Trying to capture the sample-label relationship, conditional generative models often end up inheriting the spurious correlation in the training dataset, giving label-conditional distributions that are severely imbalanced in another latent attribute. To mitigate such undesirable correlations engraved into generative models, which we call spurious causality, we propose a general two-step strategy. (a) Fairness Intervention (FI): Emphasize the minority samples that are hard to be generated due to the spurious correlation in the training dataset. (b) Corrective Sampling (CS): Filter the generated samples explicitly to follow the desired label-conditional latent attribute distribution. We design the fairness intervention for various degrees of supervision on the spurious attribute, including unsupervised, weakly-supervised, and semi-supervised scenarios. Our experimental results show that the proposed FICS can successfully resolve the spurious correlation in generated samples on various datasets.

隐式神经表示是通过学习作为神经网络参数化的连续功能来代表一般信号的有前途的新大道，将信号的域映射到其Codomain;例如，从图像的空间坐标映射到其像素值。能够在高尺寸信号中传送细细节，其域，隐式神经表示确保了与传统离散表示的许多优点。然而，目前的方法难以为大量信号或数据集缩放，因为学习神经表示 - 这是自身沉重的参数 - 对于每个信号，每个信号都需要大量的存储器和计算。为了解决这个问题，我们建议在稀疏性约束下结合网络压缩来利用元学习方法，使得它呈现出良好的初始化稀疏参数化，以便在随后的训练中快速发展以表示一组未见信号。我们经验证明，Meta学习的稀疏神经表示比使用相同数量的优化步骤训练时，比较稀疏的稀疏神经表示比具有相同数量的参数的致密荟萃学习模型。

众所周知，$ O（n）$参数足以让神经网络记住任意$ N $ INPUT-LABE标签对。通过利用深度，我们显示$ O（n ^ {2/3}）$参数足以在输入点的分离的温和条件下记住$ n $对。特别是，更深的网络（即使是宽度为3美元），也会显示比浅网络更有成对，这也同意最近的作品对函数近似的深度的好处。我们还提供支持我们理论发现的经验结果。

Unusually, intensive heavy rain hit the central region of Korea on August 8, 2022. Many low-lying areas were submerged, so traffic and life were severely paralyzed. It was the critical damage caused by torrential rain for just a few hours. This event reminded us of the need for a more reliable regional precipitation nowcasting method. In this paper, we bring cycle-consistent adversarial networks (CycleGAN) into the time-series domain and extend it to propose a reliable model for regional precipitation nowcasting. The proposed model generates composite hybrid surface rainfall (HSR) data after 10 minutes from the present time. Also, the proposed model provides a reliable prediction of up to 2 hours with a gradual extension of the training time steps. Unlike the existing complex nowcasting methods, the proposed model does not use recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and secures temporal causality via sequential training in the cycle. Our precipitation nowcasting method outperforms convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM) based on RNNs. Additionally, we demonstrate the superiority of our approach by qualitative and quantitative comparisons against MAPLE, the McGill algorithm for precipitation nowcasting by lagrangian extrapolation, one of the real quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) models.

在视频中检测和定位动作是实践中的重要问题。最先进的视频分析系统无法有效地回答此类动作查询，因为操作通常涉及对象之间的复杂交互，并且分布在一系列帧中；检测和本地化需要计算昂贵的深神经网络。同样重要的是要考虑整个帧序列以有效地回答查询。在本文中，我们介绍了宙斯，这是一种量身定制的视频分析系统，用于回答动作查询。我们提出了一种新颖的技术，可以使用深厚的强化学习有效地回答这些查询。宙斯训练一种强化学习代理，该学习代理人学会了自适应修改随后发送到动作分类网络的输入视频片段。代理沿三个维度改变输入段 - 采样率，段长度和分辨率。为了满足用户指定的准确性目标，宙斯的查询优化器基于精确感知的总奖励功能来训练代理。在三个不同的视频数据集上的评估表明，宙斯的表现分别优于最新的框架和窗口的过滤技术，分别高达22.1倍和4.7倍。它还始终符合所有查询中用户指定的精度目标。

