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The paper presents Taylor Map Polynomial Neural Network (TMPNN), a novel form of very high-order polynomial regression, in which the same coefficients for a lower-to-moderate-order polynomial regression are iteratively reapplied so as to achieve a higher-order model without the number of coefficients to be fit exploding in the usual curse-of-dimensionality way. This method naturally implements multi-target regression and can capture internal relationships between targets. We also introduce an approach for model interpretation in the form of systems of differential equations. By benchmarking on Feynman regression, UCI, Friedman-1, and real-life industrial datasets, we demonstrate that the proposed method performs comparably to the state-of-the-art regression methods and outperforms them on specific tasks.

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TMPNN: High-Order Polynomial Regression Based on Taylor Map Factorization | VIDEO

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Reactive synthesis is the process of generate correct con- trollers from temporal logic specifications. Typically, synthesis is restricted to Boolean specifications in LTL. Recently, a Boolean abstraction technique allows to translate LTLT specifications that contain literals in theories into equi-realizable LTL specifications, but no full synthesis procedure exists yet. In synthesis modulo theories, the system receives valuations of environment variables (from a first-order theory T ) and outputs valuations of system variables from T . In this paper, we address how to syntheize a full controller using a combination of the static Boolean controller obtained from the Booleanized LTL specification together with on-the-fly queries to a solver that produces models of satisfiable existential T formulae. This is the first synthesis method for LTL modulo theories. Additionally, our method can produce adaptive responses which increases explainability and can improve runtime properties like performance. Our approach is applicable to both LTL modulo theories and LTLf modulo theories.

Adaptive Reactive Synthesis for LTL and LTLf Modulo Theories

Structured pruning techniques have achieved great compression performance on convolutional neural networks for image classification tasks. However, the majority of existing methods are sensitive with respect to the model parameters, and their pruning results may be unsatisfactory when the original model is trained poorly. That is, they need the original model to be fully trained, to obtain useful weight information. This is time-consuming, and makes the effectiveness of the pruning results dependent on the degree of model optimization. To address the above issue, we propose a novel metric named Average Filter Information Entropy (AFIE). It decomposes the weight matrix of each layer into a low-rank space, and quantifies the filter importance based on the distribution of the normalized eigenvalues. Intuitively, the eigenvalues capture the covariance among filters, and therefore could be a good guide for pruning. Since the distribution of eigenvalues is robust to the updating of parameters, AFIE can yield a stable evaluation for the importance of each filter no matter whether the original model is trained fully. We implement our AFIE-based pruning method for three popular CNN models of AlexNet, VGG-16, and ResNet-50, and test them on three widely-used image datasets MNIST, CIFAR-10, and ImageNet, respectively. The experimental results are encouraging. We surprisingly observe that for our methods, even when the original model is trained with only one epoch, the AFIE score of each filter keeps identical to the results when the model is fully-trained. This fully indicates the effectiveness of the proposed pruning method.

Entropy Induced Pruning Framework for Convolutional Neural Networks

We propose a novel unsupervised method to autoregressively generate videos from a single frame and a sparse motion input. Our trained model can generate unseen realistic object-to-object interactions. Although our model has never been given the explicit segmentation and motion of each object in the scene during training, it is able to implicitly separate their dynamics and extents. Key components in our method are the randomized conditioning scheme, the encoding of the input motion control, and the randomized and sparse sampling to enable generalization to out of distribution but realistic correlations. Our model, which we call YODA, has therefore the ability to move objects without physically touching them. Through extensive qualitative and quantitative evaluations on several datasets, we show that YODA is on par with or better than state of the art video generation prior work in terms of both controllability and video quality.

