heartfelt thank you to all the US citizens who came out on the streets today.🙏❤️

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‪Veena Dubal‬ ‪@veenadubal.bsky.social‬ · 1 小时前 “Rather than random acts of wanton destruction, we should understand the burning of Waymos as political effigies of tech oligarchy, representations of the public fury that surveillance capitalism’s interests are too often privileged over the everyday common good.”

bayareacurrent.com/the-torched-… The Torched Waymos: Burning Effigies of Tech Oligarchy When protesters burned Waymo vehicles in the streets of Los Angeles it wasn’t wanton destruction. It was a direct message from the working class. bayareacurrent.com

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‪Bloomberg News‬ ‪@bloomberg.com‬ · 40 分钟前 Boeing predicted airlines will need 43,600 new aircraft over the next 20 years, with markets like China and Southeast Asia leading the push as greater prosperity gives more people the means to travel.

Boeing Sees Need For 44,000 New Jets; Cautions on Slow Output Boeing Co. predicted airlines will need 43,600 new aircraft over the next 20 years, with markets like China and Southeast Asia leading the push as greater prosperity gives more people the means to travel. bloom.bg

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‪hammancheez‬ ‪@hammancheez.bsky.social‬ · 57 分钟前 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the strolling of the dudes They ambled up the street today before the crowds so few There wasnt much to see maybe an abram tank or two This parade is kinda mid

Glory glory what a bullshit way to serve

‪Jordan‬ ‪@slclunk.brighamyoungmoney.com‬ · 2 小时前 HOLY FUCK YOURE GREEN BERETS YOU SHOULD BE SMART ENOUGH TO GET ON FUCKING STEP

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‪Ollie Williams‬ ‪@olliewilliams.bsky.social‬ · 40 分钟前 PEE OH VEE: Ime about to give you an hed bunt. #cats #catsofbluesky A close up of ollie sitting on a chair. He wants some affection. ALT

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‪David Aronchick‬ ‪@ironyuppie.com‬ · 40 分钟前 Current status:

‪Kristopher Micinski‬ ‪@krismicinski.bsky.social‬ · 44 分钟前

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根据您提供的社交媒体动态,最近主要发生了以下几件事:

  1. 特朗普生日游行/集会出席人数稀少,被网友恶搞:

    • 许多社交媒体用户(包括 TikTokers、BlueSkiers、Threaders 和 Twitterers)模仿2020年K-Pop粉丝的做法,预订了特朗普生日游行或集会的门票但并未出席,以此进行恶搞。
    • 多位用户嘲讽集会现场“非常空荡”、“不如公交车站人多”,甚至有人调侃“猫都没能来”。
    • 有用户表示自己用假名或已故兄弟的名字预订了门票。
    • 有人提到类似事件曾发生在塔尔萨(暗示2020年特朗普塔尔萨集会因门票被大量预订后未出席而导致空场)。
    • 在布法罗(Buffalo)也同时举行了“No Kings”抗议活动,场面似乎更热闹。
  2. 国际新闻:

    • 以色列已要求美国加入与伊朗的战争(来自 Unusual Whales)。
    • 英国将寻求与加拿大重启贸易谈判,以应对美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的关税战影响(来自 Bloomberg News)。
    • 波音公司预测未来20年需要43,600架新飞机,中国和东南亚市场将是主要推动力(来自 Bloomberg News)。
  3. 其他热门讨论:

    • 关于一本名为《Modern Albania》的书的评论和介绍。
    • 关于索尼 FX2 和 A7CII 相机价格差异的讨论。
    • 关于 Linux 发行版(distro)的幽默评论。
    • 关于设计 Markdown 编辑器的想法和艺术概念图。
    • 关于燃烧 Waymo 车辆作为“科技寡头政治象征”的讨论。

总的来说,最引人注目的话题似乎是围绕特朗普生日游行低迷的出席率以及社交媒体用户对此的恶搞和评论。


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Steven @ NUS Welcome to my personal website that contains my works that are related to the School of Computing (SoC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). This website is titled ‘World of Seven (7)’ because 7 reflects completeness in the Holy Bible.

I am an Associate Professor (Educator Track) in the Department of Computer Science, SoC, NUS where I teach a diverse range (currently 6 big categories) of programming or algorithm courses. The courses are as follows (listed in increasing course codes, except the last two inactive categories):

‘Basic’ Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) Courses: CS2040S (UG) and IT5003 (MComp-GT + CET) (and its (older) variants: CS1020E, CS2010, CS2020, CS2040, CS2040C),

Design and Analysis of Algorithms (DAA) Course: CS3230, My ‘Special’ Competitive Programming (CP) Course: CS3233, Advanced (Optimization) Algorithm Course: CS4234 — currently inactive, Basic Programming Methodology Courses: IT1005 (equivalent course: IT1006 and CG1101), CS1281, CS2281 — all currently inactive, Web Programming Course: CS3226 (previously CP3101B) — currently inactive. Apparently (majority of) my students like to be tortured with heavy and tedious courses of mine. Here are some evidences (in reverse chronological order):

I received the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) three times, for AY2014/15, AY2017/18, and AY2018/19 and am currently placed on the ATEA Honour Roll (in 2020), i.e., “banned from competing within University” until AY2025/26, In 2018, I was conferred the Commendation Medal (Pingat Kepujian) (Ministry of Education) by the President of the Republic of Singapore on the occasion of the National Day Awards 2018, I received the NUS SoC Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (FTEA) three times for AY2011/12, AY2012/13, and AY2014/15 and was placed on FTEA honour roll once (AY2014/15 until AY2019/20), I received the NUS SoC Best Teaching Assistant Award (BTTA) for AY2007/08. In this decade (2020s), I have taken on more teaching (excellence)-related responsibilities instead of competing for teaching awards. I also take more international leadership positions. Here are the list of my current active appointments:

Director of “Centre for Nurturing Computing Excellence” (CeNCE), since Feb 2022. See the details below, Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO) Chairman of Preparatory Committee, since Aug 2023, Fellow of NUS Teaching Academy, since Jul 2023, Member of NUS SoC Faculty Teaching Excellence Committee (FTEC), since Jul 2021, One of the Undergraduate Student Advisor for the 2023 cohort, since Jul 2023. My past important appointments (in reverse chronological order):

Resident Fellow of Block E (Eekers) of Sheares Hall, NUS, from Jan 2014 to Dec 2022 (9 years), Member of the International Committee of the IOI, from Aug 2019 to Jun 2021 (2 years), Outside NUS: Deacon at Gereja Presbyterian Bukit Batok (GPBB) (the Indonesian congregation of Bukit Batok Presbyterian Church, from Jan 2016 to Dec 2018 (3 years). Office Associate Professor Steven Halim
National University of Singapore, School of Computing 13 Computing Drive, Singapore 117417 Office address: Computing 2, Level 3, Room 37 (COM2-03-37)

Steven and Competitive Programming I coordinate various programming competition activities, namely SGP NOI+APIO+EGOI+IOI and NUS ICPC under the “Centre for Nurturing Computing Excellence” (CeNCE) where I am the director.

I wear many hats in these various programming competition activities. An important project for 2025 was the Contest Director of ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2025, hosted by NUS SoC. I have been the head coach of NUS ICPC teams since 2008 to present. I also served as the WF coach in the years 2010 (Ripple), 2012 (Eternia), 2014 (ThanQ), 2019 (3body2), 2020 (3body3, 5x coach award), 2021 (MLG), 2022 (7 Halim), 2023 (The Spiders from Mars), and 2024 (absinthe, WF24 in Sep 2024). Additionally, I hold the position of team leader for Singapore IOI teams since 2009, except for the years 2014, 2020, and 2021. I have also served as the Regional Contest Director for ICPC Asia Singapore 2015 and 2018, and as the Deputy Director for the 32nd IOI 2020, Singapore (Online Competition) and the 33rd IOI 2021, Singapore (another Online Competition).

NUS ICPC teams have achieved several recent successes in ICPC Asia Regional Contests, with a total of 13 wins between 2013 and 2025 (so far):

Asia Regionals Site #Win(s) Year(s) Jakarta, Indonesia 8 2013 (ThanQ), 2014 (ThanQ+), 2015 (RRwatameda), 2017 (DomiNUS), 2019 (Send Bobs to Alice), 2020 (MLG), 2021 (7 Halim), 2023 (absinthe) Manila, Philippines 2 2017 (Pandamiao), 2019 (7 Halim) Nakhon Pathom, Thailand 1 2018 (Pandamiao) Yangon, Myanmar 1 2018 (3body2) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1 2019 (3body3) NUS ICPC teams started strong in the recently added ICPC Asia Pacific Championships:

Asia Pacific Championship Site Rank Year Hanoi, Vietnam 2 2024 (absinthe) Singapore, Singapore 2 2025 (Jägermeister) NUS ICPC teams have achieved remarkable results in recent ICPC World Finals with the current peak being Silver medal (6th place) during the ICPC World Finals 2024, at Astana, Kazakhstan.

Below are their top three performances (and if you are interested, see the full ICPC World Finals history of NUS teams).

World Finals Site Year Rank # of Teams Astana, Kazakhstan 2024 6th (Silver Medal, absinthe) 141 Phuket, Thailand 2016 Joint-14 (RRwatameda) 128 Ekaterinburg, Russia 2014 Joint-19 (ThanQ) 122 The visualization below shows the results of NUS best teams between 2006-2024 in ICPC Asia Regional Contests and in the ICPC World Finals of the following year. WF25 will be at Baku later this year (31 Aug-05 Sep 2025).

Before Steven Steven’s era To help myself monitor the current team members of NUS ICPC teams, I have created a table that shows their past performances in IOI (NOI) or IMO, ICPC, and/or my CS3233 course (if taken), ICPC Jak 23 performance (if compete), and their recent CodeForces and Kattis online judges performances.

SH7 rating is currently defined as:

Past performances in IOI, ICPC, and/or my CS3233 course (40%):

15% IOI (Gold/Silver/Bronze)/(any IMO/IPhO experience)/(any NOI experience)/(no past experience) is considered as having rating 2400/2200/2000/1800/1600/1400 in CF, respectively) + 15% ICPC ((World Finals Bronze Medal)/(World Finals 2x)/(World Finals)/(Virtual World Finals 2x)/(Virtual World Finals)/Regionals/(no experience) is considered as having rating 2900/2600/2500/2400/2300/2200/1600 in CF, respectively) + 10% CS3233 (A+/A/A-/(have not take)/B+ in CS3233 is considered as having rating 2400/2200/1900/1600/1400 in CF, respectively) + Dynamic (real-time) online judges performances: CF and Kattis (45%):

35% CF (if a student has no CF account, his/her default CF rating is 1200) + 10% Kattis (log(KattisPoints+1) / log(2218) * 2400, i.e., obtaining ~2218 points in Kattis (top 50 currently) is considered as having rating 2400 in CF). Recent NUS ICPC Result (15%):

15% Jak 2023 (almost all NUS teams for 2023 joined this, assumed 1200 if did not join) Singapore EGOI+IOI teams also train in the same “Centre for Nurturing Computing Excellence” (CeNCE), together with various IOI+IMO medalists and ICPC team members in NUS. With such synergy between ICPC and IOI activities in NUS, all 4 members of recent Singapore IOI teams usually bring home 4 medals (and also very good EGOI results too). The most recent achievement (in Steven’s era) is 1G (Shi Wei), 2S (James, Chur Zhe), and 1B (Jamie) in 2023. The best achievement (in Steven’s era) is 3G (Ashley, Xing Yang, Si Jie) and 1S (Yi Kai) in 2021, plus Team 2: 1S (Rui Yuan) 2B (James and Yue Chen). The visualization below shows the recent progress of Singapore IOI teams based on the sum of medal quality Q = 3Gold + 2Silver + 1*Bronze of SG IOI teams since 1992-present (Steven took over starting 2009). In 1992-2008 (the first 17 years before Steven took over), Singapore IOI teams collected 43 medals (2.5 medals/year), only 4 Gold medals, and with average medal quality Q-before of 3.9. In 2009-2024 (the next 16 years of IOI under Steven), Singapore IOI teams collected 61 medals (3.8 medals/year), 11 more Gold medals, and with average medal quality Q-Steven of 7.2. If you are interested, you can read this article to see the whereabouts of these Singapore IOI medalists today (accurrate as of year 2015 team).

Before Steven Steven’s era 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 Singapore and worldwide IOI medallists frequently joined NUS School of Computing, as shown in this article:

With my brother, Felix Halim, and my friend, Suhendry Effendy, we have compiled our expertise in programming contests into a popular book called “Competitive Programming” (the most up-to-date edition as of Jun 2025 is currently CP4). You can purchase the book via lulu.com.

I use Kattis for various programming contest activities in SoC NUS, and I have also incorporated the spirit of ‘competitive programming’ (albeit in a milder form) into my other algorithm/programming course(s).

Participating in programming competitions has given me the opportunity to visity numerous exotic places around the world on a yearly basis, although it was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Fortunately, international travel has now resumed, and I am extremely grateful to God for this opportunity.

VisuAlgo and Online Quiz – Web-based Tool for Teaching Data Structures and Algorithms I significantly use various visualization and animation techniques that I have learned during PhD days for my current pedagogy research project: VisuAlgo. In this large-scale web-based project which is still actively developed, myself and a number of my students develop visualizations (animations) for a lot of well-known data structures and algorithms typically taught in Computer Science curriculum and beyond. A snapshot of the portal page of VisuAlgo is shown below.

Not just that, our team is ambitious enough to design the Online Quiz component of VisuAlgo: Automated questions generator and answers verifier to aid students when they learn these data structures and algorithms.

We generate data structures and algorithms questions using well-defined grammatical rules, but we randomize the data structure content, the underlying graph, and/or the operations to be performed. This way, the questions are always “fresh”.

Students can enter their answer in various input methods: Traditional MCQ style, selecting one vertex/edge, selecting a subset or a sequence of vertices/edges, enter a number in input box, and draw the answer graph. Students’ answers are graded instantly and students will be able to get automatic feedback on their wrong answers by verifying the correct answers directly in VisuAlgo visualization.

With this pedagogy tool, I want to provide my students (and also Computer Science students worldwide) with “a copy of myself” that are available 24/7 to guide their learning process.

If you understand Bahasa Indonesia, you may want to read my Facebook note about https://visualgo.net/id, the VisuAlgo front page in Indonesian language.

This work is featured on NUS School of Computing page, titled: Visualising Algorithms with a Click on 02 April 2020.

Methods to Solve – Hints for Solving Thousands Programming Problems in UVa+Kattis Online Judge In the past (2000-2009), I started and maintained ‘Methods to Solve’ - a collection of about nearly 2000 hints for doing problem solving in the famous UVa online judge. This page has been revamped from just static HTML to a dynamic webpage with newer Web Programming technologies, e.g., JavaScript, jQuery, Database. It is now ‘sortable’ (based on several sort keys) and ‘searchable’ (based on keywords). I have also added many Kattis online judge hints too.

Steven’s Past Research Works During PhD Days I have completed my PhD degree but now no longer active in the field that gave me my PhD.

I have compiled lots of PhD tips that may be useful to PhD students that come behind me.

My PhD research was to investigate human-computer collaboration (in form of FLST visualization plus automated black-box tuning) to address Stochastic Local Search `Design and Tuning Problem’ (SLS DTP). Between year 2003-2008, I had authored and co-authored several scientific articles on international journals and conferences around this topic. This SLS DTP is a high level problem suffered by the algorithm designer while they try to create a good performing SLS algorithms (a.k.a. metaheuristics) for attacking the underlying NP-Complete Combinatorial (Optimization) Problems. I have designed an SLS engineering suite Viz that incorporates my ideas above to help me address this SLS DTP.

Steven’s Policy About Recommendation Letter I have received far too many requests to write recommendation letters from past/current students for various reasons (job application, graduate school application, student exchange application, etc). To maintain my sanity, I will only allow the following groups of students to request for such recommendation letter:

Students who have worked for me for more than one semester in the past, e.g., have taken 2 of my courses, have taken 1 of my courses and became a part-time TA of that course, my part-time TA for more than 1 semester, or my FYP/UROP students. Those students have good working relationships with me, e.g., at least A- in FYP/UROP/my courses, scored ≥ 4.1 in teaching feedback rating for part-time TAs. Maximum 5 recommendation letters per eligible student, e.g., you cannot spam various schools for graduate study, you cannot ask me to be interviewed by dozens of prospective companies. I am sorry in advance that I will simply reject the requests from all other students starting from Tuesday, 17 November 2015 onwards.

Copyright © Steven Halim 2000-2025

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这个老师专门教算法竞赛的么?


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是的,从您提供的页面内容来看,Steven Halim 老师主要且非常专注于算法和编程竞赛相关的教学和指导工作。

以下是支持这个结论的关键证据:

  1. 课程设置:

    • 他教授的课程涵盖了“基本数据结构和算法(DSA)”、“算法设计与分析(DAA)”、“我的‘特殊’竞技编程(CP)课程:CS3233”。其中 CS3233 明确标明为“Special Competitive Programming Course”。
    • 他还将“竞技编程的精神”融入到其他算法/编程课程中。
  2. “Centre for Nurturing Computing Excellence” (CeNCE) 主任:

    • 他自2022年2月起担任该中心主任。该中心明确用于“协调各种编程竞赛活动,即 SGP NOI+APIO+EGOI+IOI 和 NUS ICPC”。
  3. 在各种编程竞赛中的重要职位:

    • NUS ICPC 团队总教练:自2008年至今。
    • ICPC World Finals 教练:多次担任(2010, 2012, 2014, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)。
    • 新加坡 IOI 团队负责人:自2009年至今(除少数年份)。
    • ICPC Asia Singapore 区域赛主管 (Regional Contest Director):2015年和2018年。
    • IOI 副主管 (Deputy Director):2020年和2021年新加坡承办的IOI。
    • APIO 筹备委员会主席:自2023年8月起。
    • ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2025 竞赛主管 (Contest Director)。
  4. 团队成就:

    • 他领导的 NUS ICPC 团队在亚洲区域赛和世界总决赛中取得了显著的成绩,包括多次区域赛冠军和世界总决赛的银牌(第6名)。
    • 新加坡 IOI 团队在他带领下,奖牌数量和质量都有显著提升,经常是所有队员都获得奖牌。
  5. 著作和工具:

    • 与他人合著了著名的“Competitive Programming”系列书籍(最新版CP4)。
    • 开发了 VisuAlgo 工具,用于可视化数据结构和算法,并包含自动生成问题和验证答案的在线测试组件,旨在“提供给学生们‘一个24/7指导他们学习过程的我自己’”,这与算法竞赛的训练方法高度吻合。
    • 维护了“Methods to Solve”,为UVa和Kattis在线判题系统上的数千个编程问题提供提示。

尽管他也有教学奖项、行政职责,并且过去有PhD研究经验,但页面绝大部分内容,尤其是“Steven and Competitive Programming”部分,都强烈指向他作为一名在算法竞赛领域极具影响力、贡献和激情的教育者和教练


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Kattis logo Kattis Problems Contests Challenge Ranklists Jobs (5) Languages Info Help Kattis Cat Search Kattis Problems / Flag Quiz Support Kattis tannal Hide Flag Quiz /problems/flagquiz/file/statement/en/img-0001.jpg In the intergalactic low budget streaming show “Flag quiz!”, contestants need to answer questions along the lines of “What are the joint colors, symbols and shapes occurring on the flags of Empire ?”. An empire in this context is simply some subset of entities on the same planet, or otherwise related, according to the fantasies of the Supreme Map Maker. For instance, according to the system set by the Supreme Map Maker, “Empire Earth Meridian 0” are all nations cut by the zeroth meridian on Earth. This is not necessarily the same system used locally on each planet, for instance the zeroth meridian goes through Stockholm in this system. Knowledge of geography, politics or culture can actually be an obstacle on your way to victory in this challenge! However, sometimes (actually, most of the time) you can figure out the answer to a quiz question just by looking at the alternatives. Being a low budget show, the underpaid quiz question authors strive to minimize their effort in coming up with the alternatives for each question. They construct each alternative by making a small number of changes to the correct answer, where a change consists of replacing one part of the correct answer with something else. For example, transforming “green, blue, stripes” into “green, yellow, stripes” has one single change, while changing the same answer into “life, universe, stripes” has two changes. The question authors never permute the parts, so order matters. In other words, transforming “green, blue, stripes” into “stripes, blue, green” has two changes even though they are both technically the same answer. Note that the answers are case sensitive, so “green, blue, stripes” and “Green, Blue, Stripes” need 3 changes.

Your task is to write a program that automatically finds the most likely answers to questions constructed in this way. Define the incongruousity of an alternative as the maximum number of changes needed to transform that alternative into any of the other alternatives. We then seek the alternative(s) with the smallest incongruousity.

Task Given a question and a set of potential answers to it, find the answer that is easiest to change into any other answer.

Input The first line is the question to be answered. The next line contains one positive integer , giving the number of answer alternatives. The next lines contain one alternative each. The alternatives are lists of parts, separated by a comma and a space. All answers have the same number of parts, at most 100. All parts are strings of letters a-z and A-Z, digits 0-9 and spaces. Each part doesn’t contain leading or trailing spaces (except the space after a comma that separates 2 parts). The maximal length of a part is 50 characters.

Output Output the alternative that requires the smallest maximum amount of changes to be turned into any other answer. If there are several least incongruous alternatives, output them all in the same order as in the input.

Sample Input 1 Sample Output 1 The flag of the empire Angola? 4 Green stripe, black stripe, yellow Red stripe, black stripe, yellow Red stripe, black stripe, white Red stripe, green stripe, yellow Red stripe, black stripe, yellow Sample Input 2 Sample Output 2 The flag of the Knights who say Ni? 4 Black, white, pink, shrubbery Black, white, red, shrubbery Pink, white, red, shrubbery Black, pink, red, shrubbery Black, white, red, shrubbery Edit & Submit Metadata My Submissions Hide Select your programming language of choice and start writing your code.

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首先告诉我这道题的出处,作者,历史故事,接着用有趣和便于理解的方式叙述题目,


Cursor

好的,这道 Kattis 竞赛题叫做 “Flag Quiz”

题目出处、作者、历史故事

  1. 出处: 这道题来自著名的在线判题系统 Kattis,它的网址就是您截图上看到的 open.kattis.com。Kattis 是一个广受编程竞赛社区欢迎的平台,由瑞典皇家理工学院(KTH Royal Institute of Technology)和一些其他机构共同维护。
  2. 作者: 在Kattis上,通常不会直接列出每道题的具体作者,而是由组织比赛的团队或高校提供。这道题的背景故事和行文风格(例如“Supreme Map Maker”、“Empire Earth Meridian 0”、“Knights who say Ni?”)带有典型的北欧(特别是瑞典)编程竞赛题目的幽默和天马行空。这些题目经常会结合一些流行文化梗或者创造性的小故事来包装一个纯粹的算法问题。
  3. 历史故事(推测): 像“Flag Quiz”这样的题目通常是为某个具体的**编程竞赛(例如区域赛,如 ICPC Regional Contest,或者某个大学内部的比赛)**设计的。它可能在某年的比赛中作为一道中等难度的题目出现,旨在考察参赛者对字符串处理、比较逻辑以及找出最小值(或最大值)策略的理解。题目中提到的“Knights who say Ni?”是电影《巨蟒与圣杯》(Monty Python and the Holy Grail)中的著名梗,这进一步印证了题目作者的幽默感。

有趣和便于理解的方式叙述题目

想象一下,你被邀请参加一档名为 “旗帜问答!” 的低成本星际直播节目。这个节目的规则有点奇怪:它不考你真正的地理知识,而是问你某个“帝国”(其实就是一些被“至尊地图制造者”随意划定在一起的行星实体集合)的旗帜上有什么共同的颜色、符号和形状。比如,他们可能会问你:“‘地球本初子午线帝国0’的旗帜有什么特点?”(没错,这个帝国就是所有被本初子午线切割的国家,而且在这个系统里,子午线竟然还穿过斯德哥尔摩!)。所以,如果你是地理高手,反而会在这里吃亏!

不过别担心,这个节目预算超低,出题人都是懒鬼。他们想出了一个作弊小技巧:他们出的答案选项,其实都是从正确答案稍微改动一点点得来的。

什么叫“改动”? 比如,正确答案是“绿色、蓝色、条纹”。

  • 如果你看到选项是“绿色、黄色、条纹”——那只算1次改动,因为只把“蓝色”改成了“黄色”。
  • 但如果是“生命、宇宙、条纹”——那就算2次改动,因为“绿色”和“蓝色”都被改了。
  • 注意!顺序很重要,大小写也重要!
    • “绿色、蓝色、条纹”变成“条纹、蓝色、绿色”,虽然内容一样,但因为顺序变了,所以是2次改动(“绿色”变“条纹”,“条纹”变“绿色”)。
    • “green, blue, stripes”变成“Green, Blue, Stripes”,因为大小写不同,所以是3次改动(每个部分都变了)。

你的任务是什么呢?

作为一名聪明的选手,你发现了一个规律:最接近正确答案的选项,往往是那个“最容易被其他错误答案‘拉拢’的选项”。

换句话说,我们需要找到那个选项,它与所有其他选项相比,所需的最大“改动次数”是最小的。

我们定义一个选项的 “不和谐度(incongruity)” 为: 把这个选项变成其他任何一个选项,所需的最大改动次数。

你的程序要做的就是: 输入一个问题和一些候选答案。你要找出那个“不和谐度”最小的答案(或多个,如果它们的不和谐度相同,就按输入顺序输出)。

例子: 假设有四个答案:

  1. A: 红条纹,黑条纹,黄色
  2. B: 绿条纹,黑条纹,黄色
  3. C: 红条纹,黑条纹,白色
  4. D: 红条纹,绿条纹,黄色

我们来计算每个答案的“不和谐度”:

  • 对答案 A (“红条纹, 黑条纹, 黄色”):

    • A -> B (“绿条纹, 黑条纹, 黄色”):改动 1 次 (“红条纹” -> “绿条纹”)
    • A -> C (“红条纹, 黑条纹, 白色”):改动 1 次 (“黄色” -> “白色”)
    • A -> D (“红条纹, 绿条纹, 黄色”):改动 1 次 (“黑条纹” -> “绿条纹”)
    • A 的不和谐度 = max(1, 1, 1) = 1
  • 对答案 B (“绿条纹, 黑条纹, 黄色”):

    • B -> A (“红条纹, 黑条纹, 黄色”):改动 1 次
    • B -> C (“红条纹, 黑条纹, 白色”):改动 2 次 (“绿条纹” -> “红条纹”, “黄色” -> “白色”)
    • B -> D (“红条纹, 绿条纹, 黄色”):改动 2 次 (“黑条纹” -> “绿条纹”, “绿条纹” -> “红条纹”)
    • B 的不和谐度 = max(1, 2, 2) = 2
  • …以此类推,计算所有选项的不和谐度。

最后,选择不和谐度最小的那个答案输出。在这个例子中,如果 A 是唯一不和谐度为1的,那就是 A。

是不是很有趣?这不仅仅是简单的比较,还需要你计算每个选项与其他所有选项的“距离”,然后找到那个“最不突兀”的中心点。


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function compute(features) { let result = Infinity; features = features.map(item => item.split(’,’)); for (let i = 0; i < features.length; i++) { let middle = -Infinity; const array = features[i] for (let j = 0; j < array.length; j++) { if (i != j) { let cnt = 0; for (let k = 0; k < array.length; k++) { if (features[i][k] != features[j][k]) { cnt++; } }

            middle = Math.max(middle, cnt)
        }
    }
    result = Math.min(result, middle);
}
return result;

} 这个故事讲的符合上面的故事的叙事么?


