迄今为止，通信系统主要旨在可靠地交流位序列。这种方法提供了有效的工程设计，这些设计对消息的含义或消息交换所旨在实现的目标不可知。但是，下一代系统可以通过将消息语义和沟通目标折叠到其设计中来丰富。此外，可以使这些系统了解进行交流交流的环境，从而为新颖的设计见解提供途径。本教程总结了迄今为止的努力，从早期改编，语义意识和以任务为导向的通信开始，涵盖了基础，算法和潜在的实现。重点是利用信息理论提供基础的方法，以及学习在语义和任务感知通信中的重要作用。

开发有效的自动分类器将真实来源与工件分开，对于宽场光学调查的瞬时随访至关重要。在图像差异过程之后，从减法伪像的瞬态检测鉴定是此类分类器的关键步骤，称为真实 - 博格斯分类问题。我们将自我监督的机器学习模型，深入的自组织地图（DESOM）应用于这个“真实的模拟”分类问题。 DESOM结合了自动编码器和一个自组织图以执行聚类，以根据其维度降低的表示形式来区分真实和虚假的检测。我们使用32x32归一化检测缩略图作为底部的输入。我们展示了不同的模型训练方法，并发现我们的最佳DESOM分类器显示出6.6％的检测率，假阳性率为1.5％。 Desom提供了一种更细微的方法来微调决策边界，以确定与其他类型的分类器（例如在神经网络或决策树上构建的）结合使用时可能进行的实际检测。我们还讨论了DESOM及其局限性的其他潜在用法。

例如，近似K-Nearest的邻居搜索（AKNNS）现在已经在现代应用程序中变得无处不在，例如，作为一个快速搜索程序，具有两个塔式深度学习模型。特别是基于图的AKNN方法，由于其出色的性能，因此受到了极大的关注。这些方法依靠贪婪的图形搜索来遍历数据库中的载体。在这种贪婪的搜索方案下，我们进行了一个关键的观察：许多距离计算不会影响搜索更新，因此可以在不损害性能的情况下近似这些计算。结果，我们提出了手指，这是一种快速的推理方法，以实现有效的图形搜索。手指通过估计较低碱基和分布匹配的相邻残留向量之间的角度来近似距离函数。近似距离可用于绕过不必要的计算，从而导致更快的搜索。从经验上讲，在不同的基准数据集中加速了一种名为HNSW的流行基于图形的方法，其名称为HNSW的HNSW方法可超过现有的基于图的方法20％-60％。

数据增强在大型神经网络的培训中很受欢迎；但是，目前，关于如何使用增强数据的不同算法选择之间没有明确的理论比较。在本文中，我们朝这个方向迈出了一步 - 我们首先提出了对线性回归的简单新颖的分析，该分析具有标签不变性增强，这表明数据增强一致性（DAC）本质上比对增强数据的经验风险最小化更为有效（DA- erm）。然后将分析扩展到误指定的增强（即更改标签的增强），这再次证明了DAC比DA-MERM的优点。此外，我们将分析扩展到非线性模型（例如神经网络）并呈现泛化范围。最后，我们使用CIFAR-100和WIDERESNET进行DAC和DA-MER之间的DAC和DA-MER之间进行干净和苹果对比较的实验；这些共同证明了DAC的效果。

我们提出了两种线性土匪算法，具有每步复杂性sublerear的武器$ k $。该算法专为手臂集非常大且缓慢变化的应用而设计。我们的关键意识到，选择手臂还原为最大的内部产品搜索（MIPS）问题，该问题可以大约解决，而无需打破后悔保证。现有的近似MIPS求解器以均匀时间运行。我们扩展了这些求解器，并为在线学习问题提供理论保证，在线学习问题（即，以后的步骤取决于上一步中的反馈）成为一个独特的挑战。然后，我们明确表征了每步复杂性与遗憾之间的权衡。对于足够大的$ k $，我们的算法具有sublinear每步复杂性和$ \ tilde o（\ sqrt {t}）$遗憾。从经验上讲，我们在合成环境和现实世界中的电影推荐问题中评估了我们提出的算法。与线性时间基线相比，我们提出的算法可以提供超过72倍的速度，同时保留了类似的遗憾。

