In this paper we propose a pooling approach for convolutional information processing on graphs relying on the theory of graphons and limits of dense graph sequences. We present three methods that exploit the induced graphon representation of graphs and graph signals on partitions of [0, 1]2 in the graphon space. As a result we derive low dimensional representations of the convolutional operators, while a dimensionality reduction of the signals is achieved by simple local interpolation of functions in L2([0, 1]). We prove that those low dimensional representations constitute a convergent sequence of graphs and graph signals, respectively. The methods proposed and the theoretical guarantees that we provide show that the reduced graphs and signals inherit spectral-structural properties of the original quantities. We evaluate our approach with a set of numerical experiments performed on graph neural networks (GNNs) that rely on graphon pooling. We observe that graphon pooling performs significantly better than other approaches proposed in the literature when dimensionality reduction ratios between layers are large. We also observe that when graphon pooling is used we have, in general, less overfitting and lower computational cost.

图卷积学习导致了各个领域的许多令人兴奋的发现。但是，在某些应用中，传统图不足以捕获数据的结构和复杂性。在这种情况下，多编码自然出现是可以嵌入复杂动力学的离散结构。在本文中，我们开发了有关多编码的卷积信息处理，并引入了卷积多编码神经网络（MGNN）。为了捕获每个多数边缘内外的信息传播的复杂动力学，我们正式化了一个卷积信号处理模型，从而定义了多格画上信号，过滤和频率表示的概念。利用该模型，我们开发了多个学习架构，包括采样程序以降低计算复杂性。引入的体系结构用于最佳无线资源分配和仇恨言语本地化任务，从而比传统的图形神经网络的性能提高了。

在本文中，我们研究了考虑基础图的扰动的聚集图神经网络（ag-gnns）的稳定性。 Agg-gnn是一种混合体系结构，在图上定义了信息，但是在图形移位算子上进行了几次扩散后，在节点上的欧几里得CNN对其进行了处理。我们为与通用Agg-GNN关联的映射运算符得出稳定性界限，并指定了该操作员可以稳定变形的条件。我们证明稳定性边界是由在每个节点上作用的CNN的第一层中过滤器的属性定义的。此外，我们表明聚集的数量，滤波器的选择性和稳定性常数的大小之间存在密切的关系。我们还得出结论，在Agg-gnns中，映射运算符的选择性仅在CNN阶段的第一层中与过滤器的属性相关。这显示了相对于选择GNN的稳定性的实质性差异，其中所有层中过滤器的选择性受其稳定性的约束。我们提供了证实结果得出的结果的数值证据，测试了考虑不同幅度扰动的现实生活应用方案中的ag-gnn的行为。

在本文中，我们为基于非交换代数的代数神经网络（ALGNN）提供稳定性结果。 ALGNN是堆叠的分层结构，每个层都与代数信号模型（ASM）相关联，由代数，矢量空间和同态性。信号被建模为矢量空间的元素，过滤器是代数中的元素，而同态则可以实现过滤器作为混凝土操作员。我们研究了代数过滤器在非交换代数对同态扰动中的稳定性，并提供了保证稳定性的条件。我们表明，轮班运算符和偏移和扰动之间的换向性不会影响稳定体系结构的属性。这提供了一个问题，即转移不变性是否是保证稳定性的卷积体系结构的必要属性。此外，我们表明，尽管非交换代数中过滤器的频率响应在交换代数中与过滤器相对于过滤器表现出很大的差异，但它们的稳定过滤器的衍生物具有相似的行为。

Modelling and forecasting real-life human behaviour using online social media is an active endeavour of interest in politics, government, academia, and industry. Since its creation in 2006, Twitter has been proposed as a potential laboratory that could be used to gauge and predict social behaviour. During the last decade, the user base of Twitter has been growing and becoming more representative of the general population. Here we analyse this user base in the context of the 2021 Mexican Legislative Election. To do so, we use a dataset of 15 million election-related tweets in the six months preceding election day. We explore different election models that assign political preference to either the ruling parties or the opposition. We find that models using data with geographical attributes determine the results of the election with better precision and accuracy than conventional polling methods. These results demonstrate that analysis of public online data can outperform conventional polling methods, and that political analysis and general forecasting would likely benefit from incorporating such data in the immediate future. Moreover, the same Twitter dataset with geographical attributes is positively correlated with results from official census data on population and internet usage in Mexico. These findings suggest that we have reached a period in time when online activity, appropriately curated, can provide an accurate representation of offline behaviour.