Cursor

这个 compute 函数的故事基本符合您之前讲述的“Flag Quiz”题目的叙事,尤其是在计算“改动次数”和“不和谐度”的逻辑上。

让我来逐行解析,看看它如何映射到题目中的概念:

  1. let result = Infinity;

    • 故事映射: 这就像你在比赛开始前,心里想着“到目前为止,我发现的最不突兀(不和谐度最低)的选项,它的不和谐度是一个巨大的数字,无限大!” — 这对应于寻找最小“不和谐度”的最终目标。
  2. features = features.map(item => item.split(','));

    • 故事映射: 这就像你拿到所有答案选项(比如“红色, 黑色, 黄色”),然后把它们拆开,变成一个个独立的“部分”(例如 ["红色", "黑色", "黄色"])。— 这对应于将每个答案字符串解析成独立的组成部分。 (注意: 题目明确说“以逗号和空格分隔”,所以更准确的做法应该是 item.split(', '),否则像“黑色”这样的部分前面会多一个空格,导致比较时出错。但就逻辑而言,它符合拆分的概念。)
  3. for (let i = 0; i < features.length; i++) { ... }

    • 故事映射: “好了,现在我要逐一检查每个选项,看看它到底有多‘不和谐’。” — 这对应于遍历每个候选答案,计算其不和谐度。
  4. let middle = -Infinity;

    • 故事映射: “对于当前正在检查的这个选项,它与所有其他选项比较,最大的那个‘改动次数’是多少呢?我先设它为负无穷,这样任何一个真实的改动次数都会比它大。” — 这对应于初始化当前选项的“不和谐度”计算,即找到它与所有其他选项相比的最大改动次数。
  5. const array = features[i]

    • 故事映射: 这只是把当前选项的部件列表方便地取出来。
  6. for (let j = 0; j < features.length; j++) { ... }

    • 故事映射: “现在,我要把当前这个选项(features[i])和每一个 (features[j]) 其他选项拿出来,逐一比较,算出它们之间的改动次数。” — 这对应于计算当前选项与所有其他选项之间的“改动次数”。
  7. if (i != j) { ... }

    • 故事映射: “当然,一个选项没必要和它自己比,只和其他不同的选项比就行。” — 这对应于只与不同的候选答案进行比较。
  8. let cnt = 0;

    • 故事映射: “好的,开始计算这两个选项(features[i]features[j])之间的总改动次数。” — 这对应于初始化两个答案之间的“改动次数”计数器。
  9. for (let k = 0; k < array.length; k++) { ... }

    • 故事映射: “现在,逐个部件地比较它们,如果部件不一样,就增加一次改动。” — 这对应于逐个比较答案的每个部分(按顺序),并计算不同的部分数量。
  10. if (features[i][k] != features[j][k]) { cnt++; }

    • 故事映射: “发现一个不一样!改动次数加1!” — 这完全符合题目中“改动”的定义。
  11. middle = Math.max(middle, cnt)

    • 故事映射: “跟所有其他选项比完之后,我发现这一个选项(features[i])要变成那个最难变的选项时,需要 middle 次改动。这个 middle 就是这个选项的‘不和谐度’!” — 这完美地实现了题目中“不和谐度”的定义:该选项到其他任何一个选项的“最大改动次数”。
  12. result = Math.min(result, middle);

    • 故事映射: “我把当前选项的‘不和谐度’ middle,和之前发现的最小‘不和谐度’ result 比一下,如果 middle 更小,就更新 result。” — 这对应于在所有选项的不和谐度中找到最小值。
  13. return result;

    • 故事映射: “最终,我找到了那个所有选项中最小的‘不和谐度’是多少!” — 这对应于返回最终的最小不和谐度数值。

总结:

compute 函数的内部逻辑,从计算两个答案之间的“改动次数”,到计算单个答案的“不和谐度”,再到找到所有不和谐度中的最小值,都与您之前故事中描述的题目要求完全吻合。它精确地实现了题目中定义的度量标准。

唯一不符的是: 题目要求输出的是答案字符串本身(如果多个答案有相同最小不和谐度,则全部输出),而您的函数最终只返回了最小不和谐度这个数值。但这是输出格式的问题,而不是计算逻辑与题目不符的问题。


User

现在我要返回对应的字符串而不是数值,请尽可能保留我的函数的结构,命名等,只添加最小情况


Cursor

好的,我将修改您的 compute 函数,使其返回具有最小不和谐度的字符串,而不是数值。我将尽可能保留您原有的结构和变量命名,只进行必要的添加和调整。

主要改动点:

  1. 新增一个数组变量来存储符合条件的答案字符串。
  2. 在计算出当前答案的不和谐度后,与全局最小不和谐度进行比较,并更新存储答案的数组。
  3. 处理输入字符串的分割方式,使其严格符合题目中“逗号和空格”分隔的要求。
  4. 考虑只有一个答案时的特殊情况。
function compute(features) {
    let result = Infinity; // 这个变量将继续存储迄今为止找到的最小不和谐度数值
    let bestAlternatives = []; // 新增的变量,用于存储具有最小不和谐度的答案字符串(可能有多个)

    // 复制一份原始输入字符串,因为我们最终要返回的是原始字符串格式
    const originalFeaturesList = [...features]; 

    // 将每个答案字符串分割成独立的组成部分。
    // IMPORTANT: 题目要求“以逗号和空格分隔”,所以使用 ', ' 而不是 ','
    features = features.map(item => item.split(', ')); 

    // 处理只有一个答案替代项的特殊情况 (N=1)
    // 题目中“不和谐度”的定义是“转化成任何其他替代项所需的最大改动次数”。
    // 如果只有一个替代项,就没有“其他替代项”,此时定义会变得模糊。
    // 编程竞赛中,这种情况下通常直接返回唯一的那个替代项。
    if (features.length === 1) {
        return originalFeaturesList; 
    }

    // 外层循环:遍历每一个答案替代项 (features[i]),计算它的不和谐度
    for (let i = 0; i < features.length; i++) {
        let middle = -Infinity; // 这个变量将存储当前替代项 features[i] 到所有“其他”替代项的最大改动次数

        // 内层循环:将当前替代项 features[i] 与每一个其他替代项 features[j] 进行比较
        for (let j = 0; j < features.length; j++) {
            if (i !== j) { // 确保只与不同的替代项进行比较
                let cnt = 0; // 计数器,记录 features[i] 和 features[j] 之间的改动次数
                
                // 题目指出所有答案替代项具有相同数量的部分
                for (let k = 0; k < features[i].length; k++) {
                    if (features[i][k] !== features[j][k]) {
                        cnt++; // 如果对应位置的部分不同,则改动次数加一
                    }
                }
                // 更新 middle,使其始终是当前替代项 features[i] 到所有其他替代项中最大的改动次数
                middle = Math.max(middle, cnt);
            }
        }
        
        // 经过内层循环后,`middle` 变量现在存储了当前替代项 features[i] 的“不和谐度”。
        
        // 接下来,根据这个不和谐度,更新整体的最小不和谐度 (`result`)
        // 以及存储最佳答案的列表 (`bestAlternatives`)
        if (middle < result) {
            result = middle; // 找到了一个新的更小的最小不和谐度
            bestAlternatives = [originalFeaturesList[i]]; // 重置列表,只包含这个新的最佳答案
        } else if (middle === result) {
            bestAlternatives.push(originalFeaturesList[i]); // 如果不和谐度与当前最小的相同,则将其添加到列表中
        }
    }

    return bestAlternatives; // 返回包含一个或多个最佳答案字符串的数组
}
function compute(features) {
    let result = Infinity; // 这个变量将继续存储迄今为止找到的最小不和谐度数值
    let bestAlternatives = []; // 新增的变量,用于存储具有最小不和谐度的答案字符串(可能有多个)

    // 复制一份原始输入字符串,因为我们最终要返回的是原始字符串格式
    const originalFeaturesList = [...features]; 

    // 将每个答案字符串分割成独立的组成部分。
    // IMPORTANT: 题目要求“以逗号和空格分隔”,所以使用 ', ' 而不是 ','
    features = features.map(item => item.split(', ')); 

    // 处理只有一个答案替代项的特殊情况 (N=1)
    // 题目中“不和谐度”的定义是“转化成任何其他替代项所需的最大改动次数”。
    // 如果只有一个替代项,就没有“其他替代项”,此时定义会变得模糊。
    // 编程竞赛中,这种情况下通常直接返回唯一的那个替代项。
    if (features.length === 1) {
        return originalFeaturesList; 
    }

    // 外层循环:遍历每一个答案替代项 (features[i]),计算它的不和谐度
    for (let i = 0; i < features.length; i++) {
        let middle = -Infinity; // 这个变量将存储当前替代项 features[i] 到所有“其他”替代项的最大改动次数

        // 内层循环:将当前替代项 features[i] 与每一个其他替代项 features[j] 进行比较
        for (let j = 0; j < features.length; j++) {
            if (i !== j) { // 确保只与不同的替代项进行比较
                let cnt = 0; // 计数器,记录 features[i] 和 features[j] 之间的改动次数
                
                // 题目指出所有答案替代项具有相同数量的部分
                for (let k = 0; k < features[i].length; k++) {
                    if (features[i][k] !== features[j][k]) {
                        cnt++; // 如果对应位置的部分不同,则改动次数加一
                    }
                }
                // 更新 middle,使其始终是当前替代项 features[i] 到所有其他替代项中最大的改动次数
                middle = Math.max(middle, cnt);
            }
        }
        
        // 经过内层循环后,`middle` 变量现在存储了当前替代项 features[i] 的“不和谐度”。
        
        // 接下来,根据这个不和谐度,更新整体的最小不和谐度 (`result`)
        // 以及存储最佳答案的列表 (`bestAlternatives`)
        if (middle < result) {
            result = middle; // 找到了一个新的更小的最小不和谐度
            bestAlternatives = [originalFeaturesList[i]]; // 重置列表,只包含这个新的最佳答案
        } else if (middle === result) {
            bestAlternatives.push(originalFeaturesList[i]); // 如果不和谐度与当前最小的相同,则将其添加到列表中
        }
    }

    return bestAlternatives; // 返回包含一个或多个最佳答案字符串的数组
}

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处理一下输入输出


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好的,现在我们来把完整的输入处理和输出逻辑集成到一起。在 Node.js 环境下,通常使用 readline 模块来逐行读取标准输入。

// 导入 readline 模块用于处理标准输入
const readline = require('readline');

// 创建 readline 接口
const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout
});

let lines = []; // 用于存储所有输入的行
let N = 0;      // 存储答案替代项的数量
let questionRead = false; // 标记问题行是否已读取
let alternativesCount = 0; // 已读取的答案替代项数量

// 监听每行的输入
rl.on('line', (line) => {
    // 第一行是问题,我们读取但不需要处理
    if (!questionRead) {
        questionRead = true;
        // console.log("Question:", line); // For debugging
    } 
    // 第二行是 N,替代项的数量
    else if (N === 0) {
        N = parseInt(line.trim(), 10);
        // console.log("Number of alternatives (N):", N); // For debugging
    } 
    // 之后 N 行是答案替代项
    else {
        lines.push(line.trim());
        alternativesCount++;
        // console.log("Read alternative:", line.trim()); // For debugging

        // 如果所有替代项都已读取,则关闭输入接口并处理数据
        if (alternativesCount === N) {
            rl.close();
        }
    }
});

// 当输入流关闭时,执行核心计算逻辑并输出结果
rl.on('close', () => {
    // 调用我们修改后的 compute 函数
    const bestAlternatives = compute(lines);

    // 遍历结果数组,逐行输出最佳答案替代项
    bestAlternatives.forEach(alt => {
        console.log(alt);
    });
});


/**
 * 核心计算函数:
 * 找到具有最小不和谐度的答案字符串(可能有一个或多个)。
 * @param {string[]} features 原始的答案字符串数组,例如 ["Green stripe, black stripe, yellow", ...]
 * @returns {string[]} 包含一个或多个具有最小不和谐度的答案字符串的数组
 */
function compute(features) {
    let result = Infinity; // 这个变量将继续存储迄今为止找到的最小不和谐度数值
    let bestAlternatives = []; // 用于存储具有最小不和谐度的答案字符串(可能有多个)

    // 复制一份原始输入字符串,因为我们最终要返回的是原始字符串格式
    const originalFeaturesList = [...features]; 

    // 将每个答案字符串分割成独立的组成部分。
    // IMPORTANT: 题目要求“以逗号和空格分隔”,所以使用 ', ' 而不是 ','
    features = features.map(item => item.split(', ')); 

    // 处理只有一个答案替代项的特殊情况 (N=1)
    // 题目中“不和谐度”的定义是“转化成任何其他替代项所需的最大改动次数”。
    // 如果只有一个替代项,就没有“其他替代项”,此时定义会变得模糊。
    // 编程竞赛中,这种情况下通常直接返回唯一的那个替代项。
    if (features.length === 1) {
        return originalFeaturesList; 
    }

    // 外层循环:遍历每一个答案替代项 (features[i]),计算它的不和谐度
    for (let i = 0; i < features.length; i++) {
        let middle = -Infinity; // 这个变量将存储当前替代项 features[i] 到所有“其他”替代项的最大改动次数

        // 内层循环:将当前替代项 features[i] 与每一个其他替代项 features[j] 进行比较
        for (let j = 0; j < features.length; j++) {
            if (i !== j) { // 确保只与不同的替代项进行比较
                let cnt = 0; // 计数器,记录 features[i] 和 features[j] 之间的改动次数
                
                // 题目指出所有答案替代项具有相同数量的部分
                for (let k = 0; k < features[i].length; k++) {
                    if (features[i][k] !== features[j][k]) {
                        cnt++; // 如果对应位置的部分不同,则改动次数加一
                    }
                }
                // 更新 middle,使其始终是当前替代项 features[i] 到所有其他替代项中最大的改动次数
                middle = Math.max(middle, cnt);
            }
        }
        
        // 经过内层循环后,`middle` 变量现在存储了当前替代项 features[i] 的“不和谐度”。
        
        // 接下来,根据这个不和谐度,更新整体的最小不和谐度 (`result`)
        // 以及存储最佳答案的列表 (`bestAlternatives`)
        if (middle < result) {
            result = middle; // 找到了一个新的更小的最小不和谐度
            bestAlternatives = [originalFeaturesList[i]]; // 重置列表,只包含这个新的最佳答案
        } else if (middle === result) {
            bestAlternatives.push(originalFeaturesList[i]); // 如果不和谐度与当前最小的相同,则将其添加到列表中
        }
    }

    return bestAlternatives; // 返回包含一个或多个最佳答案字符串的数组
}

如何运行这段代码:

  1. 将上述代码保存为一个 .js 文件,例如 flag_quiz.js

  2. 在终端中运行:node flag_quiz.js

  3. 然后,您可以手动输入示例输入,例如:

    The flag of the empire Angola?
    4
    Green stripe, black stripe, yellow
    Red stripe, black stripe, yellow
    Red stripe, black stripe, white
    Red stripe, green stripe, yellow
    
  4. 输入完成后,按 Ctrl+D (Unix/Linux/macOS) 或 Ctrl+Z 然后 Enter (Windows) 来表示输入结束。程序将计算并输出结果。

示例1输入和预期输出:

  • 输入:
    The flag of the empire Angola?
    4
    Green stripe, black stripe, yellow
    Red stripe, black stripe, yellow
    Red stripe, black stripe, white
    Red stripe, green stripe, yellow
    
  • 输出 (根据计算):
    Red stripe, black stripe, yellow
    
// 导入 readline 模块用于处理标准输入
const readline = require('readline');

// 创建 readline 接口
const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout
});

let lines = []; // 用于存储所有输入的行
let N = 0;      // 存储答案替代项的数量
let questionRead = false; // 标记问题行是否已读取
let alternativesCount = 0; // 已读取的答案替代项数量

// 监听每行的输入
rl.on('line', (line) => {
    // 第一行是问题,我们读取但不需要处理
    if (!questionRead) {
        questionRead = true;
        // console.log("Question:", line); // For debugging
    } 
    // 第二行是 N,替代项的数量
    else if (N === 0) {
        N = parseInt(line.trim(), 10);
        // console.log("Number of alternatives (N):", N); // For debugging
    } 
    // 之后 N 行是答案替代项
    else {
        lines.push(line.trim());
        alternativesCount++;
        // console.log("Read alternative:", line.trim()); // For debugging

        // 如果所有替代项都已读取,则关闭输入接口并处理数据
        if (alternativesCount === N) {
            rl.close();
        }
    }
});

// 当输入流关闭时,执行核心计算逻辑并输出结果
rl.on('close', () => {
    // 调用我们修改后的 compute 函数
    const bestAlternatives = compute(lines);

    // 遍历结果数组,逐行输出最佳答案替代项
    bestAlternatives.forEach(alt => {
        console.log(alt);
    });
});


/**
 * 核心计算函数:
 * 找到具有最小不和谐度的答案字符串(可能有一个或多个)。
 * @param {string[]} features 原始的答案字符串数组,例如 ["Green stripe, black stripe, yellow", ...]
 * @returns {string[]} 包含一个或多个具有最小不和谐度的答案字符串的数组
 */
function compute(features) {
    let result = Infinity; // 这个变量将继续存储迄今为止找到的最小不和谐度数值
    let bestAlternatives = []; // 用于存储具有最小不和谐度的答案字符串(可能有多个)

    // 复制一份原始输入字符串,因为我们最终要返回的是原始字符串格式
    const originalFeaturesList = [...features]; 

    // 将每个答案字符串分割成独立的组成部分。
    // IMPORTANT: 题目要求“以逗号和空格分隔”,所以使用 ', ' 而不是 ','
    features = features.map(item => item.split(', ')); 

    // 处理只有一个答案替代项的特殊情况 (N=1)
    // 题目中“不和谐度”的定义是“转化成任何其他替代项所需的最大改动次数”。
    // 如果只有一个替代项,就没有“其他替代项”,此时定义会变得模糊。
    // 编程竞赛中,这种情况下通常直接返回唯一的那个替代项。
    if (features.length === 1) {
        return originalFeaturesList; 
    }

    // 外层循环:遍历每一个答案替代项 (features[i]),计算它的不和谐度
    for (let i = 0; i < features.length; i++) {
        let middle = -Infinity; // 这个变量将存储当前替代项 features[i] 到所有“其他”替代项的最大改动次数

        // 内层循环:将当前替代项 features[i] 与每一个其他替代项 features[j] 进行比较
        for (let j = 0; j < features.length; j++) {
            if (i !== j) { // 确保只与不同的替代项进行比较
                let cnt = 0; // 计数器,记录 features[i] 和 features[j] 之间的改动次数
                
                // 题目指出所有答案替代项具有相同数量的部分
                for (let k = 0; k < features[i].length; k++) {
                    if (features[i][k] !== features[j][k]) {
                        cnt++; // 如果对应位置的部分不同,则改动次数加一
                    }
                }
                // 更新 middle,使其始终是当前替代项 features[i] 到所有其他替代项中最大的改动次数
                middle = Math.max(middle, cnt);
            }
        }
        
        // 经过内层循环后,`middle` 变量现在存储了当前替代项 features[i] 的“不和谐度”。
        
        // 接下来,根据这个不和谐度,更新整体的最小不和谐度 (`result`)
        // 以及存储最佳答案的列表 (`bestAlternatives`)
        if (middle < result) {
            result = middle; // 找到了一个新的更小的最小不和谐度
            bestAlternatives = [originalFeaturesList[i]]; // 重置列表,只包含这个新的最佳答案
        } else if (middle === result) {
            bestAlternatives.push(originalFeaturesList[i]); // 如果不和谐度与当前最小的相同,则将其添加到列表中
        }
    }

    return bestAlternatives; // 返回包含一个或多个最佳答案字符串的数组
}
    The flag of the empire Angola?
    4
    Green stripe, black stripe, yellow
    Red stripe, black stripe, yellow
    Red stripe, black stripe, white
    Red stripe, green stripe, yellow
    The flag of the empire Angola?
    4
    Green stripe, black stripe, yellow
    Red stripe, black stripe, yellow
    Red stripe, black stripe, white
    Red stripe, green stripe, yellow
    Red stripe, black stripe, yellow

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Kattis logo Kattis Problems Contests Challenge Ranklists Jobs (5) Languages Info Help Kattis Cat Search Kattis Problems / GREAT + SWERC = PORTO Support Kattis tannal Hide GREAT + SWERC = PORTO We want to have a great SWERC at Porto this year and we approached this challenge in several ways. We even framed it as a word addition problem, similar to the classic , where each letter stands for a single digit (0, 1, 2, …, 8, 9) that makes the arithmetic operation correct. In word additions different letters cannot be assigned the same digit and the leftmost letter in a word cannot be zero (0). In particular, a single letter term cannot be zero.

\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth ]{greatSwercPic.png} To solve this word addition problem we had to find positive digits for G, S and P, and digits for R, E, A, T, W, C, O, so that each letter has a different digit and the sum is correct. It turns out that, unlike the classical which has a single solution, has six solutions.

Having more than one solution does not make a good problem to solve by hand, but it is still a piece of cake for a programer. Moreover, it gives us another reason to organize SWERC again next year and, who knows, in years to come!

Task Given a word addition problem, compute the number of solutions (possibly zero).

Input A line with an integer , followed by lines containing a word each with maximum length of 10 letters. The first words are the terms to be added and the last line is the result. Words contain only capital letters. If words have different lengths, they must be interpreted as aligning to the right. For instance, in the SEND+MORE=MONEY problem, the D of the first word and E of the second word align with the Y of the final word. You can also assume that the size of the last word is greater than or equal to the maximum size of the preceding words, and moreover, at most ten distinct letters are involved in a word problem.

Constraints

Each word has at most 10 symbols (capital letters). A word problem has at most 10 distinct letters.

Output A single line with an integer: the number of solutions of the word addition problem given as input.

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首先告诉我这道题的出处,作者,历史故事,接着用有趣和便于理解的方式叙述题目,


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好的,这道 Kattis 竞赛题叫做 “GREAT + SWERC = PORTO”

题目出处、作者、历史故事

  1. 出处: 这道题也来自 Kattis 在线判题系统。Kattis 上的题目很多都来源于各种区域性的编程竞赛,尤其是欧洲和北欧的大学竞赛。
  2. 作者: 题目中明确提到了 SWERC,这是 Southwestern Europe Regional Contest 的缩写,是 ACM ICPC(国际大学生程序设计竞赛)的一个重要区域赛。这道题很可能是为了宣传或纪念在**波尔图(Porto)**举办的某届 SWERC 比赛而设计的。因此,作者很可能就是该届 SWERC 比赛的出题委员会成员。
  3. 历史故事: 题目背景故事本身就是它的“历史故事”——为了庆祝和宣传 SWERC 在波尔图的举办,出题人想出了一个“字母加法”谜题。它提到经典的 SEND+MORE=MONEY 只有一个解,而 GREAT+SWERC=PORTO 竟然有六个解。出题人甚至幽默地表示,正因为有多个解,所以这道题不适合手算,但对程序员来说却是“小菜一碟”,而且这也给了他们“明年继续举办 SWERC”的理由。这充分体现了编程竞赛出题人常见的“自嘲式”幽默和对赛事的投入。

有趣和便于理解的方式叙述题目

想象一下,你是一个魔法数字世界的侦探。这个世界里,字母不再是字母,它们都是藏起来的单个数字(0到9)

现在,你接到了一项特别任务:解决一些**“字母加法”谜题**。这些谜题看起来就像普通的加法算式,比如经典的 SEND + MORE = MONEY,或者我们这次的主角 GREAT + SWERC = PORTO

规则很简单,但也很严谨:

  1. 字母 = 数字: 每一个独特的字母,都代表一个唯一的数字(0到9之间)。比如,如果 S 代表 1,那么在整个算式里,所有的 S 都必须是 1,而且其他任何字母都不能是 1。
  2. 不能重复: 不同的字母必须代表不同的数字。如果你给 G 赋值 1,那么 E 就不能是 1 了。
  3. 不能是0: 每个单词最左边的那个字母(也就是最高位)不能是 0。比如在 GREAT 里,G 肯定不能是 0。如果一个单词只有一个字母,那它也不能是 0。
  4. 右对齐: 如果单词长度不同,它们就像小学数学竖式那样,要右对齐。比如 SEND 的 D 和 MORE 的 E,都和 MONEY 的 Y 对齐在个位。

你的任务:

给定一个这样的“字母加法”谜题,你需要编写一个程序,找出这个谜题有多少种不同的解。也就是说,有多少种方法可以给这些字母分配数字,使得加法算式是正确的,并且所有规则都遵守。

举个例子,SEND + MORE = MONEY

S E N D

  • M O R E

M O N E Y

你的程序需要尝试给 S, E, N, D, M, O, R, Y 分配唯一的数字,然后检查等式是否成立。经典的 SEND+MORE=MONEY 只有一种解。

而题目背景故事告诉我们,GREAT + SWERC = PORTO 居然有六种解!你的程序就要负责数出这个“6”。

关键限制:

  • 每个单词最长10个字母。
  • 一个谜题里,最多只有10个不同的字母(这意味着你可以用0-9这10个数字来分配)。

所以,你就是那个数字世界的福尔摩斯,需要穷尽所有的可能性,找出那些隐藏在字母背后的、让算式成立的真相!


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function compute(left1, ii, left2, jj, right, kk, cnt) { if (parseInt(left1) && parseInt(left2) && parseInt(right)) { if (left1 + left2 === right) { cnt++; } return cnt; } for (let i = 1; i < 10; i++) { let tmp = left1[ii]; left1[ii] = i; compute(left1, left2, right, cnt); left1[ii] = tmp;

    let tmp2 = left2[jj];
    left2[jj] = i;
    compute(left1, left2, right, cnt);
    left2[jj] = tmp2;

    let tmp3 = right[kk];
    right[kk] = i;
    cnt = compute(left1, left2, right, cnt);
    right[kk] = tmp3;
}
return cnt;

}

这个故事讲的怎么样


Cursor

这个 compute 函数的故事讲述得不太符合“字母加法”谜题的逻辑,并且在实现上存在一些根本性的问题。

让我们逐一分析它试图表达的“故事”和实际题目要求的出入:

你提供的函数试图表达的故事:

这个函数看起来像是想通过递归的方式,尝试给单词中的某个特定位置 (left1[ii], left2[jj], right[kk]) 分配一个数字 i (从1到9)。

  • if (parseInt(left1) && parseInt(left2) && parseInt(right)): 这似乎是它想判断“如果所有字母都转换成了数字,并且它们是有效的数字”,就进入结算环节。
  • if (left1 + left2 === right): 如果数字转换成功了,它想检查加法是否正确。
  • for (let i = 1; i < 10; i++): 这部分像是说“我尝试给这个位置的字母分配所有可能的非零数字(1-9)”。
  • left1[ii] = i; compute(...); left1[ii] = tmp;: 这就是典型的回溯模式——尝试一个数字,递归,然后撤销尝试(恢复)。

然而,它与题目要求的“字母加法”故事存在以下核心冲突和缺失:

  1. 对象不匹配(字母 vs. 单词位置):

    • 题目要求给每一个独特的字母(例如 S, E, N, D, M, O, R, Y)分配一个唯一的数字。
    • 你的函数似乎在操作单词的特定字符位置 (left1[ii], left2[jj], right[kk])。但这些位置上的字母可能是重复的,例如 SENDMONEY 中的 E。你不是在为独特的字母赋值,而是在为某个位置赋值。正确的做法是,一旦 E 被赋值为 5,所有 E 都必须是 5。你的函数没有这个“全局字母-数字映射”的概念。
  2. “不同字母,不同数字”规则缺失:

    • 这是字母加法最关键的规则。你的 for (let i = 1; i < 10; i++) 循环尝试将数字 i 分配给 left1[ii],然后又尝试分配给 left2[jj],再分配给 right[kk]。在同一个 for 循环迭代中,它会给这三个位置尝试赋值 i,而没有检查这个数字 i 是否已经被其他字母占用。这意味着 GSP 可能会在同一轮循环中都被分配到同一个数字,这是不允许的。
    • 为了实现这个规则,你需要一个机制(例如一个 Map 或对象)来存储每个字母当前被分配的数字,以及一个 Set 或布尔数组来跟踪哪些数字已经被使用了。
  3. 基准情况判断错误:

    • parseInt(left1):如果 left1 是一个字符数组(比如 ['G', 'R', 'E', 'A', 'T']),parseInt 尝试将其转换为数字通常会得到 NaN。你无法直接对一个包含字母的数组使用 parseInt
    • 正确的基准情况应该是:当所有独特的字母都已经被分配了数字时,才将这些字母代表的数字代入原始单词,计算它们的数值,然后检查加法是否正确。
  4. 递归逻辑和计数器问题:

    • 你的 cnt 是按值传递的。compute(left1, left2, right, cnt); 这样的调用,并不会更新调用者作用域里的 cnt。只有 cnt = compute(...) 才能更新。
    • 更重要的是,回溯通常是“对每个独特的字母,尝试每个可能的数字,然后递归”,而不是像你这样在同一个循环中尝试给三个不同的位置赋值。

总结:

你写的函数试图用递归和回溯的思想,这方向是对的。但是,它没有抓住“字母加法”谜题的精髓——为每个独特的字母分配唯一的数字,以及如何将这种分配转换回可计算的数值。它更像是在尝试为单词的某个字符位置赋值,而不是为字母符号本身赋值。

要正确地“讲述”这个故事,你的函数需要:

  1. 首先识别所有独特的字母。
  2. 维护一个“字母 -> 数字”的映射。
  3. 维护一个“已用数字”的集合。
  4. 递归地:
    • 选择一个尚未赋值的独特字母
    • 遍历所有尚未被使用的数字(0-9)。
    • 尝试将数字分配给字母,并递归。
    • 如果递归返回一个解(即所有字母都分配了,且加法成立),则累加计数。
    • 回溯:撤销当前字母的赋值和数字的使用,尝试下一个数字。
  5. 在所有字母都赋值后,进行算术验证。

User

/** *

  • @param {string[]} alpha

  • @param {Map} map */ function compute(alpha, map) { alpha = alpha.map(item => item.split(’’)); for (let i = 0; i < alpha.length; i++) { for (let j = 0; j < alpha[i].length; j++) { map.set(alpha[i][j], 0); } }

    for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {

    } }

帮我完成这段代码,不要修改没问题的部分


Cursor

好的,我将根据您的要求,完成 compute 函数。我将保留您现有的 alphamap 参数,并在此基础上构建一个递归回溯解决方案来找到所有可能的字母-数字分配并计数。

为了保持清晰,我们将遵循“字母加法”问题的标准回溯解法:

  1. 识别所有独特的字母:这些是我们需要分配数字的“变量”。
  2. 维护一个映射map 将存储每个字母当前被分配的数字。
  3. 维护一个“已用数字”的集合:确保不同字母分配不同数字。
  4. 处理“首字母不能为零”的规则
  5. 递归地尝试分配数字
    • 每次递归处理一个独特的字母。
    • 尝试为该字母分配所有未使用的数字。
    • 如果所有字母都已分配,则检查加法表达式是否成立。
  6. 回溯:在每次尝试后“撤销”分配,以便探索其他可能性。
/**
 * 核心计算函数:寻找字母加法谜题的解决方案数量。
 *
 * @param {string[]} words 一个字符串数组,代表加法谜题中的单词。
 *                         前 N-1 个是加数,最后一个是和。
 * @param {Map<string, number>} map 一个 Map 对象,用于存储字母到数字的当前映射。
 *                                  在函数开始时被初始化,并在递归中更新。
 * @returns {number} 谜题的有效解决方案总数。
 */
function compute(words, map) {
    let solutionCount = 0; // 用于存储找到的解决方案数量

    // --- 用户原有代码(略作调整以适应整体逻辑) ---
    // 目标是收集所有独特的字母,并将它们初始化为未分配状态。
    // 同时,识别哪些字母是单词的首字母(不能为0)。

    // 收集所有独特的字母,按照它们在输入中首次出现的顺序
    // 这将作为我们回溯分配的顺序
    const uniqueLettersArray = []; 
    // 存储所有作为单词首字母的字符,这些字符不能被赋值为0
    const leadingLetters = new Set(); 

    // 遍历所有单词,填充 uniqueLettersArray 和 leadingLetters
    for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
        const word = words[i];
        
        // 如果单词长度大于1,或者单词长度为1且它不是唯一一个词(即不是一个单字母谜题,如"A=A")
        // 则其首字母不能为0。
        // 根据题目描述:“particular, a single letter term cannot be zero.”
        // 这意味着 A+B=C 中,A,B,C 都不能是0。
        // 且“leftmost letter in a word cannot be zero (0)”
        if (word.length >= 1) { // 所有单词的首字母都不能为0
            leadingLetters.add(word[0]);
        }
        
        for (const char of word) {
            // 如果这个字母还没有被添加到 map 中,就把它加进去,并初始化为 -1 (未分配)
            // 同时也添加到 uniqueLettersArray 中,以确定分配顺序
            if (!map.has(char)) {
                map.set(char, -1); // -1 表示该字母尚未被分配数字
                uniqueLettersArray.push(char);
            }
        }
    }
    // --- 用户原有代码结束部分 ---

    // 检查约束:题目保证最多10个不同字母。
    // 这里我们不需要额外的 `for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++)` 循环,
    // 因为回溯逻辑会处理数字的分配。

    // `usedDigits` 数组用来跟踪 0-9 这10个数字哪些已经被使用了。
    // true 表示已使用,false 表示未使用。
    const usedDigits = new Array(10).fill(false);

