Off-policy evaluation (OPE) is a method for estimating the return of a target policy using some pre-collected observational data generated by a potentially different behavior policy. In some cases, there may be unmeasured variables that can confound the action-reward or action-next-state relationships, rendering many existing OPE approaches ineffective. This paper develops an instrumental variable (IV)-based method for consistent OPE in confounded Markov decision processes (MDPs). Similar to single-stage decision making, we show that IV enables us to correctly identify the target policy's value in infinite horizon settings as well. Furthermore, we propose an efficient and robust value estimator and illustrate its effectiveness through extensive simulations and analysis of real data from a world-leading short-video platform.

Establishing open and general benchmarks has been a critical driving force behind the success of modern machine learning techniques. As machine learning is being applied to broader domains and tasks, there is a need to establish richer and more diverse benchmarks to better reflect the reality of the application scenarios. Graph learning is an emerging field of machine learning that urgently needs more and better benchmarks. To accommodate the need, we introduce Graph Learning Indexer (GLI), a benchmark curation platform for graph learning. In comparison to existing graph learning benchmark libraries, GLI highlights two novel design objectives. First, GLI is designed to incentivize \emph{dataset contributors}. In particular, we incorporate various measures to minimize the effort of contributing and maintaining a dataset, increase the usability of the contributed dataset, as well as encourage attributions to different contributors of the dataset. Second, GLI is designed to curate a knowledge base, instead of a plain collection, of benchmark datasets. We use multiple sources of meta information to augment the benchmark datasets with \emph{rich characteristics}, so that they can be easily selected and used in downstream research or development. The source code of GLI is available at \url{https://github.com/Graph-Learning-Benchmarks/gli}.

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a vital task in graph-based machine learning and has been widely applied in many real-world applications. The primary goal of GAD is to capture anomalous nodes from graph datasets, which evidently deviate from the majority of nodes. Recent methods have paid attention to various scales of contrastive strategies for GAD, i.e., node-subgraph and node-node contrasts. However, they neglect the subgraph-subgraph comparison information which the normal and abnormal subgraph pairs behave differently in terms of embeddings and structures in GAD, resulting in sub-optimal task performance. In this paper, we fulfill the above idea in the proposed multi-view multi-scale contrastive learning framework with subgraph-subgraph contrast for the first practice. To be specific, we regard the original input graph as the first view and generate the second view by graph augmentation with edge modifications. With the guidance of maximizing the similarity of the subgraph pairs, the proposed subgraph-subgraph contrast contributes to more robust subgraph embeddings despite of the structure variation. Moreover, the introduced subgraph-subgraph contrast cooperates well with the widely-adopted node-subgraph and node-node contrastive counterparts for mutual GAD performance promotions. Besides, we also conduct sufficient experiments to investigate the impact of different graph augmentation approaches on detection performance. The comprehensive experimental results well demonstrate the superiority of our method compared with the state-of-the-art approaches and the effectiveness of the multi-view subgraph pair contrastive strategy for the GAD task.

With the rapid development of cloud computing, virtual machine scheduling has become one of the most important but challenging issues for the cloud computing community, especially for practical heterogeneous request sequences. By analyzing the impact of request heterogeneity on some popular heuristic schedulers, it can be found that existing scheduling algorithms can not handle the request heterogeneity properly and efficiently. In this paper, a plug-and-play virtual machine scheduling intensifier, called Resource Assigner (ReAssigner), is proposed to enhance the scheduling efficiency of any given scheduler for heterogeneous requests. The key idea of ReAssigner is to pre-assign roles to physical resources and let resources of the same role form a virtual cluster to handle homogeneous requests. ReAssigner can cooperate with arbitrary schedulers by restricting their scheduling space to virtual clusters. With evaluations on the real dataset from Huawei Cloud, the proposed ReAssigner achieves significant scheduling performance improvement compared with some state-of-the-art scheduling methods.

Image super-resolution is a common task on mobile and IoT devices, where one often needs to upscale and enhance low-resolution images and video frames. While numerous solutions have been proposed for this problem in the past, they are usually not compatible with low-power mobile NPUs having many computational and memory constraints. In this Mobile AI challenge, we address this problem and propose the participants to design an efficient quantized image super-resolution solution that can demonstrate a real-time performance on mobile NPUs. The participants were provided with the DIV2K dataset and trained INT8 models to do a high-quality 3X image upscaling. The runtime of all models was evaluated on the Synaptics VS680 Smart Home board with a dedicated edge NPU capable of accelerating quantized neural networks. All proposed solutions are fully compatible with the above NPU, demonstrating an up to 60 FPS rate when reconstructing Full HD resolution images. A detailed description of all models developed in the challenge is provided in this paper.