Learn the Force We Can: Enabling Sparse Motion Control in Multi-Object Video Generation

GAN-based image attribute editing firstly leverages GAN Inversion to project real images into the latent space of GAN and then manipulates corresponding latent codes. Recent inversion methods mainly utilize additional high-bit features to improve image details preservation, as low-bit codes cannot faithfully reconstruct source images, leading to the loss of details. However, during editing, existing works fail to accurately complement the lost details and suffer from poor editability. The main reason is they inject all the lost details indiscriminately at one time, which inherently induces the position and quantity of details to overfit source images, resulting in inconsistent content and artifacts in edited images. This work argues that details should be gradually injected into both the reconstruction and editing process in a multi-stage coarse-to-fine manner for better detail preservation and high editability. Therefore, a novel dual-stream framework is proposed to accurately complement details at each stage. The Reconstruction Stream is employed to embed coarse-to-fine lost details into residual features and then adaptively add them to the GAN generator. In the Editing Stream, residual features are accurately aligned by our Selective Attention mechanism and then injected into the editing process in a multi-stage manner. Extensive experiments have shown the superiority of our framework in both reconstruction accuracy and editing quality compared with existing methods.

Gradual Residuals Alignment: A Dual-Stream Framework for GAN Inversion and Image Attribute Editing

In this paper, we propose a novel model called SGFormer, Semantic Graph TransFormer for point cloud-based 3D scene graph generation. The task aims to parse a point cloud-based scene into a semantic structural graph, with the core challenge of modeling the complex global structure. Existing methods based on graph convolutional networks (GCNs) suffer from the over-smoothing dilemma and can only propagate information from limited neighboring nodes. In contrast, SGFormer uses Transformer layers as the base building block to allow global information passing, with two types of newly-designed layers tailored for the 3D scene graph generation task. Specifically, we introduce the graph embedding layer to best utilize the global information in graph edges while maintaining comparable computation costs. Furthermore, we propose the semantic injection layer to leverage linguistic knowledge from large-scale language model (i.e., ChatGPT), to enhance objects' visual features. We benchmark our SGFormer on the established 3DSSG dataset and achieve a 40.94% absolute improvement in relationship prediction's R@50 and an 88.36% boost on the subset with complex scenes over the state-of-the-art. Our analyses further show SGFormer's superiority in the long-tail and zero-shot scenarios. Our source code is available at https://github.com/Andy20178/SGFormer.

SGFormer: Semantic Graph Transformer for Point Cloud-Based 3D Scene Graph Generation

In set-based face recognition, we aim to compute the most discriminative descriptor from an unbounded set of images and videos showing a single person. A discriminative descriptor balances two policies when aggregating information from a given set. The first is a quality-based policy: emphasizing high-quality and down-weighting low-quality images. The second is a diversity-based policy: emphasizing unique images in the set and down-weighting multiple occurrences of similar images as found in video clips which can overwhelm the set representation.
This work frames face-set representation as a differentiable coreset selection problem. Our model learns how to select a small coreset of the input set that balances quality and diversity policies using a learned metric parameterized by the face quality, optimized end-to-end. The selection process is a differentiable farthest-point sampling (FPS) realized by approximating the non-differentiable Argmax operation with differentiable sampling from the Gumbel-Softmax distribution of distances. The small coreset is later used as queries in a self and cross-attention architecture to enrich the descriptor with information from the whole set. Our model is order-invariant and linear in the input set size.
We set a new SOTA to set face verification on the IJB-B and IJB-C datasets. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/ligaripash/FaceCoresetNet.

FaceCoresetNet: Differentiable Coresets for Face Set Recognition

This paper presents an approach to frame semantic role labeling (FSRL), a task in natural language processing that identifies semantic roles within a text following the theory of frame semantics. Unlike previous approaches which do not adequately model correlations and interactions amongst arguments, we propose arbitrary-order conditional random fields (CRFs) that are capable of modeling full interaction amongst an arbitrary number of arguments of a given predicate. To achieve tractable representation and inference, we apply canonical polyadic decomposition to the arbitrary-order factor in our proposed CRF and utilize mean-field variational inference for approximate inference. We further unfold our iterative inference procedure into a recurrent neural network that is connected to our neural encoder and scorer, enabling end-to-end training and inference. Finally, we also improve our model with several techniques such as span-based scoring and decoding. Our experiments show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance in FSRL.