    /**
     * 回溯函数,尝试为 uniqueLettersArray 中的每个字母分配一个唯一的数字。
     * @param {number} k 当前正在尝试分配数字的字母在 uniqueLettersArray 中的索引。
     */
    function backtrack(k) {
        // 基本情况:如果 k 等于 uniqueLettersArray 的长度,
        // 说明所有独特的字母都已经成功分配了数字。
        if (k === uniqueLettersArray.length) {
            // 此时,所有字母都已映射到数字,可以进行算术验证。
            if (checkArithmetic()) {
                solutionCount++; // 如果算术表达式成立,则找到一个解决方案
            }
            return; // 结束当前分支的递归
        }

        const currentLetter = uniqueLettersArray[k]; // 获取当前需要分配数字的字母

        // 遍历所有可能的数字 (0 到 9)
        for (let digit = 0; digit <= 9; digit++) {
            // 剪枝/约束检查:
            // 1. 如果这个数字已经被其他字母使用了,则跳过。
            // 2. 如果当前字母是某个单词的首字母,并且尝试分配的数字是 0,则跳过。
            if (!usedDigits[digit] && !(leadingLetters.has(currentLetter) && digit === 0)) {
                
                // 尝试分配:
                map.set(currentLetter, digit); // 将当前字母映射到这个数字
                usedDigits[digit] = true;      // 标记这个数字已被使用

                // 递归调用:继续为下一个字母分配数字
                backtrack(k + 1);

                // 回溯(撤销):当从递归调用返回时,
                // 撤销当前字母的分配,以便探索其他数字的可能性。
                usedDigits[digit] = false;     // 标记这个数字为未使用
                map.set(currentLetter, -1);    // 将字母重新标记为未分配 (或直接map.delete(currentLetter))
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * 将一个单词字符串根据当前的字母-数字映射转换为其数值。
     * @param {string} word 要转换的单词。
     * @returns {number} 单词的数值。如果映射不完整,通常不应该发生在此阶段。
     */
    function getWordValue(word) {
        let value = 0;
        for (const char of word) {
            value = value * 10 + map.get(char);
        }
        return value;
    }

    /**
     * 检查当前字母-数字映射下,加法表达式是否成立。
     * @returns {boolean} 如果表达式成立返回 true,否则返回 false。
     */
    function checkArithmetic() {
        // 最后一个单词是和,前面的是加数
        const resultWord = words[words.length - 1];
        const numTerms = words.length - 1; // 加数的数量

        let sumOfTerms = 0;
        for (let i = 0; i < numTerms; i++) {
            sumOfTerms += getWordValue(words[i]);
        }

        const resultValue = getWordValue(resultWord);

        return sumOfTerms === resultValue;
    }

    // 开始回溯过程,从 uniqueLettersArray 的第一个字母开始分配
    backtrack(0);

    // 返回找到的解决方案总数
    return solutionCount;
}
/**
 * 核心计算函数:寻找字母加法谜题的解决方案数量。
 *
 * @param {string[]} words 一个字符串数组,代表加法谜题中的单词。
 *                         前 N-1 个是加数,最后一个是和。
 * @param {Map<string, number>} map 一个 Map 对象,用于存储字母到数字的当前映射。
 *                                  在函数开始时被初始化,并在递归中更新。
 * @returns {number} 谜题的有效解决方案总数。
 */
function compute(words, map) {
    let solutionCount = 0; // 用于存储找到的解决方案数量

    // --- 用户原有代码(略作调整以适应整体逻辑) ---
    // 目标是收集所有独特的字母,并将它们初始化为未分配状态。
    // 同时,识别哪些字母是单词的首字母(不能为0)。

    // 收集所有独特的字母,按照它们在输入中首次出现的顺序
    // 这将作为我们回溯分配的顺序
    const uniqueLettersArray = []; 
    // 存储所有作为单词首字母的字符,这些字符不能被赋值为0
    const leadingLetters = new Set(); 

    // 遍历所有单词,填充 uniqueLettersArray 和 leadingLetters
    for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
        const word = words[i];
        
        // 如果单词长度大于1,或者单词长度为1且它不是唯一一个词(即不是一个单字母谜题,如"A=A")
        // 则其首字母不能为0。
        // 根据题目描述:“particular, a single letter term cannot be zero.”
        // 这意味着 A+B=C 中,A,B,C 都不能是0。
        // 且“leftmost letter in a word cannot be zero (0)”
        if (word.length >= 1) { // 所有单词的首字母都不能为0
            leadingLetters.add(word[0]);
        }
        
        for (const char of word) {
            // 如果这个字母还没有被添加到 map 中,就把它加进去,并初始化为 -1 (未分配)
            // 同时也添加到 uniqueLettersArray 中,以确定分配顺序
            if (!map.has(char)) {
                map.set(char, -1); // -1 表示该字母尚未被分配数字
                uniqueLettersArray.push(char);
            }
        }
    }
    // --- 用户原有代码结束部分 ---

    // 检查约束:题目保证最多10个不同字母。
    // 这里我们不需要额外的 `for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++)` 循环,
    // 因为回溯逻辑会处理数字的分配。

    // `usedDigits` 数组用来跟踪 0-9 这10个数字哪些已经被使用了。
    // true 表示已使用,false 表示未使用。
    const usedDigits = new Array(10).fill(false);

    /**
     * 回溯函数,尝试为 uniqueLettersArray 中的每个字母分配一个唯一的数字。
     * @param {number} k 当前正在尝试分配数字的字母在 uniqueLettersArray 中的索引。
     */
    function backtrack(k) {
        // 基本情况:如果 k 等于 uniqueLettersArray 的长度,
        // 说明所有独特的字母都已经成功分配了数字。
        if (k === uniqueLettersArray.length) {
            // 此时,所有字母都已映射到数字,可以进行算术验证。
            if (checkArithmetic()) {
                solutionCount++; // 如果算术表达式成立,则找到一个解决方案
            }
            return; // 结束当前分支的递归
        }

        const currentLetter = uniqueLettersArray[k]; // 获取当前需要分配数字的字母

        // 遍历所有可能的数字 (0 到 9)
        for (let digit = 0; digit <= 9; digit++) {
            // 剪枝/约束检查:
            // 1. 如果这个数字已经被其他字母使用了,则跳过。
            // 2. 如果当前字母是某个单词的首字母,并且尝试分配的数字是 0,则跳过。
            if (!usedDigits[digit] && !(leadingLetters.has(currentLetter) && digit === 0)) {
                
                // 尝试分配:
                map.set(currentLetter, digit); // 将当前字母映射到这个数字
                usedDigits[digit] = true;      // 标记这个数字已被使用

                // 递归调用:继续为下一个字母分配数字
                backtrack(k + 1);

                // 回溯(撤销):当从递归调用返回时,
                // 撤销当前字母的分配,以便探索其他数字的可能性。
                usedDigits[digit] = false;     // 标记这个数字为未使用
                map.set(currentLetter, -1);    // 将字母重新标记为未分配 (或直接map.delete(currentLetter))
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * 将一个单词字符串根据当前的字母-数字映射转换为其数值。
     * @param {string} word 要转换的单词。
     * @returns {number} 单词的数值。如果映射不完整,通常不应该发生在此阶段。
     */
    function getWordValue(word) {
        let value = 0;
        for (const char of word) {
            value = value * 10 + map.get(char);
        }
        return value;
    }

    /**
     * 检查当前字母-数字映射下,加法表达式是否成立。
     * @returns {boolean} 如果表达式成立返回 true,否则返回 false。
     */
    function checkArithmetic() {
        // 最后一个单词是和,前面的是加数
        const resultWord = words[words.length - 1];
        const numTerms = words.length - 1; // 加数的数量

        let sumOfTerms = 0;
        for (let i = 0; i < numTerms; i++) {
            sumOfTerms += getWordValue(words[i]);
        }

        const resultValue = getWordValue(resultWord);

        return sumOfTerms === resultValue;
    }

    // 开始回溯过程,从 uniqueLettersArray 的第一个字母开始分配
    backtrack(0);

    // 返回找到的解决方案总数
    return solutionCount;
}

User

处理一下输入输出


Cursor

好的,现在我们把完整的输入处理和输出逻辑添加到 GREAT + SWERC = PORTO 问题的解决方案中。我们将使用 readline 模块来处理标准输入,并确保按照题目要求的格式读取数据。

// 导入 readline 模块用于处理标准输入
const readline = require('readline');

// 创建 readline 接口
const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout
});

let inputLines = []; // 用于存储所有输入的行
let N = 0;           // 存储单词的数量(包括加数和结果)
let wordsRead = 0;   // 已读取的单词数量

// 监听每行的输入
rl.on('line', (line) => {
    // 第一行是 N
    if (N === 0) {
        N = parseInt(line.trim(), 10);
    } 
    // 之后 N 行是单词
    else {
        inputLines.push(line.trim());
        wordsRead++;

        // 如果所有单词都已读取,则关闭输入接口并处理数据
        if (wordsRead === N) {
            rl.close();
        }
    }
});

// 当输入流关闭时,执行核心计算逻辑并输出结果
rl.on('close', () => {
    // 题目保证最多10个不同字母,所以 Map 是足够的
    const letterToDigitMap = new Map(); 
    
    // 调用我们修改后的 compute 函数
    const solutions = compute(inputLines, letterToDigitMap);

    // 输出解决方案的数量
    console.log(solutions);
});


/**
 * 核心计算函数:寻找字母加法谜题的解决方案数量。
 *
 * @param {string[]} words 一个字符串数组,代表加法谜题中的单词。
 *                         前 N-1 个是加数,最后一个是和。
 * @param {Map<string, number>} map 一个 Map 对象,用于存储字母到数字的当前映射。
 *                                  在函数开始时被初始化,并在递归中更新。
 * @returns {number} 谜题的有效解决方案总数。
 */
function compute(words, map) {
    let solutionCount = 0; // 用于存储找到的解决方案数量

    // 收集所有独特的字母,按照它们在输入中首次出现的顺序
    // 这将作为我们回溯分配的顺序
    const uniqueLettersArray = []; 
    // 存储所有作为单词首字母的字符,这些字符不能被赋值为0
    const leadingLetters = new Set(); 

    // 遍历所有单词,填充 uniqueLettersArray 和 leadingLetters
    for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
        const word = words[i];
        
        // 所有单词的首字母都不能为0
        if (word.length >= 1) { 
            leadingLetters.add(word[0]);
        }
        
        for (const char of word) {
            // 如果这个字母还没有被添加到 map 中,就把它加进去,并初始化为 -1 (未分配)
            // 同时也添加到 uniqueLettersArray 中,以确定分配顺序
            if (!map.has(char)) {
                map.set(char, -1); // -1 表示该字母尚未被分配数字
                uniqueLettersArray.push(char);
            }
        }
    }

    // `usedDigits` 数组用来跟踪 0-9 这10个数字哪些已经被使用了。
    // true 表示已使用,false 表示未使用。
    const usedDigits = new Array(10).fill(false);

    /**
     * 回溯函数,尝试为 uniqueLettersArray 中的每个字母分配一个唯一的数字。
     * @param {number} k 当前正在尝试分配数字的字母在 uniqueLettersArray 中的索引。
     */
    function backtrack(k) {
        // 基本情况:如果 k 等于 uniqueLettersArray 的长度,
        // 说明所有独特的字母都已经成功分配了数字。
        if (k === uniqueLettersArray.length) {
            // 此时,所有字母都已映射到数字,可以进行算术验证。
            if (checkArithmetic()) {
                solutionCount++; // 如果算术表达式成立,则找到一个解决方案
            }
            return; // 结束当前分支的递归
        }

        const currentLetter = uniqueLettersArray[k]; // 获取当前需要分配数字的字母

        // 遍历所有可能的数字 (0 到 9)
        for (let digit = 0; digit <= 9; digit++) {
            // 剪枝/约束检查:
            // 1. 如果这个数字已经被其他字母使用了 (`usedDigits[digit]` 为 true),则跳过。
            // 2. 如果当前字母是某个单词的首字母 (`leadingLetters.has(currentLetter)`),
            //    并且尝试分配的数字是 0 (`digit === 0`),则跳过。
            if (!usedDigits[digit] && !(leadingLetters.has(currentLetter) && digit === 0)) {
                
                // 尝试分配:
                map.set(currentLetter, digit); // 将当前字母映射到这个数字
                usedDigits[digit] = true;      // 标记这个数字已被使用

                // 递归调用:继续为下一个字母分配数字
                backtrack(k + 1);

                // 回溯(撤销):当从递归调用返回时,
                // 撤销当前字母的分配,以便探索其他数字的可能性。
                usedDigits[digit] = false;     // 标记这个数字为未使用
                map.set(currentLetter, -1);    // 将字母重新标记为未分配 (也可以是 map.delete(currentLetter))
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * 将一个单词字符串根据当前的字母-数字映射转换为其数值。
     * @param {string} word 要转换的单词。
     * @returns {number} 单词的数值。
     */
    function getWordValue(word) {
        let value = 0;
        for (const char of word) {
            value = value * 10 + map.get(char); // 确保 map.get(char) 不返回 -1
        }
        return value;
    }

    /**
     * 检查当前字母-数字映射下,加法表达式是否成立。
     * @returns {boolean} 如果表达式成立返回 true,否则返回 false。
     */
    function checkArithmetic() {
        // 最后一个单词是和,前面的是加数
        const resultWord = words[words.length - 1];
        const addendWords = words.slice(0, words.length - 1); // 获取所有加数单词

        let sumOfTerms = 0;
        for (const word of addendWords) {
            sumOfTerms += getWordValue(word);
        }

        const resultValue = getWordValue(resultWord);

        return sumOfTerms === resultValue;
    }

    // 开始回溯过程,从 uniqueLettersArray 的第一个字母开始分配
    backtrack(0);

    // 返回找到的解决方案总数
    return solutionCount;
}

如何运行这段代码:

  1. 将上述代码保存为一个 .js 文件,例如 word_addition.js

  2. 在终端中运行:node word_addition.js

  3. 然后,您可以手动输入示例输入,例如:

    3
    GREAT
    SWERC
    PORTO
    
  4. 输入完成后,按 Ctrl+D (Unix/Linux/macOS) 或 Ctrl+Z 然后 Enter (Windows) 来表示输入结束。程序将计算并输出结果。

示例1输入和预期输出:

  • 输入:
    3
    GREAT
    SWERC
    PORTO
    
  • 输出:
    6
    

示例2输入和预期输出:

  • 输入:
    3
    SEND
    MORE
    MONEY
    
  • 输出:
    1
    
// 导入 readline 模块用于处理标准输入
const readline = require('readline');

// 创建 readline 接口
const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout
});

let inputLines = []; // 用于存储所有输入的行
let N = 0;           // 存储单词的数量(包括加数和结果)
let wordsRead = 0;   // 已读取的单词数量

// 监听每行的输入
rl.on('line', (line) => {
    // 第一行是 N
    if (N === 0) {
        N = parseInt(line.trim(), 10);
    } 
    // 之后 N 行是单词
    else {
        inputLines.push(line.trim());
        wordsRead++;

        // 如果所有单词都已读取,则关闭输入接口并处理数据
        if (wordsRead === N) {
            rl.close();
        }
    }
});

// 当输入流关闭时,执行核心计算逻辑并输出结果
rl.on('close', () => {
    // 题目保证最多10个不同字母,所以 Map 是足够的
    const letterToDigitMap = new Map(); 
    
    // 调用我们修改后的 compute 函数
    const solutions = compute(inputLines, letterToDigitMap);

    // 输出解决方案的数量
    console.log(solutions);
});


/**
 * 核心计算函数:寻找字母加法谜题的解决方案数量。
 *
 * @param {string[]} words 一个字符串数组,代表加法谜题中的单词。
 *                         前 N-1 个是加数,最后一个是和。
 * @param {Map<string, number>} map 一个 Map 对象,用于存储字母到数字的当前映射。
 *                                  在函数开始时被初始化,并在递归中更新。
 * @returns {number} 谜题的有效解决方案总数。
 */
function compute(words, map) {
    let solutionCount = 0; // 用于存储找到的解决方案数量

    // 收集所有独特的字母,按照它们在输入中首次出现的顺序
    // 这将作为我们回溯分配的顺序
    const uniqueLettersArray = []; 
    // 存储所有作为单词首字母的字符,这些字符不能被赋值为0
    const leadingLetters = new Set(); 

    // 遍历所有单词,填充 uniqueLettersArray 和 leadingLetters
    for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
        const word = words[i];
        
        // 所有单词的首字母都不能为0
        if (word.length >= 1) { 
            leadingLetters.add(word[0]);
        }
        
        for (const char of word) {
            // 如果这个字母还没有被添加到 map 中,就把它加进去,并初始化为 -1 (未分配)
            // 同时也添加到 uniqueLettersArray 中,以确定分配顺序
            if (!map.has(char)) {
                map.set(char, -1); // -1 表示该字母尚未被分配数字
                uniqueLettersArray.push(char);
            }
        }
    }

    // `usedDigits` 数组用来跟踪 0-9 这10个数字哪些已经被使用了。
    // true 表示已使用,false 表示未使用。
    const usedDigits = new Array(10).fill(false);

    /**
     * 回溯函数,尝试为 uniqueLettersArray 中的每个字母分配一个唯一的数字。
     * @param {number} k 当前正在尝试分配数字的字母在 uniqueLettersArray 中的索引。
     */
    function backtrack(k) {
        // 基本情况:如果 k 等于 uniqueLettersArray 的长度,
        // 说明所有独特的字母都已经成功分配了数字。
        if (k === uniqueLettersArray.length) {
            // 此时,所有字母都已映射到数字,可以进行算术验证。
            if (checkArithmetic()) {
                solutionCount++; // 如果算术表达式成立,则找到一个解决方案
            }
            return; // 结束当前分支的递归
        }

        const currentLetter = uniqueLettersArray[k]; // 获取当前需要分配数字的字母

        // 遍历所有可能的数字 (0 到 9)
        for (let digit = 0; digit <= 9; digit++) {
            // 剪枝/约束检查:
            // 1. 如果这个数字已经被其他字母使用了 (`usedDigits[digit]` 为 true),则跳过。
            // 2. 如果当前字母是某个单词的首字母 (`leadingLetters.has(currentLetter)`),
            //    并且尝试分配的数字是 0 (`digit === 0`),则跳过。
            if (!usedDigits[digit] && !(leadingLetters.has(currentLetter) && digit === 0)) {
                
                // 尝试分配:
                map.set(currentLetter, digit); // 将当前字母映射到这个数字
                usedDigits[digit] = true;      // 标记这个数字已被使用

                // 递归调用:继续为下一个字母分配数字
                backtrack(k + 1);

                // 回溯(撤销):当从递归调用返回时,
                // 撤销当前字母的分配,以便探索其他数字的可能性。
                usedDigits[digit] = false;     // 标记这个数字为未使用
                map.set(currentLetter, -1);    // 将字母重新标记为未分配 (也可以是 map.delete(currentLetter))
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * 将一个单词字符串根据当前的字母-数字映射转换为其数值。
     * @param {string} word 要转换的单词。
     * @returns {number} 单词的数值。
     */
    function getWordValue(word) {
        let value = 0;
        for (const char of word) {
            value = value * 10 + map.get(char); // 确保 map.get(char) 不返回 -1
        }
        return value;
    }

    /**
     * 检查当前字母-数字映射下,加法表达式是否成立。
     * @returns {boolean} 如果表达式成立返回 true,否则返回 false。
     */
    function checkArithmetic() {
        // 最后一个单词是和,前面的是加数
        const resultWord = words[words.length - 1];
        const addendWords = words.slice(0, words.length - 1); // 获取所有加数单词

        let sumOfTerms = 0;
        for (const word of addendWords) {
            sumOfTerms += getWordValue(word);
        }

        const resultValue = getWordValue(resultWord);

        return sumOfTerms === resultValue;
    }

    // 开始回溯过程,从 uniqueLettersArray 的第一个字母开始分配
    backtrack(0);

    // 返回找到的解决方案总数
    return solutionCount;
}
    3
    GREAT
    SWERC
    PORTO
    3
    GREAT
    SWERC
    PORTO
    6
    3
    SEND
    MORE
    MONEY
    1

User

Kattis logo Kattis Problems Contests Challenge Ranklists Jobs (5) Languages Info Help Kattis Cat Search Kattis Problems / Zagrade Support Kattis tannal Hide Zagrade Mirko was bored at his chemistry class, so he played Bomb Switcher on his cell phone. Unfortunately, he was spotted and was given a ridiculously heavy assignment for homework. For a given valid math expression with brackets, he must find all different expressions that can be obtained by removing valid pairs of brackets from the original expression. Two expressions are different if there is a character at which they differ.

For example, given , one can get , , and . and can’t be reached, since we would have to remove pairs of brackets that are not valid. More than one pairs of brackets can surround the same part of the expression.

Input The first and only line of input contains one valid mathematical expression composed of nonnegative integers, basic arithmetic operations denoted with characters ‘+’, ‘*’, ‘-’ and ‘/’, and brackets ‘(’ and ‘)’.

Given expression doesn’t have more than 200 characters, and will have at least one, and no more than 10 pairs of brackets. Each expression is guaranteed to have at least one pair of brackets.

Output Output all different expressions that can be obtained by removing valid pairs of brackets, sorted lexicographically.

Sample Input 1 Sample Output 1 (0/(0)) (0/0) 0/(0) 0/0 Sample Input 2 Sample Output 2 (2+(22)+2) (2+22+2) 2+(22)+2 2+22+2 Sample Input 3 Sample Output 3 (1+(2*(3+4))) (1+(23+4)) (1+2(3+4)) (1+23+4) 1+(2(3+4)) 1+(23+4) 1+2(3+4) 1+2*3+4 Edit & Submit Metadata My Submissions Hide Select your programming language of choice and start writing your code.

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首先告诉我这道题的出处,作者,历史故事,接着用有趣和便于理解的方式叙述题目,


Cursor

好的,这道 Kattis 竞赛题叫做 “Zagrade”

题目出处、作者、历史故事

  1. 出处: 这道题也来自 Kattis 在线判题系统。Zagrade 在克罗地亚语中是“括号”的意思。这强烈暗示了这道题很可能来源于克罗地亚的某个编程竞赛,尤其是他们国家级别的奥林匹克竞赛(如 Croatian Open Competition in Informatics, COCI)或者某个大学的竞赛。
  2. 作者: 鉴于其名称和常见的出题风格,作者很可能是克罗地亚本土的编程竞赛出题人或委员会。这类题目通常会出现在高中生(信息学奥赛)或大学生(ACM ICPC 风格)的比赛中。
  3. 历史故事: 题目背景故事本身就是“Mirko 在化学课上玩手机被抓,于是被罚了一项特别重的家庭作业”。这个故事情节旨在为一道典型的组合问题提供一个轻松有趣的包装。这类带有具体人名(Mirko)和情景(化学课,玩游戏)的题目在欧洲的信息学竞赛中非常常见,它们通常是为了让参赛者在紧张的比赛中感到一丝趣味。

有趣和便于理解的方式叙述题目

想象一下,你叫 Mirko,在上无聊的化学课。突然,你玩手机被老师逮个正着!结果呢?你被罚了一项“史诗级”的家庭作业:

老师给了你一个复杂的数学算式,里面有很多数字、加减乘除,还有各种各样的括号。你的任务是,从这个算式里,移除一些“合法的括号对”,然后看看你能得到多少种不同的新算式。

什么叫“合法移除括号对”?

  • 必须成对出现: 你不能只拿掉左括号,不拿掉右括号。或者反过来。
  • 必须是有效匹配的: 你拿掉的左括号,必须和它在原算式中匹配的那个右括号一起拿掉。比如 (0/(0)) 里面,外面的 () 是一对,里面的 () 是另一对。你可以移除外面的,也可以移除里面的,或者都移除。
  • 多层括号: 如果像 ((0)) 这样,一个括号包着另一个括号,你可以选择移除外层的,也可以选择移除内层的。

例子来啦! 比如,老师给了你 (0/(0)) 这个算式。

你能得到哪些新算式呢?

  1. 什么都不移除: (0/(0)) (就是原式本身,算一种)
  2. 移除外层括号 () 0/(0)
  3. 移除内层括号 () (0/0)
  4. 同时移除外层和内层括号 () 0/0

所以,从 (0/(0)) 这个算式,你能得到 (0/(0))0/(0)(0/0)0/04 种不同的算式。

重点来了!

  • “不同”的定义: 只要有两个算式在某个字符位置上不一样,它们就是“不同”的。所以 (0/0)0/0 就算两种不同的。
  • 范围限制: 原始表达式不会超过200个字符,但最重要的是,它只包含1到10对括号。这是个重要的线索!

你的任务:

写一个程序,给定 Mirko 的原始数学表达式,找出所有通过合法移除括号对可以得到的不同表达式,并且把它们按字母顺序(字典序)排序后输出

这就像是一个“括号迷宫”问题:你有一张地图(原始表达式),地图上有一些门(括号对)。你可以选择打开某些门,但必须是成对打开且是有效匹配的门。每打开一种组合的门,你就得到一张新的地图。最后,你要列出所有不同的新地图!


User

回溯?


Cursor

是的,回溯(Backtracking)是解决“Zagrade”这道题的非常适合且常用的算法。

让我们详细解释为什么回溯能很好地解决这个问题:

为什么回溯是合适的?

  1. 决策点和分支:

    • 题目明确指出,对于每个“合法匹配的括号对”,你有两种选择:
      1. 保留这对括号。
      2. 移除这对括号。
    • 当你面对多对括号时,这些选择形成了决策树上的不同分支。回溯算法正是用来系统地探索这些决策分支,找出所有可能的组合。
  2. 构建解决方案:

    • 回溯算法通过一步步做出选择(保留或移除一对括号),逐渐“构建”出最终的表达式。
    • 当所有的括号对都被处理完毕(无论是保留还是移除)时,你就得到了一个完整的、可能的表达式。
  3. 状态管理和撤销(回溯):

    • 在尝试移除一对括号后,如果你发现这条路走不通(例如,已经生成了一个表达式并记录了它),你需要“撤销”这个操作,回到之前的状态,以便尝试另一组选择。回溯机制天生就支持这种“尝试-回退”的探索模式。
  4. 约束处理:

    • “移除合法的括号对”这个约束是关键。这意味着我们不能随意移除括号。在回溯之前,我们需要先识别出所有有效的、匹配的括号对。这可以通过栈(stack)数据结构来完成:
      • 遍历表达式,遇到 ( 就把它的索引压栈。
      • 遇到 ) 就从栈顶弹出一个索引,这个被弹出的索引和当前 ) 的索引就构成了一个合法的括号对。
      • 我们将这些合法括号对的 (起始索引, 结束索引) 存储起来,作为回溯的“决策单位”。
  5. 去重和排序:

    • 题目要求输出“所有不同的表达式”并“按字典序排序”。这意味着在回溯生成所有可能的表达式后,你需要把它们存到一个 Set(集合)中进行去重,然后再转换成数组进行排序。

回溯算法的步骤概览:

  1. 预处理:找到所有合法括号对。

    • 创建一个栈 stack
    • 创建一个数组 pairs,用于存储所有合法括号对的索引,例如 [[open1_idx, close1_idx], [open2_idx, close2_idx], ...]
    • 遍历输入表达式:
      • 如果遇到 (,将当前索引压入 stack
      • 如果遇到 ),从 stack 弹出一个索引 open_idx,然后将 [open_idx, 当前索引] 存入 pairs
  2. 回溯函数设计:

    • function generateExpressions(pair_index, current_chars):

      • pair_index: 当前正在考虑的括号对在 pairs 数组中的索引。
      • current_chars: 当前表达式的字符数组表示(通常是原始表达式的一个副本,或用特殊字符标记被移除的括号)。
    • 基本情况:

      • 如果 pair_index 等于 pairs.length(所有括号对都已处理完毕),则:
        • current_chars 数组中非标记字符拼接成字符串。
        • 将这个字符串添加到结果 Set 中。
        • 返回。
    • 递归步骤:

      • 获取当前要处理的括号对 [open_idx, close_idx] = pairs[pair_index]

      • 选择 1:保留这对括号。

        • 不做任何修改。
        • 调用 generateExpressions(pair_index + 1, current_chars)
      • 选择 2:移除这对括号。

        • current_chars 的副本中,将 open_idxclose_idx 位置的字符替换为特殊标记(例如空字符串或一个永远不会出现在表达式中的字符,代表“已移除”)。
        • 调用 generateExpressions(pair_index + 1, modified_chars_copy)
        • (重要:如果 current_chars 是在原位修改,那么在递归调用返回后,必须在这里恢复 current_chars 的状态,以实现回溯。但更简单的方式是每次传递 current_chars 的一个新副本。)
  3. 后处理:

    • 将结果 Set 转换为数组。
    • 对数组进行字典序排序。
    • 逐行打印。

通过这种方式,回溯算法能够高效地探索所有合法的括号移除组合,并生成所有不同的最终表达式。


User

处理输入输出,给我代码


Cursor

好的,这是解决 “Zagrade” 问题的完整代码,包含了输入输出的处理,并采用了回溯算法。

// 导入 readline 模块用于处理标准输入
const readline = require('readline');

// 创建 readline 接口
const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout
});

let expression = ""; // 存储输入的数学表达式

// 监听每行的输入
rl.on('line', (line) => {
    // 题目保证只有一行输入,即数学表达式
    expression = line.trim();
    rl.close(); // 读取一行后关闭输入接口
});

// 当输入流关闭时,执行核心计算逻辑并输出结果
rl.on('close', () => {
    // 调用主函数来解决问题
    const resultExpressions = solveZagrade(expression);

    // 遍历结果数组,逐行输出每个不同的表达式
    resultExpressions.forEach(expr => {
        console.log(expr);
    });
});

/**
 * 解决 "Zagrade" 问题的主函数。
 * 找出通过移除合法括号对能获得的所有不同表达式。
 *
 * @param {string} expr 原始的数学表达式字符串。
 * @returns {string[]} 所有不同的、合法获得的表达式,按字典序排序。
 */
function solveZagrade(expr) {
    const allPairs = []; // 存储所有合法括号对的索引 [open_idx, close_idx]
    const stack = [];    // 用于在遍历表达式时找到匹配的括号

    // 步骤1: 预处理 - 找到所有合法匹配的括号对
    // 遍历输入表达式,构建 allPairs 数组
    for (let i = 0; i < expr.length; i++) {
        if (expr[i] === '(') {
            stack.push(i); // 遇到左括号,将其索引压入栈
        } else if (expr[i] === ')') {
            if (stack.length > 0) { // 遇到右括号,且栈不为空(确保有匹配的左括号)
                const openIdx = stack.pop(); // 弹出栈顶的左括号索引
                allPairs.push([openIdx, i]); // 记录这对匹配的括号索引
            }
            // 题目保证输入表达式是“有效的”,所以不需要处理栈为空的情况
        }
    }

