In this paper, we explore the use of metric learning to embed Windows PE files in a low-dimensional vector space for downstream use in a variety of applications, including malware detection, family classification, and malware attribute tagging. Specifically, we enrich labeling on malicious and benign PE files using computationally expensive, disassembly-based malicious capabilities. Using these capabilities, we derive several different types of metric embeddings utilizing an embedding neural network trained via contrastive loss, Spearman rank correlation, and combinations thereof. We then examine performance on a variety of transfer tasks performed on the EMBER and SOREL datasets, demonstrating that for several tasks, low-dimensional, computationally efficient metric embeddings maintain performance with little decay, which offers the potential to quickly retrain for a variety of transfer tasks at significantly reduced storage overhead. We conclude with an examination of practical considerations for the use of our proposed embedding approach, such as robustness to adversarial evasion and introduction of task-specific auxiliary objectives to improve performance on mission critical tasks.

由于对神经网络的运行推断的计算成本，因此通常需要在第三方的计算环境或硬件上部署推论步骤。如果第三方不完全信任，则需要混淆输入和输出的性质，以便第三方无法轻易确定正在执行哪些特定任务。事实证明，存在利用不受信任的政党的协议，但在实践中运行的计算要求太高了。相反，我们探索了一种不同的快速启发式安全策略，我们称之为连接主义符号伪造秘密。通过利用全息降低表示（HRR），我们创建了一个具有伪加密风格的防御的神经网络，从经验上表现出强大的攻击性，即使在不切实际地偏爱对手的威胁模型下也是如此。

由于技术困难以与原始数据一致的方式更改数据，因此在网络安全域中，数据扩展很少见。鉴于获得符合版权限制的良性和恶意培训数据的独特困难，这一缺陷尤其繁重，而银行和政府等机构会收到有针对性的恶意软件，这些恶意软件永远不会大量存在。我们介绍Marvolo是一种二进制突变器，该突变器以编程方式生产恶意软件（和良性）数据集，以提高ML驱动的恶意软件探测器的准确性。 Marvolo采用语义保护代码转换，模仿恶意软件作者和防御性良性开发人员通常在实践中进行的更改，从而使我们能够生成有意义的增强数据。至关重要的是，语义传播的转换也使Marvolo能够安全地将标签从原始生成的数据样本传播到，而无需规定昂贵的二进制文件的昂贵反向工程。此外，Marvolo通过最大化给定时间（或资源）预算中生成的各种数据样本的密度来最大化，使从业人员最大程度地嵌入了几种关键优化。使用广泛的商业恶意软件数据集和最近的ML驱动的恶意软件探测器进行的实验表明，Marvolo将准确性提高了5％，而仅在潜在的输入二进制文件的一小部分（15％）上运行。

全息减少的表示（HRR）是通过将每个向量与抽象概念相关联，并提供数学操作以操纵向量的方法来执行符号AI的方法，以便操纵向量，就像它们是经典的符号对象一样。这种方法在较旧的象征性AI工作和认知科学之外已经很少使用。我们的目标是重新审视这种方法，以了解它是否可行，以使混合神经象征性的方法能够学习作为深度学习架构的可差分量。由于数值不稳定性，HRRS今天在可分辨率的解决方案中无效，我们通过引入迫使向量存在于空间良好的点中的投影步骤来解决问题。这样做，我们将HRRS的概念检索效果提高超过100美元。使用多标签分类，我们演示了如何利用符号HRR属性来开发能够有效学习的输出层和损耗功能，并允许我们调查HRR神经象征性学习方法的一些优缺点。我们的代码可以在https://github.com/neuromorphiccomputationResearchProgram/learning-with-hotographicuredued-representations

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.