Frame Semantic Role Labeling Using Arbitrary-Order Conditional Random Fields

In the field of autonomous driving, accurate and comprehensive perception of the 3D environment is crucial.
Bird's Eye View (BEV) based methods have emerged as a promising solution for 3D object detection using multi-view images as input.
However, existing 3D object detection methods often ignore the physical context in the environment, such as sidewalk and vegetation, resulting in sub-optimal performance. 
In this paper, we propose a novel approach called SOGDet (Semantic-Occupancy Guided Multi-view 3D Object Detection), that leverages a 3D semantic-occupancy branch to improve the accuracy of 3D object detection.  
In particular, the physical context modeled by semantic occupancy helps the detector to perceive the scenes in a more holistic view.
Our SOGDet is flexible to use and can be seamlessly integrated with most existing BEV-based methods.
To evaluate its effectiveness, we apply this approach to several state-of-the-art baselines and conduct extensive experiments on the exclusive nuScenes dataset.
Our results show that SOGDet consistently enhance the performance of three baseline methods in terms of nuScenes Detection Score (NDS) and mean Average Precision (mAP). 
This indicates that the combination of 3D object detection and 3D semantic occupancy leads to a more comprehensive perception of the 3D environment, thereby aiding build more robust autonomous driving systems.
The codes are available at: https://github.com/zhouqiu/SOGDet.

SOGDet: Semantic-Occupancy Guided Multi-View 3D Object Detection

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) play a vital role in advancing the field of graph representation learning by addressing the complexities arising from diverse data types and interconnected relationships in real-world scenarios. However, traditional HGNNs face challenges when applied to large-scale graphs due to the necessity of training or inferring on the entire graph. As the size of the heterogeneous graphs increases, the time and memory overhead required by these models escalates rapidly, even reaching unacceptable levels. To address this issue, in this paper, we present a novel framework named (SubInfer), which conducts training and inferring on subgraphs instead of the entire graphs, hence efficiently handling large-scale heterogeneous graphs. The proposed framework comprises three main steps: 1) partitioning the heterogeneous graph from multiple perspectives to preserve various semantic information, 2) completing the subgraphs to improve the convergence speed of subgraph training and the performance of subgraph inference, and 3) training and inferring the HGNN model on distributed clusters to further reduce the time overhead. The framework is applicable to the vast majority of HGNN models. Experiments on five benchmark datasets demonstrate that SubInfer effectively optimizes the training and inference phase, delivering comparable performance to traditional HGNN models while significantly reducing time and memory overhead.

An Efficient Subgraph-Inferring Framework for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Graphs

Video highlights detection (VHD) is an active research field in computer vision, aiming to locate the most user-appealing clips given raw video inputs. However, most VHD methods are based on the closed world assumption, i.e., a fixed number of highlight categories is defined in advance and all training data are available beforehand. Consequently, existing methods have poor scalability with respect to increasing highlight domains and training data. To address above issues, we propose a novel video highlights detection method named Global Prototype Encoding (GPE) to learn incrementally for adapting to new domains via parameterized prototypes. To facilitate this new research direction, we collect a finely annotated dataset termed LiveFood, including over 5,100 live gourmet videos that consist of four domains: ingredients, cooking, presentation, and eating. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to explore video highlights detection in the incremental learning setting, opening up new land to apply VHD for practical scenarios where both the concerned highlight domains and training data increase over time. We demonstrate the effectiveness of GPE through extensive experiments. Notably,  GPE surpasses popular domain incremental learning methods on LiveFood, achieving significant mAP improvements on all domains. Concerning the classic datasets, GPE also yields comparable performance as previous arts. The code is available at: https://github.com/ForeverPs/IncrementalVHD_GPE.

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