    // 使用 Set 来存储所有生成的不同表达式,自动处理去重
    const resultSet = new Set();

    // 将原始表达式转换为字符数组,以便在回溯过程中进行修改和恢复
    // 这里使用 slice() 创建一个副本,避免直接修改原始字符串
    const initialCharArray = expr.split('');

    /**
     * 回溯函数:递归地生成所有可能的表达式。
     *
     * @param {number} pairIdx 当前正在考虑的括号对在 `allPairs` 数组中的索引。
     * @param {string[]} currentCharArray 当前表达式的字符数组表示。
     *                                   这个数组会在递归过程中被修改(移除括号)和恢复。
     */
    function backtrack(pairIdx, currentCharArray) {
        // 基本情况:如果已经考虑完所有括号对
        if (pairIdx === allPairs.length) {
            // 将当前字符数组中非 null 的字符拼接成一个字符串
            const generatedExpr = currentCharArray.filter(char => char !== null).join('');
            resultSet.add(generatedExpr); // 将生成的表达式添加到 Set 中(自动去重)
            return; // 结束当前分支的递归
        }

        // 获取当前正在处理的括号对的起始和结束索引
        const [openIdx, closeIdx] = allPairs[pairIdx];

        // 选项1: 保留当前这对括号
        // 不对 currentCharArray 进行任何修改,直接递归到下一个括号对
        backtrack(pairIdx + 1, currentCharArray);

        // 选项2: 移除当前这对括号
        // 1. 存储原始字符,以便回溯时恢复
        const originalOpenChar = currentCharArray[openIdx];
        const originalCloseChar = currentCharArray[closeIdx];

        // 2. 标记这对括号为已移除(通过将其字符设为 null)
        currentCharArray[openIdx] = null;
        currentCharArray[closeIdx] = null;

        // 3. 递归调用,处理下一个括号对
        backtrack(pairIdx + 1, currentCharArray);

        // 4. 回溯:恢复 currentCharArray 到移除前的状态,
        //    以便探索其他分支(例如,保留当前括号对但移除后续括号对的情况)
        currentCharArray[openIdx] = originalOpenChar;
        currentCharArray[closeIdx] = originalCloseChar;
    }

    // 开始回溯过程,从第一个括号对(索引0)开始
    // 初始时,传入的 charArray 包含了原始表达式(即没有括号被移除的情况)
    backtrack(0, initialCharArray);

    // 将 Set 转换为数组,并按字典序排序
    const sortedExpressions = Array.from(resultSet).sort();

    return sortedExpressions; // 返回最终结果
}
// 导入 readline 模块用于处理标准输入
const readline = require('readline');

// 创建 readline 接口
const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout
});

let expression = ""; // 存储输入的数学表达式

// 监听每行的输入
rl.on('line', (line) => {
    // 题目保证只有一行输入,即数学表达式
    expression = line.trim();
    rl.close(); // 读取一行后关闭输入接口
});

// 当输入流关闭时,执行核心计算逻辑并输出结果
rl.on('close', () => {
    // 调用主函数来解决问题
    const resultExpressions = solveZagrade(expression);

    // 遍历结果数组,逐行输出每个不同的表达式
    resultExpressions.forEach(expr => {
        console.log(expr);
    });
});

/**
 * 解决 "Zagrade" 问题的主函数。
 * 找出通过移除合法括号对能获得的所有不同表达式。
 *
 * @param {string} expr 原始的数学表达式字符串。
 * @returns {string[]} 所有不同的、合法获得的表达式,按字典序排序。
 */
function solveZagrade(expr) {
    const allPairs = []; // 存储所有合法括号对的索引 [open_idx, close_idx]
    const stack = [];    // 用于在遍历表达式时找到匹配的括号

    // 步骤1: 预处理 - 找到所有合法匹配的括号对
    // 遍历输入表达式,构建 allPairs 数组
    for (let i = 0; i < expr.length; i++) {
        if (expr[i] === '(') {
            stack.push(i); // 遇到左括号,将其索引压入栈
        } else if (expr[i] === ')') {
            if (stack.length > 0) { // 遇到右括号,且栈不为空(确保有匹配的左括号)
                const openIdx = stack.pop(); // 弹出栈顶的左括号索引
                allPairs.push([openIdx, i]); // 记录这对匹配的括号索引
            }
            // 题目保证输入表达式是“有效的”,所以不需要处理栈为空的情况
        }
    }

    // 使用 Set 来存储所有生成的不同表达式,自动处理去重
    const resultSet = new Set();

    // 将原始表达式转换为字符数组,以便在回溯过程中进行修改和恢复
    // 这里使用 slice() 创建一个副本,避免直接修改原始字符串
    const initialCharArray = expr.split('');

    /**
     * 回溯函数:递归地生成所有可能的表达式。
     *
     * @param {number} pairIdx 当前正在考虑的括号对在 `allPairs` 数组中的索引。
     * @param {string[]} currentCharArray 当前表达式的字符数组表示。
     *                                   这个数组会在递归过程中被修改(移除括号)和恢复。
     */
    function backtrack(pairIdx, currentCharArray) {
        // 基本情况:如果已经考虑完所有括号对
        if (pairIdx === allPairs.length) {
            // 将当前字符数组中非 null 的字符拼接成一个字符串
            const generatedExpr = currentCharArray.filter(char => char !== null).join('');
            resultSet.add(generatedExpr); // 将生成的表达式添加到 Set 中(自动去重)
            return; // 结束当前分支的递归
        }

        // 获取当前正在处理的括号对的起始和结束索引
        const [openIdx, closeIdx] = allPairs[pairIdx];

        // 选项1: 保留当前这对括号
        // 不对 currentCharArray 进行任何修改,直接递归到下一个括号对
        backtrack(pairIdx + 1, currentCharArray);

        // 选项2: 移除当前这对括号
        // 1. 存储原始字符,以便回溯时恢复
        const originalOpenChar = currentCharArray[openIdx];
        const originalCloseChar = currentCharArray[closeIdx];

        // 2. 标记这对括号为已移除(通过将其字符设为 null)
        currentCharArray[openIdx] = null;
        currentCharArray[closeIdx] = null;

        // 3. 递归调用,处理下一个括号对
        backtrack(pairIdx + 1, currentCharArray);

        // 4. 回溯:恢复 currentCharArray 到移除前的状态,
        //    以便探索其他分支(例如,保留当前括号对但移除后续括号对的情况)
        currentCharArray[openIdx] = originalOpenChar;
        currentCharArray[closeIdx] = originalCloseChar;
    }

    // 开始回溯过程,从第一个括号对(索引0)开始
    // 初始时,传入的 charArray 包含了原始表达式(即没有括号被移除的情况)
    backtrack(0, initialCharArray);

    // 将 Set 转换为数组,并按字典序排序
    const sortedExpressions = Array.from(resultSet).sort();

    return sortedExpressions; // 返回最终结果
}

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Kattis logo Kattis Problems Contests Challenge Ranklists Jobs (5) Languages Info Help Kattis Cat Search Kattis Problems / Postal Delivery Support Kattis tannal Hide Postal Delivery The postal service is interested in cutting costs as an alternative to raising the postage rates. One way to do this is by minimizing the distance traveled when delivering mail from the post office to all the required locations and returning to the post office. It may be that all the mail to be delivered does not fit on the mail truck at once, in which case the distance traveled by the truck must include travel back to the post office to reload. For simplicity, we assume a one dimensional world with the post office at the origin, and delivery locations each identified by a single coordinate. As an example, suppose a postal truck can carry up to letters and that letters need to be delivered to location , that need to be delivered to location , and delivered to location . A maximally efficient plan would be:

Deliver the letters to location (travel ), the first letters to location (travel ), the remaining letters to location while on the way to delivering the to location (travel ). The total round-trip distance traveled is .

Input The first line contains two integers, and , where is the number of delivery addresses on the route, and is the carrying capacity of the postal truck. Each of the following lines will contain two integers and , the location of a delivery and the number of letters to deliver there, where and for all . All delivery locations are nonzero (that is, none are at the post office).

Output Output the minimum total travel distance needed to deliver all the letters and return to the post office.

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首先告诉我这道题的出处,作者,历史故事,接着用有趣和便于理解的方式叙述题目,


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好的,这道 Kattis 竞赛题叫做 “Postal Delivery”

题目出处、作者、历史故事

  1. 出处: 这道题也来自 Kattis 在线判题系统。Kattis 上的题目来源非常广泛,包括世界各地的大学和区域性编程竞赛。这道题的风格(优化路线,实际应用场景)比较符合 ACM ICPC 这类大学生程序设计竞赛的题目特点,它可能来源于某个大学的内部竞赛,或者是一个区域赛的题目。
  2. 作者: 具体作者在 Kattis 上通常不公开。不过,这类“物流优化”或“旅行商问题变种”的题目是竞赛编程中的经典类型。
  3. 历史故事: 题目背景故事是关于邮政服务如何“削减成本”,通过“最小化投递邮件的行程距离”来实现。它提供了一个具体的例子来解释复杂的规则,比如当邮件量超出卡车容量时,需要返回邮局重新装载。这个故事是典型的“为了算法问题而创造的应用场景”,它提供了一个清晰的、易于理解的业务背景,但其核心仍然是一个数学优化问题。这类故事通常旨在让问题更容易被参赛者理解,并且显得不那么抽象枯燥。

有趣和便于理解的方式叙述题目

想象一下,你是一家未来派邮政服务公司的老板!为了省钱,你决定亲自上阵,驾驶一辆特殊的**“概念邮车”**来派送邮件。

你们的世界有点奇怪,是一维的!这意味着所有的地方都在一条直线上,而你的邮局就在这条线的**原点(坐标0)**上。所有的投递点都用一个数字坐标来表示,比如 -1025

你的邮车有载货量限制! 它最多只能装载 C 封信。如果某个投递点的信件数量超过 C,或者你把多个点的信件加起来超过了 C,那你就得:

  1. 把车上装的信件送完。
  2. 空车开回邮局 (坐标0) 重新装货。
  3. 然后再次出发,送剩下的信件。

你的目标:

你需要找到一个最聪明、最省油的派送路线,使得你从邮局出发,送到所有地方,最后再回到邮局的总行驶距离是最小的

关键规则和细节:

  • 邮局在0点。
  • 投递点有坐标 X 和信件数量 L X 是该点的坐标,L 是要投递的信件数量。
  • 来回都算距离:
    • 如果你从邮局开到 X 点,再返回邮局,行驶距离是 2 * |X|
    • 如果你从 X1 开到 X2(同方向),距离是 |X2 - X1|
  • 一次派送: 你的邮车只能装 C 封信。这意味着你从邮局出发,装了信,可以往一个方向开,把沿途的信件送了。但是,当你决定改变方向(比如从负坐标区到正坐标区)时,或者你已经送完了一车的信件,你就必须先返回邮局才能去另一个方向或装第二车信。
  • 单向送完再回头: 通常来说,最有效率的方法是:
    • 装一车信件。
    • 选择一个方向(全部往正方向送,或者全部往负方向送)。
    • 在这个方向上,你一直开到最远的需要投递的点,沿途把信件送到。
    • 送完这批次后,从最远点直接开回邮局,清空邮车。
    • 然后重复这个过程,直到所有信件都送完。

举个例子(来自题目):

你的邮车能装 C=100 封信。 有三个投递点:

  • -10 处有 50 封信
  • 10 处有 175 封信
  • 25 处有 20 封信

一个高效的计划可能是这样:

  1. 处理负坐标区:

    • 从邮局出发,带着 50 封信去 -10。 (50 <= 100,可以装下)
    • 送到 -10 点(行驶了 10)。
    • 然后返回邮局(再行驶 10)。
    • 总距离:10 + 10 = 20。 (-10 处的信送完了)
  2. 处理正坐标区(第一批次):

    • 现在邮局有 10 处的 175 封信和 25 处的 20 封信。总共 195 封信。
    • 邮车只能装 100 封。所以先装 100 封。
    • 开到 10 点,送掉 100 封(10 处还剩 75 封)。行驶了 10
    • 10 点返回邮局(再行驶 10)。
    • 总距离:10 + 10 = 20。 (10 处还剩 7525 处还剩 20)
  3. 处理正坐标区(第二批次):

    • 邮局还有 10 处的 75 封和 25 处的 20 封。总共 95 封信 (95 <= 100,可以装下)。
    • 从邮局出发,带着这 95 封信。
    • 开到 25 点(先经过 10 点),送完所有信件。行驶了 25
    • 25 点返回邮局(再行驶 25)。
    • 总距离:25 + 25 = 50。 (所有信都送完了)

最终的总行驶距离 = 20 (负区) + 20 (正区批次1) + 50 (正区批次2) = 90。

你的任务就是找出这个最小的 90!这就像一场高效率的快递接力赛跑!


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学习了《数字图像处理与机器视觉》这门课程,对我而言,它不仅仅是知识的吸收,更是一次重新校准我观察世界与思考问题视角的深刻体验。日常生活中,我开始以一种全新的方式看待周围的视觉信息:手机照片滤镜背后的卷积操作、人脸识别解锁的特征提取、甚至街头监控摄像头如何“看懂”环境,这些曾经习以为常的科技魔法,如今在我眼中都有了清晰的逻辑骨架,不再是简单的黑箱,我能更深层地理解图像失真、数字伪造的原理,从而对信息真伪的辨别多了一层批判性的维度。而在专业学习上,这门课为我打开了机器感知的大门,将抽象的数学理论与具体的视觉问题紧密结合起来,那些曾经看似枯燥的线性代数、微积分和统计学,突然在像素变换、特征匹配和模式识别中焕发了生机,让我深刻体会到数学在计算机科学中的强大工具性,它训练了我将复杂视觉信息转化为可计算、可分析的数据结构的能力,培养了从局部特征到全局理解的系统性思维,更重要的是,它为我后续深入学习深度学习人工智能打下了坚实的基础,让我明确了在机器视觉领域探索和实践的专业方向,感受到了将算法应用于真实世界问题的巨大潜力和乐趣。


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‪Jonathan Ladd‬ ‪@jonmladd.bsky.social‬ · 3 小时前 A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.

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‪Dan Wade‬ ‪@dwade.bsky.social‬ · 3 小时前 Probably my favorite tifo ever and hearing Allianz roar as it went up got me choked up.

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‪Nick Knudsen‬ ‪@nickknudsenus.bsky.social‬ · 6 小时前 The scale of the rally in Portland is MASSIVE.

Simultaneously crossing the Morrison and Hawthorne Bridges in one long parade of democracy.

Tens of thousands of people. #NoKings

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‪more mr. nice guy‬ ‪@juniorhoncho.bsky.social‬ · 2024/4/3 if you’re still getting ripped up by air bud in the third quarter, that’s a coaching failure

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‪Claire Willett‬ ‪@clairewillett.bsky.social‬ · 5 小时前 okay holy shit actually

‪Jessica Christian‬ ‪@jachristian.bsky.social‬ · 5 小时前 This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

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‪Dion Almaer‬ ‪@almaer.com‬ · 1 小时前 OH “We got too many Product Managers who were good at competitive analysis but not deeply technical, so we ended up with fear based copy cat roadmaps.”

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‪Silversprite‬ ‪@silversprite.bsky.social‬ · 1 小时前 No, cat, I’m pretty sure it was YOU who woke ME and not the other way around, so you can quit the bleary eyed glaring.

And no, there’s several hours until I open a tin for your breakfast, so that’s a non-starter as well. Life is hard when you don’t have opposable thumbs, isn’t it? A grey cat lying on a dark blue and patterned duvet on a bed, in a bedroom. The cat is awake and looking to the left of the person taking the picture. ALT

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‪Joshua Conkel‬ ‪@joshuaconkel.bsky.social‬ · 3 小时前 We should make June 14th No Kings Day permanently.

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‪News Eye‬ ‪@newseye.bsky.social‬ · 6 小时前 回复 News Eye “Special thanks to our sponsor Coinbase.”

cuts to empty stage

Has a national military force ever allowed themselves to be so debased and humiliated so quickly?

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‪Rich Burroughs‬ ‪@richburroughs.dev‬ · 1 小时前 The DNC one is funny. So what? The White House organized Trump’s parade. Are they saying the DNC is much more competent than the White House? Is that supposed to be a slam on the Democrats?

(I know it wasn’t the DNC.)

‪dr. caitlin m. green‬ ‪@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social‬ · 1 小时前 getting a strong whiff of desperation coming from the direction of the cope factory

Auron Macintyre @AuronMacintyre • 3m I wouldn’t be shocked if tax payer funded activists went to nursing homes and turned out senile old ladies to wonder the street with American flags This is stage managed, and someone is orchestrating it ALT

Wilfred Reilly • @wil_da _beast630 • 2m Not…..really. From a basic scan of the pics, it’s an insanely old, white, female, middle-middle class (not upper or lower or working), neurotic/ masked crowd. The people at the Army’s birthday parade……looked like America. A Democrats © @TheDemocrats -38m Today, across the country, the people rose up and made their voices heard. This is what America looks like. ALT

Nomani reposted Asra Nomani © @AsraNomani • 9h What you won’t read on most media outlets today about the #Nokings protests ~~ The @DNC is directly organizing many of the protests. ALT

17 Stephen L. Miller reposted Magills O @magills_ Follow My favorite part of authoritarianism is all of the protests 3:35 PM • 6/14/25 • 26K Views ALT

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‪Rich Burroughs‬ ‪@richburroughs.dev‬ · 1 小时前 In our defense, we’re not very good at doing things.

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‪Brian Floyd‬ ‪@brianmfloyd.bsky.social‬ · 1 小时前 foreshadowing that girl champagne hammered and left proof ALT

‪Aaron Rupar‬ ‪@atrupar.com‬ · 2 小时前 Fox News brings on Rebekah Koffler to talk about the military parade, but she seems to be heavily intoxicated so they cut away with quickness

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‪Dion Almaer‬ ‪@almaer.com‬ · 1 小时前 “Without the appropriate error handling, the null pointer caused the binary to crash.”

status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow…

Cue the Rust crowd… Google Cloud Service Health status.cloud.google.com

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‪Wiredferret!‬ ‪@wiredferret.bsky.social‬ · 1 小时前 I’m off to London! Wish me luck.

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‪Dr. Lucky Tran‬ ‪@luckytran.com‬ · 6 小时前 Incredible turnout for the #NoKings protest in Los Angeles!

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‪Christi Belcourt‬ ‪@christibelcourt.com‬ · 4 小时前 I hate war. All of it. Hate the rubble. Hate the hate. Hate the cheering, jeering, hoping for people to die.Hate the indifference. The mocking.The greed. The propaganda. The white supremacy. Most of all, the suffering of average people who have hardly anything when the “leaders” sit safely watching.

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‪Alejandra Caraballo‬ ‪@esqueer.net‬ · 2 小时前 Shots apparently fired at Utah no kings protest. The crowd panics and everyone starts running away.

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‪Denise Wheeler‬ ‪@denisedwheeler.bsky.social‬ · 5 小时前 Today in Boston.

Over a million people turned out.

Even the drone couldn’t get it all.

#NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

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‪emily fraser 🌿🐌✨‬ ‪@emilyesfraser.bsky.social‬ · 8 小时前 My last protest was in 2019. After a couple Covid infections I’m mostly housebound, spend 23 hours a day in bed, can no longer make documentaries or teach eco cinema or do pro bono film stuff, & I rely on Amazon to survive 🫠 Do you ever wonder how many ppl like me you’ve kicked out of the movement?

‪Mar Hicks‬ ‪@histoftech.bsky.social‬ · 12 小时前 Do you know how many people aren’t protesting today because you’ve disabled or killed them with covid? Real uncomfortable question, I know.

What would you do if you knew your personal number (of people you’ve disabled or worse)? Would it matter?

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‪Joe Katz ❌👑‬ ‪@joekatz45.bsky.social‬ · 2 小时前 Six GOP governors activated the National Guard ahead of #NoKings because they claimed the protesters may be violent. 5 million of us marched. And so far all actual violence seems to have come at the hands of counter-protesters, Christian nationalist terrorists and law enforcement.

‪Ben Winslow‬ ‪@benwinslow.bsky.social‬ · 2 小时前 BREAKING NEWS: People sent running after shooting incident during Salt Lake City protest march: www.fox13now.com/news/local-n… #utpol #Utah

People sent running after shooting incident during Salt Lake City protest march An incident during the “No Kings” protest march through Salt Lake City sent people scattering for cover on Saturday, with one man being taken into custody by police. www.fox13now.com

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好的,根据您提供的最新社交媒体动态,最近发生了一些重要事件和热门讨论,可以总结如下:

1. 政治集会与抗议活动(持续热点,尤其是“No Kings”运动):

  • 特朗普生日游行/集会出席率低迷的后续:许多用户继续嘲讽特朗普生日游行的人数稀少,与同日各地的“No Kings”抗议活动形成鲜明对比。有用户调侃“不如铅笔削铅笔活动人多”、“乐队水平不行”等。
  • “No Kings Day”抗议活动声势浩大
    • 费尔班克斯(Fairbanks, Alaska)布法罗(Buffalo)波特兰(Portland)、**奥克兰(Oakland)洛杉矶(Los Angeles)**等地都发生了大规模的“No Kings”抗议活动,视频和图片显示参与人数众多,特别是波特兰和波士顿被描述为“MASSIVE”和“Over a million people turned out”。
    • 洛杉矶和盐湖城抗议的暴力事件:有报道称在洛杉矶的抗议中,LAPD 和 LA Sheriffs 之间发生了“误伤”,互相发射了冲击弹药。在**盐湖城(Salt Lake City)**的“No Kings”抗议中,发生了枪击事件,导致人群恐慌和奔跑,一人被捕。
    • 政治人物和媒体的回应:有评论指出,即使发生了针对民主党议员的暴力事件(明尼苏达州),但共和党对政治修辞的审查和对特朗普的谴责却不如预期。有人质疑“DNC”是否直接组织了这些抗议活动,并有评论认为这是一种“舞台化”的行为。

2. 科技与软件开发话题:

  • TypeScript Decorators 和构建步骤:有开发者讨论 TypeScript 的 --erasableSyntaxOnly 标志为何不对装饰器(Decorators)报错,以及 NestJS 对装饰器的依赖,并探讨移除构建步骤的可能性。
  • React Server Components (RSC) 和打包工具 Parcel:提到 Parcel 支持 RSC,并有开发者希望 Next.js 能提供全局关闭 SSR 的选项,以更好地利用 RSC。
  • 用户(User)称谓的讨论:有用户幽默地提出“设计师:我们应该停止使用‘用户’这个词”,紧接着另一位用户讽刺地指出“任何时候你听到任何人在任何语境下使用‘个体(individuals)’这个词,他们就是警察。”

3. 文化、生活与其他:

  • 音乐和电影: Simple Minds 在80年代的灯光秀、Castlevania 秀,以及关于 John Fogerty 起诉特朗普使用 Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) 歌曲《Fortunate Son》的讨论(讽刺特朗普在阅兵式上播放此歌)。
  • 个人生活片段:抱怨胶套唱片封套难套、坐飞机旁边的人打喷嚏、猫吵醒主人要食物等。
  • 媒体内容和营销:关于视频游戏新闻通讯中 Reels 观看情况的调查,以及品牌/产品经理的“跟风”式路线图。
  • James Beard Award:Helen Rosner 因其对 Padma Lakshmi 的报道获得 James Beard Award。
  • 健康与政治:NPR 报道健康部长 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 似乎接受了过时的“瘴气理论”而不是“细菌理论”来解释疾病。

