在过去的十年中，深入的强化学习（RL）已经取得了长足的进步。同时，最先进的RL算法在培训时间融合方面需要大量的计算预算。最近的工作已经开始通过量子计算的角度来解决这个问题，这有望为几项传统上的艰巨任务做出理论上的速度。在这项工作中，我们研究了一类混合量子古典RL算法，我们共同称为变异量子Q-NETWORKS（VQ-DQN）。我们表明，VQ-DQN方法受到导致学习政策分歧的不稳定性的约束，研究了基于经典模拟的既定结果的重复性，并执行系统的实验以识别观察到的不稳定性的潜在解释。此外，与大多数现有的量子增强学习中现有工作相反，我们在实际量子处理单元（IBM量子设备）上执行RL算法，并研究模拟和物理量子系统之间因实施不足而进行的行为差异。我们的实验表明，与文献中相反的主张相反，与经典方法相比，即使在没有物理缺陷的情况下进行模拟，也不能最终决定是否已知量子方法，也可以提供优势。最后，我们提供了VQ-DQN作为可再现的测试床的强大，通用且经过充分测试的实现，以实现未来的实验。

When robots learn reward functions using high capacity models that take raw state directly as input, they need to both learn a representation for what matters in the task -- the task ``features" -- as well as how to combine these features into a single objective. If they try to do both at once from input designed to teach the full reward function, it is easy to end up with a representation that contains spurious correlations in the data, which fails to generalize to new settings. Instead, our ultimate goal is to enable robots to identify and isolate the causal features that people actually care about and use when they represent states and behavior. Our idea is that we can tune into this representation by asking users what behaviors they consider similar: behaviors will be similar if the features that matter are similar, even if low-level behavior is different; conversely, behaviors will be different if even one of the features that matter differs. This, in turn, is what enables the robot to disambiguate between what needs to go into the representation versus what is spurious, as well as what aspects of behavior can be compressed together versus not. The notion of learning representations based on similarity has a nice parallel in contrastive learning, a self-supervised representation learning technique that maps visually similar data points to similar embeddings, where similarity is defined by a designer through data augmentation heuristics. By contrast, in order to learn the representations that people use, so we can learn their preferences and objectives, we use their definition of similarity. In simulation as well as in a user study, we show that learning through such similarity queries leads to representations that, while far from perfect, are indeed more generalizable than self-supervised and task-input alternatives.

The evolution of wireless communications into 6G and beyond is expected to rely on new machine learning (ML)-based capabilities. These can enable proactive decisions and actions from wireless-network components to sustain quality-of-service (QoS) and user experience. Moreover, new use cases in the area of vehicular and industrial communications will emerge. Specifically in the area of vehicle communication, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) schemes will benefit strongly from such advances. With this in mind, we have conducted a detailed measurement campaign with the purpose of enabling a plethora of diverse ML-based studies. The resulting datasets offer GPS-located wireless measurements across diverse urban environments for both cellular (with two different operators) and sidelink radio access technologies, thus enabling a variety of different studies towards V2X. The datasets are labeled and sampled with a high time resolution. Furthermore, we make the data publicly available with all the necessary information to support the on-boarding of new researchers. We provide an initial analysis of the data showing some of the challenges that ML needs to overcome and the features that ML can leverage, as well as some hints at potential research studies.

Recent work in sim2real has successfully enabled robots to act in physical environments by training in simulation with a diverse ''population'' of environments (i.e. domain randomization). In this work, we focus on enabling generalization in assistive tasks: tasks in which the robot is acting to assist a user (e.g. helping someone with motor impairments with bathing or with scratching an itch). Such tasks are particularly interesting relative to prior sim2real successes because the environment now contains a human who is also acting. This complicates the problem because the diversity of human users (instead of merely physical environment parameters) is more difficult to capture in a population, thus increasing the likelihood of encountering out-of-distribution (OOD) human policies at test time. We advocate that generalization to such OOD policies benefits from (1) learning a good latent representation for human policies that test-time humans can accurately be mapped to, and (2) making that representation adaptable with test-time interaction data, instead of relying on it to perfectly capture the space of human policies based on the simulated population only. We study how to best learn such a representation by evaluating on purposefully constructed OOD test policies. We find that sim2real methods that encode environment (or population) parameters and work well in tasks that robots do in isolation, do not work well in assistance. In assistance, it seems crucial to train the representation based on the history of interaction directly, because that is what the robot will have access to at test time. Further, training these representations to then predict human actions not only gives them better structure, but also enables them to be fine-tuned at test-time, when the robot observes the partner act. https://adaptive-caregiver.github.io.

Most speech enhancement (SE) models learn a point estimate, and do not make use of uncertainty estimation in the learning process. In this paper, we show that modeling heteroscedastic uncertainty by minimizing a multivariate Gaussian negative log-likelihood (NLL) improves SE performance at no extra cost. During training, our approach augments a model learning complex spectral mapping with a temporary submodel to predict the covariance of the enhancement error at each time-frequency bin. Due to unrestricted heteroscedastic uncertainty, the covariance introduces an undersampling effect, detrimental to SE performance. To mitigate undersampling, our approach inflates the uncertainty lower bound and weights each loss component with their uncertainty, effectively compensating severely undersampled components with more penalties. Our multivariate setting reveals common covariance assumptions such as scalar and diagonal matrices. By weakening these assumptions, we show that the NLL achieves superior performance compared to popular losses including the mean squared error (MSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and scale-invariant signal-to-distortion ratio (SI-SDR).

