Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for point cloud generation. A key component that drives the impressive performance for generating high-quality samples from noise is iteratively denoise for thousands of steps. While beneficial, the complexity of learning steps has limited its applications to many 3D real-world. To address this limitation, we propose Point Straight Flow (PSF), a model that exhibits impressive performance using one step. Our idea is based on the reformulation of the standard diffusion model, which optimizes the curvy learning trajectory into a straight path. Further, we develop a distillation strategy to shorten the straight path into one step without a performance loss, enabling applications to 3D real-world with latency constraints. We perform evaluations on multiple 3D tasks and find that our PSF performs comparably to the standard diffusion model, outperforming other efficient 3D point cloud generation methods. On real-world applications such as point cloud completion and training-free text-guided generation in a low-latency setup, PSF performs favorably.

我们提出了整流的流程，这是一种令人惊讶的简单学习方法（神经）的普通微分方程（ODE）模型，用于在两个经验观察到的分布\ pi_0和\ pi_1之间运输，因此为生成建模和域转移提供了统一的解决方案，以及其他各种任务。涉及分配运输。整流流的想法是学习ode，以遵循尽可能多的连接从\ pi_0和\ pi_1的直径。这是通过解决直接的非线性最小二乘优化问题来实现的，该问题可以轻松地缩放到大型模型，而无需在标准监督学习之外引入额外的参数。直径是特殊的，因此是特殊的，因为它们是两个点之间的最短路径，并且可以精确模拟而无需时间离散，因此可以在计算上产生高效的模型。我们表明，从数据（称为整流）中学习的整流流的过程将\ pi_0和\ pi_1的任意耦合转变为新的确定性耦合，并证明是非侵入的凸面运输成本。此外，递归应用矫正使我们能够获得具有越来越直的路径的流动序列，可以在推理阶段进行粗略的时间离散化来准确地模拟。在实证研究中，我们表明，整流流对图像产生，图像到图像翻译和域的适应性表现出色。特别是，在图像生成和翻译上，我们的方法几乎产生了几乎直流的流，即使是单个Euler离散步骤，也会产生高质量的结果。

基于AI的分子生成为大量生物医学科学和工程（例如抗体设计，水解酶工程或疫苗开发）提供了一种有希望的方法。由于分子受物理定律的管辖，所以关键的挑战是将先前的信息纳入训练程序中，以产生高质量和现实的分子。我们提出了一种简单而新颖的方法，以引导基于扩散的生成模型培训具有物理和统计的先验信息。这是通过构建物理知情的扩散桥，即保证在固定末端产生给定观察的随机过程来实现的。我们开发了一种基于Lyapunov函数的方法来构建和确定桥梁，并提出了许多有关高质量分子生成和均匀性促进的3D点云生成的信息丰富的先验桥的建议。通过全面的实验，我们表明我们的方法为3D生成任务提供了强大的方法，从而产生具有更好质量和稳定性得分的分子结构，并且具有更高质量的分布点云。

积极的学习有效地收集了无标记的数据以进行注释，从而减少了对标记数据的需求。在这项工作中，我们建议以局部灵敏度和硬度感知的获取功能检索未标记的样品。所提出的方法通过局部扰动生成数据副本，并选择其预测可能性与其副本最大的数据点。我们通过注入选择的情况扰动来进一步增强我们的采集功能。我们的方法可以在各种分类任务中对常用的活跃学习策略获得一致的收益。此外，我们在基于迅速的几次学习中迅速选择的研究中观察到对基准的持续改进。这些实验表明，我们以局部敏感性和硬度为指导的获取对许多NLP任务都是有效和有益的。

生成自然语言指令的图像是一个有趣但高度挑战的任务。我们通过将reverting剪辑表示与现成的图像发生器（GAN）的功率组合来实现文本到图像生成，在GaN的潜在空间中优化，找到与给定输入文本实现最大剪辑分数的图像。与传统方法相比，从划痕开始从文本到图像培训生成模型，剪辑+ GaN方法是无训练，零射击，可以用不同的发电机轻松定制。然而，在GaN空间中优化剪辑得分投射了一个高度挑战的优化问题，以及诸如ADAM的现成优化器，不能产生满足结果。在这项工作中，我们提出了一个FusedReam管道，它通过三个关键技术改进了剪辑+ GaN方法：1）通过在图像上引入随机增强来强制剪辑目标的Augclip分数。 2）优化的新颖初始化和过参数化策略，允许我们有效地导航GaN空间中的非凸景观。 3）通过利用新型双级优化制剂的组合生成技术，可以构成多个图像以扩展GaN空间并克服数据偏置。当由不同的输入文本推广时，FusedReam可以产生具有不同对象，背景，艺术风格的高质量图像，甚至没有出现在我们使用的GaN的训练数据中的新的反事概念。定量地，由FusedReam生成的图像在MS Coco DataSet上产生顶级初始成绩和FID分数，而无需额外的架构设计或培训。我们的代码公开可用于\ url {https:/github.com/gnobitab/fusedream}。