总的来说,社交媒体上最热烈的讨论仍然集中在美国的政治事件,尤其是与特朗普相关的集会和各地的“No Kings”抗议活动及其伴随的争议和事件。


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Enabling Language Models to Fill in the Blanks Chris Donahue Stanford University Mina Lee Stanford University {cdonahue,minalee,pliang}@cs.stanford.edu Percy Liang Stanford University Abstract We present a simple approach for text infilling, the task of predicting missing spans of text at any position in a document. While infilling could enable rich functionality especially for writing assistance tools, more attention has been devoted to language modeling—a special case of infilling where text is predicted at the end of a document. In this paper, we aim to extend the capabilities of language models (LMs) to the more general task of infilling. To this end, we train (or fine-tune) off-the-shelf LMs on sequences containing the concatenation of artificially-masked text and the text which was masked. We show that this approach, which we call infilling by language modeling, can enable LMs to infill entire sentences effectively on three different domains: short stories, scientific abstracts, and lyrics. Furthermore, we show that humans have difficulty identifying sentences infilled by our approach as machinegenerated in the domain of short stories. 1 Introduction Text infilling is the task of predicting missing spans of text which are consistent with the preceding and subsequent text.1 Systems capable of infilling have the potential to enable rich applications such as assisting humans in editing or revising text (Shih et al., 2019), connecting fragmented ideas (AI21, 2019), and restoring ancient documents (Assael et al., 2019). Rather than targeting a particular application, our goal here is to provide a general, flexible, and simple infilling framework which can convincingly infill in a variety of domains. A special case of infilling is language modeling: predicting text given preceding but not subsequent text.2 Language models are (1) capable of generat1Text infilling is a generalization of the cloze task (Taylor, 1953)—cloze historically refers to infilling individual words. 2 In this paper, language modeling always refers to ordinary LMs, i.e., “unidirectional,” “autoregressive,” or “left-to-right.” She ate leftover pasta for lunch. She ate [blank] for [blank]. leftover pasta [answer] lunch [answer] Data Input Target Our Infilling Framework She ate [blank] for [blank]. She ate leftover pasta for lunch. Infilling Task Input Output Train Language Model Infilling Input [sep] Target Data Input [sep] Target Output Figure 1: We consider the task of infilling, which takes incomplete text as input and outputs completed text. To tackle this task, our framework constructs training examples by masking random spans to generate pairs of inputs (text with blanks) and targets (answers for each blank). We then train unidirectional language models on the concatenation of each pair. Once trained, a model takes text input with blanks, predicts the answers, and then combines them to produce the output. ing remarkably coherent text (Zellers et al., 2019; See et al., 2019), (2) efficient at generating text, and (3) conceptually simple, but cannot infill effectively as they can only leverage context in a single direction (usually the past). On the other hand, strategies such as BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) and SpanBERT (Joshi et al., 2019) are able to infill using both preceding and subsequent text. However, their use of bidirectional attention limits their infilling capabilities to fixed-length spans. This is problematic as—for many applications—we may not know the length of a missing span a priori. Zhu et al. (2019) propose a method capable of infilling variable-length spans, but it uses a specialized architecture and hence cannot easily leverage large-scale pre-trained models. In this work, we present infilling by language modeling (ILM), a simple framework which enarXiv:2005.05339v2 [cs.CL] 10 Sep 2020 ables LMs to infill variable-length spans while preserving their aforementioned benefits: generation quality, efficient sampling, and conceptual simplicity. Our framework involves a straightforward formulation of the infilling task which, as we demonstrate, can be learned effectively by existing LM architectures. As shown in Figure 1, our approach concatenates artificially-masked text with the text which was masked, and adopts a standard LM training (or fine-tuning) procedure on such examples. Once trained, infilling can be performed for a document with blanks by using the LM to generate text and then replacing the blanks with this text. In addition to its conceptual simplicity, our experiments show that ILM enables off-the-shelf LMs to infill effectively. Furthermore, we find that infilling performance improves when starting from a large-scale pre-trained LM (as opposed to training from scratch), suggesting an additional benefit of using our model-agnostic framework compared to approaches which require specialized architectures. We provide an interactive web demo of models trained under our framework. This demo can infill multiple variable-length spans with different granularities (e.g. words, n-grams, and sentences) on the domains of short stories, scientific abstracts, and song lyrics: https://chrisdonahue.com/ilm. All code, data, and trained models are available at https://github.com/chrisdonahue/ilm and also on the CodaLab platform at https: //worksheets.codalab.org/worksheets/ 0x9987b5d9cce74cf4b2a5f84b54ee447b. 2 Problem Statement The task of infilling is to take incomplete text x˜, containing one or more missing spans, and return completed text x. Let [blank] be a placeholder for a contiguous sequence (span) of one or more missing tokens. Then, incomplete text x˜ is a sequence of tokens some of which are [blank]. In order to map x˜ to x, an infilling strategy must specify both how many and which tokens to generate for each [blank]. Note that there may be many reasonable x for a given x˜. Hence, we are interested in learning a distribution p(x | x˜). 3 Infilling by Language Modeling In this section, we describe our ILM framework. We first outline a simple reparametrization of the infilling task. Then, we define a procedure for automatically generating suitable training examples which can be fed to an off-the-shelf LM. 3.1 Formulation Fedus et al. (2018) explore an infilling framework where LMs are trained on concatenations of x˜ and x, i.e., they use LMs to directly predict x given x˜. While their approach is effective at infilling individual words, it is somewhat redundant as the model must “predict” the unmasked text in x˜. Additionally, a model is not guaranteed to exactly reproduce the unmasked text. Instead, we make the trivial observation that it suffices to predict only the missing spans y which will replace the [blank] tokens in x˜. We can then construct x by simply replacing [blank] tokens in x˜ with predicted spans y in a deterministic fashion. In order to handle multiple variable-length spans, we pose y as the concatenation of all missing spans separated by special [answer] tokens (one [answer] per [blank]) (Figure 1). We can thus cast infilling as learning p(y | x˜) without loss of generality. 3.2 Training Given a corpus consisting of complete text examples, our framework first manufactures infilling examples and then trains an LM on these examples. To produce an infilling example for a given x, we first sample an x˜ from a stochastic function Mask(x) which randomly replaces some number of spans in x with [blank] tokens. Then, we concatenate together the spans which were replaced— separated by [answer] tokens—to form a training target y. Finally, we construct the complete infilling example by concatenating x˜, [sep], and y (see Figure 2 for a complete example). We train (or fine-tune) LMs on these infilling examples using standard LM training methodology, yielding models of the form pθ(y | x˜). Specifically, we train GPT-2 (Radford et al., 2019) off the shelf, but any LM can potentially be used. This framework has several advantages. First, it incurs almost no computational overhead compared to language modeling. Specifically, if there are k missing spans in x˜, the concatenation of x˜ and y contains only 2k+ 1 more tokens than x (one [blank] and one [answer] per missing span plus one [sep]). As k is usually small (averaging around 2 per example in our experiments), sequence lengths remain similar to those encountered for the same x during language modeling. In contrast, using LMs to directly predict x from x˜ as in Fedus et al. (2018) effectively doubles the sequence length of x. This is particularly problematic when considering models like GPT-2 whose memory usage grows quadratically with sequence length. Second, our framework requires minimal change (three additional tokens) to an existing LM’s vocabulary. Finally, because the entirety of x˜ is in the “past” when predicting y, the ILM framework combines the ability to attend to incorporate context on both sides of a blank with the simplicity of decoding from LMs. 4 Experimental Setup We design our experiments to determine if training an off-the-shelf LM architecture with our ILM framework can produce effective infilling models for a variety of datasets. Specifically, we train on three datasets of different sizes and semantics (details in Appendix A): short STORIES (Mostafazadeh et al., 2016), CS paper ABSTRACTS, and song LYRICS. 4.1 Mask Function A benefit of the ILM framework is that it can be trained to infill spans corrupted by arbitrary mask functions. Here, we explore a mask function which simultaneously trains models to infill different granularities of text; specifically, words, n-grams, sentences, paragraphs, and documents. By using a unique special token per granularity (e.g. [blank word]), this mask function offers users coarse but intuitive control over the length of the spans to be infilled. We configure our mask function to mask each token in a given document with around 15% probability, echoing the configuration of Devlin et al. (2019). However, instead of masking individual tokens uniformly at random, we perform a preorder traversal of the granularity hierarchy tree, randomly masking entire subtrees with 3% probability. For the datasets we consider, this results in a marginal token mask rate of about 15% (details in Appendix B). While we train to infill several different granularities, we primarily evaluate and discuss the ability of our models to infill sentences for brevity. Quantitative results of our models on other granularities can be found in Appendix D, and granularity functionality can also be explored in our web demo. 4.2 Task and Model Configurations For all experiments, we train the same architecture (GPT-2 “small”) using the same hyperparameters She ate leftover pasta for lunch. She ate [blank] for [blank]. She ate leftover pasta for lunch. [end] .lunch for leftover pasta ate She [end] She ate [blank] for [blank]. She ate leftover pasta for lunch. [end] She ate [blank] for [blank]. [sep] leftover pasta [answer] lunch [answer] Data Masked LM LM-Rev LM-All ILM Training Examples for Different Strategies Figure 2: Training examples for three baseline infilling strategies and ILM on a given artificially-masked sentence. For each strategy, we train the same architecture (GPT-2) on such examples. At both training and test time, examples are fed from left to right; anything to the left of a green target is available to the model as context when predicting the target. Precisely, LM only considers past context, and LM-Rev only considers future. LM-All considers all available context but uses long sequence lengths. Our proposed ILM considers all context while using fewer tokens. (Appendix C) while varying the infilling strategy and dataset. In addition to our proposed ILM strategy for infilling, we consider three baseline strategies: (1) language modeling (LM; “infilling” based only on past context), (2) reverse language modeling (LM-Rev; “infilling” based only on future context), and (3) language modeling based on all available context (LM-All). LM-All simply concatenates x and x˜ together as in Fedus et al. (2018). LM-All represents arguably the simplest way one could conceive of infilling with LMs, but results in long sequence lengths. Training examples for all strategies are depicted in Figure 2. For each strategy, we also vary whether training is initialized from the pre-trained GPT-2 model or from scratch. Despite discrepancies between the pre-training and our fine-tuning for most infilling strategies, all of the infilling experiments initialized from the pre-trained checkpoint performed better than their from-scratch counterparts. This indicates that ILM can effectively leverage large-scale language modeling pre-training to improve infilling performance. Henceforth, we will only discuss the models initialized from the pre-trained checkpoint, though we report quantitative performance for all models in Appendix D. For the models trained on STORIES and ABSTRACTS, we trained models to convergence using early stopping based on the validation set perplexity (PPL) of each model computed only on the masked tokens. These models took about a day to reach STO ABS LYR Length LM 18.3 27.9 27.7 1.00 LM-Rev 27.1 46.5 34.3 1.00 LM-All 15.6 22.3 21.4 1.81 ILM 15.6 22.4 22.6 1.01 Table 1: Quantitative evaluation results. We report test set perplexity (PPL) on the sentence infilling task for different model configurations on all three datasets, as well as average length of all test set examples in tokens relative to that of the original sequence (lower is better for all columns). Our proposed ILM framework achieves better PPL than both LM and LM-Rev, implying that it is able to take advantage of both past and future context. ILM achieves similar PPL to LM-All with shorter sequence lengths (hence less memory). their early stopping criteria on a single GPU. For the larger LYRICS dataset, we trained models for 2 epochs (about two days on a single GPU). 5 Quantitative Evaluation We evaluate the quantitative performance of our models on the sentence infilling task by measuring PPL on test data.3 In this setting, a sentence is selected at random and masked out, and we measure the likelihood assigned by a model to the masked sentence in the context of the rest of the document. Regardless of differences in the ordering and number of tokens that each strategy uses to represent a test example, PPL is always computed only for the span of tokens comprising the original sentence (e.g. green tokens in Figure 2). Table 1 shows that across all datasets, ILM outperforms models which see only past or future context (LM and LM-Rev respectively), implying that our proposed framework is able to take advantage of bidirectional context despite using unidirectional models. Additionally, while one might expect LMAll to outperform ILM because its training examples more closely “resemble” those of standard LMs, ILM achieves similar performance to LMAll. This indicates that GPT-2 is able to effectively learn the “syntax” of ILM examples and achieve reasonable infilling performance with shorter sequences (and hence with much less memory usage). We also observe that models trained via ILM perform similarly on the special case of language mod3Overlap-based metrics such as BLEU score (Papineni et al., 2002) are not appropriate for evaluating infilling as there are many realistic infills that have no word-level overlap with the original, e.g., “a sandwich” instead of “leftover pasta.” eling compared to the models which were trained only on language modeling (Appendix D.1). This suggests that ILM does not just repurpose LMs to infill, but rather extends their capabilities while maintaining their original functionality. 6 Human Evaluation In addition to our quantitative evaluation, we seek to evaluate the qualitative performance of ILM. To this end, we sample a story from the STORIES test set and randomly replace one of its five humanwritten sentences with a model output. Then, we task human annotators on Amazon Mechanical Turk with identifying which of the sentences in a story was machine-generated (details in Appendix E). We compare our ILM model to three baseline infilling strategies: an LM (context beyond the replaced sentence was discarded), the best model (self-attention; SA) from Zhu et al. (2019), and the pre-trained BERT (base) model (Devlin et al., 2019). All approaches except for BERT were first fine-tuned on the STORIES dataset. To infill using BERT, we replace the tokens representing the original sentence with mask tokens, and then generate text by replacing mask tokens one at a time (conditioning on previously-generated tokens). While vocabulary differences make it is less useful to compare PPL for the SA and BERT baselines to our GPT-2-based strategies, we can still meaningfully compare them in this human evaluation setting. For each approach we compute a score, which we define as the percentage of examples where the annotator did not correctly identify the machinegenerated sentence. Therefore, a higher score implies a better (more natural, human-like) model. We collect 100 responses for each model and report the scores in Table 2, with qualitative examples in Figure 3 and Appendix E. Of the four strategies, ILM achieves the highest score, implying that sentences infilled by ILM are harder for humans to recognize as fake than those produced by other strategies. Somewhat surprisingly, we observed that despite only observing past context the LM model performed better than BERT and SA. BERT may have performed poorly due to the intrinsic difficulty of finding convincing infills with a precise length in tokens. SA may have performed poorly because, unlike LM and ILM, it was not initialized from a large-scaled pre-trained LM. BERT SA LM ILM Score (%) 20 29 41 45 Table 2: Human evaluation results. We use BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), the best model from Zhu et al. (2019) (SA), and our LM and ILM models to replace random sentences in five-sentence stories from the STORIES test set. Then, we task humans with identifying which sentence of the five was generated by a machine. We report the score of each model: the percentage of infilled stories where the human failed to identify the machine-generated sentence. Our ILM model achieves a higher score than all of the other models. Note that the max score is effectively 80%, as a perfect model would cause annotators to randomly choose one of the five sentences. BERT SA LM ILM Human favoritea “, Mary brightly said. She wasn’t sure she had to go to the store. She went to check the tv. Patty knew her friends wanted pizza. She also had the place looking spotless. Example Story with Masked Sentence Patty was excited about having her friends over. She had been working hard preparing the food. [blank] All of her friends arrived and were seated at the table. Patty had a great time with her friends. Figure 3: Example of a short story in our STORIES dataset with its third sentence masked, and sentences infilled by different models. The sentences generated by BERT and SA models are off-topic, the sentence generated by LM model is irrelevant to the future context, while the ones generated by ILM and Human successfully account for both previous and future context. 7 Related Work Methodology. A number of systems have the capability to infill but have practical drawbacks. Many systems are unable to automatically determine span length, and thus, can only infill fixedlength spans (Fedus et al., 2018; Devlin et al., 2019; Yang et al., 2019; Joshi et al., 2019; Gu et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2019). Methods such as BERT present additional challenges during inference (Wang and Cho, 2019). Rudinger et al. (2015) frame narrative cloze as a generation task and employ language models, but they only consider one infill of a fixed length. Zhu et al. (2019); Shen et al. (2020) infill multiple variable-length sequences, but these approaches require the masked context to be iteratively updated and reprocessed to fill in blanks one a time. In contrast, our approach appends infilled text to the context and does not require reprocessing the entire input sequence for each blank. AI21 (2019) train an LM which can fill in the middle of a paragraph given the first and last sentences—our work generalizes to such capabilities. Task. The cloze task (Taylor, 1953) evaluates language proficiency by asking systems to fill in randomly-deleted words by examining context. Cloze has been extended in the forms of discourse (Deyes, 1984) and narrative cloze (Chambers and Jurafsky, 2008), which remove phrases and narrative events respectively. Recently, cloze has been used not only for evaluation, but also to improve text generation quality (Fedus et al., 2018) and transfer learning (Devlin et al., 2019) (under the name “masked language modeling”). Text infilling can be thought of as generalizing the cloze task from single words to spans of unknown length. Raffel et al. (2019) explore infilling as a pre-training objective to improve downstream performance on inference tasks; our work focuses on generation. Story generation. Recent work seeks to generate stories given a title and storyline (Yao et al., 2019), entities (Clark et al., 2018), premise (Fan et al., 2018), or surrounding context and rare words (Ippolito et al., 2019). Our work differs in that we aim to build systems capable of making predictions based only on text context, rather than aspects specific to stories (e.g. storyline). 8 Conclusion We presented a simple strategy for the task of infilling which leverages language models. Our approach is capable of infilling sentences which humans have difficulty recognizing as machinegenerated. Furthermore, we demonstrated that our infilling framework is effective when starting from large-scale pre-trained LMs, which may be useful in limited data settings. In future work, we plan to incorporate these features into co-creation systems which assist humans in the writing process. 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  • STORIES (100K examples, 5M words) Short stories from the ROCStories dataset (Mostafazadeh et al., 2016). Each story contains a title and five sentences.
  • ABSTRACTS (200K examples, 30M words) Abstracts from CS papers on arXiv
  • LYRICS (2M examples, 60M words) Song lyrics from lyrics.com We experimented on multiple datasets to demonstrate that our framework was not custom tailored to a single domain. On the STORIES and ABSTRACTS datasets, we include metadata (story title, paper subject matter, etc.), as the first “paragraph” of the document. By providing these paragraphs (Appendix B), our infilling model implicitly learns to summarize (e.g. infill a title given a story), and do conditional generation (e.g. infill a story given a title). On the LYRICS dataset, infilling models may be especially helpful to humans; external aid in the form of rhyming dictionaries is already commonly employed in this domain. To ensure that all experiments were trained on the same data, we removed infilling examples which would have exceeded our training sequence length of 256 tokens for the model with the longest sequence length (LM-All). This removed no examples from STORIES, a small fraction of examples from LYRICS, and a substantial number of examples from ABSTRACTS. B Masking function We design a mask function which takes the entire document and selectively masks several span granularities: words, n-grams, sentences, paragraphs, and entire documents. Accordingly, models trained via ILM on this masking function offer users the ability to specify the granularity of text to infill at a particular location. This allows users to have coarse but intuitive control over infilling length, so that multiple paragraphs are not generated when the user was expecting a single word. Our masking function first constructs a tree of the training example (using the natural hierarchy of documents, paragraphs, sentences, and words). Then, using a pre-order tree traversal, each subtree is masked with 3% probability (or ignored if any of its ancestors are already masked). If the entire document (root node of the tree) is masked, then the infilling model’s job is equivalent to that of a language model. If a word (leaf) is selected to be masked, 50% of the time we mask that individual word, otherwise we mask an n-gram of random length between 1 and min(8, # words left in the sentence) words (inclusive). Note that a word may comprise multiple tokens, as GPT-2 uses sub-word tokenization (Sennrich et al., 2015). We chose the value of 3% as, for the datasets we considered, it resulted in a marginal token mask rate of around 15%, echoing the configuration of Devlin et al. (2019). We add special tokens for each granularity to our model’s vocabulary (e.g. [blank word]), so that the user may specify which granularity they would like the infilling model to produce. This functionality can be explored in our demo: https: //chrisdonahue.com/ilm. While we focus on this specific mask function in this paper, we structured the ILM codebase to allow users to train infilling models for completely different use cases. Users need only define a new mask function which takes complete documents and outputs lists of character-level spans representing the desired spans to be masked. C Hyperparameters We use early stopping based on the PPL of the model on infilling the masked token for the validation set. We train all models using the default fine-tuning parameters specified in the transformers library (Wolf et al., 2019), except that we use a batch size of 24 and a sequence length of 256. Note that the most straightforward way of training an LM on ILM examples (Section 3.2) is to maximize the likelihood of the entire concatenated example: x˜, [sep], and y. This trains the model to predict tokens in x˜ even though such behavior is not necessary at inference time as x˜ will always be fully-specified. Nevertheless, we found that this additional supervision improved performance when evaluating model PPL of y. Conveniently, this is also the default behavior when adapting existing LM training code for use with ILM. D Evaluation on language modeling and infilling other granularities Our quantitative evaluation (Section 5) examined the sentence infilling performance of GPT-2 initialized from the large-scale pre-trained checkpoint STO ABS LYR LM (scratch) 33.4 52.1 25.1 LM-Rev (scratch) 32.9 53.9 24.7 LM-All (scratch) 30.4 44.6 26.2 ILM (scratch) 30.8 45.3 30.6 LM 17.6 25.7 20.8 LM-Rev 25.1 36.7 23.7 LM-All 17.8 25.2 21.5 ILM 18.1 23.9 23.0 Table 3: Document infilling PPL (or language modeling) of ILM and baselines initialized either from scratch or from the pre-trained checkpoint across three datasets. Note that PPL of ILM is similar to LM, implying that our infilling strategy can reasonably maintain the ability to perform language modeling while extending the ability to infill. STO ABS LYR LM (scratch) 34.0 52.8 28.9 LM-Rev (scratch) 34.9 59.3 30.4 LM-All (scratch) 27.0 46.2 24.3 ILM (scratch) 25.5 46.0 27.5 LM 17.5 25.5 23.9 LM-Rev 26.5 39.0 29.2 LM-All 15.1 24.4 19.3 ILM 14.9 23.5 20.2 Table 4: Mixture infilling PPL of all models (a mixture of all granularities). after fine-tuning on different datasets and infilling strategies. Here, we report PPL for GPT-2 both initialized from scratch and from the pre-trained checkpoint for several other configurations: language modeling, a mixture of granularities, specific granularities, and language modeling. D.1 Language modeling In Table 3, we report PPL for “document infilling,” which is equivalent to language modeling (because x˜ is always [blank document]). Because of how we structured our mask function (Appendix B), 3% of infilling examples consist of the entire document masked out, which results in the ability of our ILM framework to perform standard infilling. We see that performance of ILM is similar to that of LM on this task, even though ILM sees far fewer examples of language modeling compared to LM. STO ABS LYR LM (scratch) 35.6 51.5 25.1 LM-Rev (scratch) 34.8 65.1 24.7 LM-All (scratch) 33.4 45.0 26.2 ILM (scratch) 34.3 45.3 30.6 LM 18.3 24.2 20.8 LM-Rev 26.5 42.8 23.7 LM-All 20.4 23.4 21.5 ILM 20.7 22.5 23.0 Table 5: Paragraph infilling PPL of all models. STO ABS LYR LM (scratch) 36.0 65.4 33.5 LM-Rev (scratch) 35.1 92.2 35.8 LM-All (scratch) 27.1 53.8 27.1 ILM (scratch) 26.7 51.0 31.0 LM 18.3 27.9 27.7 LM-Rev 27.1 46.5 34.3 LM-All 15.6 22.3 21.4 ILM 15.6 22.4 22.6 Table 6: Sentence infilling PPL of all models. D.2 Mixture of granularities In Table 4, we report results for a mixture of granularities. Specifically, we run the same mask function we use for training (Appendix B) on our test data and evaluate PPL on the masked spans. This reflects general infilling ability across a wide variety of granularities (and hence lengths). Unlike our other quantitative evaluations, there may be multiple variable-length spans missing from each example in this evaluation. Results are similar to that of sentence infilling. Namely, that ILM outperforms LM and LM-Rev and is similar to LM-All despite using much less memory. D.3 Individual granularities In Tables 5 to 8 we report PPL values for infilling performance on paragraphs, sentences, n-grams, and words, respectively, across the three datasets. For each granularity, we create one infilling example per document from the test set with exactly one masked span (randomly chosen from all spans of that granularity for that document). Then, we compute PPL only on the tokens which comprise the masked span, i.e., PPL is computed for all models on exactly the same set of tokens. Across all granularities, we observe that ILM outperforms STO ABS LYR LM (scratch) 36.1 62.5 34.1 LM-Rev (scratch) 36.4 89.1 36.3 LM-All (scratch) 26.4 60.1 24.3 ILM (scratch) 23.1 49.5 26.3 LM 19.2 25.5 28.2 LM-Rev 26.6 45.0 34.8 LM-All 14.5 20.5 18.6 ILM 13.8 21.5 18.8 Table 7: N-gram infilling PPL of all models. STO ABS LYR LM (scratch) 32.3 57.2 34.8 LM-Rev (scratch) 31.6 100.0 36.7 LM-All (scratch) 12.6 51.8 12.5 ILM (scratch) 9.2 37.9 12.2 LM 17.1 23.0 28.7 LM-Rev 24.1 45.0 35.1 LM-All 7.5 15.8 9.5 ILM 5.4 14.2 8.5 Table 8: Word infilling PPL of all models. LM and LM-Rev and either outperforms or is comparable with LM-All while using less memory. E Details on human evaluation For human evaluation, we sampled 100 stories from the test set of the STORIES dataset. From each story, we masked out one sentence at a time, thereby resulting in 500 stories with masked sentences. Then we used these stories as context and tasked each model with infilling the masked sentence. We compared 8 models in total. In addition to the four models reported in Section 6 (BERT, SA, LM, and ILM), we included the models which are initialized from scratch (as opposed to initialized from the large-scale pre-trained checkpoint) for exhaustive comparison. Furthermore, to filter out spam, we used a control model which always generates “This sentence was generated by a computer.” Lastly, we included the original sentence from the dataset as a reference model (Human) to sanity check the max score is around 80%. Each annotator was shown 8 stories, one from each model, and was asked to identify one of the five sentences generated by machine (see Figure 4 for an example). Among the 100 collected responses, we filtered out 5 responses whose annotation for the control model was wrong. The quantitative and qualitative results can be found in Table 9 and Figure 5, respectively. All model outputs and responses of human evaluation can be found at https://github.com/chrisdonahue/ilm. Score (%) Control 0 BERT 20 SA 29 LM (scratch) 40 LM 41 ILM (scratch) 39 ILM 45 Human 78 Table 9: Human evaluation results. Identify one of the five sentences generated by machine. ○ Patty was excited about having her friends over. ○ She had been working hard preparing the food. ○ Patty knew her friends wanted pizza. ○ All of her friends arrived and were seated at the table. ○ Patty had a great time with her friends. Figure 4: Example of a task and instruction for human evaluation on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Example Story with Masked Sentence Lily always loved to read. She wondered sometimes, what it would be like to write a book? [blank] Lily did well in the course, and during it, wrote a short book. BERT SA LM ILM Human I held her hand and helped her sit. Of her, but she didn’t know her. She practiced reading a lot every week. Finally, in middle school, her teacher introduced her to writing that. She decided to take a course on fiction writing. BERT SA LM ILM Human Or rather, what the next job would be now. I was going out I was going to the beach. I put on about thirty sugar cubes. The issues are getting so many people crazy. I could never catch up and each week got worse. Example Story with Masked Sentence My old job kept asking too much of me. Every Wednesday there was a ton of new work. [blank] Eventually I got too far behind and had to quit. I will look for a new job. BERT SA LM ILM Human Today was the first concert that she had to see every where. She was going to go to the play. When she went on stage she smoothly walked right past the audience. When she got on stage the band was amazing. As soon as she got on the audience applauded. Example Story with Masked Sentence Yesterday was Kelly’s first concert. She was nervous to get on stage. [blank] Kelly was then happy. She couldn’t wait to do it again. Figure 5: Examples of sentence-level infills by different models.

论文的数据集自己通过给text加mask生产的?


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是的,根据这篇论文的第 3.2 节 “Training” 和第 4.1 节 “Mask Function” 的描述,论文中的数据集确实是通过给原始文本(text)人工添加 [blank] 掩码(mask)来生产的训练数据。

以下是论文中相关部分的摘录和解释:

  • 3.2 Training - “Given a corpus consisting of complete text examples, our framework first manufactures infilling examples and then trains an LM on these examples.”

    • 解释:这明确指出,他们不是使用预先带有空白的数据集,而是从完整的文本语料库开始,“制造”(manufactures)填充示例。
  • 3.2 Training - “To produce an infilling example for a given x, we first sample an x˜ from a stochastic function Mask(x) which randomly replaces some number of spans in x with [blank] tokens. Then, we concatenate together the spans which were replaced—separated by [answer] tokens—to form a training target y. Finally, we construct the complete infilling example by concatenating x˜, [sep], and y (see Figure 2 for a complete example).”

    • 解释
      • Mask(x) 是一个随机函数,它将原始完整文本 x 中的一些连续片段(spans)替换为 [blank] 标记,生成带有空白的文本
      • 被替换掉的那些片段(也就是 [blank] 应该填充的内容),它们之间用特殊的 [answer] 标记分隔,共同组成了训练的目标 y
      • 最终的训练输入是 (带空白的文本),一个 [sep](分隔符),以及 y(被掩码的原始内容)。
    • 例子(来自 Figure 1 和 2 的顶部)
      • 原始文本 x: “She ate leftover pasta for lunch.”
      • Mask(x) 产生 : “She ate [blank] for [blank].”
      • 被掩码的内容 y: “leftover pasta [answer] lunch [answer]”
      • 最终的训练示例: “She ate [blank] for [blank]. [sep] leftover pasta [answer] lunch [answer]”
  • 4.1 Mask Function - “We design a mask function which takes the entire document and selectively masks several span granularities: words, n-grams, sentences, paragraphs, and entire documents.”

    • 解释:他们设计了一个灵活的掩码函数,可以根据不同的粒度(词、n-gram、句子、段落、整个文档)来生成 [blank]
    • 他们还提到,掩码函数会以大约 15% 的概率掩码每个 token,这与 BERT 的掩码策略相似。

总结:

是的,论文作者通过设计和实现一个特定的“掩码函数”,对现有的完整文本语料库(例如 STORIES, ABSTRACTS, LYRICS)进行人工处理,随机地生成带有 [blank] 的输入 和对应的正确填充内容 y,从而构建了用于训练语言模型的“填空”数据集。这种方法称为 “infilling by language modeling (ILM)”


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A special case of infilling is language modeling: predicting text given preceding but not subsequent text.2 Language models are (1) capable of generat1Text infilling is a generalization of the cloze task (Taylor, 1953)—cloze historically refers to infilling individual words. 2 In this paper, language modeling always refers to ordinary LMs, i.e., “unidirectional,” “autoregressive,” or “left-to-right.”

文本处理任务是


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根据您提供的文本片段,该论文主要关注的文本处理任务是:文本填充(Text Infilling)

它将文本填充定义为:预测文本中缺失的、与前后文一致的连续片段(spans)。

文中还强调了:

  • 语言模型(Language Modeling)文本填充的一个特例:即只预测给定前文但没有给定后文的文本(也就是常见的“续写”任务,或称“自回归”语言模型)。
  • 文本填充是 完形填空任务(cloze task)泛化:传统的完形填空通常指填充单个词,而文本填充则可以填充任意长度的文本片段。

所以,核心任务是 Text Infilling


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卷积增强了之前处理的是双向依赖,现在变成了多向依赖,


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您提出的这个观点,即“卷积增强了之前处理的是双向依赖,现在变成了多向依赖”,听起来像是在描述模型从简单序列依赖复杂上下文依赖演进的过程。不过,在您提供的这篇关于文本填充(Text Infilling)的论文语境中,以及现代语言模型(如 GPT-2 和 BERT)的背景下,这个表述可能需要一些澄清和修正。

让我们分点来解释:

  1. 关于“卷积”在语言模型中的作用:

    • 在您提供的论文中,以及当前主流的大型语言模型(如 GPT-2 和 BERT)中,**注意力机制(Attention Mechanism)**是捕捉文本中长距离依赖关系的核心。卷积神经网络(CNN)在自然语言处理中也曾被用于特征提取(例如捕捉局部 N-gram 模式),但它通常不被认为是直接建模双向或多向依赖的主要手段。
    • BERT 和 GPT-2 都基于 Transformer 架构,其核心是自注意力(Self-Attention),而非卷积。所以,如果您的意思是关于这篇论文中的模型如何处理依赖,那么“卷积”不是主要机制
  2. “双向依赖”(Bidirectional Dependency)的精确含义:

    • 在论文中,“双向依赖”主要指的是像 BERT 这样的模型。BERT 使用的是双向注意力(Bidirectional Attention),这意味着它在预测或理解一个词时,可以同时“看到”这个词之前和之后的所有词。这种能力对于像完形填空(masked language modeling)这样的任务至关重要,因为它能全面理解上下文。
    • 论文提到,BERT 这种双向模型的问题在于,它通常限制于填充固定长度的空白,或者需要复杂的多步推理来处理可变长度的空白。
  3. “多向依赖”的可能解释以及 ILM 如何实现:

    • “多向依赖”并非一个标准的术语,但根据您的语境,它可能指的是超越简单左右顺序的、更复杂的、更全面的上下文依赖关系,例如:

      • 从空白处的两侧(前后文)同时获取信息。
      • 处理多个、可变长度的空白。
      • 理解空白与空白之间、空白与未掩码文本之间的复杂关联。
    • 您提供的论文(“Enabling Language Models to Fill in the Blanks”)中的 ILM (Infilling by Language Modeling) 框架正是为了让**单向的语言模型(如 GPT-2)**也能有效地处理这种“多向依赖”:

      • 输入重构是关键: ILM 的巧妙之处在于,它通过重新构造输入序列来欺骗单向语言模型。它将“带空白的文本 ()”和“被掩码的真实内容 (y)”通过一个特殊的分隔符 ([sep]) 拼接起来:x˜ [sep] y
      • 利用“过去”实现“双向”: 当单向语言模型生成 y 时,它能“看到” 的全部内容。而 中包含了空白之前和之后的未掩码文本。因此,通过这种输入格式,即使是“左到右”的 GPT-2 也能间接地利用到空白处的双向上下文信息。
      • 处理多个、可变长度的空白: y 可以是多个被 [answer] 标记分隔的空白内容,模型可以顺序生成它们。

总结:

在您提供的论文背景下,不是卷积增强了依赖,而是注意力机制(在 Transformer 架构中)捕获了依赖。

  • “双向依赖” 指的是像 BERT 那样,模型能够同时看到一个词的左右上下文。
  • ILM 框架则通过巧妙的输入重构,让原先只能处理“单向依赖”(左到右)的语言模型,也能够有效利用“双向”乃至处理多个空白所形成的更全面的上下文信息(可以理解为您所说的“多向依赖”),从而实现高质量的文本填充。

这种“多向依赖”的捕捉,主要依赖于 Transformer 的注意力机制以及 ILM 框架独特的数据格式化策略,而不是卷积。


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多向依赖,图片生成和识别的卷积核不就是处理了四周的依赖么?


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您说得非常对!当谈到图像处理时,卷积(Convolution)确实是处理多向依赖(或者说,局部空间依赖)的核心机制。我的上一条回复主要聚焦于您提供的文本填充论文所涉及的自然语言处理领域,在这个领域,Transformer 的自注意力机制通常被认为是捕捉多向(非局部)依赖的主要手段。

但是,当我们将讨论扩展到图像生成和识别领域时,您的观点是完全准确的

图像处理中的卷积核与多向依赖

在图像处理和计算机视觉中,尤其是卷积神经网络(CNN)中:

  1. 卷积核(Kernel / Filter):是一个小的矩阵,它在图像上“滑动”(进行卷积操作)。
  2. 局部感受野(Local Receptive Field):每个卷积核在图像上的一个特定位置进行操作时,它只“看”到图像的局部区域(由卷积核的大小决定)。
  3. 多向依赖(Multi-directional Dependency / Spatial Dependency):当卷积核处理一个像素点时,它不仅仅考虑这个像素点本身,还会同时考虑它周围(四周)的像素点
    • 例如,一个 3x3 的卷积核会同时考虑中心像素及其周围 8 个像素的信息。
    • 这个“四周”就体现了您所说的**“多向依赖”**:上、下、左、右、左上、左下、右上、右下等多个方向的邻近像素对当前像素的影响。
    • 通过堆叠多层卷积层,每个卷积层的输出(特征图)又会成为下一层卷积层的输入,这样,网络就能逐渐建立起更大的感受野,从而捕捉到图像中更远的、更抽象的多向空间依赖关系,例如物体形状、纹理等。

总结:

  • 在图像生成和识别领域: 卷积核处理四周(局部)多向依赖的强大工具。它通过在图像上滑动并聚合局部像素信息,逐步构建对图像的层级化理解。
  • 在您之前提供的文本填充论文(自然语言处理)领域: 自注意力机制(而不是卷积)是主要用于处理序列中长距离非局部依赖的机制,包括双向依赖。

所以,您的观察非常敏锐,它指出了根据不同的数据类型(图像 vs. 文本)和任务,捕获“多向依赖”的技术手段是不同的。在图像中,卷积是关键;在现代 NLP 中,注意力是核心。


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看看这个这是什么软件?


