休息状态功能磁共振成像（FMRI）是一种强大的成像技术，用于研究UTETO脑功能的功能发展。然而，胎儿的不可预测和过度运动具有有限的临床应用，因为它导致可以系统地改变了功能连接模式的大量信号波动。以前的研究专注于在大胎儿头部运动的情况下的运动参数的准确估计，并在每个时间点使用3D单步插值方法来恢复无动态的FMRI图像。这并不保证重建的图像对应于给定获取的数据的FMRI时间序列的最小错误表示。在这里，我们提出了一种基于胎儿FMRI散射切片的四维迭代重建的新技术。在一组真正的临床FMRI胎儿上定量评估所提出的方法的准确性。结果表明与传统的3D插值方法相比，重建质量的改进。

限制机器学习系统的故障对于安全至关重要的应用至关重要。为了提高机器学习系统的鲁棒性，已提出了分配鲁棒优化（DRO）作为经验风险最小化（ERM）的概括。然而，由于与ERM的随机梯度下降（SGD）优化器相比，由于可用于DRO的优化器的相对效率相对效率相对低效率，因此在深度学习中的使用受到了严格的限制。我们建议使用硬度加权采样的SGD，这是机器学习中DRO的原则性高效优化方法，在深度学习的背景下特别适合。与实践中的硬示例挖掘策略类似，所提出的算法可以直接实施和计算，并且与用于深度学习的基于SGD的优化器一样有效，需要最小的开销计算。与典型的临时硬采矿方法相反，我们证明了我们的DRO算法的收敛性，用于过度参数化的深度学习网络，并具有RELU激活以及有限数量的层和参数。我们对MRI中胎儿脑3D MRI分割和脑肿瘤分割的实验证明了我们方法的可行性和有用性。使用我们的硬度加权采样进行训练，最先进的深度学习管道可改善自动胎儿脑中解剖学变异的鲁棒性3D MRI分割，并改善了对脑肿瘤分割的图像方案变化的鲁棒性。我们的代码可从https://github.com/lucasfidon/hardnessweightedsampler获得。

Classical reinforcement learning (RL) techniques are generally concerned with the design of decision-making policies driven by the maximisation of the expected outcome. Nevertheless, this approach does not take into consideration the potential risk associated with the actions taken, which may be critical in certain applications. To address that issue, the present research work introduces a novel methodology based on distributional RL to derive sequential decision-making policies that are sensitive to the risk, the latter being modelled by the tail of the return probability distribution. The core idea is to replace the $Q$ function generally standing at the core of learning schemes in RL by another function taking into account both the expected return and the risk. Named the risk-based utility function $U$, it can be extracted from the random return distribution $Z$ naturally learnt by any distributional RL algorithm. This enables to span the complete potential trade-off between risk minimisation and expected return maximisation, in contrast to fully risk-averse methodologies. Fundamentally, this research yields a truly practical and accessible solution for learning risk-sensitive policies with minimal modification to the distributional RL algorithm, and with an emphasis on the interpretability of the resulting decision-making process.

In intensively managed forests in Europe, where forests are divided into stands of small size and may show heterogeneity within stands, a high spatial resolution (10 - 20 meters) is arguably needed to capture the differences in canopy height. In this work, we developed a deep learning model based on multi-stream remote sensing measurements to create a high-resolution canopy height map over the "Landes de Gascogne" forest in France, a large maritime pine plantation of 13,000 km$^2$ with flat terrain and intensive management. This area is characterized by even-aged and mono-specific stands, of a typical length of a few hundred meters, harvested every 35 to 50 years. Our deep learning U-Net model uses multi-band images from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 with composite time averages as input to predict tree height derived from GEDI waveforms. The evaluation is performed with external validation data from forest inventory plots and a stereo 3D reconstruction model based on Skysat imagery available at specific locations. We trained seven different U-net models based on a combination of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 bands to evaluate the importance of each instrument in the dominant height retrieval. The model outputs allow us to generate a 10 m resolution canopy height map of the whole "Landes de Gascogne" forest area for 2020 with a mean absolute error of 2.02 m on the Test dataset. The best predictions were obtained using all available satellite layers from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 but using only one satellite source also provided good predictions. For all validation datasets in coniferous forests, our model showed better metrics than previous canopy height models available in the same region.

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are becoming increasingly more important in assisted and automated driving. Using such entities which are obtained using machine learning is inevitable: tasks such as recognizing traffic signs cannot be developed reasonably using traditional software development methods. DNN however do have the problem that they are mostly black boxes and therefore hard to understand and debug. One particular problem is that they are prone to hidden backdoors. This means that the DNN misclassifies its input, because it considers properties that should not be decisive for the output. Backdoors may either be introduced by malicious attackers or by inappropriate training. In any case, detecting and removing them is important in the automotive area, as they might lead to safety violations with potentially severe consequences. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to remove backdoors. Our method works for both intentional as well as unintentional backdoors. We also do not require prior knowledge about the shape or distribution of backdoors. Experimental evidence shows that our method performs well on several medium-sized examples.