The 3D-aware image synthesis focuses on conserving spatial consistency besides generating high-resolution images with fine details. Recently, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has been introduced for synthesizing novel views with low computational cost and superior performance. While several works investigate a generative NeRF and show remarkable achievement, they cannot handle conditional and continuous feature manipulation in the generation procedure. In this work, we introduce a novel model, called Class-Continuous Conditional Generative NeRF ($\text{C}^{3}$G-NeRF), which can synthesize conditionally manipulated photorealistic 3D-consistent images by projecting conditional features to the generator and the discriminator. The proposed $\text{C}^{3}$G-NeRF is evaluated with three image datasets, AFHQ, CelebA, and Cars. As a result, our model shows strong 3D-consistency with fine details and smooth interpolation in conditional feature manipulation. For instance, $\text{C}^{3}$G-NeRF exhibits a Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID) of 7.64 in 3D-aware face image synthesis with a $\text{128}^{2}$ resolution. Additionally, we provide FIDs of generated 3D-aware images of each class of the datasets as it is possible to synthesize class-conditional images with $\text{C}^{3}$G-NeRF.

Cellular automata (CA) captivate researchers due to teh emergent, complex individualized behavior that simple global rules of interaction enact. Recent advances in the field have combined CA with convolutional neural networks to achieve self-regenerating images. This new branch of CA is called neural cellular automata [1]. The goal of this project is to use the idea of idea of neural cellular automata to grow prediction machines. We place many different convolutional neural networks in a grid. Each conv net cell outputs a prediction of what the next state will be, and minimizes predictive error. Cells received their neighbors' colors and fitnesses as input. Each cell's fitness score described how accurate its predictions were. Cells could also move to explore their environment and some stochasticity was applied to movement.

There is a dramatic shortage of skilled labor for modern vineyards. The Vinum project is developing a mobile robotic solution to autonomously navigate through vineyards for winter grapevine pruning. This necessitates an autonomous navigation stack for the robot pruning a vineyard. The Vinum project is using the quadruped robot HyQReal. This paper introduces an architecture for a quadruped robot to autonomously move through a vineyard by identifying and approaching grapevines for pruning. The higher level control is a state machine switching between searching for destination positions, autonomously navigating towards those locations, and stopping for the robot to complete a task. The destination points are determined by identifying grapevine trunks using instance segmentation from a Mask Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network (Mask-RCNN). These detections are sent through a filter to avoid redundancy and remove noisy detections. The combination of these features is the basis for the proposed architecture.

Feature selection helps reduce data acquisition costs in ML, but the standard approach is to train models with static feature subsets. Here, we consider the dynamic feature selection (DFS) problem where a model sequentially queries features based on the presently available information. DFS is often addressed with reinforcement learning (RL), but we explore a simpler approach of greedily selecting features based on their conditional mutual information. This method is theoretically appealing but requires oracle access to the data distribution, so we develop a learning approach based on amortized optimization. The proposed method is shown to recover the greedy policy when trained to optimality and outperforms numerous existing feature selection methods in our experiments, thus validating it as a simple but powerful approach for this problem.

In this paper, we learn a diffusion model to generate 3D data on a scene-scale. Specifically, our model crafts a 3D scene consisting of multiple objects, while recent diffusion research has focused on a single object. To realize our goal, we represent a scene with discrete class labels, i.e., categorical distribution, to assign multiple objects into semantic categories. Thus, we extend discrete diffusion models to learn scene-scale categorical distributions. In addition, we validate that a latent diffusion model can reduce computation costs for training and deploying. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first to apply discrete and latent diffusion for 3D categorical data on a scene-scale. We further propose to perform semantic scene completion (SSC) by learning a conditional distribution using our diffusion model, where the condition is a partial observation in a sparse point cloud. In experiments, we empirically show that our diffusion models not only generate reasonable scenes, but also perform the scene completion task better than a discriminative model. Our code and models are available at https://github.com/zoomin-lee/scene-scale-diffusion