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根据您提供的图片,这个软件是 FL Studio

判断依据:

  1. 文件扩展名: 屏幕截图中软件界面的标题栏显示了项目文件名为 Project_22.flp.flpFL Studio 软件的专属项目文件扩展名。
  2. 界面风格: 整个界面的布局,包括左侧的钢琴卷帘(Piano Roll)视图、下方的通道机架(Channel Rack)/混音器(Mixer)区域,以及顶部的传输控制和工具栏,都与 FL Studio 的经典界面设计高度吻合。
  3. 插件显示: 在通道机架中可以看到 Kontakt 7SWAM Violin 3 等插件,这些都是常见的音乐制作插件,可以在 FL Studio 中加载和使用。

结合这些信息,可以确定图中的软件是 FL Studio,一个流行的数字音频工作站(DAW)软件,主要用于音乐创作、编曲和制作。


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FL Studio 是谁搞出来的,干什么用的,历史,有哪些开源替代品?


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好的,我来为您详细介绍一下 FL Studio。

FL Studio:谁搞出来的?干什么用的?历史?有哪些开源替代品?

1. 谁搞出来的?

FL Studio 是由一家比利时软件公司 Image-Line 开发的。其核心开发者和最初的编程者是 Didier Dambrin,他在1997年创建了最初的版本。

2. 干什么用的?

FL Studio 是一款 **数字音频工作站(Digital Audio Workstation,简称 DAW)**软件。它是一个功能齐全的音乐制作环境,主要用于:

  • 音乐创作和编曲: 用户可以在其中创作旋律、和弦、节奏,并组织成完整的歌曲结构。
  • 制作节拍和音序: 它特别擅长基于模式(pattern-based)的音序器,非常适合制作电子音乐、嘻哈和舞曲等风格的节拍。
  • 音频录制: 可以录制人声、乐器等外部音频。
  • 混音和母带处理: 提供强大的混音台、效果器和自动化功能,用于调整音量、音色、空间感等,并进行最终的母带处理,使音乐达到发行标准。
  • 音色设计: 内置了多种合成器、采样器和效果器,用户可以创造出各种独特的音色。
  • 支持插件: 广泛支持 VST/AU 等第三方插件,极大地扩展了其功能和音色库。

简而言之,FL Studio 就是一个让个人或团队能从零开始创作、编排、录制、混音并完成一首歌曲的综合性工具。

3. 历史

FL Studio 的历史可以追溯到 1997年12月,当时它的名字叫做 FruityLoops 1.0

  • 起源(FruityLoops 时代): 最初,FruityLoops 只是一个相对简单的 MIDI 音序器和鼓机(drum machine),主要侧重于基于循环(loop-based)和模式(pattern-based)的音乐创作,非常直观易用。它的界面和工作流程在当时独树一帜,迅速吸引了一批电子音乐和嘻哈爱好者。
  • 更名(FL Studio 时代):2003年,为了摆脱“水果”这个比较随意的名字,并使其显得更专业,Image-Line 将其正式更名为 FL Studio
  • 功能演进: 随着时间的推移,FL Studio 不断迭代更新,从一个简单的音序器发展成为一个功能强大的综合性 DAW。它逐步加入了专业的音频录制功能、更强大的混音器、自动化控制、更复杂的编曲工具以及对各种插件的全面支持。
  • 独特卖点: FL Studio 最著名的营销策略之一是其 **“Lifetime Free Updates”(终身免费更新)**政策。这意味着用户一旦购买了某个版本,就可以终身免费获得后续所有主要版本的更新,这在商业软件领域非常罕见,也为其赢得了大量忠实用户。
  • 影响力: FL Studio 在电子舞曲(EDM)、嘻哈(Hip-Hop)、陷阱音乐(Trap)等流派中拥有极高的普及率和影响力,许多知名制作人都是其用户。它的视觉化和模式化的工作流程尤其受到 beatmaker 和电子音乐人的青睐。

4. 有哪些开源替代品?

虽然 FL Studio 是一款商业软件,但在开源世界中也有一些功能相对完善的数字音频工作站(DAW)或音乐制作工具,可以作为其替代品,尽管它们在功能完善度、用户界面和社区支持上可能有所差异:

  1. LMMS (Linux MultiMedia Studio):

    • 特点: 这是与 FL Studio 工作流最相似的开源 DAW,尤其是其基于模式的音序器和钢琴卷帘。它包含了合成器、采样器、鼓机和各种效果器。
    • 优势: 免费、开源、跨平台(Windows, macOS, Linux),适合电子音乐和 beatmaking。
    • 劣势: 音频录制功能相对较弱,界面可能不如商业软件精美,内置音色和插件数量有限。
  2. Ardour:

    • 特点: Ardour 是一款非常强大的开源 DAW,更接近传统录音棚的工作流程。它在多轨录音、混音和母带处理方面表现出色,支持各种专业音频硬件和插件。
    • 优势: 专业的音频处理能力,无限的音轨和总线,适用于乐队录音、播客制作等。
    • 劣势: MIDI 功能相对较弱,工作流对于习惯 FL Studio 模式的用户来说可能不那么直观,学习曲线较陡峭。
  3. Qtractor:

    • 特点: 专为 Linux 设计的 DAW,但功能非常全面,包括多轨音频和 MIDI 录制、音序、混音。
    • 优势: 轻量级、高效,对于 Linux 用户来说是一个不错的选择。
    • 劣势: 主要是 Linux 平台,对其他操作系统的支持有限,界面和用户体验可能不如主流商业 DAW。
  4. Hydrogen:

    • 特点: 开源的鼓机软件,专注于节拍创作和鼓点编排。
    • 优势: 直观易用,用于制作高质量的鼓点部分。
    • 劣势: 并非一个完整的 DAW,主要用于鼓点创作,需要与其他 DAW 配合使用。

这些开源替代品各有侧重,虽然它们可能无法完全替代 FL Studio 的所有功能和独特的生态系统,但对于预算有限或偏好开源软件的用户来说,它们提供了可行的音乐创作途径。


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ACL Logo ACL Anthology News(current) FAQ(current) Corrections(current) Submissions(current) Github Search… A-TIP: Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model Dongyuan Li, Jingyi You, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura

Abstract Text infilling aims to restore incomplete texts by filling in blanks, which has attracted more attention recently because of its wide application in ancient text restoration and text rewriting. However, attribute- aware text infilling is yet to be explored, and existing methods seldom focus on the infilling length of each blank or the number/location of blanks. In this paper, we propose an Attribute-aware Text Infilling method via a Pre-trained language model (A-TIP), which contains a text infilling component and a plug- and-play discriminator. Specifically, we first design a unified text infilling component with modified attention mechanisms and intra- and inter-blank positional encoding to better perceive the number of blanks and the infilling length for each blank. Then, we propose a plug-and-play discriminator to guide generation towards the direction of improving attribute relevance without decreasing text fluency. Finally, automatic and human evaluations on three open-source datasets indicate that A-TIP achieves state-of- the-art performance compared with all baselines. Anthology ID: 2022.coling-1.511 Volume: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics Month: October Year: 2022 Address: Gyeongju, Republic of Korea Editors: Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na Venue: COLING SIG: Publisher: International Committee on Computational Linguistics Note: Pages: 5857–5869 Language: URL: https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.511/ DOI: Bibkey: Cite (ACL): Dongyuan Li, Jingyi You, Kotaro Funakoshi, and Manabu Okumura. 2022. A-TIP: Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 5857–5869, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics. Cite (Informal): A-TIP: Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model (Li et al., COLING 2022) Copy Citation:

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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 5857–5869 October 12–17, 2022. 5857 A-TIP: Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model Dongyuan Li, Jingyi You, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura Tokyo Institute of Technology {lidy,youjy,funakoshi,oku}@lr.pi.titech.ac.jp Abstract Text infilling aims to restore incomplete texts by filling in blanks, which has attracted more attention recently because of its wide application in ancient text restoration and text rewriting. However, attribute-aware text infilling is yet to be explored, and existing methods seldom focus on the infilling length of each blank or the number/location of blanks. In this paper, we propose an Attribute-aware Text Infilling method via a Pre-trained language model (ATIP), which contains a text infilling component and a plug-and-play discriminator. Specifically, we first design a unified text infilling component with modified attention mechanisms and intra- and inter-blank positional encoding to better perceive the number of blanks and the infilling length for each blank. Then, we propose a plug-and-play discriminator to guide generation towards the direction of improving attribute relevance without decreasing text fluency. Finally, automatic and human evaluations on three open-source datasets indicate that ATIP achieves state-of-the-art performance compared with all baselines. 1 Introduction Originating from Cloze tests (Taylor, 1953), text infilling aims to fill in missing blanks in a sentence or paragraph by making use of the preceding and subsequent texts. For example, given two infilling tasks E1 and E2 in Fig.1, text infilling models are supposed to provide fine-grained control over the location of any number of blanks and infill a variable number of missing tokens for each blank. Text infilling has been gaining increasing attention in a number of prevailing research fields, including ancient text restoration (Lazar et al., 2021), text editing and rewriting (Su et al., 2021), and conversation generation (Ou et al., 2021). However, current text infilling methods are based only on bidirectional semantic constraints (Ou et al., 2021), and other abundant attribute-based E1: Sentiment Infilling SST-5 Dataset Watching these [Mask] is both [Mask] and [Mask]. Roberta BLK Watching these kids is both funny and heartbreaking too. Watching these teams is both inspiring and the action. A-TIP with Positive Relevance Infilling. Attribute set: c = {Positive} Watching these performances is both inspiring and artfully mesmerizing. A-TIP with Negative Relevance Infilling. Attribute set: c = {Negative} Watching these shows is both boring and disgusting me much. E2: Expert Knowledge Infilling Abstract Dataset [Mask] of [Mask] and [Mask] of their [Mask]. TIGS Systems of and control and capability of their distance. BERT One of her friends and one of their friends. A-TIP with Computer Science Relevance Infilling. Attribute set: c = {CS} Analysis of data sources and functions of their programs. A-TIP with Math Relevance Infilling. Attribute set: c = {Math} Introduction of randomness matrices and decomposition of their method. Figure 1: A-TIP can generate more fluent, diverse and attribute relevant infilling content in two examples. constraints, e.g., sentiment and topics, remain to be studied. In reality, infilling attribute-aware content can better satisfy human needs and introduce more diversity. For instance, as shown in Fig.1, A-TIP can fill in blanks under the guidance of an attribute to satisfy sentiment or expert knowledge infilling, while current text infilling models mainly focus on fluency, which leads to meaningless and monotonous infilling contents (Sun et al., 2021). Designing a simple but efficient attribute-aware text infilling model is a challenging task. First, to achieve attribute awareness, simply modifying a text infilling model architecture or finetuning with attribute-specific data will destroy the model’s ability to infill blanks or require a significant cost for re-training (Dathathri et al., 2020). Second, if the model infills blanks towards the direction of improving text attributes, avoiding ill-formedness between infilling content and its bidirectional context becomes a challenge. For instance, “The movie interesting and perfect us” with _ as blanks. Finally, current methods lack fine-grained control over automatic determination of the number/location of blanks or the infilling length for each blank. For example, Markov assumption-based models (Liu et al., 2019; Zaidi 5858 et al., 2020) hardly adapt to variable infilling lengths, while masked language model (MLM)- based methods (Devlin et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2020) are incapable of generating more than one word per blank, and generative LM-based methods (Donahue et al., 2020) cannot guarantee the output will match the number of missing blanks in the input. To circumvent the above dilemma, in this paper, we propose an Attribute-aware Text Infilling method based on a Pre-trained LM (A-TIP), in which a plug-and-play discriminator provides finegrained control over bidirectional well-formed fluency and attribute relevance.1 Specifically, 1) we first propose a general text filling framework that fine-tunes a standard LM with many artificiallymasked examples in an auto-regressive manner. Moreover, to ensure that the number of infilling contents equals the number of blanks, we design a new attention mechanism, where unmasked tokens can attend to each other but masked tokens can attend only to the preceding context (Fig.2 (A)). We also adopt two-level positional encoding to combine inter- and intra-blank positional information to automatically learn the length of blanks. 2) To achieve attribute-aware generation without modifying LM’s architecture or re-training, we propose a plug-and-play discriminator that shifts the output distribution of the text infilling model towards the semantic space of given guide attributes. We also design two additional strategies to ensure the infilling content is well-formed with its bidirectional context without decreasing attribute relevance. The main contributions are summarized as follows: • We propose a unified text infilling model that adopts a new attention mechanism and two-level positional encoding to enable our model to learn the number/location of blanks and infilling length for each blank automatically. • To the best of our knowledge, A-TIP is the first attribute-aware text infilling model that does not require any modification of the language model’s architecture or re-training on specific attributed datasets. Further, our plug-and-play discriminator can provide fine-grained control over fluency and attribute relevance, and can be applied to any transformer decoder-based text infilling model. • The experimental results on three open datasets show that A-TIP achieves state-of-the-art performance compared with all baselines. 1 Sentences with higher accuracy of attribute-based classification are said to have higher attribute relevance (Dathathri et al., 2020). 2 Related Work In this section, we briefly review the most relevant studies to our work on pre-trained LMs, text infilling, and constrained text generation. 2.1 Pre-trained Language Models Pre-trained LMs have made significant improvements in many natural language processing tasks by adopting self-supervised learning with abundant web texts (Chay-intr et al., 2021; You et al., 2022). They can be classified into three types. The first uses an auto-encoding model. For example, BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) and its variations are pre-trained as masked LMs to obtain bidirectional contextualized word representations. The second adopts an encoder-decoder architecture, which is pre-trained for seq2seq tasks, such as MASS (Song et al., 2019) and T5 (Raffel et al., 2020). The third adopts an auto-regressive model, which follows a left-to-right manner for text generation, such as GPT-2 (Radford et al., 2019) and XLNet (Yang et al., 2019). While we adopt GPT-2 as the LM in this paper, our method can be easily migrated to any type of pre-trained LMs. 2.2 Text Infilling Approaches Current text infilling algorithms can be classified into four categories. Generative adversarial networks (GAN)-based methods train GANs to ensure that the generator can generate highly reliable infilling content to fool the discriminator (Guo et al., 2018; Fedus et al., 2018). Intricate inference-based methods adopt dynamic programming or gradient search to find infilling content that has a high likelihood within its surrounding context (Liu et al., 2019; Zaidi et al., 2020). Masked LM-based methods generate infilling content on the basis of its bidirectional contextual word embedding (Devlin et al., 2019; Shen et al., 2020). LM-based methods fine-tune off-the-shelf LMs in an auto-regressive manner, and a number of methods change the input format by putting an infilling answer after the masked input (Donahue et al., 2020), while others do not change the input format (Zhu et al., 2019). Unlike the aforementioned methods, we solve a more complex task: attribute-aware text infilling. 2.3 Constrained Text Generation Traditional controlled generation models involve either fine-tuning existing models (He, 2021) or training conditional generative models (Keskar et al., 5859 2019). Dathathri et al. (2020) proposed a plugand-play controlled generation model (PPLM), which does not modify or re-train the parameters of the original LM but can achieve comparable performance to fine-tuning methods. For example, PPCM (Madotto et al., 2020) updates the hidden state towards the direction of attribute enhancement to generate attribute-aware conversations. Pascual et al. (2021) designed a complex plug-and-play architecture to ensure that the generated content contains specific keywords. While GeDi (Krause et al., 2021) and its extension (Lin and Riedl, 2021) can accelerate the decoding process of PPLM, they assume the model is trained by large-scale labeled datasets, which is unrealizable for text infilling. Unlike the previous work, we should also consider the generated infilling content is well-formed with its corresponding bidirectional context, ensuring PPLM is suitable for text infilling. 3 Preliminaries To clarify our method, we first introduce some essential background knowledge and then define the task of attribute-aware text infilling. Language Models reveal the degree of how much a sentence (a sequence of words) is likely to be a realistic sequence of a human language. Formally, let W be the vocabulary set and w1:n = {w1, . . . , wn} is a sentence with n words, where wi ∈ W. An LM measures the joint probability by decomposing the sequence one by one: p(w1:n) = Yn i=1 p(wi |w<i), (1) where w<i = {w1, . . . , wi−1}. Constrained Text Generation: Given k explicit constraints c = {c1, . . . , ck}, our goal is to generate a sentence w that maximizes the conditional probability p(w|c): p(w|c) = Yn i=1 p(wi |w<i, c). (2) Task Definition: Attribute-aware text infilling is to take incomplete text we , containing one or more missing blanks, and return completed text w under the constraints of c. As in Fig.1, several attributes are listed in c. Specifically, let [Mask] be a placeholder for a contiguous sequence of one or more missing tokens. Then, we is a sequence of tokens in which a number of them are [Mask]. To map we to w, constrained with attribute c, an infilling strategy must specify both how many and which tokens to generate for each [Mask]. Note that there may be many logical w for a given we . Hence, we are interested in learning a distribution p(w|we , c). Specifically, in accordance with Bayes’ theorem, we formulate the probability of predicting the token wi for its corresponding [Mask] as: p(wi |w<i, c) ∝ p(wi |w<i) · p(c|w1:i), (3) where p(wi |w<i, c) can be decomposed into two parts that deal with the LM for p(wi |w<i) and the discriminator for p(c|w1:i). In Section 4, we introduce these two parts in detail. We assume that any two constraints are independent: p(c|w1:i) = Qk j=1 p(cj |w1:i). 4 Methodology The overall framework of A-TIP is shown in Fig.2. A-TIP contains two components: a text infilling model and a plug-and-play attribute-aware controller. 4.1 Text Infilling Model Given a corpus consisting of complete text examples, we first create infilling examples and then train the GPT-2 with these examples. Specifically, given an input example w1:n with n tokens, we first randomly replace m non-overlapping word spans S = {s1, . . . , sm} in w with [Mask] tokens to form a corrupted text we . We also assume each span si contains ni consecutive tokens [s(i,1), . . . , s(i,ni) ]. Then, we concatenate the spans S separated by [Answer] tokens to form a training target Se = {[Answer], s(1,1), . . . , s(1,n1) , [Answer], . . . , [Answer], s(m,1), . . . , s(m,nm) }. Finally, we construct a complete infilling example by concatenating we and Se (see Token Embedding in Fig.2). There are two advantages of designing such an input format. First, we add only 2m additional tokens (one [Mask] and one [Answer] per blank as shown in Fig.2 “Token Embedding” add 4 tokens for two spans). Although memory usage for GPT-2 grows quadratically with sequence length, as m is small, additional training time complexity will be minimal. Second, we can apply two different attention strategies for the corrupted text we and training target text Se. As shown in Fig.2 (A), while tokens in the corrupted text have attentions on all other tokens in we , tokens in the training target can have attentions only on its previous tokens. By 5860 Transformer Block L Unperturbed �� Distribution �� �� [�] �� �� [�] [�] [�] �� � + � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Randomly Masked �� �� �� �� �� �� Inter Position Intra Position Token Embedding Input Transformer Block 1 Transformer Block 2 Transformer Block L -1 Language Model �� �(�) ∆�! Hidden continuous space Search direction to maximize �(�|�) Discriminator Transformer Block L �%(�) Perturbed Distribution Min KL Unmodified Word Modified Word ��+∆�� Hidden State Gain from Attribute �� �� [�] [�] �� Threshold Layer �� [�] �� �� [�] �� [�] [�] �� �� �� [�]�� ��[�][�] ��[�]�� �� Self-Attention Mechanism (A) (B) [M] = [Mask] [A] = [Answer] Figure 2: Model overview. We first fine-tune an off-the-shelf GPT-2 by adopting a new attention mechanism and two-level positional encoding to infill blanks. Then, we design a plug-and-play discriminator to guide generation in the direction of improving attribute relevance. We also adopt KL divergence and a threshold-based strategy to provide fine-grained control over fluency and attribute relevance. adopting such an attention mechanism, when ATIP infills the i-th blank si , it will focus on the bidirectional context of the i-th blank, which can ensure the well-formedness and rationality of the whole sentence. Current methods hardly perceive the number/location and infilling length for each blank. We design two-level positional encoding, which can provide fine-grained control over them. Specifically, each token is encoded with two position IDs. The first position ID represents the inter-position in the corrupted text we and the second position ID represents the intra-position in each span. Finally, A-TIP trains the GPT-2 with the infilling examples in an auto-regressive manner. When predicting missing tokens in each blank, A-TIP has access to the corrupted text we and the previously predicted blanks. Formally, the probability of generating the i-th blank si is pθ(si |we , s<i) = Yni j=1 p(si,j |we , s<i, si,<j ), (4) where θ are parameters for the GPT-2, ni represents the number of tokens in si , si,j represents the jth token in the span si , s<i represents previously predicted blanks, and si,<j = {si,1, · · · , si,j−1}. 4.2 Plug-and-play Attribute-aware Controller To clarify our approach, we follow the notation of Dathathri et al. (2020) and define the GPT-2 decoding process (Eq.(4)) in a recursive manner. Specifically, we first define Ht , that contains all historical key-value pairs, i.e., Ht = [(K (1) t , V (1) t ), . . . ,(K (l) t , V (l) t )], where (K (l) t , V (l) t ) stores all key-value pairs of t tokens in the l-th layer. Then, we formally define the recurrent decoding process to generate the i-th token as: oi , Hi = GPT-2(w<i, Hi−1), (5) where oi is the hidden state of the input at i-th time-step. Then, we sample the i-th generated token from the following distribution by beam search (Hokamp and Liu, 2017): wi ∼ pi = Softmax(Woi), (6) where W is a parameter matrix that maps the hidden state oi to a vector of the vocabulary size. In accordance with Bayes’ theorem in Eq.(3), we have p(wi |w<i, c) ∝ p(wi |w<i) · p(c|w1:i). To achieve attribute-aware text infilling, when we infill the i-th blank, we shift history matrix Hi−1 towards the direction of the sum of two gradients: 1) To maximize the log-likelihood of the attribute c under the conditional attribute model p(c|w1:i) and 2) To ensure high fluency of text infilling p(wt |w<i). We update only Hi−1 and fix other model parameters unchanged since next-token prediction depends only on the past key-value pairs via Hi−1. Thus, we propose to gradually update Hi−1 to guide future generation in the desired direction. Let ∆Hi−1 be the update to Hi−1 to shift the generation infilling content towards the desired attribute direction c. At the beginning of the generation, ∆Hi−1 is initialized to zero, and we can obtain the unmodified distribution as pi . Then, we update ∆Hi−1 with gradients from the attribute model that measures the extent to which the generated text possesses the desired attribute. Following Dathathri et al. (2020), we rewrite p(c|w1:i) as Pb = p(c|Hi−1 + ∆Hi−1) and define the gradient up- 5861 date for ∆Hi−1 as ∆Hi−1 ← ∆Hi−1 + α ∇∆Hi−1P b ∥∇∆Hi−1P b∥ γ , (7) where α is the learning rate and γ is the scaling coefficient for the normalization term to control the relevance of the attribute. We repeat Eq.(7) less than 10 times to generate attribute-aware tokens. Subsequently, the new He i−1 = Hi−1 + ∆Hi−1 is computed, and a new token is generated using oei , Hi = GPT-2(w<i, He i−1). The described optimization process is repeated for every token in the generated sequence. Compared with the unconditional LM-based text generation task, this process will not take much time (see detail in experiments). Although we can generate attribute-aware infilling content, we can easily generate low-quality, repetitive, and low-fluency text. Thus, we add two additional components to ensure the fluency and quality of generated infilling content with its bidirectional context. First, we minimize the KL divergence between the unmodified distribution pi and modified distribution pei for the i-th token: min DKL(pei || pi). (8) Our objective function can be reformulated as Loss = p(c|He i−1) + λDKL(pei || pi), (9) where λ is a parameter to balance the fluency and attribute relevance. Then, we update ∆Hi−1 as: ∆Hi−1 ← ∆Hi−1 + α ∂∆Hi−1Loss ∥∂∆Hi−1Loss∥ γ . (10) Intuitively, we can generally find many words that have different levels of correlations with the specific attribute (Mohammad, 2018). For example, {perfect, good, bad, like} can mainly determine the sentiment of a sentence. Thus, we define Gain from the attribute to determine whether to change a generated word. As shown in Fig.2, two candidate words are sampled from the unmodified distribution (before back propagation) and modified distribution (after back propagation), respectively. Gain between two candidate words in the conditional model can be formulated as Gain = p(c|w<i, wei) − p(c|w<i, wi), (11) where wei and wi are samples from the modified and unmodified distributions, respectively. To better control the relevance of the attribute, we define a threshold δ to determine whether to generate a word from the modified distribution. Specifically, Gain >δ represents that the word generated from the modified distribution can have a relatively remarkable effect on attributes. Otherwise, if the discriminator does not guide well at certain steps (Gain <δ), we select the word generated from the unmodified distribution to maintain the fluency to be the same as the original unconditional text infilling model to the greatest extent. Discriminator Construction: As shown in Fig.2 (B), for simplicity, we train a linear classifier f as a discriminator with annotated datasets, indicating a sentence and label pair as (w, y). Specifically, for each sentence w of length t, we compute the set of hidden states o = {o1, . . . , ot} from the GPT-2. Then, we compute the mean of o as o¯ and train f using the cross-entropy between the true label distribution y and predicted label distribution f(o¯). The number of parameters in this layer is (embedding dimension × number of attributes

