In this task, you are given the abstract of a research paper. Your task is to generate a summary of this abstract. Your summary should not be very short, but it's better if it's not more than 30 words.

Analysis methods which enable us to better understand the
representations and functioning of neural models of language are
increasingly needed as deep learning becomes the dominant approach
in NLP. Here we present two methods based on Representational
Similarity Analysis (RSA) and Tree Kernels (TK) which allow us to
directly quantify how strongly the information encoded in neural
activation patterns corresponds to information represented by
symbolic structures such as syntax trees. We first validate our
methods on the case of a simple synthetic language for arithmetic
expressions with clearly defined syntax and semantics, and show that
they exhibit the expected pattern of results. We then apply our methods to
correlate neural representations of English sentences with their
constituency parse trees.
Two methods based on Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA) and Tree Kernels (TK) which directly quantify how strongly information encoded in neural activation patterns corresponds to information represented by symbolic structures.

Targeted clean-label poisoning is a type of adversarial attack on machine learning systems where the adversary injects a few correctly-labeled, minimally-perturbed samples into the training data thus causing the deployed model to misclassify a particular test sample during inference. Although defenses have been proposed for general poisoning attacks (those which aim to reduce overall test accuracy), no reliable defense for clean-label attacks has been demonstrated, despite the attacks' effectiveness and their realistic use cases. In this work, we propose a set of simple, yet highly-effective defenses against these attacks.
We test our proposed approach against two recently published clean-label poisoning attacks, both of which use the CIFAR-10 dataset. After reproducing their experiments, we demonstrate that our defenses are able to detect over 99% of poisoning examples in both attacks and remove them without any compromise on model performance. Our simple defenses show that current clean-label poisoning attack strategies can be annulled, and serve as strong but simple-to-implement baseline defense for which to test future clean-label poisoning attacks.
We present effective defenses to clean-label poisoning attacks.

Deep autoregressive models have shown state-of-the-art performance in density estimation for natural images on large-scale datasets such as ImageNet. However, such models require many thousands of gradient-based weight updates and unique image examples for training. Ideally, the models would rapidly learn visual concepts from only a handful of examples, similar to the manner in which humans learns across many vision tasks. In this paper, we show how 1) neural attention and 2) meta learning techniques can be used in combination with autoregressive models to enable effective few-shot density estimation. Our proposed modifications to PixelCNN result in state-of-the art few-shot density estimation on the Omniglot dataset. Furthermore, we visualize the learned attention policy and find that it learns intuitive algorithms for simple tasks such as image mirroring on ImageNet and handwriting on Omniglot without supervision. Finally, we extend the model to natural images and demonstrate few-shot image generation on the Stanford Online Products dataset.
Few-shot learning PixelCNN