Numerical association rule mining offers a very efficient way of mining association rules, where algorithms can operate directly with categorical and numerical attributes. These methods are suitable for mining different transaction databases, where data are entered sequentially. However, little attention has been paid to the time series numerical association rule mining, which offers a new technique for extracting association rules from time series data. This paper presents a new algorithmic method for time series numerical association rule mining and its application in smart agriculture. We offer a concept of a hardware environment for monitoring plant parameters and a novel data mining method with practical experiments. The practical experiments showed the method's potential and opened the door for further extension.

Text detection in natural scenes has been a significant and active research subject in computer vision and document analysis because of its wide range of applications as evidenced by the emergence of the Robust Reading Competition. One of the algorithms which has good text detection performance in the said competition is the Character Region Awareness for Text Detection (CRAFT). Employing the ICDAR 2013 dataset, this study investigates the impact of automatic image classification and blind deconvolution as image pre-processing steps to further enhance the text detection performance of CRAFT. The proposed technique automatically classifies the scene images into two categories, blurry and non-blurry, by utilizing of a Laplacian operator with 100 as threshold. Prior to applying the CRAFT algorithm, images that are categorized as blurry are further pre-processed using blind deconvolution to reduce the blur. The results revealed that the proposed method significantly enhanced the detection performance of CRAFT, as demonstrated by its IoU h-mean of 94.47% compared to the original 91.42% h-mean of CRAFT and this even outperformed the top-ranked SenseTime, whose h-mean is 93.62%.

Accurately predicting interactive road agents' future trajectories and planning a socially compliant and human-like trajectory accordingly are important for autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we propose a planning-centric prediction neural network, which takes surrounding agents' historical states and map context information as input, and outputs the joint multi-modal prediction trajectories for surrounding agents, as well as a sequence of control commands for the ego vehicle by imitation learning. An agent-agent interaction module along the time axis is proposed in our network architecture to better comprehend the relationship among all the other intelligent agents on the road. To incorporate the map's topological information, a Dynamic Graph Convolutional Neural Network (DGCNN) is employed to process the road network topology. Besides, the whole architecture can serve as a backbone for the Differentiable Integrated motion Prediction with Planning (DIPP) method by providing accurate prediction results and initial planning commands. Experiments are conducted on real-world datasets to demonstrate the improvements made by our proposed method in both planning and prediction accuracy compared to the previous state-of-the-art methods.

Pre-trained protein language models have demonstrated significant applicability in different protein engineering task. A general usage of these pre-trained transformer models latent representation is to use a mean pool across residue positions to reduce the feature dimensions to further downstream tasks such as predicting bio-physics properties or other functional behaviours. In this paper we provide a two-fold contribution to machine learning (ML) driven drug design. Firstly, we demonstrate the power of sparsity by promoting penalization of pre-trained transformer models to secure more robust and accurate melting temperature (Tm) prediction of single-chain variable fragments with a mean absolute error of 0.23C. Secondly, we demonstrate the power of framing our prediction problem in a probabilistic framework. Specifically, we advocate for the need of adopting probabilistic frameworks especially in the context of ML driven drug design.

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an instance of distributed machine learning paradigm that avoids the transmission of data generated on the users' side. Although data are not transmitted, edge devices have to deal with limited communication bandwidths, data heterogeneity, and straggler effects due to the limited computational resources of users' devices. A prominent approach to overcome such difficulties is FedADMM, which is based on the classical two-operator consensus alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). The common assumption of FL algorithms, including FedADMM, is that they learn a global model using data only on the users' side and not on the edge server. However, in edge learning, the server is expected to be near the base station and have direct access to rich datasets. In this paper, we argue that leveraging the rich data on the edge server is much more beneficial than utilizing only user datasets. Specifically, we show that the mere application of FL with an additional virtual user node representing the data on the edge server is inefficient. We propose FedTOP-ADMM, which generalizes FedADMM and is based on a three-operator ADMM-type technique that exploits a smooth cost function on the edge server to learn a global model parallel to the edge devices. Our numerical experiments indicate that FedTOP-ADMM has substantial gain up to 33\% in communication efficiency to reach a desired test accuracy with respect to FedADMM, including a virtual user on the edge server.

