联合学习的目的是从多个分散设备（即客户）培训全球模型，而无需交换其私人本地数据。关键挑战是处理非i.i.d。 （独立分布的）数据，这些数据可能引起其本地功能的差异。我们介绍了超球联邦学习（球形）框架，以解决非i.i.d。通过限制学习数据点的学习表示，以在客户共享的单位超孔上。具体而言，所有客户都通过最大程度地减少固定分类器的损失来学习其本地表示，其权重跨度跨越了单位。在联合培训改善了全球模型后，通过最大程度地减少平方平方损失，通过封闭形式的解决方案进一步校准了该分类器。我们表明，可以有效地计算校准解决方案，而无需直接访问本地数据。广泛的实验表明，我们的球形方法能够通过相当大的利润率（在具有挑战性的数据集中达到6％）来提高多个现有联合学习算法的准确性，并具有增强的计算和跨数据集和模型架构的通信效率。

通过增强模型，输入示例，培训集和优化目标，已经提出了各种方法进行分发（OOD）检测。偏离现有工作，我们有一个简单的假设，即标准的离心模型可能已经包含有关训练集分布的足够信息，这可以利用可靠的ood检测。我们对验证这一假设的实证研究，该假设测量了模型激活的模型和分布（ID）迷你批次，发现OOD Mini-Batches的激活手段一直偏离培训数据的培训数据。此外，培训数据的激活装置可以从批量归一化层作为“自由午餐”中有效地计算或从批量归一化层次上检索。基于该观察，我们提出了一种名为神经平均差异（NMD）的新型度量，其比较了输入示例和训练数据的神经手段。利用NMD的简单性，我们提出了一种有效的OOD探测器，通过标准转发通道来计算神经手段，然后是轻量级分类器。广泛的实验表明，在检测精度和计算成本方面，NMD跨越多个数据集和模型架构的最先进的操作。

Deep neural networks are state of the art methods for many learning tasks due to their ability to extract increasingly better features at each network layer. However, the improved performance of additional layers in a deep network comes at the cost of added latency and energy usage in feedforward inference. As networks continue to get deeper and larger, these costs become more prohibitive for real-time and energy-sensitive applications.To address this issue, we present BranchyNet, a novel deep network architecture that is augmented with additional side branch classifiers. The architecture allows prediction results for a large portion of test samples to exit the network early via these branches when samples can already be inferred with high confidence. BranchyNet exploits the observation that features learned at an early layer of a network may often be sufficient for the classification of many data points. For more difficult samples, which are expected less frequently, BranchyNet will use further or all network layers to provide the best likelihood of correct prediction. We study the BranchyNet architecture using several well-known networks (LeNet, AlexNet, ResNet) and datasets (MNIST, CIFAR10) and show that it can both improve accuracy and significantly reduce the inference time of the network.

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of vision loss in the world, and early DR detection is necessary to prevent vision loss and support an appropriate treatment. In this work, we leverage interactive machine learning and introduce a joint learning framework, termed DRG-Net, to effectively learn both disease grading and multi-lesion segmentation. Our DRG-Net consists of two modules: (i) DRG-AI-System to classify DR Grading, localize lesion areas, and provide visual explanations; (ii) DRG-Expert-Interaction to receive feedback from user-expert and improve the DRG-AI-System. To deal with sparse data, we utilize transfer learning mechanisms to extract invariant feature representations by using Wasserstein distance and adversarial learning-based entropy minimization. Besides, we propose a novel attention strategy at both low- and high-level features to automatically select the most significant lesion information and provide explainable properties. In terms of human interaction, we further develop DRG-Net as a tool that enables expert users to correct the system's predictions, which may then be used to update the system as a whole. Moreover, thanks to the attention mechanism and loss functions constraint between lesion features and classification features, our approach can be robust given a certain level of noise in the feedback of users. We have benchmarked DRG-Net on the two largest DR datasets, i.e., IDRID and FGADR, and compared it to various state-of-the-art deep learning networks. In addition to outperforming other SOTA approaches, DRG-Net is effectively updated using user feedback, even in a weakly-supervised manner.

Three main points: 1. Data Science (DS) will be increasingly important to heliophysics; 2. Methods of heliophysics science discovery will continually evolve, requiring the use of learning technologies [e.g., machine learning (ML)] that are applied rigorously and that are capable of supporting discovery; and 3. To grow with the pace of data, technology, and workforce changes, heliophysics requires a new approach to the representation of knowledge.