  • number of attributes), which is negligible compared with the number of parameters in the text infilling model itself. 5 Experimentation As shown in Table 1, we evaluated the proposed methods on three tasks to demonstrate that our framework is not custom tailored to a single domain: sentiment-aware, domain knowledge-aware, and topic-aware text infilling. We also show a case study for these tasks. We determined whether ATIP can generate infilling text that satisfies the desired attribute and whether it can infill high-quality text in blanks by using both automated methods and human annotators. Dataset Examples Words Attributes SST-5 11,855 215,154 5 Abstracts 200K 30M 8 ROCStories 100K 5M 13 Table 1: Descriptive statistics of three datasets. 5.1 Experimental Settings Datasets In addition to using the datasets in Table 1 to train our text infilling model, we also adopted sentiment labels in SST-5 (Pang and Lee,
  1. for sentiment-aware text infilling, research 5862 Perplexity Accuracy 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 0.20 0.25 0.30 0.35 0.40 0.45 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% Mask Rate Mask Rate (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Figure 3: Based on the validation data of SST-5, we evaluated the parameter effect for Perplexity (A), Dist1 (B), and Accuracy (C). We draw the effect of mask rate on performance of text infilling for Perplexity (D) and Accuracy (E). area labels in Abstracts (Donahue et al., 2020) for domain knowledge-aware text infilling, and topic labels in ROCStories (Mostafazadeh et al., 2016) for topic-aware text infilling. For the datasets with attribute labels like SST-5 and Abstracts, we can directly use their labels to train our plug-and-play discriminator. However, considering that most datasets do not have attribute labels, we adopted COMBINETM (Bianchi et al., 2021) to detect attributes for them (details in Appendix A). For example, for ROCStories, we can detect thirteen attributes and prove that A-TIP can generate a relevant topic in human evaluation (Table 3). We split the datasets into 80%/10%/10% as training/validation/test data, respectively. Following TIGS (Liu et al., 2019) and BLM (Shen et al., 2020), we randomly masked r% tokens in each document. To ensure that all experiments are performed on the same data, we removed infilling examples that exceed our training sequence length of 256 tokens. Evaluation Metrics In automated evaluation, perplexity is a measure for fluency in open-domain text generation.2 We measured it using GPT-2. The diversity of text was measured using the number 2Overlap-based metrics such as BLEU scores (Papineni et al., 2002) are not appropriate for evaluating infilling as there are many realistic infills that have no word-level overlap with the original. of distinct n-grams (normalized by text length) as in Li et al. (2016). We reported Dist1, Dist2, and Dist3 scores for the distinct 1, 2, 3-grams. Following Dathathri et al. (2020), we used an external classifier to evaluate Accuracy (macro-average Fscore) for sentence attribute labels. We evaluated the attribute control for sentiment (SST-5) with an external sentiment classifier with XLNet (Yang et al., 2019), which was trained with the IMDB dataset. We chose a BERT-based classifier (Lopes et al., 2021) for the Abstracts dataset. The t-test was used to evaluate the significant performance difference between two approaches (Yang and Liu,
  2. for both automated and human evaluations. Baselines We compared A-TIP with six baselines that can be classified in four classes (Section 2.2):
  3. Inference-based: We trained TIGS (Liu et al., 2019), an RNN-based seq2seq model. At inference time, we iteratively searched tokens in continuous space and projected their vectors to real words. 2) GAN-based: We trained the generator of MaskGan (Fedus et al., 2018) on PLM with a seq2seq architecture. The discriminator can make word distributions of the generator closer to those of the real word distribution. 3) Masked LM-based: We used representations of blanks as seeds to fine-tune BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) and Roberta (Liu et al., 2020). At inference time, 5863 Datasets SST-5 Abstracts ROCStories Metrics PPL Dist1 Dist2 Dist3 ACC PPL Dist1 Dist2 Dist3 ACC PPL Dist1 Dist2 Dist3 TIGS 73.23 0.475 0.424 0.425 0.237 49.70 0.659 0.657 0.644 0.453 63.30 0.672 0.675 0.691 MaskGan 68.83 0.385 0.758 0.728 0.288 48.82 0.652 0.662 0.642 0.494 63.32 0.677 0.671 0.701 BERT 51.76 0.773 0.732 0.732 0.302 28.86 0.683 0.656 0.624 0.508 64.16 0.673 0.636 0.560 Roberta 56.34 0.392 0.745 0.745 0.291 26.22 0.710 0.710 0.700 0.528 42.96 0.666 0.659 0.540 BLM 58.90 0.548 0.329 0.345 0.257 50.34 0.512 0.431 0.356 0.568 45.69 0.591 0.594 0.614 ILM 48.14 0.805 0.792 0.801 0.305 21.30 0.710 0.710 0.706 0.634 37.53 0.678 0.692 0.709 A-TIP/Dis 40.26 0.789 0.765 0.742 0.301 18.82 0.708 0.708 0.698 0.614 30.35 0.662 0.653 0.688 A-TIP/KL 51.22 0.797 0.788 0.782 0.421 28.97 0.711 0.711 0.706 0.752 47.35 0.685 0.693 0.718 A-TIP 42.21† 0.805† 0.807† 0.808† 0.386† 20.36† 0.711† 0.711† 0.707† 0.694† 32.13† 0.685† 0.693† 0.721† Table 2: Overall performance comparison. PPL is perplexity, Dist scores measure divergence, and ACC is classification accuracy. † shows our results significantly surpass all baselines using t-test with p <0.005. Underlines mean our ablation algorithm can achieve better results than A-TIP for a metric. blanks are infilled one after another and are conditioned on the previous generation. We trained BLM (Shen et al., 2020) with a seq2seq architecture, where the encoder module is a transformer (base) and the decoder process adopts beam search.
  4. LM-based: We trained ILM (Donahue et al.,
  5. by fine-tuning GPT-2 to output a full document from a masked input. Note that it may have invalid outputs that do not match the input format. Implementation Details In our experiments, we set the learning rate α = 1e − 4 and the scaling coefficient γ = 0.5 for Eq. (10). Sequence representations were obtained by the GPT-2 module (12 layers, 12 heads, nembd = 768, nctx = 1024, batch size = 24). We applied the Adam (Kingma and Ba, 2015) optimizer with an initial learning rate of 1e-4, and the weight decay and dropout were turned based on the loss on the validation data. Our discriminator has a linear layer on the head of GPT2. For a fair comparison, we followed the default parameter settings of the baselines and repeated all experiments 10 times to report the average accuracy. The unpaired t-test was used to evaluate the significant difference between any two approaches as multiple comparisons (details in Appendix B) for both automated and human evaluations. We trained models with early stopping. Following Dathathri et al. (2020), we evaluated the attribute control for sentiment with an external sentiment classifier. Parameter Sensitivity A-TIP uses two hyperparameters. λ dominates the attribute relevance of generated text and δ can control the fluency of infilling content. We analyzed the parameter sensitivity on all three validation data and selected the validation data of SST-5 as an example to determine the parameter sensitivity of A-TIP. As shown in Figs.3 (A-C), we observed how λ and δ affect the performance of A-TIP by varying λ from 0.2 to 0.6 in 0.1 intervals and δ from 0.008 to 0.012 in 0.001 intervals. The results indicated that A-TIP obtain the best performance when λ ∈ [0.4, 0.5] and δ ∈ [0.010, 0.011]. The reason why these parameters can affect the results is that when λ < 0.4, the attribute relevance becomes stronger and the fluency gets destroyed. λ > 0.5 weakens both the attribute relevance and text diversity. When δ < 0.01, A-TIP tends to preserve modified words, which leads to low fluency. When δ > 0.012, A-TIP preserves the original unmodified words, which causes low attribute relevance and diversity of text. To achieve a balanced performance, we set λ=0.4 and δ=0.01 on all datasets in our experiments. Considering that the mask rate r is also a hyperparameter, we analyzed its effect on the results by varying it from 10% to 70%. We found the same trend on all datasets and took SST-5 as an example. As shown in Fig.3 (D), the fluency decreased when r varies from 10% to 40% because infilling content may be well-formed with its bidirectional context. As r increased from 40% to 70%, the fluency of text mainly depends on the baselines’ original generation ability, which is stable. Fig.3 (E) shows that when r increases, the baselines cannot recover the attributes of infilling content well. However, A-TIP can generate attribute-aware text to improve the classification accuracy. All baselines can obtain stable fluency and classification accuracy when r = 50%, we fixed r= 50% to show numerical experimental results in the later experiments. 5864 Dataset SST-5 Abstracts ROCStories Metrics Fluency Attri-Rele Fluency Attri-Rele Fluency Attri-Rele TIGS 4.076 4.008 4.072 3.920 4.080 3.960 MaskGan 3.982 3.892 3.962 3.921 4.002 3.861 BERT 4.320 4.196 4.180 4.120 4.076 3.988 Roberta 4.168 4.132 4.068 3.892 4.016 4.032 BLM 4.084 3.956 3.856 3.968 4.072 3.992 ILM 4.236 4.076 4.104 3.964 4.048 3.992 A-TIP 4.476† 4.320† 4.396† 4.296† 4.452† 4.348† Table 3: Human evaluation on three datasets. † indicates the results significantly surpass others. 5.2 Automated Evaluation We evaluated the performance of A-TIP on attribute-aware text infilling by measuring PPL, Dist1, Dist2, Dist3, and ACC on the test data. Table 2 shows, A-TIP outperformed other baselines, indicating that our proposed framework can take advantage of the bidirectional context and attribute information. Additionally, ILM can achieve good results on PPL because it also adopts GPT-2 for text infilling. However, compared to one-layer positional encoding and auto-regression attention mechanism in ILM, A-Tip/Dis (A-Tip without discriminator) achieves better fluency (PPL) because it adopts the modifies attention mechanism (Fig.2 (A)) to effectively learn the length for each blank, and focus on the number/location of blanks by twolevel positional encoding (intra- and inter-blank). A-TIP obtained more accurate sentence attributes than other baselines, which demonstrates A-TIP can generate text that satisfies the desired attribute. While the accuracy was improved by 8% compared with the baselines, we observed ILM and BERT also yield high classification accuracy. This is because we randomly masked 50% of tokens in the original input without considering whether the token has a specific attribute. We did not generally mask attribute relevant tokens, that helps the sentence maintain its original attribute. If all attribute relevant tokens are masked, we can obtain better results. For a fair comparison, we randomly masked tokens instead of masking specific tokens. 5.3 Ablation Study To verify the effect of each component in A-TIP, we conducted an ablation study. In specific, A-TIP/Dis does not include the plug-and-play discriminator, and the text infilling part remains unchanged. ATIP/KL does not include the KL loss and thresholdbased strategy. Table 2 shows A-TIP/Dis can improve text fluency while reducing attribute relevance. A-TIP/KL increases attribute relevance and decreases text fluency. Since the discriminator can guide generation towards the attribute-aware direction, while losing the fluency to a certain extent. By incorporating KL and a threshold, A-TIP achieves a better balanced performance. 5.4 Human Evaluation We considered two types of human annotation: fluency and attribute relevance (Attri-Rele). Annotators were asked to evaluate the fluency/attribute relevance of each individual sample on a scale of 1∼5, with 1 being Not fluent/Not relevant at all and 5 being Very fluent/Very relevant, as in (Lample et al., 2019). We randomly selected 100 samples for each baseline from each test data and asked ten people on Amazon Mechanical Turk to identify the fluency and attribute relevance for each sample. We then used the average scores of ten annotations as final scores (see more detail in Appendix C). As shown in Table 3, A-TIP achieved the highest score compared with the baselines, indicating that sentences infilled by A-TIP can be not only more fluent but also more attribute relevant. Somewhat surprisingly, we observed that BERT, TIGS, and MaskGan yield the worst performance. BERT performed poorly due to the intrinsic difficulty of finding convincing infilling content with a suitable length. TIGS and MaskGan may have performed poorly because, unlike ILM and A-TIP, they were not initialized from a large-scale pre-trained LM. 5.5 Running Time Comparison To generate attribute-aware tokens, we update the Eq.(10) less than 10 times for each token. As shown in Fig.5, we compare the running time be- 5865 Figure 4: Case study for sentiment content infilling and expert knowledge infilling. tween A-TIP/Dis and A-TIP to ensure that we have less additional time-consuming. Specifically, we randomly select 30 samples from SST-5 and ROCStories datasets, where SST-5 contains short sentences and ROCStories contains almost long sentences. Then, we changed the mask rate from 30% to 70% for each selected sample to make our results more reliable. As shown in Fig.5, compared with the unconditional LM-based text generation task, updating the hidden state towards attribute-relevant direction will take less additional time. Figure 5: Running time comparison between A-TIP/Dis and A-TIP on SST-5 and ROCStories. We change the mask rate from 30% to 70%. 5.6 Case Study We conducted a case study to show the infilling ability of A-TIP. Specifically, as shown in Fig.4, we first propose to infill the blanks with sentimental words. We choose Roberta and BLK as our compared examples. Because these two methods get the best result in this case. We can see Roberta infill the blanks with two contradictory words (funny and heartbreaking), where humans do not have such contradictory and complex emotional expressions. BLK can unify the expression of emotion, but it can not ensure the fluency of the generated sentence. In contrast, we can control A-TIP to generate positive or negative infilling contents with high fluency. We want to explore if A-TIP can generate domain knowledge for a specific area for the second case. We choose BERT and TIGS as our compared examples. Since these two methods get the best result in domain knowledge infilling. We find that they cannot generate expert knowledge infilling content. And they tend to generate correct and high-frequency infilling content, while they are generally meaningless and monotonous (Sun et al., 2021; Lazar et al., 2021; Su et al., 2021). However, we can control A-TIP to generate both CS-related and Math-related infilling content by constraining the attribute as CS and Math. 6 Conclusion In this paper, we presented a simple strategy for text infilling A-TIP that leverages an LM by proposing new attention mechanisms and two-level positional encoding to effectively improve the quality of generation in limited data settings. Furthermore, our plug-and-play discriminator can guide the generation towards the direction of improving text attribute relevance. 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  3. Decoding as dynamic programming for recurrent autoregressive models. In Proceedings of ICLR. Wanrong Zhu, Zhiting Hu, and Eric P. Xing. 2019. Text infilling. arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00158. 5868 A Detail Information for Datasets As shown in Table 4, we give the number of examples, the total number of words and the detail attributes label for three widely used datasets, SST5, ROCStories and Attributes, respectively. We selected these three datasets since we would like to check if A-TIP can infill the blanks with sentiment words, domain knowledge and topics. We can directly use their labels to train our plugand-play discriminator for datasets with attribute labels like SST-5 (sentiment labels) and Abstract (domain knowledge labels). Figure 6: Topic similarity graph. However, considering most datasets like ROCStories have no labels, we extend our method to deal with this situation. Intuitively, we can construct a general attribute-based plug-and-play discriminator to guide different datasets to generate different infilling content. However, in practical operation, it is unrealistic to build such an available attribute-based discriminator to guide the infilling generation because the downstream datasets have a variety of different attribute requirements. Therefore, we need to generate specific category labels for different downstream datasets to satisfy their specif attribute-related needs and use them to guide the infilling generation. Specifically, we extend our model to more applications by combining our model with any topic exploration algorithms to mine topic labels on unlabeled datasets. For instance, we adopt COMBINETM (Bianchi et al., 2021) to detect topic attributes for ROCStories dataset by two methods Contextual and Combined. As shown in Table 5, we adopt three metrics to evaluate the quality of the attributes of ROCStories dataset: Topic Coherence, Inverted RBO and NPMI. And we choose 13 topics as our final labels since it has the best performance on average of all metrics. As shown in Fig.6, we draw a topic similarity graph among thirteen topics. We find the similarity within topics is high, and the similarity between topics is low, demonstrating that the detected topics have high quality and low redundancy. We adopt 13 topic labels to train discriminators for ROCStories datasets, and we achieve the best performance about topic-relevant on human evaluation. B Benjamini-Hochberg procedure The Benjamini-Hochberg (B-H) Procedure is a powerful tool that decreases the false discovery rate (Benjamini and Hochberg, 1995). Considering the reproducibility of multiple significant test, we introduce how we adopt the B-H procedure and give the hyper-parameter values that we used. Specifically, we first adopt t-test (Yang and Liu,
  1. with default parameters3 to calculate p-value between each compared algorithm with A-TIP. Then, we put the individual p-values in ascending order as input to calculate p-value corrected by B-H. We directly use the “multipletests(*args)” function from python package4 and set the hyperparameter of false discover rate Q = 0.05 which is the widely used default value (Puoliväli et al., 2020). Finally, we get cut-off value as the output of “multipletests(*args)” function, where cut-off is a dividing line that distinguishes whether two groups of data are significant or not. Specifically, if the p-value is smaller than the cut-off value, we can get the conclusion that two groups of data are significant different. C Detail Information for Human Evaluation We show the human evaluation in Fig.7. We adopt fluency and attribute relevance as our evaluation metrics. We use their label as their attribute for labelled datasets SST-5 and Abstract. For unlabeled datasets like ROCStories, we manufacture labels as their attributes. And we list detailed scores from 1 to 5 for each metric. 3https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/ reference/generated/scipy.stats.ttest_ ind.html 4https://www.statsmodels.org/dev/ generated/statsmodels.stats.multitest. multipletests.html 5869 Dataset Examples Words Attributes SST-5 11,855 215,154 Negative/ Somewhat negative/ Neutral/ Somewhat positive/ Positive ROCStories 100K 5M Sport/ Shop/ School/ Food/ Family/ Hospital/ Work/ Car/ Vacation/ House/ Music/ Pet/ Other Abstracts 200K 30M Condensed Matter/ CS/ Math/ Nonlinear Sciences/ Physics/ Bio/ Quant-Phy/ Statistics Table 4: Descriptive statistics of datasets and their attributes. Contextual Combined Topic Number Coherence RBO NPMI Coherence RBO NPMI 10 0.490 0.160 0.150 0.348 0.079 0.232 11 0.981 1.000 0.007 0.981 1.000 -0.008 12 0.986 1.000 0.030 0.933 1.000 -0.004 13 0.993 1.000 0.053 0.972 1.000 0.061 14 0.951 1.000 0.048 0.971 1.000 0.060 15 0.936 1.000 0.042 0.946 1.000 0.059 16 0.935 1.000 0.044 0.921 1.000 -0.008 17 0.905 0.998 0.042 0.922 0.992 0.037 18 0.906 0.982 0.045 0.868 0.989 0.038 19 0.892 0.977 0.043 0.822 0.982 0.021 20 0.882 0.972 0.040 0.802 0.978 0.022 Table 5: Contextual-based and Combined-based topic detection algorithms evaluate three widely used metrics: Topic Coherence, Inverted RBO, and NPMI. Figure 7: Human evaluations on Amazonmturk.

Sentiment 是什么?


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根据您提供的论文片段,“Sentiment”在这里指的是情感/情绪

在自然语言处理(NLP)领域,特别是这篇论文所讨论的文本生成和填充任务中:

  • Sentiment (情感) 是文本的一种属性(attribute)
  • 它通常用于描述文本所表达的**积极(positive)、消极(negative)或中立(neutral)**的情绪倾向。

论文在第 5.1 节 “Experimental Settings” 和表 1 “Descriptive statistics of three datasets” 中提到了 SST-5 数据集,并明确指出它包含了5种情感标签

  • Negative (消极)
  • Somewhat negative (有点消极)
  • Neutral (中立)
  • Somewhat positive (有点积极)
  • Positive (积极)

因此,当论文中提到“Attribute-aware Text Infilling”以及具体的“Sentiment Infilling”时,它们的意思是:在进行文本填充时,模型不仅要保证生成内容的流畅性和连贯性,还要确保生成的内容符合用户指定的情感(例如,生成一个带有积极情绪的句子,或者一个带有消极情绪的句子)

这与一般的文本填充(只关注上下文连贯)不同,A-TIP 方法旨在引入这种属性控制,让生成的内容在特定情感维度上符合预期。


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ACL Logo ACL Anthology News(current) FAQ(current) Corrections(current) Submissions(current) Github Search… A-TIP: Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model Dongyuan Li, Jingyi You, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura

Abstract Text infilling aims to restore incomplete texts by filling in blanks, which has attracted more attention recently because of its wide application in ancient text restoration and text rewriting. However, attribute- aware text infilling is yet to be explored, and existing methods seldom focus on the infilling length of each blank or the number/location of blanks. In this paper, we propose an Attribute-aware Text Infilling method via a Pre-trained language model (A-TIP), which contains a text infilling component and a plug- and-play discriminator. Specifically, we first design a unified text infilling component with modified attention mechanisms and intra- and inter-blank positional encoding to better perceive the number of blanks and the infilling length for each blank. Then, we propose a plug-and-play discriminator to guide generation towards the direction of improving attribute relevance without decreasing text fluency. Finally, automatic and human evaluations on three open-source datasets indicate that A-TIP achieves state-of- the-art performance compared with all baselines. Anthology ID: 2022.coling-1.511 Volume: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics Month: October Year: 2022 Address: Gyeongju, Republic of Korea Editors: Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na Venue: COLING SIG: Publisher: International Committee on Computational Linguistics Note: Pages: 5857–5869 Language: URL: https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.511/ DOI: Bibkey: Cite (ACL): Dongyuan Li, Jingyi You, Kotaro Funakoshi, and Manabu Okumura. 2022. A-TIP: Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 5857–5869, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics. Cite (Informal): A-TIP: Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model (Li et al., COLING 2022) Copy Citation:

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这篇论文 “A-TIP: Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model” 主要讲述了一种新的文本填充方法,旨在让填充的内容不仅自然流畅,还能满足特定的“属性”要求

论文的核心内容可以概括为:

  1. 问题背景:

    • **文本填充(Text Infilling)**任务:即修复不完整文本,填补其中的空白部分。这在古籍修复、文本重写等领域有广泛应用。
    • 现有方法的局限性: 传统的文本填充方法主要关注上下文的语义连贯性,但很少关注填充内容的“属性”(例如情感、话题、领域知识等),也很少能精细控制每个空白的填充长度、数量和位置
  2. 提出的解决方案:A-TIP 模型

    • 论文提出了一种名为 A-TIP (Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model) 的方法。
    • A-TIP 由两个主要部分构成:
      1. 文本填充组件 (Text Infilling Component): 这是一个基于预训练语言模型(如 GPT-2)的组件,它经过特殊设计,能够更好地感知空白的数量和每个空白的填充长度。它通过修改注意力机制和引入层内(intra-blank)与层间(inter-blank)位置编码来实现这一点。
      2. 即插即用判别器 (Plug-and-Play Discriminator): 这是一个关键创新。它可以在不修改或重新训练主语言模型架构的情况下,引导文本生成向着提高属性相关性的方向发展,同时确保文本的流畅性不降低。
  3. 工作原理简述:

    • 首先,他们通过人工掩码(类似之前您问的 ILM 论文那样)来训练一个基础的文本填充模型,使其能填补任意长度和位置的空白。
    • 然后,在这个生成模型之上,他们添加了一个判别器。这个判别器可以识别生成文本的特定属性(例如,一个情感分类器)。
    • 在文本生成过程中,判别器会提供一个“信号”,引导生成模型在输出下一个词时,不仅要考虑语言本身的流畅性,还要考虑如何让生成的文本更符合目标属性(例如,更积极、更偏向计算机科学话题)。
  4. 主要贡献与成果:

    • A-TIP 是首个属性感知的文本填充模型,而且不需要修改或重新训练语言模型的主架构来适应新属性。
    • 其即插即用判别器提供了对文本流畅性和属性相关性的精细控制
    • 在情感、领域知识和话题等三种不同属性的开放数据集上,A-TIP 在自动化评估和人工评估中都达到了最先进的性能,表明它能生成既流畅又符合指定属性的文本。

简而言之,A-TIP 不仅能像传统的填空程序那样把句子补全,还能让你指定“补出来的句子要听起来是开心的”、“补出来的句子要和科学研究相关”等高级要求,并且做得很出色。


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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 5857–5869 October 12–17, 2022. 5857 A-TIP: Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model Dongyuan Li, Jingyi You, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura Tokyo Institute of Technology {lidy,youjy,funakoshi,oku}@lr.pi.titech.ac.jp Abstract Text infilling aims to restore incomplete texts by filling in blanks, which has attracted more attention recently because of its wide application in ancient text restoration and text rewriting. However, attribute-aware text infilling is yet to be explored, and existing methods seldom focus on the infilling length of each blank or the number/location of blanks. In this paper, we propose an Attribute-aware Text Infilling method via a Pre-trained language model (ATIP), which contains a text infilling component and a plug-and-play discriminator. Specifically, we first design a unified text infilling component with modified attention mechanisms and intra- and inter-blank positional encoding to better perceive the number of blanks and the infilling length for each blank. Then, we propose a plug-and-play discriminator to guide generation towards the direction of improving attribute relevance without decreasing text fluency. Finally, automatic and human evaluations on three open-source datasets indicate that ATIP achieves state-of-the-art performance compared with all baselines. 1 Introduction Originating from Cloze tests (Taylor, 1953), text infilling aims to fill in missing blanks in a sentence or paragraph by making use of the preceding and subsequent texts. For example, given two infilling tasks E1 and E2 in Fig.1, text infilling models are supposed to provide fine-grained control over the location of any number of blanks and infill a variable number of missing tokens for each blank. Text infilling has been gaining increasing attention in a number of prevailing research fields, including ancient text restoration (Lazar et al., 2021), text editing and rewriting (Su et al., 2021), and conversation generation (Ou et al., 2021). However, current text infilling methods are based only on bidirectional semantic constraints (Ou et al., 2021), and other abundant attribute-based E1: Sentiment Infilling SST-5 Dataset Watching these [Mask] is both [Mask] and [Mask]. Roberta BLK Watching these kids is both funny and heartbreaking too. Watching these teams is both inspiring and the action. A-TIP with Positive Relevance Infilling. Attribute set: c = {Positive} Watching these performances is both inspiring and artfully mesmerizing. A-TIP with Negative Relevance Infilling. Attribute set: c = {Negative} Watching these shows is both boring and disgusting me much. E2: Expert Knowledge Infilling Abstract Dataset [Mask] of [Mask] and [Mask] of their [Mask]. TIGS Systems of and control and capability of their distance. BERT One of her friends and one of their friends. A-TIP with Computer Science Relevance Infilling. Attribute set: c = {CS} Analysis of data sources and functions of their programs. A-TIP with Math Relevance Infilling. Attribute set: c = {Math} Introduction of randomness matrices and decomposition of their method. Figure 1: A-TIP can generate more fluent, diverse and attribute relevant infilling content in two examples. constraints, e.g., sentiment and topics, remain to be studied. In reality, infilling attribute-aware content can better satisfy human needs and introduce more diversity. For instance, as shown in Fig.1, A-TIP can fill in blanks under the guidance of an attribute to satisfy sentiment or expert knowledge infilling, while current text infilling models mainly focus on fluency, which leads to meaningless and monotonous infilling contents (Sun et al., 2021). Designing a simple but efficient attribute-aware text infilling model is a challenging task. First, to achieve attribute awareness, simply modifying a text infilling model architecture or finetuning with attribute-specific data will destroy the model’s ability to infill blanks or require a significant cost for re-training (Dathathri et al., 2020). Second, if the model infills blanks towards the direction of improving text attributes, avoiding ill-formedness between infilling content and its bidirectional context becomes a challenge. For instance, “The movie interesting and perfect us” with _ as blanks. Finally, current methods lack fine-grained control over automatic determination of the number/location of blanks or the infilling length for each blank. For example, Markov assumption-based models (Liu et al., 2019; Zaidi 5858 et al., 2020) hardly adapt to variable infilling lengths, while masked language model (MLM)- based methods (Devlin et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2020) are incapable of generating more than one word per blank, and generative LM-based methods (Donahue et al., 2020) cannot guarantee the output will match the number of missing blanks in the input. To circumvent the above dilemma, in this paper, we propose an Attribute-aware Text Infilling method based on a Pre-trained LM (A-TIP), in which a plug-and-play discriminator provides finegrained control over bidirectional well-formed fluency and attribute relevance.1 Specifically, 1) we first propose a general text filling framework that fine-tunes a standard LM with many artificiallymasked examples in an auto-regressive manner. Moreover, to ensure that the number of infilling contents equals the number of blanks, we design a new attention mechanism, where unmasked tokens can attend to each other but masked tokens can attend only to the preceding context (Fig.2 (A)). We also adopt two-level positional encoding to combine inter- and intra-blank positional information to automatically learn the length of blanks. 2) To achieve attribute-aware generation without modifying LM’s architecture or re-training, we propose a plug-and-play discriminator that shifts the output distribution of the text infilling model towards the semantic space of given guide attributes. We also design two additional strategies to ensure the infilling content is well-formed with its bidirectional context without decreasing attribute relevance. The main contributions are summarized as follows: • We propose a unified text infilling model that adopts a new attention mechanism and two-level positional encoding to enable our model to learn the number/location of blanks and infilling length for each blank automatically. • To the best of our knowledge, A-TIP is the first attribute-aware text infilling model that does not require any modification of the language model’s architecture or re-training on specific attributed datasets. Further, our plug-and-play discriminator can provide fine-grained control over fluency and attribute relevance, and can be applied to any transformer decoder-based text infilling model. • The experimental results on three open datasets show that A-TIP achieves state-of-the-art performance compared with all baselines. 1 Sentences with higher accuracy of attribute-based classification are said to have higher attribute relevance (Dathathri et al., 2020). 2 Related Work In this section, we briefly review the most relevant studies to our work on pre-trained LMs, text infilling, and constrained text generation. 2.1 Pre-trained Language Models Pre-trained LMs have made significant improvements in many natural language processing tasks by adopting self-supervised learning with abundant web texts (Chay-intr et al., 2021; You et al., 2022). They can be classified into three types. The first uses an auto-encoding model. For example, BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) and its variations are pre-trained as masked LMs to obtain bidirectional contextualized word representations. The second adopts an encoder-decoder architecture, which is pre-trained for seq2seq tasks, such as MASS (Song et al., 2019) and T5 (Raffel et al., 2020). The third adopts an auto-regressive model, which follows a left-to-right manner for text generation, such as GPT-2 (Radford et al., 2019) and XLNet (Yang et al., 2019). While we adopt GPT-2 as the LM in this paper, our method can be easily migrated to any type of pre-trained LMs. 2.2 Text Infilling Approaches Current text infilling algorithms can be classified into four categories. Generative adversarial networks (GAN)-based methods train GANs to ensure that the generator can generate highly reliable infilling content to fool the discriminator (Guo et al., 2018; Fedus et al., 2018). Intricate inference-based methods adopt dynamic programming or gradient search to find infilling content that has a high likelihood within its surrounding context (Liu et al., 2019; Zaidi et al., 2020). Masked LM-based methods generate infilling content on the basis of its bidirectional contextual word embedding (Devlin et al., 2019; Shen et al., 2020). LM-based methods fine-tune off-the-shelf LMs in an auto-regressive manner, and a number of methods change the input format by putting an infilling answer after the masked input (Donahue et al., 2020), while others do not change the input format (Zhu et al., 2019). Unlike the aforementioned methods, we solve a more complex task: attribute-aware text infilling. 2.3 Constrained Text Generation Traditional controlled generation models involve either fine-tuning existing models (He, 2021) or training conditional generative models (Keskar et al., 5859 2019). Dathathri et al. (2020) proposed a plugand-play controlled generation model (PPLM), which does not modify or re-train the parameters of the original LM but can achieve comparable performance to fine-tuning methods. For example, PPCM (Madotto et al., 2020) updates the hidden state towards the direction of attribute enhancement to generate attribute-aware conversations. Pascual et al. (2021) designed a complex plug-and-play architecture to ensure that the generated content contains specific keywords. While GeDi (Krause et al., 2021) and its extension (Lin and Riedl, 2021) can accelerate the decoding process of PPLM, they assume the model is trained by large-scale labeled datasets, which is unrealizable for text infilling. Unlike the previous work, we should also consider the generated infilling content is well-formed with its corresponding bidirectional context, ensuring PPLM is suitable for text infilling. 3 Preliminaries To clarify our method, we first introduce some essential background knowledge and then define the task of attribute-aware text infilling. Language Models reveal the degree of how much a sentence (a sequence of words) is likely to be a realistic sequence of a human language. Formally, let W be the vocabulary set and w1:n = {w1, . . . , wn} is a sentence with n words, where wi ∈ W. An LM measures the joint probability by decomposing the sequence one by one: p(w1:n) = Yn i=1 p(wi |w<i), (1) where w<i = {w1, . . . , wi−1}. Constrained Text Generation: Given k explicit constraints c = {c1, . . . , ck}, our goal is to generate a sentence w that maximizes the conditional probability p(w|c): p(w|c) = Yn i=1 p(wi |w<i, c). (2) Task Definition: Attribute-aware text infilling is to take incomplete text we , containing one or more missing blanks, and return completed text w under the constraints of c. As in Fig.1, several attributes are listed in c. Specifically, let [Mask] be a placeholder for a contiguous sequence of one or more missing tokens. Then, we is a sequence of tokens in which a number of them are [Mask]. To map we to w, constrained with attribute c, an infilling strategy must specify both how many and which tokens to generate for each [Mask]. Note that there may be many logical w for a given we . Hence, we are interested in learning a distribution p(w|we , c). Specifically, in accordance with Bayes’ theorem, we formulate the probability of predicting the token wi for its corresponding [Mask] as: p(wi |w<i, c) ∝ p(wi |w<i) · p(c|w1:i), (3) where p(wi |w<i, c) can be decomposed into two parts that deal with the LM for p(wi |w<i) and the discriminator for p(c|w1:i). In Section 4, we introduce these two parts in detail. We assume that any two constraints are independent: p(c|w1:i) = Qk j=1 p(cj |w1:i). 4 Methodology The overall framework of A-TIP is shown in Fig.2. A-TIP contains two components: a text infilling model and a plug-and-play attribute-aware controller. 4.1 Text Infilling Model Given a corpus consisting of complete text examples, we first create infilling examples and then train the GPT-2 with these examples. Specifically, given an input example w1:n with n tokens, we first randomly replace m non-overlapping word spans S = {s1, . . . , sm} in w with [Mask] tokens to form a corrupted text we . We also assume each span si contains ni consecutive tokens [s(i,1), . . . , s(i,ni) ]. Then, we concatenate the spans S separated by [Answer] tokens to form a training target Se = {[Answer], s(1,1), . . . , s(1,n1) , [Answer], . . . , [Answer], s(m,1), . . . , s(m,nm) }. Finally, we construct a complete infilling example by concatenating we and Se (see Token Embedding in Fig.2). There are two advantages of designing such an input format. First, we add only 2m additional tokens (one [Mask] and one [Answer] per blank as shown in Fig.2 “Token Embedding” add 4 tokens for two spans). Although memory usage for GPT-2 grows quadratically with sequence length, as m is small, additional training time complexity will be minimal. Second, we can apply two different attention strategies for the corrupted text we and training target text Se. As shown in Fig.2 (A), while tokens in the corrupted text have attentions on all other tokens in we , tokens in the training target can have attentions only on its previous tokens. By 5860 Transformer Block L Unperturbed �� Distribution �� �� [�] �� �� [�] [�] [�] �� � + � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Randomly Masked �� �� �� �� �� �� Inter Position Intra Position Token Embedding Input Transformer Block 1 Transformer Block 2 Transformer Block L -1 Language Model �� �(�) ∆�! Hidden continuous space Search direction to maximize �(�|�) Discriminator Transformer Block L �%(�) Perturbed Distribution Min KL Unmodified Word Modified Word ��+∆�� Hidden State Gain from Attribute �� �� [�] [�] �� Threshold Layer �� [�] �� �� [�] �� [�] [�] �� �� �� [�]�� ��[�][�] ��[�]�� �� Self-Attention Mechanism (A) (B) [M] = [Mask] [A] = [Answer] Figure 2: Model overview. We first fine-tune an off-the-shelf GPT-2 by adopting a new attention mechanism and two-level positional encoding to infill blanks. Then, we design a plug-and-play discriminator to guide generation in the direction of improving attribute relevance. We also adopt KL divergence and a threshold-based strategy to provide fine-grained control over fluency and attribute relevance. adopting such an attention mechanism, when ATIP infills the i-th blank si , it will focus on the bidirectional context of the i-th blank, which can ensure the well-formedness and rationality of the whole sentence. Current methods hardly perceive the number/location and infilling length for each blank. We design two-level positional encoding, which can provide fine-grained control over them. Specifically, each token is encoded with two position IDs. The first position ID represents the inter-position in the corrupted text we and the second position ID represents the intra-position in each span. Finally, A-TIP trains the GPT-2 with the infilling examples in an auto-regressive manner. When predicting missing tokens in each blank, A-TIP has access to the corrupted text we and the previously predicted blanks. Formally, the probability of generating the i-th blank si is pθ(si |we , s<i) = Yni j=1 p(si,j |we , s<i, si,<j ), (4) where θ are parameters for the GPT-2, ni represents the number of tokens in si , si,j represents the jth token in the span si , s<i represents previously predicted blanks, and si,<j = {si,1, · · · , si,j−1}. 4.2 Plug-and-play Attribute-aware Controller To clarify our approach, we follow the notation of Dathathri et al. (2020) and define the GPT-2 decoding process (Eq.(4)) in a recursive manner. Specifically, we first define Ht , that contains all historical key-value pairs, i.e., Ht = [(K (1) t , V (1) t ), . . . ,(K (l) t , V (l) t )], where (K (l) t , V (l) t ) stores all key-value pairs of t tokens in the l-th layer. Then, we formally define the recurrent decoding process to generate the i-th token as: oi , Hi = GPT-2(w<i, Hi−1), (5) where oi is the hidden state of the input at i-th time-step. Then, we sample the i-th generated token from the following distribution by beam search (Hokamp and Liu, 2017): wi ∼ pi = Softmax(Woi), (6) where W is a parameter matrix that maps the hidden state oi to a vector of the vocabulary size. In accordance with Bayes’ theorem in Eq.(3), we have p(wi |w<i, c) ∝ p(wi |w<i) · p(c|w1:i). To achieve attribute-aware text infilling, when we infill the i-th blank, we shift history matrix Hi−1 towards the direction of the sum of two gradients: 1) To maximize the log-likelihood of the attribute c under the conditional attribute model p(c|w1:i) and 2) To ensure high fluency of text infilling p(wt |w<i). We update only Hi−1 and fix other model parameters unchanged since next-token prediction depends only on the past key-value pairs via Hi−1. Thus, we propose to gradually update Hi−1 to guide future generation in the desired direction. Let ∆Hi−1 be the update to Hi−1 to shift the generation infilling content towards the desired attribute direction c. At the beginning of the generation, ∆Hi−1 is initialized to zero, and we can obtain the unmodified distribution as pi . Then, we update ∆Hi−1 with gradients from the attribute model that measures the extent to which the generated text possesses the desired attribute. Following Dathathri et al. (2020), we rewrite p(c|w1:i) as Pb = p(c|Hi−1 + ∆Hi−1) and define the gradient up- 5861 date for ∆Hi−1 as ∆Hi−1 ← ∆Hi−1 + α ∇∆Hi−1P b ∥∇∆Hi−1P b∥ γ , (7) where α is the learning rate and γ is the scaling coefficient for the normalization term to control the relevance of the attribute. We repeat Eq.(7) less than 10 times to generate attribute-aware tokens. Subsequently, the new He i−1 = Hi−1 + ∆Hi−1 is computed, and a new token is generated using oei , Hi = GPT-2(w<i, He i−1). The described optimization process is repeated for every token in the generated sequence. Compared with the unconditional LM-based text generation task, this process will not take much time (see detail in experiments). Although we can generate attribute-aware infilling content, we can easily generate low-quality, repetitive, and low-fluency text. Thus, we add two additional components to ensure the fluency and quality of generated infilling content with its bidirectional context. First, we minimize the KL divergence between the unmodified distribution pi and modified distribution pei for the i-th token: min DKL(pei || pi). (8) Our objective function can be reformulated as Loss = p(c|He i−1) + λDKL(pei || pi), (9) where λ is a parameter to balance the fluency and attribute relevance. Then, we update ∆Hi−1 as: ∆Hi−1 ← ∆Hi−1 + α ∂∆Hi−1Loss ∥∂∆Hi−1Loss∥ γ . (10) Intuitively, we can generally find many words that have different levels of correlations with the specific attribute (Mohammad, 2018). For example, {perfect, good, bad, like} can mainly determine the sentiment of a sentence. Thus, we define Gain from the attribute to determine whether to change a generated word. As shown in Fig.2, two candidate words are sampled from the unmodified distribution (before back propagation) and modified distribution (after back propagation), respectively. Gain between two candidate words in the conditional model can be formulated as Gain = p(c|w<i, wei) − p(c|w<i, wi), (11) where wei and wi are samples from the modified and unmodified distributions, respectively. To better control the relevance of the attribute, we define a threshold δ to determine whether to generate a word from the modified distribution. Specifically, Gain >δ represents that the word generated from the modified distribution can have a relatively remarkable effect on attributes. Otherwise, if the discriminator does not guide well at certain steps (Gain <δ), we select the word generated from the unmodified distribution to maintain the fluency to be the same as the original unconditional text infilling model to the greatest extent. Discriminator Construction: As shown in Fig.2 (B), for simplicity, we train a linear classifier f as a discriminator with annotated datasets, indicating a sentence and label pair as (w, y). Specifically, for each sentence w of length t, we compute the set of hidden states o = {o1, . . . , ot} from the GPT-2. Then, we compute the mean of o as o¯ and train f using the cross-entropy between the true label distribution y and predicted label distribution f(o¯). The number of parameters in this layer is (embedding dimension × number of attributes