我们提出了一种新颖的方法，可以将3D人类动画放入3D场景中，同时保持动画中的任何人类场景相互作用。我们使用计算动画中最重要的网格的概念，以与场景进行交互，我们称之为“键框”。这些关键框架使我们能够更好地优化动画在场景中的位置，从而使动画中的互动（站立，铺设，坐着等）与场景的负担相匹配（例如，站在地板上或躺在床上）。我们将我们称为PAAK的方法与先前的方法进行了比较，包括POSA，Prox地面真理和运动合成方法，并通过感知研究突出了我们方法的好处。人类评估者更喜欢我们的PAAK方法，而不是Prox地面真相数据64.6 \％。此外，在直接比较中，与POSA相比，评估者比竞争方法比包括61.5％的竞争方法更喜欢PAAK。

通用数据模型解决了标准化电子健康记录（EHR）数据的许多挑战，但无法将其集成深度表型所需的资源。开放的生物学和生物医学本体论（OBO）铸造本体论提供了可用于生物学知识的语义计算表示，并能够整合多种生物医学数据。但是，将EHR数据映射到OBO Foundry本体论需要大量的手动策展和域专业知识。我们介绍了一个框架，用于将观察性医学成果合作伙伴关系（OMOP）标准词汇介绍给OBO铸造本体。使用此框架，我们制作了92,367条条件，8,615种药物成分和10,673个测量结果的映射。域专家验证了映射准确性，并且在24家医院进行检查时，映射覆盖了99％的条件和药物成分和68％的测量结果。最后，我们证明OMOP2OBO映射可以帮助系统地识别可能受益于基因检测的未诊断罕见病患者。

ICECUBE是一种用于检测1 GEV和1 PEV之间大气和天体中微子的光学传感器的立方公斤阵列，该阵列已部署1.45 km至2.45 km的南极的冰盖表面以下1.45 km至2.45 km。来自ICE探测器的事件的分类和重建在ICeCube数据分析中起着核心作用。重建和分类事件是一个挑战，这是由于探测器的几何形状，不均匀的散射和冰中光的吸收，并且低于100 GEV的光，每个事件产生的信号光子数量相对较少。为了应对这一挑战，可以将ICECUBE事件表示为点云图形，并将图形神经网络（GNN）作为分类和重建方法。 GNN能够将中微子事件与宇宙射线背景区分开，对不同的中微子事件类型进行分类，并重建沉积的能量，方向和相互作用顶点。基于仿真，我们提供了1-100 GEV能量范围的比较与当前ICECUBE分析中使用的当前最新最大似然技术，包括已知系统不确定性的影响。对于中微子事件分类，与当前的IceCube方法相比，GNN以固定的假阳性速率（FPR）提高了信号效率的18％。另外，GNN在固定信号效率下将FPR的降低超过8（低于半百分比）。对于能源，方向和相互作用顶点的重建，与当前最大似然技术相比，分辨率平均提高了13％-20％。当在GPU上运行时，GNN能够以几乎是2.7 kHz的中位数ICECUBE触发速率的速率处理ICECUBE事件，这打开了在在线搜索瞬态事件中使用低能量中微子的可能性。

在这项工作中，我们考虑了具有多个基站和间隔干扰的无线系统中的联合学习模型。在学习阶段，我们应用了一个不同的私人方案，将信息从用户传输到其相应的基站。我们通过在其最佳差距上得出上限来显示学习过程的收敛行为。此外，我们定义了一个优化问题，以减少该上限和总隐私泄漏。为了找到此问题的本地最佳解决方案，我们首先提出了一种计划资源块和用户的算法。然后，我们扩展了该方案，以通过优化差异隐私人工噪声来减少总隐私泄漏。我们将这两个程序的解决方案应用于联合学习系统的参数。在这种情况下，我们假设每个用户都配备了分类器。此外，假定通信单元的资源块比用户数量少。仿真结果表明，与随机调度程序相比，我们提出的调度程序提高了预测的平均准确性。此外，其具有噪声优化器的扩展版本大大减少了隐私泄漏的量。

分类是数据挖掘和机器学习领域中研究最多的任务之一，并且已经提出了文献中的许多作品来解决分类问题，以解决多个知识领域，例如医学，生物学，安全性和遥感。由于没有单个分类器可以为各种应用程序取得最佳结果，因此，一个很好的选择是采用分类器融合策略。分类器融合方法成功的关键点是属于合奏的分类器之间多样性和准确性的结合。借助文献中可用的大量分类模型，一个挑战是选择最终分类系统的最合适的分类器，从而产生了分类器选择策略的需求。我们通过基于一个称为CIF-E（分类器，初始化，健身函数和进化算法）的四步协议的分类器选择和融合的框架来解决这一点。我们按照提出的CIF-E协议实施和评估24种各种集合方法，并能够找到最准确的方法。在文献中最佳方法和许多其他基线中，还进行了比较分析。该实验表明，基于单变量分布算法（UMDA）的拟议进化方法可以超越许多著名的UCI数据集中最新的文献方法。