A core process in human cognition is analogical mapping: the ability to identify a similar relational structure between different situations. We introduce a novel task, Visual Analogies of Situation Recognition, adapting the classical word-analogy task into the visual domain. Given a triplet of images, the task is to select an image candidate B' that completes the analogy (A to A' is like B to what?). Unlike previous work on visual analogy that focused on simple image transformations, we tackle complex analogies requiring understanding of scenes. We leverage situation recognition annotations and the CLIP model to generate a large set of 500k candidate analogies. Crowdsourced annotations for a sample of the data indicate that humans agree with the dataset label ~80% of the time (chance level 25%). Furthermore, we use human annotations to create a gold-standard dataset of 3,820 validated analogies. Our experiments demonstrate that state-of-the-art models do well when distractors are chosen randomly (~86%), but struggle with carefully chosen distractors (~53%, compared to 90% human accuracy). We hope our dataset will encourage the development of new analogy-making models. Website: https://vasr-dataset.github.io/

In this paper, we identify the best learning scenario to train a team of agents to compete against multiple possible strategies of opposing teams. We evaluate cooperative value-based methods in a mixed cooperative-competitive environment. We restrict ourselves to the case of a symmetric, partially observable, two-team Markov game. We selected three training methods based on the centralised training and decentralised execution (CTDE) paradigm: QMIX, MAVEN and QVMix. For each method, we considered three learning scenarios differentiated by the variety of team policies encountered during training. For our experiments, we modified the StarCraft Multi-Agent Challenge environment to create competitive environments where both teams could learn and compete simultaneously. Our results suggest that training against multiple evolving strategies achieves the best results when, for scoring their performances, teams are faced with several strategies.

We introduce a new benchmark dataset, Placenta, for node classification in an underexplored domain: predicting microanatomical tissue structures from cell graphs in placenta histology whole slide images. This problem is uniquely challenging for graph learning for a few reasons. Cell graphs are large (>1 million nodes per image), node features are varied (64-dimensions of 11 types of cells), class labels are imbalanced (9 classes ranging from 0.21% of the data to 40.0%), and cellular communities cluster into heterogeneously distributed tissues of widely varying sizes (from 11 nodes to 44,671 nodes for a single structure). Here, we release a dataset consisting of two cell graphs from two placenta histology images totalling 2,395,747 nodes, 799,745 of which have ground truth labels. We present inductive benchmark results for 7 scalable models and show how the unique qualities of cell graphs can help drive the development of novel graph neural network architectures.

The attention mechanism is considered the backbone of the widely-used Transformer architecture. It contextualizes the input by computing input-specific attention matrices. We find that this mechanism, while powerful and elegant, is not as important as typically thought for pretrained language models. We introduce PAPA, a new probing method that replaces the input-dependent attention matrices with constant ones -- the average attention weights over multiple inputs. We use PAPA to analyze several established pretrained Transformers on six downstream tasks. We find that without any input-dependent attention, all models achieve competitive performance -- an average relative drop of only 8% from the probing baseline. Further, little or no performance drop is observed when replacing half of the input-dependent attention matrices with constant (input-independent) ones. Interestingly, we show that better-performing models lose more from applying our method than weaker models, suggesting that the utilization of the input-dependent attention mechanism might be a factor in their success. Our results motivate research on simpler alternatives to input-dependent attention, as well as on methods for better utilization of this mechanism in the Transformer architecture.

超参数优化是识别给定的机器学习模型的适当的超参数配置的过程。对于较小的数据集，可以进行详尽的搜索；但是，当数据大小和模型复杂性增加时，配置评估的数量成为主要计算瓶颈。解决此类问题的有希望的范式是基于替代物的优化。此范式基础的主要思想考虑了超参数空间与输出（目标）空间之间关系的增量更新模型；该模型的数据是通过评估主学习引擎来获得的，例如基于计算机的模型。通过学习近似超参数目标关系，可以使用替代（机器学习）模型来评分大量的超参数配置，并探索除直接机器学习引擎评估的配置空间的一部分。通常，在优化初始化之前选择替代物，并且在搜索过程中保持不变。我们调查了在优化本身期间代孕物质的动态切换是否是选择最合适的基于计算机的大规模在线推荐的最合适的分解模型的实用相关性的明智概念。我们对包含数亿个实例的数据集进行了基准测试，以针对既定基线，例如随机森林和高斯基于过程的替代物。结果表明，替代转换可以提供良好的性能，同时考虑学习引擎评估较少。