Cryo Focused Ion-Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (cryo FIB-SEM) enables three-dimensional and nanoscale imaging of biological specimens via a slice and view mechanism. The FIB-SEM experiments are, however, limited by a slow (typically, several hours) acquisition process and the high electron doses imposed on the beam sensitive specimen can cause damage. In this work, we present a compressive sensing variant of cryo FIB-SEM capable of reducing the operational electron dose and increasing speed. We propose two Targeted Sampling (TS) strategies that leverage the reconstructed image of the previous sample layer as a prior for designing the next subsampling mask. Our image recovery is based on a blind Bayesian dictionary learning approach, i.e., Beta Process Factor Analysis (BPFA). This method is experimentally viable due to our ultra-fast GPU-based implementation of BPFA. Simulations on artificial compressive FIB-SEM measurements validate the success of proposed methods: the operational electron dose can be reduced by up to 20 times. These methods have large implications for the cryo FIB-SEM community, in which the imaging of beam sensitive biological materials without beam damage is crucial.

人类机器人相互作用（HRI）对于在日常生活中广泛使用机器人至关重要。机器人最终将能够通过有效的社会互动来履行人类文明的各种职责。创建直接且易于理解的界面，以与机器人开始在个人工作区中扩散时与机器人互动至关重要。通常，与模拟机器人的交互显示在屏幕上。虚拟现实（VR）是一个更具吸引力的替代方法，它为视觉提示提供了更像现实世界中看到的线索。在这项研究中，我们介绍了Jubileo，这是一种机器人的动画面孔，并使用人类机器人社会互动领域的各种研究和应用开发工具。Jubileo Project不仅提供功能齐全的开源物理机器人。它还提供了一个全面的框架，可以通过VR接口进行操作，从而为HRI应用程序测试带来沉浸式环境，并明显更好地部署速度。

元学习是机器学习的一个分支，旨在将相关任务分布的数据合成以有效地解决新的数据。在过程控制中，许多系统具有相似且充分理解的动力学，这表明可以通过元学习创建可推广的控制器是可行的。在这项工作中，我们制定了一种元加强学习（META-RL）控制策略，该策略利用已知的离线信息进行培训，例如模型结构。对模型参数的分布而不是单个模型，对元RL代理进行了训练，从而使代理能够自动适应过程动力学的变化，同时保持性能。一个关键的设计元素是能够在培训期间离线利用基于模型的信息，同时保持与新环境交互的无模型策略结构。我们以前的工作已经证明了如何将这种方法应用于调整比例综合控制器以控制一阶过程的与工业相关的问题。在这项工作中，我们简要地重新引入了我们的方法，并证明了如何将其扩展到比例综合衍生的控制器和二阶系统。

已经开发了各种方法来结合多组结果的推理，以在集合和共识聚类文献中进行无监督的聚类。从几个候选聚类模型中的一个“最佳”模型报告结果的方法通常忽略了由模型选择产生的不确定性，并且导致对所选择的特定模型和参数敏感的推论，以及制作的假设，尤其是在小样本中所做的假设。尺寸或小簇尺寸。贝叶斯模型平均（BMA）是一种在多种模型中结合结果的流行方法，这些模型在这种情况下提供了一些有吸引力的好处，包括对组合集群结构的概率解释和基于模型的不确定性的量化。在这项工作中，我们介绍了ClusterBMA，该方法可以通过多种无监督聚类算法进行加权模型平均。我们将聚类内部验证标准的组合用作后验模型概率的新近似值，以加权每个模型的结果。从代表跨模型的聚类溶液的加权平均值的组合后相似性矩阵，我们应用对称的单纯形矩阵分解来计算最终的概率群集分配。此方法在随附的R软件包中实现。我们通过案例研究探索这种方法的性能，该案例研究旨在根据脑电图（EEG）数据识别个体的概率簇。我们还使用仿真数据集探索所提出的技术识别稳健的集成簇具有不同级别的集成簇，并在子组之间的分离水平变化，并且模型之间的簇数量变化。

最近一年带来了电动汽车（EV）和相关基础设施/通信的大幅进步。入侵检测系统（ID）被广泛部署在此类关键基础架构中的异常检测。本文提出了一个可解释的异常检测系统（RX-ADS），用于在电动汽车中的CAN协议中进行入侵检测。贡献包括：1）基于窗口的特征提取方法； 2）基于深度自动编码器的异常检测方法； 3）基于对抗机器学习的解释生成方法。在两个基准CAN数据集上测试了提出的方法：OTID和汽车黑客。将RX-ADS的异常检测性能与这些数据集的最新方法进行了比较：HID和GID。 RX-ADS方法提出的性能与HIDS方法（OTIDS数据集）相当，并且具有超出HID和GID方法（CAR HACKING DATASET）的表现。此外，所提出的方法能够为因各种侵入而引起的异常行为产生解释。这些解释后来通过域专家使用的信息来检测异常来验证。 RX-ADS的其他优点包括：1）该方法可以在未标记的数据上进行培训； 2）解释有助于专家理解异常和根课程分析，并有助于AI模型调试和诊断，最终改善了对AI系统的用户信任。