With the increasing use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in critical real-world applications, several post hoc explanation methods have been proposed to understand their predictions. However, there has been no work in generating explanations on the fly during model training and utilizing them to improve the expressive power of the underlying GNN models. In this work, we introduce a novel explanation-directed neural message passing framework for GNNs, EXPASS (EXplainable message PASSing), which aggregates only embeddings from nodes and edges identified as important by a GNN explanation method. EXPASS can be used with any existing GNN architecture and subgraph-optimizing explainer to learn accurate graph embeddings. We theoretically show that EXPASS alleviates the oversmoothing problem in GNNs by slowing the layer wise loss of Dirichlet energy and that the embedding difference between the vanilla message passing and EXPASS framework can be upper bounded by the difference of their respective model weights. Our empirical results show that graph embeddings learned using EXPASS improve the predictive performance and alleviate the oversmoothing problems of GNNs, opening up new frontiers in graph machine learning to develop explanation-based training frameworks.

由于事后解释越来越多地用于了解图神经网络（GNN）的行为，因此评估GNN解释的质量和可靠性至关重要。但是，评估GNN解释的质量是具有挑战性的，因为现有的图形数据集对给定任务没有或不可靠的基础真相解释。在这里，我们介绍了一个合成图数据生成器ShapeGgen，该生成可以生成各种基准数据集（例如，不同的图形大小，度分布，同粒细胞与异性图）以及伴随着地面真相解释。此外，生成各种合成数据集和相应的基础真相解释的灵活性使我们能够模仿各种现实世界应用程序生成的数据。我们将ShapeGgen和几个现实图形数据集包括在开源图形图库GraphXai中。除了带有基础真相说明的合成和现实图形数据集外，GraphXAI还提供数据加载程序，数据处理功能，可视化器，GNN模型实现和评估指标，以基准基准GNN解释性方法的性能。

尽管在最近的文献中提出了几种类型的事后解释方法（例如，特征归因方法），但在系统地以有效且透明的方式进行系统基准测试这些方法几乎没有工作。在这里，我们介绍了OpenXai，这是一个全面且可扩展的开源框架，用于评估和基准测试事后解释方法。 OpenXAI由以下关键组件组成：（i）灵活的合成数据生成器以及各种现实世界数据集，预训练的模型和最新功能属性方法的集合，（ii）开源实现22个定量指标，用于评估忠诚，稳定性（稳健性）和解释方法的公平性，以及（iii）有史以来第一个公共XAI XAI排行榜对基准解释。 OpenXAI很容易扩展，因为用户可以轻松地评估自定义说明方法并将其纳入我们的排行榜。总体而言，OpenXAI提供了一种自动化的端到端管道，该管道不仅简化并标准化了事后解释方法的评估，而且还促进了基准这些方法的透明度和可重复性。 OpenXAI数据集和数据加载程序，最先进的解释方法的实现和评估指标以及排行榜，可在https://open-xai.github.io/上公开获得。

在机器学习中，一个极大的兴趣问题是了解哪些示例对于模型进行分类是有挑战性的。确定非典型示例可确保模型的安全部署，隔离需要进一步检查的样本，并为模型行为提供解释性。在这项工作中，我们提出梯度（VOG）的差异为有价值和有效的度量，以通过难度对数据进行排名，并浮出水面最具挑战性的人类审计示例的可行子集。我们表明，对于模型而言，具有较高VOG分数的数据点要在损坏或记忆的示例上学习和过度索引。此外，将评估限制为具有最低VOG的测试集实例，可以改善模型的泛化性能。最后，我们证明VOG是分布外检测的有价值和有效的排名。

在过去的几年中，人类视力与卷积神经网络（CNN）之间越来越多的相似之处。然而，香草CNN通常在推广到对抗性或分布（OOD）示例的概括方面表现出卓越的性能。对抗训练是一种领先的学习算法，用于提高CNN在对抗和OOD数据上的鲁棒性；但是，对这些属性，特别是形状偏差和内部特征知之甚少，在对抗性CNN中学到的内部特征。在本文中，我们进行了一项彻底的系统研究，以了解形状偏差和一些内部机制，以使Alexnet，Googlenet和Resnet-50模型的普遍性通过对抗训练进行了训练。我们发现，尽管标准成像网分类器具有较强的纹理偏见，但它们的R对应物很大程度上依赖形状。值得注意的是，对抗性训练在“鲁棒性” CNN的过程中诱导了隐藏的神经元的三个简单偏见。也就是说，R网络中的每个卷积神经元经常会更改以检测（1）像素的平滑模式，即一种机制，该机制可以阻止高频噪声通过网络； （2）更多较低级别的功能，即纹理和颜色（而不是对象）；（3）输入类型较少。我们的发现揭示了有趣的机制，这些机制使网络更具对抗性，并解释了一些最新发现，例如，为什么R网络从更大的容量中受益（Xie等，2020），并且可以在图像合成中充当强大的图像（Santurkar et eT） Al。2019）。

