基于近似基础的Koopman操作员或发电机的数据驱动的非线性动力系统模型已被证明是预测，功能学习，状态估计和控制的成功工具。众所周知，用于控制膜系统的Koopman发电机还对输入具有仿射依赖性，从而导致动力学的方便有限维双线性近似。然而，仍然存在两个主要障碍，限制了当前方法的范围，以逼近系统的koopman发电机。首先，现有方法的性能在很大程度上取决于要近似Koopman Generator的基础函数的选择；目前，目前尚无通用方法来为无法衡量保存的系统选择它们。其次，如果我们不观察到完整的状态，我们可能无法访问足够丰富的此类功能来描述动态。这是因为在有驱动时，通常使用时间延迟的可观察物的方法失败。为了解决这些问题，我们将Koopman Generator控制的可观察到的动力学写为双线性隐藏Markov模型，并使用预期最大化（EM）算法确定模型参数。 E-Step涉及标准的Kalman滤波器和更光滑，而M-Step类似于发电机的控制效果模式分解。我们在三个示例上证明了该方法的性能，包括恢复有限的Koopman-Invariant子空间，用于具有缓慢歧管的驱动系统；估计非强制性行驶方程的Koopman本征函数；仅基于提升和阻力的嘈杂观察，对流体弹球系统的模型预测控制。

数据驱动的降级模型通常无法对沿坐标敏感的高维非线性系统进行准确的预测，因为这种坐标通常经常被截断，例如，通过正确的正交分解，核心成分分析和自动范围。这种系统在剪切主导的流体流中经常遇到，在剪切主导的流体流中，非正常性在障碍的生长中起着重要作用。为了解决这些问题，我们采用来自活跃子空间的想法来查找模型减少的坐标的低维系统，以平衡伴随的信息，以了解该系统的敏感性与沿轨迹的状态方差的敏感性。所得的方法是使用伴随快照（Cobras）称为协方差平衡降低，与平衡截断与状态和基于伴随的梯度协方差矩阵取代了系统gramians并遵守相同的关键转换定律。在这里，提取的坐标与可用于构建彼得罗夫 - 盖尔金还原模型的倾斜投影相关。我们提供了一种有效的基于快照的计算方法，类似于平衡的正交分解。这也导致观察到，可以单独依靠状态和梯度样品的内部产品来计算还原的坐标，从而使我们能够通过用核函数替换内部产品来找到丰富的非线性坐标。在这些坐标中，可以使用回归来学习减少的模型。我们演示了这些技术，并与简单但具有挑战性的三维系统和轴对称喷气流仿真进行比较，并具有$ 10^5 $状态变量。

无监督域适应的最新进步已经表明，通过提取域不变表示来缓解域分流可以显着改善模型的概括到未标记的数据域。然而，现有方法未能有效保留私有的标签缺失域的表示，这可能会对概括产生不利影响。在本文中，我们提出了一种保留这种表示的方法，使得未标记域的潜在分布可以代表域不变的功能和私有到未标记域的各个特征。特别地，我们证明，在减轻域分歧的同时最大化未标记的域和其潜空间之间的相互信息可以实现这种保存。我们也理论上和经验验证的验证验证，保留私有到未标记的域的表示是重要的，并且是跨域泛化的必要性。我们的方法优于几个公共数据集上的最先进的方法。

Making histopathology image classifiers robust to a wide range of real-world variability is a challenging task. Here, we describe a candidate deep learning solution for the Mitosis Domain Generalization Challenge 2022 (MIDOG) to address the problem of generalization for mitosis detection in images of hematoxylin-eosin-stained histology slides under high variability (scanner, tissue type and species variability). Our approach consists in training a rotation-invariant deep learning model using aggressive data augmentation with a training set enriched with hard negative examples and automatically selected negative examples from the unlabeled part of the challenge dataset. To optimize the performance of our models, we investigated a hard negative mining regime search procedure that lead us to train our best model using a subset of image patches representing 19.6% of our training partition of the challenge dataset. Our candidate model ensemble achieved a F1-score of .697 on the final test set after automated evaluation on the challenge platform, achieving the third best overall score in the MIDOG 2022 Challenge.

Supervised Question Answering systems (QA systems) rely on domain-specific human-labeled data for training. Unsupervised QA systems generate their own question-answer training pairs, typically using secondary knowledge sources to achieve this outcome. Our approach (called PIE-QG) uses Open Information Extraction (OpenIE) to generate synthetic training questions from paraphrased passages and uses the question-answer pairs as training data for a language model for a state-of-the-art QA system based on BERT. Triples in the form of <subject, predicate, object> are extracted from each passage, and questions are formed with subjects (or objects) and predicates while objects (or subjects) are considered as answers. Experimenting on five extractive QA datasets demonstrates that our technique achieves on-par performance with existing state-of-the-art QA systems with the benefit of being trained on an order of magnitude fewer documents and without any recourse to external reference data sources.