  • number of attributes), which is negligible compared with the number of parameters in the text infilling model itself. 5 Experimentation As shown in Table 1, we evaluated the proposed methods on three tasks to demonstrate that our framework is not custom tailored to a single domain: sentiment-aware, domain knowledge-aware, and topic-aware text infilling. We also show a case study for these tasks. We determined whether ATIP can generate infilling text that satisfies the desired attribute and whether it can infill high-quality text in blanks by using both automated methods and human annotators. Dataset Examples Words Attributes SST-5 11,855 215,154 5 Abstracts 200K 30M 8 ROCStories 100K 5M 13 Table 1: Descriptive statistics of three datasets. 5.1 Experimental Settings Datasets In addition to using the datasets in Table 1 to train our text infilling model, we also adopted sentiment labels in SST-5 (Pang and Lee,
  1. for sentiment-aware text infilling, research 5862 Perplexity Accuracy 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 0.20 0.25 0.30 0.35 0.40 0.45 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% Mask Rate Mask Rate (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Figure 3: Based on the validation data of SST-5, we evaluated the parameter effect for Perplexity (A), Dist1 (B), and Accuracy (C). We draw the effect of mask rate on performance of text infilling for Perplexity (D) and Accuracy (E). area labels in Abstracts (Donahue et al., 2020) for domain knowledge-aware text infilling, and topic labels in ROCStories (Mostafazadeh et al., 2016) for topic-aware text infilling. For the datasets with attribute labels like SST-5 and Abstracts, we can directly use their labels to train our plug-and-play discriminator. However, considering that most datasets do not have attribute labels, we adopted COMBINETM (Bianchi et al., 2021) to detect attributes for them (details in Appendix A). For example, for ROCStories, we can detect thirteen attributes and prove that A-TIP can generate a relevant topic in human evaluation (Table 3). We split the datasets into 80%/10%/10% as training/validation/test data, respectively. Following TIGS (Liu et al., 2019) and BLM (Shen et al., 2020), we randomly masked r% tokens in each document. To ensure that all experiments are performed on the same data, we removed infilling examples that exceed our training sequence length of 256 tokens. Evaluation Metrics In automated evaluation, perplexity is a measure for fluency in open-domain text generation.2 We measured it using GPT-2. The diversity of text was measured using the number 2Overlap-based metrics such as BLEU scores (Papineni et al., 2002) are not appropriate for evaluating infilling as there are many realistic infills that have no word-level overlap with the original. of distinct n-grams (normalized by text length) as in Li et al. (2016). We reported Dist1, Dist2, and Dist3 scores for the distinct 1, 2, 3-grams. Following Dathathri et al. (2020), we used an external classifier to evaluate Accuracy (macro-average Fscore) for sentence attribute labels. We evaluated the attribute control for sentiment (SST-5) with an external sentiment classifier with XLNet (Yang et al., 2019), which was trained with the IMDB dataset. We chose a BERT-based classifier (Lopes et al., 2021) for the Abstracts dataset. The t-test was used to evaluate the significant performance difference between two approaches (Yang and Liu,
  2. for both automated and human evaluations. Baselines We compared A-TIP with six baselines that can be classified in four classes (Section 2.2):
  3. Inference-based: We trained TIGS (Liu et al., 2019), an RNN-based seq2seq model. At inference time, we iteratively searched tokens in continuous space and projected their vectors to real words. 2) GAN-based: We trained the generator of MaskGan (Fedus et al., 2018) on PLM with a seq2seq architecture. The discriminator can make word distributions of the generator closer to those of the real word distribution. 3) Masked LM-based: We used representations of blanks as seeds to fine-tune BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) and Roberta (Liu et al., 2020). At inference time, 5863 Datasets SST-5 Abstracts ROCStories Metrics PPL Dist1 Dist2 Dist3 ACC PPL Dist1 Dist2 Dist3 ACC PPL Dist1 Dist2 Dist3 TIGS 73.23 0.475 0.424 0.425 0.237 49.70 0.659 0.657 0.644 0.453 63.30 0.672 0.675 0.691 MaskGan 68.83 0.385 0.758 0.728 0.288 48.82 0.652 0.662 0.642 0.494 63.32 0.677 0.671 0.701 BERT 51.76 0.773 0.732 0.732 0.302 28.86 0.683 0.656 0.624 0.508 64.16 0.673 0.636 0.560 Roberta 56.34 0.392 0.745 0.745 0.291 26.22 0.710 0.710 0.700 0.528 42.96 0.666 0.659 0.540 BLM 58.90 0.548 0.329 0.345 0.257 50.34 0.512 0.431 0.356 0.568 45.69 0.591 0.594 0.614 ILM 48.14 0.805 0.792 0.801 0.305 21.30 0.710 0.710 0.706 0.634 37.53 0.678 0.692 0.709 A-TIP/Dis 40.26 0.789 0.765 0.742 0.301 18.82 0.708 0.708 0.698 0.614 30.35 0.662 0.653 0.688 A-TIP/KL 51.22 0.797 0.788 0.782 0.421 28.97 0.711 0.711 0.706 0.752 47.35 0.685 0.693 0.718 A-TIP 42.21† 0.805† 0.807† 0.808† 0.386† 20.36† 0.711† 0.711† 0.707† 0.694† 32.13† 0.685† 0.693† 0.721† Table 2: Overall performance comparison. PPL is perplexity, Dist scores measure divergence, and ACC is classification accuracy. † shows our results significantly surpass all baselines using t-test with p <0.005. Underlines mean our ablation algorithm can achieve better results than A-TIP for a metric. blanks are infilled one after another and are conditioned on the previous generation. We trained BLM (Shen et al., 2020) with a seq2seq architecture, where the encoder module is a transformer (base) and the decoder process adopts beam search.
  4. LM-based: We trained ILM (Donahue et al.,
  5. by fine-tuning GPT-2 to output a full document from a masked input. Note that it may have invalid outputs that do not match the input format. Implementation Details In our experiments, we set the learning rate α = 1e − 4 and the scaling coefficient γ = 0.5 for Eq. (10). Sequence representations were obtained by the GPT-2 module (12 layers, 12 heads, nembd = 768, nctx = 1024, batch size = 24). We applied the Adam (Kingma and Ba, 2015) optimizer with an initial learning rate of 1e-4, and the weight decay and dropout were turned based on the loss on the validation data. Our discriminator has a linear layer on the head of GPT2. For a fair comparison, we followed the default parameter settings of the baselines and repeated all experiments 10 times to report the average accuracy. The unpaired t-test was used to evaluate the significant difference between any two approaches as multiple comparisons (details in Appendix B) for both automated and human evaluations. We trained models with early stopping. Following Dathathri et al. (2020), we evaluated the attribute control for sentiment with an external sentiment classifier. Parameter Sensitivity A-TIP uses two hyperparameters. λ dominates the attribute relevance of generated text and δ can control the fluency of infilling content. We analyzed the parameter sensitivity on all three validation data and selected the validation data of SST-5 as an example to determine the parameter sensitivity of A-TIP. As shown in Figs.3 (A-C), we observed how λ and δ affect the performance of A-TIP by varying λ from 0.2 to 0.6 in 0.1 intervals and δ from 0.008 to 0.012 in 0.001 intervals. The results indicated that A-TIP obtain the best performance when λ ∈ [0.4, 0.5] and δ ∈ [0.010, 0.011]. The reason why these parameters can affect the results is that when λ < 0.4, the attribute relevance becomes stronger and the fluency gets destroyed. λ > 0.5 weakens both the attribute relevance and text diversity. When δ < 0.01, A-TIP tends to preserve modified words, which leads to low fluency. When δ > 0.012, A-TIP preserves the original unmodified words, which causes low attribute relevance and diversity of text. To achieve a balanced performance, we set λ=0.4 and δ=0.01 on all datasets in our experiments. Considering that the mask rate r is also a hyperparameter, we analyzed its effect on the results by varying it from 10% to 70%. We found the same trend on all datasets and took SST-5 as an example. As shown in Fig.3 (D), the fluency decreased when r varies from 10% to 40% because infilling content may be well-formed with its bidirectional context. As r increased from 40% to 70%, the fluency of text mainly depends on the baselines’ original generation ability, which is stable. Fig.3 (E) shows that when r increases, the baselines cannot recover the attributes of infilling content well. However, A-TIP can generate attribute-aware text to improve the classification accuracy. All baselines can obtain stable fluency and classification accuracy when r = 50%, we fixed r= 50% to show numerical experimental results in the later experiments. 5864 Dataset SST-5 Abstracts ROCStories Metrics Fluency Attri-Rele Fluency Attri-Rele Fluency Attri-Rele TIGS 4.076 4.008 4.072 3.920 4.080 3.960 MaskGan 3.982 3.892 3.962 3.921 4.002 3.861 BERT 4.320 4.196 4.180 4.120 4.076 3.988 Roberta 4.168 4.132 4.068 3.892 4.016 4.032 BLM 4.084 3.956 3.856 3.968 4.072 3.992 ILM 4.236 4.076 4.104 3.964 4.048 3.992 A-TIP 4.476† 4.320† 4.396† 4.296† 4.452† 4.348† Table 3: Human evaluation on three datasets. † indicates the results significantly surpass others. 5.2 Automated Evaluation We evaluated the performance of A-TIP on attribute-aware text infilling by measuring PPL, Dist1, Dist2, Dist3, and ACC on the test data. Table 2 shows, A-TIP outperformed other baselines, indicating that our proposed framework can take advantage of the bidirectional context and attribute information. Additionally, ILM can achieve good results on PPL because it also adopts GPT-2 for text infilling. However, compared to one-layer positional encoding and auto-regression attention mechanism in ILM, A-Tip/Dis (A-Tip without discriminator) achieves better fluency (PPL) because it adopts the modifies attention mechanism (Fig.2 (A)) to effectively learn the length for each blank, and focus on the number/location of blanks by twolevel positional encoding (intra- and inter-blank). A-TIP obtained more accurate sentence attributes than other baselines, which demonstrates A-TIP can generate text that satisfies the desired attribute. While the accuracy was improved by 8% compared with the baselines, we observed ILM and BERT also yield high classification accuracy. This is because we randomly masked 50% of tokens in the original input without considering whether the token has a specific attribute. We did not generally mask attribute relevant tokens, that helps the sentence maintain its original attribute. If all attribute relevant tokens are masked, we can obtain better results. For a fair comparison, we randomly masked tokens instead of masking specific tokens. 5.3 Ablation Study To verify the effect of each component in A-TIP, we conducted an ablation study. In specific, A-TIP/Dis does not include the plug-and-play discriminator, and the text infilling part remains unchanged. ATIP/KL does not include the KL loss and thresholdbased strategy. Table 2 shows A-TIP/Dis can improve text fluency while reducing attribute relevance. A-TIP/KL increases attribute relevance and decreases text fluency. Since the discriminator can guide generation towards the attribute-aware direction, while losing the fluency to a certain extent. By incorporating KL and a threshold, A-TIP achieves a better balanced performance. 5.4 Human Evaluation We considered two types of human annotation: fluency and attribute relevance (Attri-Rele). Annotators were asked to evaluate the fluency/attribute relevance of each individual sample on a scale of 1∼5, with 1 being Not fluent/Not relevant at all and 5 being Very fluent/Very relevant, as in (Lample et al., 2019). We randomly selected 100 samples for each baseline from each test data and asked ten people on Amazon Mechanical Turk to identify the fluency and attribute relevance for each sample. We then used the average scores of ten annotations as final scores (see more detail in Appendix C). As shown in Table 3, A-TIP achieved the highest score compared with the baselines, indicating that sentences infilled by A-TIP can be not only more fluent but also more attribute relevant. Somewhat surprisingly, we observed that BERT, TIGS, and MaskGan yield the worst performance. BERT performed poorly due to the intrinsic difficulty of finding convincing infilling content with a suitable length. TIGS and MaskGan may have performed poorly because, unlike ILM and A-TIP, they were not initialized from a large-scale pre-trained LM. 5.5 Running Time Comparison To generate attribute-aware tokens, we update the Eq.(10) less than 10 times for each token. As shown in Fig.5, we compare the running time be- 5865 Figure 4: Case study for sentiment content infilling and expert knowledge infilling. tween A-TIP/Dis and A-TIP to ensure that we have less additional time-consuming. Specifically, we randomly select 30 samples from SST-5 and ROCStories datasets, where SST-5 contains short sentences and ROCStories contains almost long sentences. Then, we changed the mask rate from 30% to 70% for each selected sample to make our results more reliable. As shown in Fig.5, compared with the unconditional LM-based text generation task, updating the hidden state towards attribute-relevant direction will take less additional time. Figure 5: Running time comparison between A-TIP/Dis and A-TIP on SST-5 and ROCStories. We change the mask rate from 30% to 70%. 5.6 Case Study We conducted a case study to show the infilling ability of A-TIP. Specifically, as shown in Fig.4, we first propose to infill the blanks with sentimental words. We choose Roberta and BLK as our compared examples. Because these two methods get the best result in this case. We can see Roberta infill the blanks with two contradictory words (funny and heartbreaking), where humans do not have such contradictory and complex emotional expressions. BLK can unify the expression of emotion, but it can not ensure the fluency of the generated sentence. In contrast, we can control A-TIP to generate positive or negative infilling contents with high fluency. We want to explore if A-TIP can generate domain knowledge for a specific area for the second case. We choose BERT and TIGS as our compared examples. Since these two methods get the best result in domain knowledge infilling. We find that they cannot generate expert knowledge infilling content. And they tend to generate correct and high-frequency infilling content, while they are generally meaningless and monotonous (Sun et al., 2021; Lazar et al., 2021; Su et al., 2021). However, we can control A-TIP to generate both CS-related and Math-related infilling content by constraining the attribute as CS and Math. 6 Conclusion In this paper, we presented a simple strategy for text infilling A-TIP that leverages an LM by proposing new attention mechanisms and two-level positional encoding to effectively improve the quality of generation in limited data settings. Furthermore, our plug-and-play discriminator can guide the generation towards the direction of improving text attribute relevance. 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  3. Decoding as dynamic programming for recurrent autoregressive models. In Proceedings of ICLR. Wanrong Zhu, Zhiting Hu, and Eric P. Xing. 2019. Text infilling. arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00158. 5868 A Detail Information for Datasets As shown in Table 4, we give the number of examples, the total number of words and the detail attributes label for three widely used datasets, SST5, ROCStories and Attributes, respectively. We selected these three datasets since we would like to check if A-TIP can infill the blanks with sentiment words, domain knowledge and topics. We can directly use their labels to train our plugand-play discriminator for datasets with attribute labels like SST-5 (sentiment labels) and Abstract (domain knowledge labels). Figure 6: Topic similarity graph. However, considering most datasets like ROCStories have no labels, we extend our method to deal with this situation. Intuitively, we can construct a general attribute-based plug-and-play discriminator to guide different datasets to generate different infilling content. However, in practical operation, it is unrealistic to build such an available attribute-based discriminator to guide the infilling generation because the downstream datasets have a variety of different attribute requirements. Therefore, we need to generate specific category labels for different downstream datasets to satisfy their specif attribute-related needs and use them to guide the infilling generation. Specifically, we extend our model to more applications by combining our model with any topic exploration algorithms to mine topic labels on unlabeled datasets. For instance, we adopt COMBINETM (Bianchi et al., 2021) to detect topic attributes for ROCStories dataset by two methods Contextual and Combined. As shown in Table 5, we adopt three metrics to evaluate the quality of the attributes of ROCStories dataset: Topic Coherence, Inverted RBO and NPMI. And we choose 13 topics as our final labels since it has the best performance on average of all metrics. As shown in Fig.6, we draw a topic similarity graph among thirteen topics. We find the similarity within topics is high, and the similarity between topics is low, demonstrating that the detected topics have high quality and low redundancy. We adopt 13 topic labels to train discriminators for ROCStories datasets, and we achieve the best performance about topic-relevant on human evaluation. B Benjamini-Hochberg procedure The Benjamini-Hochberg (B-H) Procedure is a powerful tool that decreases the false discovery rate (Benjamini and Hochberg, 1995). Considering the reproducibility of multiple significant test, we introduce how we adopt the B-H procedure and give the hyper-parameter values that we used. Specifically, we first adopt t-test (Yang and Liu,
  1. with default parameters3 to calculate p-value between each compared algorithm with A-TIP. Then, we put the individual p-values in ascending order as input to calculate p-value corrected by B-H. We directly use the “multipletests(*args)” function from python package4 and set the hyperparameter of false discover rate Q = 0.05 which is the widely used default value (Puoliväli et al., 2020). Finally, we get cut-off value as the output of “multipletests(*args)” function, where cut-off is a dividing line that distinguishes whether two groups of data are significant or not. Specifically, if the p-value is smaller than the cut-off value, we can get the conclusion that two groups of data are significant different. C Detail Information for Human Evaluation We show the human evaluation in Fig.7. We adopt fluency and attribute relevance as our evaluation metrics. We use their label as their attribute for labelled datasets SST-5 and Abstract. For unlabeled datasets like ROCStories, we manufacture labels as their attributes. And we list detailed scores from 1 to 5 for each metric. 3https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/ reference/generated/scipy.stats.ttest_ ind.html 4https://www.statsmodels.org/dev/ generated/statsmodels.stats.multitest. multipletests.html 5869 Dataset Examples Words Attributes SST-5 11,855 215,154 Negative/ Somewhat negative/ Neutral/ Somewhat positive/ Positive ROCStories 100K 5M Sport/ Shop/ School/ Food/ Family/ Hospital/ Work/ Car/ Vacation/ House/ Music/ Pet/ Other Abstracts 200K 30M Condensed Matter/ CS/ Math/ Nonlinear Sciences/ Physics/ Bio/ Quant-Phy/ Statistics Table 4: Descriptive statistics of datasets and their attributes. Contextual Combined Topic Number Coherence RBO NPMI Coherence RBO NPMI 10 0.490 0.160 0.150 0.348 0.079 0.232 11 0.981 1.000 0.007 0.981 1.000 -0.008 12 0.986 1.000 0.030 0.933 1.000 -0.004 13 0.993 1.000 0.053 0.972 1.000 0.061 14 0.951 1.000 0.048 0.971 1.000 0.060 15 0.936 1.000 0.042 0.946 1.000 0.059 16 0.935 1.000 0.044 0.921 1.000 -0.008 17 0.905 0.998 0.042 0.922 0.992 0.037 18 0.906 0.982 0.045 0.868 0.989 0.038 19 0.892 0.977 0.043 0.822 0.982 0.021 20 0.882 0.972 0.040 0.802 0.978 0.022 Table 5: Contextual-based and Combined-based topic detection algorithms evaluate three widely used metrics: Topic Coherence, Inverted RBO, and NPMI. Figure 7: Human evaluations on Amazonmturk.

首先告诉我这道题的出处,作者,历史故事,接着用有趣和便于理解的方式叙述题目,


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好的,我来为您详细介绍这篇论文 “A-TIP: Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model”

论文出处、作者、历史故事

  1. 出处: 这篇论文发表于 COLING 2022 (The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics)。COLING 是计算语言学领域的顶级国际会议之一,由国际计算语言学委员会(International Committee on Computational Linguistics)主办。
  2. 作者:
    • 主要作者包括 Dongyuan Li, Jingyi You, Kotaro Funakoshi, 和 Manabu Okumura
    • 他们都来自东京工业大学(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  3. 历史故事与背景:
    • 这篇论文是在自然语言处理(NLP)领域大型预训练语言模型(如 BERT, GPT-2)取得巨大成功后,针对文本生成和修改这一应用方向的进一步探索。
    • 在此之前,文本填充(Text Infilling,即“填空”)任务已经受到关注,因为它在古籍修复(自动补全残缺的古代文本)和文本重写/编辑(辅助人类作者)等方面具有巨大潜力。
    • 其中一个重要的前作是 Donahue 等人于 2020 年提出的 ILM (Infilling by Language Modeling) 方法,该方法首次提出通过改变输入格式,让普通的自回归语言模型(如 GPT-2)也能有效处理文本中间的填空任务,而不仅仅是续写。
    • 然而,当时的文本填充方法主要关注生成内容的流畅性和上下文连贯性(即符合“双向语义约束”),却很少能控制生成内容的**“属性”(比如情感是积极还是消极,内容是关于哪个领域的话题)。此外,它们在精确控制空白的数量、位置和填充长度**方面也存在不足。
    • 正是在这样的背景下,这篇论文的作者们希望突破这些限制,创造一个既能灵活填空,又能让填充内容具备特定“风格”或“主题”的智能系统。

有趣和便于理解的方式叙述题目

想象一下,你有一支神奇的自动写作笔。你正在写一篇文章、一个故事或者一首歌,但有些地方你不知道该怎么写了,于是你留下了几个空白 [Mask]

这支笔的**“老版本”(之前的文本填充模型)很厉害,它能根据你空白前后的文字,帮你把空白填得天衣无缝,读起来非常流畅自然。但是,它有个小毛病:它只会填入最“平庸”、最“普通”的词句**。如果你想写一个充满积极情绪的句子,或者想让这段文字听起来像一篇**“计算机科学论文”**,它就无能为力了。而且,如果你留了两个空白,它有时会只填一个,或者填出来的长度和你预想的不一样。

A-TIP (Attribute-aware Text Infilling via Pre-trained Language Model) 这篇论文,就是研究如何把这支“老版本”的神奇笔升级成一支更“有思想”、更“有风格”的“超级自动写作笔”

这支超级笔主要有两个升级部件:

  1. 更聪明的“填空大脑”(Text Infilling Component):

    • 这个大脑本身还是基于我们熟悉的 GPT-2 这样的大型语言模型。
    • 但它被作者们重新训练了一下,装上了两套“特殊的感应器”:
      • 改进的注意力机制: 让它能更精准地“看到”空白前后的所有文字,并且能更好地理解空白与空白之间的关系。
      • 两级位置编码: 这就像给空白设置了“多维坐标系”。它不仅知道空白在整个文章的哪个位置(第一级坐标),还知道空白内部每个词相对于空白开头的距离(第二级坐标)。这样,它就能精确地控制要填多少个词,以及每个词填在哪里,从而解决老版本笔填空长度和数量不准的问题。
  2. 即插即用的“风格顾问”(Plug-and-Play Discriminator):

    • 这是 A-TIP 最酷的部分!它就像一个独立的小助手,你可以把它随时“插”到你的超级笔上。
    • 这个“风格顾问”被训练成了各种领域的专家:有“积极情感专家”、“消极情感专家”、“计算机科学领域专家”、“数学领域专家”等等。
    • 当你告诉它:“这次我要填一个积极的句子!”或者“我要一个计算机科学相关的填空!”它就会在超级笔生成文字的过程中,不断地“监督”和“引导”笔,让笔尽量选择那些能让填充内容符合你指定风格的词。
    • 最厉害的是,这个“风格顾问”是独立的,你不需要每次为了换一种风格就去重新训练那个巨大的“填空大脑”。你只要换个“顾问”就行!它既能保证你填进去的文字仍然流畅自然,又能确保它带上你想要的“风格烙印”。

最终成果:

这支 A-TIP 超级自动写作笔,能帮你填出:

  • 内容精确、长度合适的空白。
  • 上下文非常流畅的空白。
  • 最重要的是,能满足你指定的情感、主题或领域等特定“属性”要求的空白。

这使得它在恢复古籍、智能写作助手、内容创作等多个领域都具有巨大的应用潜力,因为它能让机器生成的文本更具“人性化”和“目的性”。


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我理解您希望我能为您直接提供 A-TIP 模型的完整实现代码。

然而,A-TIP 论文描述的是一个复杂的深度学习模型架构和训练推理流程,它涉及:

  1. 修改 GPT-2 模型的内部结构:例如,新的注意力机制和两级位置编码。
  2. 训练一个独立的判别器:这需要一个单独的分类模型和训练过程。
  3. 在推理阶段结合语言模型和判别器进行迭代式生成:这涉及到复杂的梯度计算、隐藏状态的调整和采样策略(如束搜索)。
  4. 依赖大型深度学习框架和预训练模型:如 PyTorch 或 TensorFlow,以及 Hugging Face Transformers 库中的 GPT-2 模型。

这些实现细节远超一个文本界面能够直接生成并确保可运行的代码范畴。 像这样的研究论文实现,通常需要数百甚至上千行代码,并依赖于特定的硬件(GPU)、大量的计算资源和复杂的数据处理流水线。

我无法为您提供一个即插即用、可直接运行的 A-TIP 完整代码,因为:

  • 环境设置:需要安装 PyTorch/TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers 等库。
  • 模型加载与修改:需要加载预训练的 GPT-2 模型,并对其注意力层和位置编码进行底层修改。这通常需要对 Transformer 架构有深入理解。
  • 数据准备:需要根据论文描述,对原始文本数据集进行复杂的掩码处理,生成 x~ [sep] y 格式的训练数据。
  • 训练流程:需要编写完整的训练循环,包括损失函数、优化器、批处理、验证、早停等。
  • 推理流程:判别器如何引导生成,KL 散度如何平衡,阈值策略如何应用,这些都是复杂的数学计算和模型交互。

我能为您做的是:

提供一个概念性的伪代码框架,或者解释核心组件应该如何抽象地实现。这将帮助您理解 A-TIP 的主要逻辑流,但需要您自己结合深度学习框架和库来填充具体实现细节。

您希望我提供一个这样的高层级伪代码框架吗?

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