We introduce Argoverse 2 (AV2) - a collection of three datasets for perception and forecasting research in the self-driving domain. The annotated Sensor Dataset contains 1,000 sequences of multimodal data, encompassing high-resolution imagery from seven ring cameras, and two stereo cameras in addition to lidar point clouds, and 6-DOF map-aligned pose. Sequences contain 3D cuboid annotations for 26 object categories, all of which are sufficiently-sampled to support training and evaluation of 3D perception models. The Lidar Dataset contains 20,000 sequences of unlabeled lidar point clouds and map-aligned pose. This dataset is the largest ever collection of lidar sensor data and supports self-supervised learning and the emerging task of point cloud forecasting. Finally, the Motion Forecasting Dataset contains 250,000 scenarios mined for interesting and challenging interactions between the autonomous vehicle and other actors in each local scene. Models are tasked with the prediction of future motion for "scored actors" in each scenario and are provided with track histories that capture object location, heading, velocity, and category. In all three datasets, each scenario contains its own HD Map with 3D lane and crosswalk geometry - sourced from data captured in six distinct cities. We believe these datasets will support new and existing machine learning research problems in ways that existing datasets do not. All datasets are released under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

The previous fine-grained datasets mainly focus on classification and are often captured in a controlled setup, with the camera focusing on the objects. We introduce the first Fine-Grained Vehicle Detection (FGVD) dataset in the wild, captured from a moving camera mounted on a car. It contains 5502 scene images with 210 unique fine-grained labels of multiple vehicle types organized in a three-level hierarchy. While previous classification datasets also include makes for different kinds of cars, the FGVD dataset introduces new class labels for categorizing two-wheelers, autorickshaws, and trucks. The FGVD dataset is challenging as it has vehicles in complex traffic scenarios with intra-class and inter-class variations in types, scale, pose, occlusion, and lighting conditions. The current object detectors like yolov5 and faster RCNN perform poorly on our dataset due to a lack of hierarchical modeling. Along with providing baseline results for existing object detectors on FGVD Dataset, we also present the results of a combination of an existing detector and the recent Hierarchical Residual Network (HRN) classifier for the FGVD task. Finally, we show that FGVD vehicle images are the most challenging to classify among the fine-grained datasets.

Parkinson's disease is marked by altered and increased firing characteristics of pathological oscillations in the brain. In other words, it causes abnormal synchronous oscillations and suppression during neurological processing. In order to examine and regulate the synchronization and pathological oscillations in motor circuits, deep brain stimulators (DBS) are used. Although machine learning methods have been applied for the investigation of suppression, these models require large amounts of training data and computational power, both of which pose challenges to resource-constrained DBS. This research proposes a novel reinforcement learning (RL) framework for suppressing the synchronization in neuronal activity during episodes of neurological disorders with less power consumption. The proposed RL algorithm comprises an ensemble of a temporal representation of stimuli and a twin-delayed deep deterministic (TD3) policy gradient algorithm. We quantify the stability of the proposed framework to noise and reduced synchrony using RL for three pathological signaling regimes: regular, chaotic, and bursting, and further eliminate the undesirable oscillations. Furthermore, metrics such as evaluation rewards, energy supplied to the ensemble, and the mean point of convergence were used and compared to other RL algorithms, specifically the Advantage actor critic (A2C), the Actor critic with Kronecker-featured trust region (ACKTR), and the Proximal policy optimization (PPO).

Problem statement: Standardisation of AI fairness rules and benchmarks is challenging because AI fairness and other ethical requirements depend on multiple factors such as context, use case, type of the AI system, and so on. In this paper, we elaborate that the AI system is prone to biases at every stage of its lifecycle, from inception to its usage, and that all stages require due attention for mitigating AI bias. We need a standardised approach to handle AI fairness at every stage. Gap analysis: While AI fairness is a hot research topic, a holistic strategy for AI fairness is generally missing. Most researchers focus only on a few facets of AI model-building. Peer review shows excessive focus on biases in the datasets, fairness metrics, and algorithmic bias. In the process, other aspects affecting AI fairness get ignored. The solution proposed: We propose a comprehensive approach in the form of a novel seven-layer model, inspired by the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model, to standardise AI fairness handling. Despite the differences in the various aspects, most AI systems have similar model-building stages. The proposed model splits the AI system lifecycle into seven abstraction layers, each corresponding to a well-defined AI model-building or usage stage. We also provide checklists for each layer and deliberate on potential sources of bias in each layer and their mitigation methodologies. This work will facilitate layer-wise standardisation of AI fairness rules and benchmarking parameters.

Supervised approaches generally rely on majority-based labels. However, it is hard to achieve high agreement among annotators in subjective tasks such as hate speech detection. Existing neural network models principally regard labels as categorical variables, while ignoring the semantic information in diverse label texts. In this paper, we propose AnnoBERT, a first-of-its-kind architecture integrating annotator characteristics and label text with a transformer-based model to detect hate speech, with unique representations based on each annotator's characteristics via Collaborative Topic Regression (CTR) and integrate label text to enrich textual representations. During training, the model associates annotators with their label choices given a piece of text; during evaluation, when label information is not available, the model predicts the aggregated label given by the participating annotators by utilising the learnt association. The proposed approach displayed an advantage in detecting hate speech, especially in the minority class and edge cases with annotator disagreement. Improvement in the overall performance is the largest when the dataset is more label-imbalanced, suggesting its practical value in identifying real-world hate speech, as the volume of hate speech in-the-wild is extremely small on social media, when compared with normal (non-hate) speech. Through ablation studies, we show the relative contributions of annotator embeddings and label text to the model performance, and tested a range of alternative annotator embeddings and label text combinations.