This paper presents an image-based visual servo control (IBVS) method for a first-person-view (FPV) quadrotor to conduct aggressive aerial tracking. There are three major challenges to maneuvering an underactuated vehicle using IBVS: (i) finding a visual feature representation that is robust to large rotations and is suited to be an optimization variable; (ii) keeping the target visible without sacrificing the robot's agility; and (iii) compensating for the rotational effects in the detected features. We propose a complete design framework to address these problems. First, we employ a rotation on $SO(3)$ to represent a spherical image feature on $S^{2}$ to gain singularity-free and second-order differentiable properties. To ensure target visibility, we formulate the IBVS as a nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) problem with three constraints taken into account: the robot's physical limits, target visibility, and time-to-collision (TTC). Furthermore, we propose a novel attitude-compensation scheme to enable formulating the visibility constraint in the actual image plane instead of a virtual fix-orientation image plane. It guarantees that the visibility constraint is valid under large rotations. Extensive experimental results show that our method can track a fast-moving target stably and aggressively without the aid of a localization system.

Collecting large-scale medical datasets with fully annotated samples for training of deep networks is prohibitively expensive, especially for 3D volume data. Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning (SSL) offer the ability to overcome the lack of labeled training samples by learning feature representations from unlabeled data. However, most current SSL techniques in the medical field have been designed for either 2D images or 3D volumes. In practice, this restricts the capability to fully leverage unlabeled data from numerous sources, which may include both 2D and 3D data. Additionally, the use of these pre-trained networks is constrained to downstream tasks with compatible data dimensions. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for unsupervised joint learning on 2D and 3D data modalities. Given a set of 2D images or 2D slices extracted from 3D volumes, we construct an SSL task based on a 2D contrastive clustering problem for distinct classes. The 3D volumes are exploited by computing vectored embedding at each slice and then assembling a holistic feature through deformable self-attention mechanisms in Transformer, allowing incorporating long-range dependencies between slices inside 3D volumes. These holistic features are further utilized to define a novel 3D clustering agreement-based SSL task and masking embedding prediction inspired by pre-trained language models. Experiments on downstream tasks, such as 3D brain segmentation, lung nodule detection, 3D heart structures segmentation, and abnormal chest X-ray detection, demonstrate the effectiveness of our joint 2D and 3D SSL approach. We improve plain 2D Deep-ClusterV2 and SwAV by a significant margin and also surpass various modern 2D and 3D SSL approaches.

Purpose: Trans-oral robotic surgery (TORS) using the da Vinci surgical robot is a new minimally-invasive surgery method to treat oropharyngeal tumors, but it is a challenging operation. Augmented reality (AR) based on intra-operative ultrasound (US) has the potential to enhance the visualization of the anatomy and cancerous tumors to provide additional tools for decision-making in surgery. Methods: We propose and carry out preliminary evaluations of a US-guided AR system for TORS, with the transducer placed on the neck for a transcervical view. Firstly, we perform a novel MRI-transcervical 3D US registration study. Secondly, we develop a US-robot calibration method with an optical tracker and an AR system to display the anatomy mesh model in the real-time endoscope images inside the surgeon console. Results: Our AR system reaches a mean projection error of 26.81 and 27.85 pixels for the projection from the US to stereo cameras in a water bath experiment. The average target registration error for MRI to 3D US is 8.90 mm for the 3D US transducer and 5.85 mm for freehand 3D US, and the average distance between the vessel centerlines is 2.32 mm. Conclusion: We demonstrate the first proof-of-concept transcervical US-guided AR system for TORS and the feasibility of trans-cervical 3D US-MRI registration. Our results show that trans-cervical 3D US is a promising technique for TORS image guidance.

The problem of approximating the Pareto front of a multiobjective optimization problem can be reformulated as the problem of finding a set that maximizes the hypervolume indicator. This paper establishes the analytical expression of the Hessian matrix of the mapping from a (fixed size) collection of $n$ points in the $d$-dimensional decision space (or $m$ dimensional objective space) to the scalar hypervolume indicator value. To define the Hessian matrix, the input set is vectorized, and the matrix is derived by analytical differentiation of the mapping from a vectorized set to the hypervolume indicator. The Hessian matrix plays a crucial role in second-order methods, such as the Newton-Raphson optimization method, and it can be used for the verification of local optimal sets. So far, the full analytical expression was only established and analyzed for the relatively simple bi-objective case. This paper will derive the full expression for arbitrary dimensions ($m\geq2$ objective functions). For the practically important three-dimensional case, we also provide an asymptotically efficient algorithm with time complexity in $O(n\log n)$ for the exact computation of the Hessian Matrix' non-zero entries. We establish a sharp bound of $12m-6$ for the number of non-zero entries. Also, for the general $m$-dimensional case, a compact recursive analytical expression is established, and its algorithmic implementation is discussed. Also, for the general case, some sparsity results can be established; these results are implied by the recursive expression. To validate and illustrate the analytically derived algorithms and results, we provide a few numerical examples using Python and Mathematica implementations. Open-source implementations of the algorithms and testing data are made available as a supplement to this paper.

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。