Brain midline shift (MLS) is one of the most critical factors to be considered for clinical diagnosis and treatment decision-making for intracranial hemorrhage. Existing computational methods on MLS quantification not only require intensive labeling in millimeter-level measurement but also suffer from poor performance due to their dependence on specific landmarks or simplified anatomical assumptions. In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised framework to accurately measure the scale of MLS from head CT scans. We formulate the MLS measurement task as a deformation estimation problem and solve it using a few MLS slices with sparse labels. Meanwhile, with the help of diffusion models, we are able to use a great number of unlabeled MLS data and 2793 non-MLS cases for representation learning and regularization. The extracted representation reflects how the image is different from a non-MLS image and regularization serves an important role in the sparse-to-dense refinement of the deformation field. Our experiment on a real clinical brain hemorrhage dataset has achieved state-of-the-art performance and can generate interpretable deformation fields.

Current mainstream object detection methods for large aerial images usually divide large images into patches and then exhaustively detect the objects of interest on all patches, no matter whether there exist objects or not. This paradigm, although effective, is inefficient because the detectors have to go through all patches, severely hindering the inference speed. This paper presents an Objectness Activation Network (OAN) to help detectors focus on fewer patches but achieve more efficient inference and more accurate results, enabling a simple and effective solution to object detection in large images. In brief, OAN is a light fully-convolutional network for judging whether each patch contains objects or not, which can be easily integrated into many object detectors and jointly trained with them end-to-end. We extensively evaluate our OAN with five advanced detectors. Using OAN, all five detectors acquire more than 30.0% speed-up on three large-scale aerial image datasets, meanwhile with consistent accuracy improvements. On extremely large Gaofen-2 images (29200$\times$27620 pixels), our OAN improves the detection speed by 70.5%. Moreover, we extend our OAN to driving-scene object detection and 4K video object detection, boosting the detection speed by 112.1% and 75.0%, respectively, without sacrificing the accuracy. Code is available at https://github.com/Ranchosky/OAN.

We study the problem of semantic segmentation calibration. For image classification, lots of existing solutions are proposed to alleviate model miscalibration of confidence. However, to date, confidence calibration research on semantic segmentation is still limited. We provide a systematic study on the calibration of semantic segmentation models and propose a simple yet effective approach. First, we find that model capacity, crop size, multi-scale testing, and prediction correctness have impact on calibration. Among them, prediction correctness, especially misprediction, is more important to miscalibration due to over-confidence. Next, we propose a simple, unifying, and effective approach, namely selective scaling, by separating correct/incorrect prediction for scaling and more focusing on misprediction logit smoothing. Then, we study popular existing calibration methods and compare them with selective scaling on semantic segmentation calibration. We conduct extensive experiments with a variety of benchmarks on both in-domain and domain-shift calibration, and show that selective scaling consistently outperforms other methods.

In this paper, we propose a large-scale language pre-training for text GENeration using dIffusion modEl, which is named GENIE. GENIE is a pre-training sequence-to-sequence text generation model which combines Transformer and diffusion. The diffusion model accepts the latent information from the encoder, which is used to guide the denoising of the current time step. After multiple such denoise iterations, the diffusion model can restore the Gaussian noise to the diverse output text which is controlled by the input text. Moreover, such architecture design also allows us to adopt large scale pre-training on the GENIE. We propose a novel pre-training method named continuous paragraph denoise based on the characteristics of the diffusion model. Extensive experiments on the XSum, CNN/DailyMail, and Gigaword benchmarks shows that GENIE can achieves comparable performance with various strong baselines, especially after pre-training, the generation quality of GENIE is greatly improved. We have also conduct a lot of experiments on the generation diversity and parameter impact of GENIE. The code for GENIE will be made publicly available.

Developing autonomous vehicles (AVs) helps improve the road safety and traffic efficiency of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Accurately predicting the trajectories of traffic participants is essential to the decision-making and motion planning of AVs in interactive scenarios. Recently, learning-based trajectory predictors have shown state-of-the-art performance in highway or urban areas. However, most existing learning-based models trained with fixed datasets may perform poorly in continuously changing scenarios. Specifically, they may not perform well in learned scenarios after learning the new one. This phenomenon is called "catastrophic forgetting". Few studies investigate trajectory predictions in continuous scenarios, where catastrophic forgetting may happen. To handle this problem, first, a novel continual learning (CL) approach for vehicle trajectory prediction is proposed in this paper. Then, inspired by brain science, a dynamic memory mechanism is developed by utilizing the measurement of traffic divergence between scenarios, which balances the performance and training efficiency of the proposed CL approach. Finally, datasets collected from different locations are used to design continual training and testing methods in experiments. Experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves consistently high prediction accuracy in continuous scenarios without re-training, which mitigates catastrophic forgetting compared to non-CL approaches. The implementation of the proposed approach is publicly available at https://github.com/BIT-Jack/D-GSM