Verifying the robustness property of a general Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) network is an NPcomplete problem. Although finding the exact minimum adversarial distortion is hard, giving a certified lower bound of the minimum distortion is possible. Current available methods of computing such a bound are either time-consuming or deliver low quality bounds that are too loose to be useful. In this paper, we exploit the special structure of ReLU networks and provide two computationally efficient algorithms (Fast-Lin,Fast-Lip) that are able to certify non-trivial lower bounds of minimum adversarial distortions. Experiments show that (1) our methods deliver bounds close to (the gap is 2-3X) exact minimum distortions found by Reluplex in small networks while our algorithms are more than 10,000 times faster; (2) our methods deliver similar quality of bounds (the gap is within 35% and usually around 10%; sometimes our bounds are even better) for larger networks compared to the methods based on solving linear programming problems but our algorithms are 33-14,000 times faster; (3) our method is capable of solving large MNIST and CIFAR networks up to 7 layers with more than 10,000 neurons within tens of seconds on a single CPU core. In addition, we show that there is no polynomial time algorithm that can approximately find the minimum 1 adversarial distortion of a ReLU network with a 0.99 ln n approximation ratio unless NP=P, where n is the number of neurons in the network.

Designing experiments often requires balancing between learning about the true treatment effects and earning from allocating more samples to the superior treatment. While optimal algorithms for the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem (MABP) provide allocation policies that optimally balance learning and earning, they tend to be computationally expensive. The Gittins Index (GI) is a solution to the MABP that can simultaneously attain optimality and computationally efficiency goals, and it has been recently used in experiments with Bernoulli and Gaussian rewards. For the first time, we present a modification of the GI rule that can be used in experiments with exponentially-distributed rewards. We report its performance in simulated 2- armed and 3-armed experiments. Compared to traditional non-adaptive designs, our novel GI modified design shows operating characteristics comparable in learning (e.g. statistical power) but substantially better in earning (e.g. direct benefits). This illustrates the potential that designs using a GI approach to allocate participants have to improve participant benefits, increase efficiencies, and reduce experimental costs in adaptive multi-armed experiments with exponential rewards.

Quadruped robots are currently used in industrial robotics as mechanical aid to automate several routine tasks. However, presently, the usage of such a robot in a domestic setting is still very much a part of the research. This paper discusses the understanding and virtual simulation of such a robot capable of detecting and understanding human emotions, generating its gait, and responding via sounds and expression on a screen. To this end, we use a combination of reinforcement learning and software engineering concepts to simulate a quadruped robot that can understand emotions, navigate through various terrains and detect sound sources, and respond to emotions using audio-visual feedback. This paper aims to establish the framework of simulating a quadruped robot that is emotionally intelligent and can primarily respond to audio-visual stimuli using motor or audio response. The emotion detection from the speech was not as performant as ERANNs or Zeta Policy learning, still managing an accuracy of 63.5%. The video emotion detection system produced results that are almost at par with the state of the art, with an accuracy of 99.66%. Due to its "on-policy" learning process, the PPO algorithm was extremely rapid to learn, allowing the simulated dog to demonstrate a remarkably seamless gait across the different cadences and variations. This enabled the quadruped robot to respond to generated stimuli, allowing us to conclude that it functions as predicted and satisfies the aim of this work.

Real-world robotic grasping can be done robustly if a complete 3D Point Cloud Data (PCD) of an object is available. However, in practice, PCDs are often incomplete when objects are viewed from few and sparse viewpoints before the grasping action, leading to the generation of wrong or inaccurate grasp poses. We propose a novel grasping strategy, named 3DSGrasp, that predicts the missing geometry from the partial PCD to produce reliable grasp poses. Our proposed PCD completion network is a Transformer-based encoder-decoder network with an Offset-Attention layer. Our network is inherently invariant to the object pose and point's permutation, which generates PCDs that are geometrically consistent and completed properly. Experiments on a wide range of partial PCD show that 3DSGrasp outperforms the best state-of-the-art method on PCD completion tasks and largely improves the grasping success rate in real-world scenarios. The code and dataset will be made available upon acceptance.

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.