While the capabilities of autonomous systems have been steadily improving in recent years, these systems still struggle to rapidly explore previously unknown environments without the aid of GPS-assisted navigation. The DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge aimed to fast track the development of autonomous exploration systems by evaluating their performance in real-world underground search-and-rescue scenarios. Subterranean environments present a plethora of challenges for robotic systems, such as limited communications, complex topology, visually-degraded sensing, and harsh terrain. The presented solution enables long-term autonomy with minimal human supervision by combining a powerful and independent single-agent autonomy stack, with higher level mission management operating over a flexible mesh network. The autonomy suite deployed on quadruped and wheeled robots was fully independent, freeing the human supervision to loosely supervise the mission and make high-impact strategic decisions. We also discuss lessons learned from fielding our system at the SubT Final Event, relating to vehicle versatility, system adaptability, and re-configurable communications.

While the brain connectivity network can inform the understanding and diagnosis of developmental dyslexia, its cause-effect relationships have not yet enough been examined. Employing electroencephalography signals and band-limited white noise stimulus at 4.8 Hz (prosodic-syllabic frequency), we measure the phase Granger causalities among channels to identify differences between dyslexic learners and controls, thereby proposing a method to calculate directional connectivity. As causal relationships run in both directions, we explore three scenarios, namely channels' activity as sources, as sinks, and in total. Our proposed method can be used for both classification and exploratory analysis. In all scenarios, we find confirmation of the established right-lateralized Theta sampling network anomaly, in line with the temporal sampling framework's assumption of oscillatory differences in the Theta and Gamma bands. Further, we show that this anomaly primarily occurs in the causal relationships of channels acting as sinks, where it is significantly more pronounced than when only total activity is observed. In the sink scenario, our classifier obtains 0.84 and 0.88 accuracy and 0.87 and 0.93 AUC for the Theta and Gamma bands, respectively.

Vocal Bursts -- short, non-speech vocalizations that convey emotions, such as laughter, cries, sighs, moans, and groans -- are an often-overlooked aspect of speech emotion recognition, but an important aspect of human vocal communication. One barrier to study of these interesting vocalizations is a lack of large datasets. I am pleased to introduce the EmoGator dataset, which consists of 32,040 samples from 365 speakers, 16.91 hours of audio; each sample classified into one of 30 distinct emotion categories by the speaker. Several different approaches to construct classifiers to identify emotion categories will be discussed, and directions for future research will be suggested. Data set is available for download from https://github.com/fredbuhl/EmoGator.

Charisma is considered as one's ability to attract and potentially also influence others. Clearly, there can be considerable interest from an artificial intelligence's (AI) perspective to provide it with such skill. Beyond, a plethora of use cases opens up for computational measurement of human charisma, such as for tutoring humans in the acquisition of charisma, mediating human-to-human conversation, or identifying charismatic individuals in big social data. A number of models exist that base charisma on various dimensions, often following the idea that charisma is given if someone could and would help others. Examples include influence (could help) and affability (would help) in scientific studies or power (could help), presence, and warmth (both would help) as a popular concept. Modelling high levels in these dimensions for humanoid robots or virtual agents, seems accomplishable. Beyond, also automatic measurement appears quite feasible with the recent advances in the related fields of Affective Computing and Social Signal Processing. Here, we, thereforem present a blueprint for building machines that can appear charismatic, but also analyse the charisma of others. To this end, we first provide the psychological perspective including different models of charisma and behavioural cues of it. We then switch to conversational charisma in spoken language as an exemplary modality that is essential for human-human and human-computer conversations. The computational perspective then deals with the recognition and generation of charismatic behaviour by AI. This includes an overview of the state of play in the field and the aforementioned blueprint. We then name exemplary use cases of computational charismatic skills before switching to ethical aspects and concluding this overview and perspective on building charisma-enabled AI.

Research has shown that climate change creates warmer temperatures and drier conditions, leading to longer wildfire seasons and increased wildfire risks in the United States. These factors have in turn led to increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of wildfires in recent years. Given the danger posed by wildland fires to people, property, wildlife, and the environment, there is an urgency to provide tools for effective wildfire management. Early detection of wildfires is essential to minimizing potentially catastrophic destruction. In this paper, we present our work on integrating multiple data sources in SmokeyNet, a deep learning model using spatio-temporal information to detect smoke from wildland fires. Camera image data is integrated with weather sensor measurements and processed by SmokeyNet to create a multimodal wildland fire smoke detection system. We present our results comparing performance in terms of both accuracy and time-to-detection for multimodal data vs. a single data source. With a time-to-detection of only a few minutes, SmokeyNet can serve as an automated early notification system, providing a useful tool in the fight against destructive wildfires.