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Automated bug priority inference can reduce the time overhead of bug triagers for priority assignments, improving the efficiency of software maintenance. Currently, there are two orthogonal lines for this task, i.e., traditional machine learning based (TML-based) and neural network based (NN-based) approaches. Although these approaches achieve competitive performance, our observation finds that existing approaches face the following two issues: 1) TML-based approaches require much manual feature engineering and cannot learn the semantic information of bug reports; 2) Both TML-based and NN-based approaches cannot effectively address the label imbalance problem because they are difficult to distinguish the semantic difference between bug reports with different priorities. In this paper, we propose CLeBPI (Contrastive Learning for Bug Priority Inference), which leverages pre-trained language model and contrastive learning to tackle the above-mentioned two issues. Specifically, CLeBPI is first pre-trained on a large-scale bug report corpus in a self-supervised way, thus it can automatically learn contextual representations of bug reports without manual feature engineering. Afterward, it is further pre-trained by a contrastive learning objective, which enables it to distinguish semantic differences between bug reports, learning more precise contextual representations for each bug report. When finishing pre-training, we can connect a classification layer to CLeBPI and fine-tune it for bug priority inference in a supervised way. To verify the effectiveness of CLeBPI, we choose four baseline approaches and conduct comparison experiments on a public dataset. The experimental results show that CLeBPI outperforms all baseline approaches by 23.86%-77.80% in terms of weighted average F1-score, showing its effectiveness., Comment: 22 pages, 5 figures

Computer vision technology is widely used in biological and medical data analysis and understanding. However, there are still two major bottlenecks in the field of cell membrane segmentation, which seriously hinder further research: lack of sufficient high-quality data and lack of suitable evaluation criteria. In order to solve these two problems, this paper first proposes an Ultra-high Resolution Image Segmentation dataset for the Cell membrane, called U-RISC, the largest annotated Electron Microscopy (EM) dataset for the Cell membrane with multiple iterative annotations and uncompressed high-resolution raw data. During the analysis process of the U-RISC, we found that the current popular segmentation evaluation criteria are inconsistent with human perception. This interesting phenomenon is confirmed by a subjective experiment involving twenty people. Furthermore, to resolve this inconsistency, we propose a new evaluation criterion called Perceptual Hausdorff Distance (PHD) to measure the quality of cell membrane segmentation results. Detailed performance comparison and discussion of classic segmentation methods along with two iterative manual annotation results under existing evaluation criteria and PHD is given., Comment: submitted to ICLR 2021