We introduce Argoverse 2 (AV2) - a collection of three datasets for perception and forecasting research in the self-driving domain. The annotated Sensor Dataset contains 1,000 sequences of multimodal data, encompassing high-resolution imagery from seven ring cameras, and two stereo cameras in addition to lidar point clouds, and 6-DOF map-aligned pose. Sequences contain 3D cuboid annotations for 26 object categories, all of which are sufficiently-sampled to support training and evaluation of 3D perception models. The Lidar Dataset contains 20,000 sequences of unlabeled lidar point clouds and map-aligned pose. This dataset is the largest ever collection of lidar sensor data and supports self-supervised learning and the emerging task of point cloud forecasting. Finally, the Motion Forecasting Dataset contains 250,000 scenarios mined for interesting and challenging interactions between the autonomous vehicle and other actors in each local scene. Models are tasked with the prediction of future motion for "scored actors" in each scenario and are provided with track histories that capture object location, heading, velocity, and category. In all three datasets, each scenario contains its own HD Map with 3D lane and crosswalk geometry - sourced from data captured in six distinct cities. We believe these datasets will support new and existing machine learning research problems in ways that existing datasets do not. All datasets are released under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Extracting complex structures from grid-based data is a common key step in automated medical image analysis. The conventional solution to recovering tree-structured geometries typically involves computing the minimal cost path through intermediate representations derived from segmentation masks. However, this methodology has significant limitations in the context of projective imaging of tree-structured 3D anatomical data such as coronary arteries, since there are often overlapping branches in the 2D projection. In this work, we propose a novel approach to predicting tree connectivity structure which reformulates the task as an optimization problem over individual steps of a recursive process. We design and train a two-stage model which leverages the UNet and Transformer architectures and introduces an image-based prompting technique. Our proposed method achieves compelling results on a pair of synthetic datasets, and outperforms a shortest-path baseline.

Cashews are grown by over 3 million smallholders in more than 40 countries worldwide as a principal source of income. As the third largest cashew producer in Africa, Benin has nearly 200,000 smallholder cashew growers contributing 15% of the country's national export earnings. However, a lack of information on where and how cashew trees grow across the country hinders decision-making that could support increased cashew production and poverty alleviation. By leveraging 2.4-m Planet Basemaps and 0.5-m aerial imagery, newly developed deep learning algorithms, and large-scale ground truth datasets, we successfully produced the first national map of cashew in Benin and characterized the expansion of cashew plantations between 2015 and 2021. In particular, we developed a SpatioTemporal Classification with Attention (STCA) model to map the distribution of cashew plantations, which can fully capture texture information from discriminative time steps during a growing season. We further developed a Clustering Augmented Self-supervised Temporal Classification (CASTC) model to distinguish high-density versus low-density cashew plantations by automatic feature extraction and optimized clustering. Results show that the STCA model has an overall accuracy of 80% and the CASTC model achieved an overall accuracy of 77.9%. We found that the cashew area in Benin has doubled from 2015 to 2021 with 60% of new plantation development coming from cropland or fallow land, while encroachment of cashew plantations into protected areas has increased by 70%. Only half of cashew plantations were high-density in 2021, suggesting high potential for intensification. Our study illustrates the power of combining high-resolution remote sensing imagery and state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms to better understand tree crops in the heterogeneous smallholder landscape.

Grasping is an incredible ability of animals using their arms and limbs in their daily life. The human hand is an especially astonishing multi-fingered tool for precise grasping, which helped humans to develop the modern world. The implementation of the human grasp to virtual reality and telerobotics is always interesting and challenging at the same time. In this work, authors surveyed, studied, and analyzed the human hand-grasping behavior for the possibilities of haptic grasping in the virtual and remote environment. This work is focused on the motion and force analysis of fingers in human hand grasping scenarios and the paper describes the transition of the human hand grasping towards a tripod haptic grasp model for effective interaction in virtual reality.

Multivariate time series forecasting with hierarchical structure is pervasive in real-world applications, demanding not only predicting each level of the hierarchy, but also reconciling all forecasts to ensure coherency, i.e., the forecasts should satisfy the hierarchical aggregation constraints. Moreover, the disparities of statistical characteristics between levels can be huge, worsened by non-Gaussian distributions and non-linear correlations. To this extent, we propose a novel end-to-end hierarchical time series forecasting model, based on conditioned normalizing flow-based autoregressive transformer reconciliation, to represent complex data distribution while simultaneously reconciling the forecasts to ensure coherency. Unlike other state-of-the-art methods, we achieve the forecasting and reconciliation simultaneously without requiring any explicit post-processing step. In addition, by harnessing the power of deep model, we do not rely on any assumption such as unbiased estimates or Gaussian distribution. Our evaluation experiments are conducted on four real-world hierarchical datasets from different industrial domains (three public ones and a dataset from the application servers of Alipay's data center) and the preliminary results demonstrate efficacy of our proposed method.