Modern autonomous driving system is characterized as modular tasks in sequential order, i.e., perception, prediction and planning. As sensors and hardware get improved, there is trending popularity to devise a system that can perform a wide diversity of tasks to fulfill higher-level intelligence. Contemporary approaches resort to either deploying standalone models for individual tasks, or designing a multi-task paradigm with separate heads. These might suffer from accumulative error or negative transfer effect. Instead, we argue that a favorable algorithm framework should be devised and optimized in pursuit of the ultimate goal, i.e. planning of the self-driving-car. Oriented at this goal, we revisit the key components within perception and prediction. We analyze each module and prioritize the tasks hierarchically, such that all these tasks contribute to planning (the goal). To this end, we introduce Unified Autonomous Driving (UniAD), the first comprehensive framework up-to-date that incorporates full-stack driving tasks in one network. It is exquisitely devised to leverage advantages of each module, and provide complementary feature abstractions for agent interaction from a global perspective. Tasks are communicated with unified query design to facilitate each other toward planning. We instantiate UniAD on the challenging nuScenes benchmark. With extensive ablations, the effectiveness of using such a philosophy is proven to surpass previous state-of-the-arts by a large margin in all aspects. The full suite of codebase and models would be available to facilitate future research in the community.

作为一个与现实世界互动的虚拟世界，元媒体封装了我们对下一代互联网的期望，同时带来了新的关键绩效指标（KPIS）。常规的超级可靠和低延迟通信（URLLC）可以满足绝大多数客观服务KPI，但是很难为用户提供个性化的荟萃服务体验。由于提高经验质量（QOE）可以被视为当务之急的KPI，因此URLLC朝向下一代URLLC（XURLLC），以支持基于图形技术的荟萃分析。通过将更多资源分配给用户更感兴趣的虚拟对象，可以实现更高的QoE。在本文中，我们研究了元服务提供商（MSP）和网络基础架构提供商（INP）之间的相互作用，以部署Metaverse Xurllc服务。提供了最佳合同设计框架。具体而言，将最大化的MSP的实用程序定义为元用户的QOE的函数，同时确保INP的激励措施。为了建模Metaverse Xurllc服务的Qoe，我们提出了一个名为Meta Immersion的新颖指标，该指标既包含了客观网络KPI和元用户的主观感觉。使用用户对象注意级别（UOAL）数据集，我们开发并验证了注意力吸引人的渲染能力分配方案以改善QOE。结果表明，与常规的URLLC相比，Xurllc平均提高了20.1％的QoE改善。当总资源有限时，QoE改进的比例较高，例如40％。

在支持计算和通信技术的支持下，元评估有望为用户带来前所未有的服务体验。但是，元用户数量的增加对网络资源的需求量很大，尤其是用于基于图形扩展现实并需要渲染大量虚拟对象的荟萃分析服务。为了有效利用网络资源并改善体验质量（QOE），我们设计了一个注意力吸引网络资源分配方案，以实现定制的元评估服务。目的是将更多的网络资源分配给用户更感兴趣的虚拟对象。我们首先讨论与荟萃服务有关的几种关键技术，包括QOE分析，眼睛跟踪和远程渲染。然后，我们查看现有的数据集，并提出用户对象注意级别（UOAL）数据集，该数据集包含30个用户对1,000张图像中96个对象的地面意义。提供有关如何使用UOAL的教程。在UOAL的帮助下，我们提出了一种注意力感知的网络资源分配算法，该算法有两个步骤，即注意力预测和QOE最大化。特别是，我们概述了两种类型的注意力预测方法的设计，即兴趣感知和时间感知预测。通过使用预测的用户对象 - 注意值，可以最佳分配边缘设备的渲染能力等网络资源以最大化QOE。最后，我们提出了与荟萃服务有关的有前途的研究指示。

Witnessing the impressive achievements of pre-training techniques on large-scale data in the field of computer vision and natural language processing, we wonder whether this idea could be adapted in a grab-and-go spirit, and mitigate the sample inefficiency problem for visuomotor driving. Given the highly dynamic and variant nature of the input, the visuomotor driving task inherently lacks view and translation invariance, and the visual input contains massive irrelevant information for decision making, resulting in predominant pre-training approaches from general vision less suitable for the autonomous driving task. To this end, we propose PPGeo (Policy Pre-training via Geometric modeling), an intuitive and straightforward fully self-supervised framework curated for the policy pretraining in visuomotor driving. We aim at learning policy representations as a powerful abstraction by modeling 3D geometric scenes on large-scale unlabeled and uncalibrated YouTube driving videos. The proposed PPGeo is performed in two stages to support effective self-supervised training. In the first stage, the geometric modeling framework generates pose and depth predictions simultaneously, with two consecutive frames as input. In the second stage, the visual encoder learns driving policy representation by predicting the future ego-motion and optimizing with the photometric error based on current visual observation only. As such, the pre-trained visual encoder is equipped with rich driving policy related representations and thereby competent for multiple visuomotor driving tasks. Extensive experiments covering a wide span of challenging scenarios have demonstrated the superiority of our proposed approach, where improvements range from 2% to even over 100% with very limited data. Code and models will be available at https://github.com/OpenDriveLab/PPGeo.

Deep learning-based vulnerability detection models have recently been shown to be effective and, in some cases, outperform static analysis tools. However, the highest-performing approaches use token-based transformer models, which do not leverage domain knowledge. Classical program analysis techniques such as dataflow analysis can detect many types of bugs and are the most commonly used methods in practice. Motivated by the causal relationship between bugs and dataflow analysis, we present DeepDFA, a dataflow analysis-guided graph learning framework and embedding that uses program semantic features for vulnerability detection. We show that DeepDFA is performant and efficient. DeepDFA ranked first in recall, first in generalizing over unseen projects, and second in F1 among all the state-of-the-art models we experimented with. It is also the smallest model in terms of the number of parameters, and was trained in 9 minutes, 69x faster than the highest-performing baseline. DeepDFA can be used with other models. By integrating LineVul and DeepDFA, we achieved the best vulnerability detection performance of 96.4 F1 score, 98.69 precision, and 94.22 recall.

