Various depth estimation models are now widely used on many mobile and IoT devices for image segmentation, bokeh effect rendering, object tracking and many other mobile tasks. Thus, it is very crucial to have efficient and accurate depth estimation models that can run fast on low-power mobile chipsets. In this Mobile AI challenge, the target was to develop deep learning-based single image depth estimation solutions that can show a real-time performance on IoT platforms and smartphones. For this, the participants used a large-scale RGB-to-depth dataset that was collected with the ZED stereo camera capable to generated depth maps for objects located at up to 50 meters. The runtime of all models was evaluated on the Raspberry Pi 4 platform, where the developed solutions were able to generate VGA resolution depth maps at up to 27 FPS while achieving high fidelity results. All models developed in the challenge are also compatible with any Android or Linux-based mobile devices, their detailed description is provided in this paper.

理由定义为最能解释或支持机器学习模型预测的输入功能的子集。基本原理识别改善了神经网络在视觉和语言数据上的普遍性和解释性。在诸如分子和聚合物属性预测之类的图应用中，识别称为图理由的代表性子图结构在图神经网络的性能中起着至关重要的作用。现有的图形合并和/或分发干预方法缺乏示例，无法学习确定最佳图理由。在这项工作中，我们介绍了一个名为“环境替代”的新的增强操作，该操作自动创建虚拟数据示例以改善基本原理识别。我们提出了一个有效的框架，该框架在潜在空间中对真实和增强的示例进行基本环境分离和表示学习，以避免显式图解码和编码的高复杂性。与最近的技术相比，对七个分子和四个聚合物实际数据集进行的实验证明了拟议的基于增强的图形合理化框架的有效性和效率。

尽管近期长尾对象检测成功，但几乎所有长尾对象探测器都是基于两级范式开发的。在实践中，一阶段探测器在行业中更为普遍，因为它们具有简单而快速的管道，易于部署。然而，在长尾情景中，到目前为止，这项工作尚未探讨。在本文中，我们调查了在这种情况下是否可以良好的单级探测器表现良好。我们发现预防一步检测器实现优异性能的主要障碍是：在长尾数据分布下，类别遭受不同程度的正负不平衡问题。传统的焦点损失与所有类别的调制因子相同的调节因子平衡，因此未能处理长尾问题。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了根据其不平衡程度独立地重新平衡不同类别的正面和负样本的损失贡献的均等的联络损失（EFL）。具体而言，EFL采用类别相关调制因子，可以通过不同类别的培训状态来动态调整。对挑战性的LVIS V1基准进行的广泛实验表明了我们提出的方法的有效性。通过端到端培训管道，EF​​L在整体AP方面实现了29.2％，并对稀有类别进行了显着的性能改进，超越了所有现有的最先进的方法。代码可在https://github.com/modeltc/eod上获得。

背景：Covid-19已成为全球挑战，并妥善规划医疗资源是打击Covid-19的关键。在美国退伍军人事务保健系统（VA）中，许多登记者易受Covid-19的影响。预测Covid-19迅速分配医疗资源成为一个关键问题。当VA登记者有Covid-19症状时，建议他们的第一步应该是调用VA呼叫中心。对于确认的Covid-19患者，从第一个症状到医院入院的中位时间为七天。通过预测Covid-19相关电话的数量，我们可以预测医疗保健使用和计划前方的迫在眉睫。目的：该研究旨在开发一种方法来预测110名VA医疗中心中的每一个的Covid-19相关电话的每日数量。方法：在该方法中，我们使用一组医疗中心预先训练模型，并为个别医疗中心进行微调。在群集级别，我们执行了功能选择，以选择更大的功能和自动超参数搜索，以选择模型的最佳超参数值组合。结论：本研究提出了一种准确的方法，预测VA医疗中心的每日Covid-19相关呼叫数量。该方法能够通过将类似的医疗中心分组成群组来克服建模挑战，以扩大培训模型的数据集，并使用超参数搜索自动查找模型的最佳超参数值组合。通过提出的方法，可以预先预测医疗保健的潮。这使得保健从业者能够更好地计划医疗资源和战斗Covid-19。

Weakly-supervised object localization aims to indicate the category as well as the scope of an object in an image given only the image-level labels. Most of the existing works are based on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) and endeavor to enlarge the discriminative area inside the activation map to perceive the whole object, yet ignore the co-occurrence confounder of the object and context (e.g., fish and water), which makes the model inspection hard to distinguish object boundaries. Besides, the use of CAM also brings a dilemma problem that the classification and localization always suffer from a performance gap and can not reach their highest accuracy simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a casual knowledge distillation method, dubbed KD-CI-CAM, to address these two under-explored issues in one go. More specifically, we tackle the co-occurrence context confounder problem via causal intervention (CI), which explores the causalities among image features, contexts, and categories to eliminate the biased object-context entanglement in the class activation maps. Based on the de-biased object feature, we additionally propose a multi-teacher causal distillation framework to balance the absorption of classification knowledge and localization knowledge during model training. Extensive experiments on several benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of KD-CI-CAM in learning clear object boundaries from confounding contexts and addressing the dilemma problem between classification and localization performance.