In this work, we address the problem of unsupervised moving object segmentation (MOS) in 4D LiDAR data recorded from a stationary sensor, where no ground truth annotations are involved. Deep learning-based state-of-the-art methods for LiDAR MOS strongly depend on annotated ground truth data, which is expensive to obtain and scarce in existence. To close this gap in the stationary setting, we propose a novel 4D LiDAR representation based on multivariate time series that relaxes the problem of unsupervised MOS to a time series clustering problem. More specifically, we propose modeling the change in occupancy of a voxel by a multivariate occupancy time series (MOTS), which captures spatio-temporal occupancy changes on the voxel level and its surrounding neighborhood. To perform unsupervised MOS, we train a neural network in a self-supervised manner to encode MOTS into voxel-level feature representations, which can be partitioned by a clustering algorithm into moving or stationary. Experiments on stationary scenes from the Raw KITTI dataset show that our fully unsupervised approach achieves performance that is comparable to that of supervised state-of-the-art approaches.

Content moderation is the process of screening and monitoring user-generated content online. It plays a crucial role in stopping content resulting from unacceptable behaviors such as hate speech, harassment, violence against specific groups, terrorism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, or misogyny, to mention some few, in Online Social Platforms. These platforms make use of a plethora of tools to detect and manage malicious information; however, malicious actors also improve their skills, developing strategies to surpass these barriers and continuing to spread misleading information. Twisting and camouflaging keywords are among the most used techniques to evade platform content moderation systems. In response to this recent ongoing issue, this paper presents an innovative approach to address this linguistic trend in social networks through the simulation of different content evasion techniques and a multilingual Transformer model for content evasion detection. In this way, we share with the rest of the scientific community a multilingual public tool, named "pyleetspeak" to generate/simulate in a customizable way the phenomenon of content evasion through automatic word camouflage and a multilingual Named-Entity Recognition (NER) Transformer-based model tuned for its recognition and detection. The multilingual NER model is evaluated in different textual scenarios, detecting different types and mixtures of camouflage techniques, achieving an overall weighted F1 score of 0.8795. This article contributes significantly to countering malicious information by developing multilingual tools to simulate and detect new methods of evasion of content on social networks, making the fight against information disorders more effective.

Algorithms that involve both forecasting and optimization are at the core of solutions to many difficult real-world problems, such as in supply chains (inventory optimization), traffic, and in the transition towards carbon-free energy generation in battery/load/production scheduling in sustainable energy systems. Typically, in these scenarios we want to solve an optimization problem that depends on unknown future values, which therefore need to be forecast. As both forecasting and optimization are difficult problems in their own right, relatively few research has been done in this area. This paper presents the findings of the ``IEEE-CIS Technical Challenge on Predict+Optimize for Renewable Energy Scheduling," held in 2021. We present a comparison and evaluation of the seven highest-ranked solutions in the competition, to provide researchers with a benchmark problem and to establish the state of the art for this benchmark, with the aim to foster and facilitate research in this area. The competition used data from the Monash Microgrid, as well as weather data and energy market data. It then focused on two main challenges: forecasting renewable energy production and demand, and obtaining an optimal schedule for the activities (lectures) and on-site batteries that lead to the lowest cost of energy. The most accurate forecasts were obtained by gradient-boosted tree and random forest models, and optimization was mostly performed using mixed integer linear and quadratic programming. The winning method predicted different scenarios and optimized over all scenarios jointly using a sample average approximation method.

The proliferation of automatic faithfulness metrics for summarization has produced a need for benchmarks to evaluate them. While existing benchmarks measure the correlation with human judgements of faithfulness on model-generated summaries, they are insufficient for diagnosing whether metrics are: 1) consistent, i.e., decrease as errors are introduced into a summary, 2) effective on human-written texts, and 3) sensitive to different error types (as summaries can contain multiple errors). To address these needs, we present a benchmark of unfaithful minimal pairs (BUMP), a dataset of 889 human-written, minimally different summary pairs, where a single error (from an ontology of 7 types) is introduced to a summary from the CNN/DailyMail dataset to produce an unfaithful summary. We find BUMP complements existing benchmarks in a number of ways: 1) the summaries in BUMP are harder to discriminate and less probable under SOTA summarization models, 2) BUMP enables measuring the consistency of metrics, and reveals that the most discriminative metrics tend not to be the most consistent, 3) BUMP enables the measurement of metrics' performance on individual error types and highlights areas of weakness for future work.

Machine-learning classifiers can be leveraged as a two-sample statistical test. Suppose each sample is assigned a different label and that a classifier can obtain a better-than-chance result discriminating them. In this case, we can infer that both samples originate from different populations. However, many types of models, such as neural networks, behave as a black-box for the user: they can reject that both samples originate from the same population, but they do not offer insight into how both samples differ. Self-Organizing Maps are a dimensionality reduction initially devised as a data visualization tool that displays emergent properties, being also useful for classification tasks. Since they can be used as classifiers, they can be used also as a two-sample statistical test. But since their original purpose is visualization, they can also offer insights.