Recent advances on text-to-image generation have witnessed the rise of diffusion models which act as powerful generative models. Nevertheless, it is not trivial to exploit such latent variable models to capture the dependency among discrete words and meanwhile pursue complex visual-language alignment in image captioning. In this paper, we break the deeply rooted conventions in learning Transformer-based encoder-decoder, and propose a new diffusion model based paradigm tailored for image captioning, namely Semantic-Conditional Diffusion Networks (SCD-Net). Technically, for each input image, we first search the semantically relevant sentences via cross-modal retrieval model to convey the comprehensive semantic information. The rich semantics are further regarded as semantic prior to trigger the learning of Diffusion Transformer, which produces the output sentence in a diffusion process. In SCD-Net, multiple Diffusion Transformer structures are stacked to progressively strengthen the output sentence with better visional-language alignment and linguistical coherence in a cascaded manner. Furthermore, to stabilize the diffusion process, a new self-critical sequence training strategy is designed to guide the learning of SCD-Net with the knowledge of a standard autoregressive Transformer model. Extensive experiments on COCO dataset demonstrate the promising potential of using diffusion models in the challenging image captioning task. Source code is available at \url{https://github.com/YehLi/xmodaler/tree/master/configs/image_caption/scdnet}.

While it has long been empirically observed that adversarial robustness may be at odds with standard accuracy and may have further disparate impacts on different classes, it remains an open question to what extent such observations hold and how the class imbalance plays a role within. In this paper, we attempt to understand this question of accuracy disparity by taking a closer look at linear classifiers under a Gaussian mixture model. We decompose the impact of adversarial robustness into two parts: an inherent effect that will degrade the standard accuracy on all classes, and the other caused by the class imbalance ratio, which will increase the accuracy disparity compared to standard training. Furthermore, we also extend our model to the general family of stable distributions. We demonstrate that while the constraint of adversarial robustness consistently degrades the standard accuracy in the balanced class setting, the class imbalance ratio plays a fundamentally different role in accuracy disparity compared to the Gaussian case, due to the heavy tail of the stable distribution. We additionally perform experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets. The empirical results not only corroborate our theoretical findings, but also suggest that the implications may extend to nonlinear models over real-world datasets.

Accurate whole-body multi-person pose estimation and tracking is an important yet challenging topic in computer vision. To capture the subtle actions of humans for complex behavior analysis, whole-body pose estimation including the face, body, hand and foot is essential over conventional body-only pose estimation. In this paper, we present AlphaPose, a system that can perform accurate whole-body pose estimation and tracking jointly while running in realtime. To this end, we propose several new techniques: Symmetric Integral Keypoint Regression (SIKR) for fast and fine localization, Parametric Pose Non-Maximum-Suppression (P-NMS) for eliminating redundant human detections and Pose Aware Identity Embedding for jointly pose estimation and tracking. During training, we resort to Part-Guided Proposal Generator (PGPG) and multi-domain knowledge distillation to further improve the accuracy. Our method is able to localize whole-body keypoints accurately and tracks humans simultaneously given inaccurate bounding boxes and redundant detections. We show a significant improvement over current state-of-the-art methods in both speed and accuracy on COCO-wholebody, COCO, PoseTrack, and our proposed Halpe-FullBody pose estimation dataset. Our model, source codes and dataset are made publicly available at https://github.com/MVIG-SJTU/AlphaPose.

异常检测任务在AI安全中起着至关重要的作用。处理这项任务存在巨大的挑战。观察结果表明，深度神经网络分类器通常倾向于以高信心将分布（OOD）输入分为分配类别。现有的工作试图通过在培训期间向分类器暴露于分类器时明确对分类器施加不确定性来解决问题。在本文中，我们提出了一种替代概率范式，该范式实际上对OOD检测任务既有用，又可行。特别是，我们在培训过程中施加了近距离和离群数据之间的统计独立性，以确保inlier数据在培训期间向深度估计器显示有关OOD数据的信息很少。具体而言，我们通过Hilbert-Schmidt独立标准（HSIC）估算了Inlier和离群数据之间的统计依赖性，并在培训期间对此类度量进行了惩罚。我们还将方法与推理期间的新型统计测试相关联，加上我们的原则动机。经验结果表明，我们的方法对各种基准测试的OOD检测是有效且可靠的。与SOTA模型相比，我们的方法在FPR95，AUROC和AUPR指标方面取得了重大改进。代码可用：\ url {https://github.com/jylins/hone}。

本文介绍了Kings Arena的荣誉，Kings Arena是基于国王荣誉的强化学习（RL）环境，这是世界上最受欢迎的游戏之一。与以前大多数工作中研究的其他环境相比，我们的人对竞争性强化学习提出了新的概括挑战。与对手竞争的一个代理商是一个多代理的问题；它需要概括能力，因为它具有控制和不同的对手竞争的不同目标。我们描述了国王域名荣誉的观察，动作和奖励规范，并提供了一个基于python的开源界面，以与游戏引擎进行通信。我们为纪念国王竞技场的二十个目标英雄提供了各种任务，并为具有可行的计算资源的基于RL的方法提供了初始基线结果。最后，我们展示了国王竞技场的荣誉和对挑战的可能补救措施所面临的概括挑战。所有软件（包括环境级）均可在https://github.com/tencent-ailab/hok_env上公开获得。该文档可在https://aiarena.tencent.com/hok/doc/上获得。