In this paper, a semantic communication framework for image transmission is developed. In the investigated framework, a set of servers cooperatively transmit images to a set of users utilizing semantic communication techniques. To evaluate the performance of studied semantic communication system, a multimodal metric is proposed to measure the correlation between the extracted semantic information and the original image. To meet the ISS requirement of each user, each server must jointly determine the semantic information to be transmitted and the resource blocks (RBs) used for semantic information transmission. We formulate this problem as an optimization problem aiming to minimize each server's transmission latency while reaching the ISS requirement. To solve this problem, a value decomposition based entropy-maximized multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) is proposed, which enables servers to coordinate for training and execute RB allocation in a distributed manner to approach to a globally optimal performance with less training iterations. Compared to traditional multi-agent RL, the proposed RL improves the valuable action exploration of servers and the probability of finding a globally optimal RB allocation policy based on local observation. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the transmission delay by up to 16.1% compared to traditional multi-agent RL.

New architecture GPUs like A100 are now equipped with multi-instance GPU (MIG) technology, which allows the GPU to be partitioned into multiple small, isolated instances. This technology provides more flexibility for users to support both deep learning training and inference workloads, but efficiently utilizing it can still be challenging. The vision of this paper is to provide a more comprehensive and practical benchmark study for MIG in order to eliminate the need for tedious manual benchmarking and tuning efforts. To achieve this vision, the paper presents MIGPerf, an open-source tool that streamlines the benchmark study for MIG. Using MIGPerf, the authors conduct a series of experiments, including deep learning training and inference characterization on MIG, GPU sharing characterization, and framework compatibility with MIG. The results of these experiments provide new insights and guidance for users to effectively employ MIG, and lay the foundation for further research on the orchestration of hybrid training and inference workloads on MIGs. The code and results are released on https://github.com/MLSysOps/MIGProfiler. This work is still in progress and more results will be published soon.

With the development of technology and sharing economy, Airbnb as a famous short-term rental platform, has become the first choice for many young people to select. The issue of Airbnb's pricing has always been a problem worth studying. While the previous studies achieve promising results, there are exists deficiencies to solve. Such as, (1) the feature attributes of rental are not rich enough; (2) the research on rental text information is not deep enough; (3) there are few studies on predicting the rental price combined with the point of interest(POI) around the house. To address the above challenges, we proposes a multi-source information embedding(MSIE) model to predict the rental price of Airbnb. Specifically, we first selects the statistical feature to embed the original rental data. Secondly, we generates the word feature vector and emotional score combination of three different text information to form the text feature embedding. Thirdly, we uses the points of interest(POI) around the rental house information generates a variety of spatial network graphs, and learns the embedding of the network to obtain the spatial feature embedding. Finally, this paper combines the three modules into multi source rental representations, and uses the constructed fully connected neural network to predict the price. The analysis of the experimental results shows the effectiveness of our proposed model.

Domain adaptive detection aims to improve the generalization of detectors on target domain. To reduce discrepancy in feature distributions between two domains, recent approaches achieve domain adaption through feature alignment in different granularities via adversarial learning. However, they neglect the relationship between multiple granularities and different features in alignment, degrading detection. Addressing this, we introduce a unified multi-granularity alignment (MGA)-based detection framework for domain-invariant feature learning. The key is to encode the dependencies across different granularities including pixel-, instance-, and category-levels simultaneously to align two domains. Specifically, based on pixel-level features, we first develop an omni-scale gated fusion (OSGF) module to aggregate discriminative representations of instances with scale-aware convolutions, leading to robust multi-scale detection. Besides, we introduce multi-granularity discriminators to identify where, either source or target domains, different granularities of samples come from. Note that, MGA not only leverages instance discriminability in different categories but also exploits category consistency between two domains for detection. Furthermore, we present an adaptive exponential moving average (AEMA) strategy that explores model assessments for model update to improve pseudo labels and alleviate local misalignment problem, boosting detection robustness. Extensive experiments on multiple domain adaption scenarios validate the superiority of MGA over other approaches on FCOS and Faster R-CNN detectors. Code will be released at https://github.com/tiankongzhang/MGA.

Although deep learning has made remarkable progress in processing various types of data such as images, text and speech, they are known to be susceptible to adversarial perturbations: perturbations specifically designed and added to the input to make the target model produce erroneous output. Most of the existing studies on generating adversarial perturbations attempt to perturb the entire input indiscriminately. In this paper, we propose ExploreADV, a general and flexible adversarial attack system that is capable of modeling regional and imperceptible attacks, allowing users to explore various kinds of adversarial examples as needed. We adapt and combine two existing boundary attack methods, DeepFool and Brendel\&Bethge Attack, and propose a mask-constrained adversarial attack system, which generates minimal adversarial perturbations under the pixel-level constraints, namely ``mask-constraints''. We study different ways of generating such mask-constraints considering the variance and importance of the input features, and show that our adversarial attack system offers users good flexibility to focus on sub-regions of inputs, explore imperceptible perturbations and understand the vulnerability of pixels/regions to adversarial attacks. We demonstrate our system to be effective based on extensive experiments and user study.