Attempts to train a comprehensive artificial intelligence capable of solving multiple tasks have been impeded by a chronic problem called catastrophic forgetting.Although simply replaying all previous data alleviates the problem, it requires large memory and even worse, often infeasible in real world applications where the access to past data is limited. Inspired by the generative nature of the hippocampus as a short-term memory system in primate brain, we propose the Deep Generative Replay, a novel framework with a cooperative dual model architecture consisting of a deep generative model ("generator") and a task solving model ("solver"). With only these two models, training data for previous tasks can easily be sampled and interleaved with those for a new task. We test our methods in several sequential learning settings involving image classification tasks.

受到正规彩票假说（RLTH）的启发，该假说假设在密集网络中存在平稳（非二进制）子网，以实现密集网络的竞争性能，我们提出了几个播放类增量学习（FSCIL）方法。 to as \ emph {soft-subnetworks（softnet）}。我们的目标是逐步学习一系列会议，每个会议在每个课程中只包含一些培训实例，同时保留了先前学到的知识。软网络在基本训练会议上共同学习模型权重和自适应非二进制软面具，每个面具由主要和次要子网组成；前者的目的是最大程度地减少训练期间的灾难性遗忘，而后者的目的是避免在每个新培训课程中过度拟合一些样本。我们提供了全面的经验验证，表明我们的软网络通过超越基准数据集的最先进基准的性能来有效地解决了几个弹药的学习问题。

神经网络量化旨在将特定神经网络的高精度权重和激活转变为低精度的权重/激活，以减少存储器使用和计算，同时保留原始模型的性能。但是，紧凑设计的主链体系结构（例如Mobilenets）通常用于边缘设备部署的极端量化（1位重量/1位激活）会导致严重的性能变性。本文提出了一种新颖的量化感知训练（QAT）方法，即使通过重点关注各层之间的权重之间的重量间依赖性，也可以通过极端量化有效地减轻性能退化。为了最大程度地减少每个重量对其他重量的量化影响，我们通过训练一个依赖输入依赖性的相关矩阵和重要性向量来对每一层的权重进行正交转换，从而使每个权重都与其他权重分开。然后，我们根据权重量化的重要性来最大程度地减少原始权重/激活中信息丢失的重要性。我们进一步执行从底层到顶部的渐进层量化，因此每一层的量化都反映了先前层的权重和激活的量化分布。我们验证了我们的方法对各种基准数据集的有效性，可针对强神经量化基线，这表明它可以减轻ImageNet上的性能变性，并成功地保留了CIFAR-100上具有紧凑型骨干网络的完整精确模型性能。

在实际情况下，较大的全局图的子图可以分布在多个设备或机构之间，并且仅由于隐私限制而在本地访问，尽管它们之间可能存在链接。最近，拟议的子图联合学习（FL）方法涉及跨私人本地子图的那些缺失的链接，而分布式培训图形神经网络（GNN）。但是，他们忽略了子图中的不可避免的异质性，这是由包含全球图的不同部分的子图引起的。例如，一个子图可能属于较大的全局图中的一个社区之一。在这种情况下，天真的子图FL将从训练有异质图分布的本地GNN模型中崩溃不相容的知识。为了克服这样的局限性，我们引入了一个新的子图FL问题，即个性化的子图FL，该子图专注于相互关联的本地GNN模型的联合改进，而不是学习一个单一的全球GNN模型，并提出了一个新颖的框架，并提出了一个新型的框架，并提出了一个联合的个性化次级学习（ Fed-pub），以解决它。个性化子图FL中的一个至关重要的挑战是服务器不知道每个客户端具有哪个子图。 Fed-pub因此使用随机图作为输入来计算它们之间的相似性，并使用它们执行对服务器端聚合的加权平均。此外，它在每个客户端学习一个个性化的稀疏掩码，以选择和更新聚合参数的子图相关子集。我们考虑了非重叠和重叠子图的六个数据集中的Fed-Pub在六个数据集上的子图FL性能，我们的基本上要优于相关的基线。

在实用的联合学习方案中，参与的设备可能具有不同的位宽，用于按设计进行计算和内存存储。然而，尽管设备异构联合学习方案取得了进展，但硬件中位于位的比值的异质性大多被忽略了。我们介绍了一种务实的FL场景，在参与设备中具有位于刻度的异质性，被称为Bitwidth异质联邦学习（BHFL）。 BHFL提出了一个新的挑战，即具有不同位宽度的模型参数的聚合可能会导致严重的性能变性，尤其是对于高含宽模型。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了ProWD框架，该框架在中央服务器上具有可训练的权重去除剂，该框架逐渐将低位宽度的重量重建为更高的位宽度重量，最后将其重建为完整的重量。 PROWD进一步选择性地汇总了模型参数，以最大程度地提高跨比异质权重的兼容性。我们使用具有不同位低的客户端在基准数据集上的相关FL基准验证了Prowd。我们的prowd在很大程度上优于基线FL算法以及在拟议的BHFL方案下的天真方法（例如，平均分组）。

We propose a novel deep network architecture for lifelong learning which we refer to as Dynamically Expandable Network (DEN), that can dynamically decide its network capacity as it trains on a sequence of tasks, to learn a compact overlapping knowledge sharing structure among tasks. DEN is efficiently trained in an online manner by performing selective retraining, dynamically expands network capacity upon arrival of each task with only the necessary number of units, and effectively prevents semantic drift by splitting/duplicating units and timestamping them. We validate DEN on multiple public datasets under lifelong learning scenarios, on which it not only significantly outperforms existing lifelong learning methods for deep networks, but also achieves the same level of performance as the batch counterparts with substantially fewer number of parameters. Further, the obtained network fine-tuned on all tasks obtained significantly better performance over the batch models, which shows that it can be used to estimate the optimal network structure even when all tasks are available in the first place.

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.

In both terrestrial and marine ecology, physical tagging is a frequently used method to study population dynamics and behavior. However, such tagging techniques are increasingly being replaced by individual re-identification using image analysis. This paper introduces a contrastive learning-based model for identifying individuals. The model uses the first parts of the Inception v3 network, supported by a projection head, and we use contrastive learning to find similar or dissimilar image pairs from a collection of uniform photographs. We apply this technique for corkwing wrasse, Symphodus melops, an ecologically and commercially important fish species. Photos are taken during repeated catches of the same individuals from a wild population, where the intervals between individual sightings might range from a few days to several years. Our model achieves a one-shot accuracy of 0.35, a 5-shot accuracy of 0.56, and a 100-shot accuracy of 0.88, on our dataset.

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.

The purpose of this work was to tackle practical issues which arise when using a tendon-driven robotic manipulator with a long, passive, flexible proximal section in medical applications. A separable robot which overcomes difficulties in actuation and sterilization is introduced, in which the body containing the electronics is reusable and the remainder is disposable. A control input which resolves the redundancy in the kinematics and a physical interpretation of this redundancy are provided. The effect of a static change in the proximal section angle on bending angle error was explored under four testing conditions for a sinusoidal input. Bending angle error increased for increasing proximal section angle for all testing conditions with an average error reduction of 41.48% for retension, 4.28% for hysteresis, and 52.35% for re-tension + hysteresis compensation relative to the baseline case. Two major sources of error in tracking the bending angle were identified: time delay from hysteresis and DC offset from the proximal section angle. Examination of these error sources revealed that the simple hysteresis compensation was most effective for removing time delay and re-tension compensation for removing DC offset, which was the primary source of increasing error. The re-tension compensation was also tested for dynamic changes in the proximal section and reduced error in the final configuration of the tip by 89.14% relative to the baseline case.