无人驾驶飞机（UAV）通过低成本，大型覆盖，实时和高分辨率数据采集能力而广泛应用于检查，搜索和救援行动的目的。在这些过程中产生了大量航空视频，在这些过程中，正常事件通常占压倒性的比例。本地化和提取异常事件非常困难，这些事件包含手动从长视频流中的潜在有价值的信息。因此，我们致力于开发用于解决此问题的异常检测方法。在本文中，我们创建了一个新的数据集，名为Droneanomaly，用于空中视频中的异常检测。该数据集提供了37个培训视频序列和22个测试视频序列，这些视频序列来自7个不同的现实场景，其中包括各种异常事件。有87,488个彩色视频框架（训练51,635，测试35,853），每秒30帧的尺寸为640美元\ times 640美元。基于此数据集，我们评估现有方法并为此任务提供基准。此外，我们提出了一种新的基线模型，即变压器（ANDT）的异常检测，该模型将连续的视频帧视为一系列小管，它利用变压器编码器从序列中学习特征表示，并利用解码器来预测下一帧。我们的网络模型在训练阶段模型正常，并确定了具有不可预测的时间动力学的事件，作为测试阶段的异常。此外，为了全面评估我们提出的方法的性能，我们不仅使用无人机 - 异常数据集，而且使用另一个数据集。我们将使我们的数据集和代码公开可用。可以在https://youtu.be/ancczyryoby上获得演示视频。我们使数据集和代码公开可用。

手卫生是世界卫生组织（WHO）提出的标准六步洗手行动。但是，没有很好的方法来监督医务人员进行手卫生，这带来了疾病传播的潜在风险。在这项工作中，我们提出了一项新的计算机视觉任务，称为手动卫生评估，以为医务人员提供手动卫生的明智监督。现有的行动评估工作通常在整个视频上做出总体质量预测。但是，手动卫生作用的内部结构在手工卫生评估中很重要。因此，我们提出了一个新颖的细粒学习框架，以联合方式进行步骤分割和关键动作得分手，以进行准确的手部卫生评估。现有的时间分割方法通常采用多阶段卷积网络来改善分割的鲁棒性，但由于缺乏远距离依赖性，因此很容易导致过度分割。为了解决此问题，我们设计了一个多阶段卷积转换器网络，以进行步骤细分。基于这样的观察，每个手洗步骤都涉及确定手洗质量的几个关键动作，我们设计了一组关键的动作得分手，以评估每个步骤中关键动作的质量。此外，在手工卫生评估中缺乏统一的数据集。因此，在医务人员的监督下，我们贡献了一个视频数据集，其中包含300个带有细粒注释的视频序列。数据集上的广泛实验表明，我们的方法很好地评估了手动卫生视频并取得了出色的性能。

由于其低成本和快速移动性，无人驾驶汽车（UAV）现在已广泛应用于数据获取。随着航空视频量的增加，对这些视频自动解析的需求正在激增。为了实现这一目标，当前的研究主要集中于在空间和时间维度沿着卷积的整体特征提取整体特征。但是，这些方法受到小时接收场的限制，无法充分捕获长期的时间依赖性，这对于描述复杂动力学很重要。在本文中，我们提出了一个新颖的深神经网络，称为futh-net，不仅为整体特征建模，而且还模拟了空中视频分类的时间关系。此外，在新型融合模块中，多尺度的时间关系可以完善整体特征，以产生更具歧视性的视频表示。更特别地，FUTH-NET采用了两条道路架构：（1）学习框架外观和短期时间变化的一般特征的整体代表途径，以及（2）捕获跨任意跨越任意时间关系的时间关系途径框架，提供长期的时间依赖性。之后，提出了一个新型的融合模块，以时空整合从这两种途径中学到的两个特征。我们的模型对两个航空视频分类数据集进行了评估，即ERA和无人机操作，并实现了最新结果。这表明了其在不同识别任务（事件分类和人类行动识别）之间的有效性和良好的概括能力。为了促进进一步的研究，我们在https://gitlab.lrz.de/ai4eo/reasoning/futh-net上发布该代码。

预测公路参与者的未来运动对于自动驾驶至关重要，但由于令人震惊的运动不确定性，因此极具挑战性。最近，大多数运动预测方法求助于基于目标的策略，即预测运动轨迹的终点，作为回归整个轨迹的条件，以便可以减少解决方案的搜索空间。但是，准确的目标坐标很难预测和评估。此外，目的地的点表示限制了丰富的道路环境的利用，从而导致预测不准确。目标区域，即可能的目的地区域，而不是目标坐标，可以通过涉及更多的容忍度和指导来提供更软的限制，以搜索潜在的轨迹。考虑到这一点，我们提出了一个新的基于目标区域的框架，名为“目标区域网络”（GANET）进行运动预测，该框架对目标区域进行了建模，而不是确切的目标坐标作为轨迹预测的先决条件，更加可靠，更准确地执行。具体而言，我们建议一个goicrop（目标的目标区域）操作员有效地提取目标区域中的语义巷特征，并在目标区域和模型演员的未来互动中提取语义巷，这对未来的轨迹估计很大。 Ganet在所有公共文献（直到论文提交）中排名第一个，将其源代码排在第一位。

组合多个传感器使机器人能够最大程度地提高其对环境的感知意识，并增强其对外部干扰的鲁棒性，对机器人导航至关重要。本文提出了可融合的基准测试，这是一个完整的多传感器数据集，具有多种移动机器人序列。本文提出了三项贡献。我们首先推进便携式和通用的多传感器套件，可提供丰富的感官测量值：10Hz激光镜点云，20Hz立体声框架图像，来自立体声事件相机的高速率和异步事件，来自IMU的200Hz惯性读数以及10Hz GPS信号。传感器已经在硬件中暂时同步。该设备轻巧，独立，并为移动机器人提供插件支持。其次，我们通过收集17个序列来构建数据集，该序列通过利用多个机器人平台进行数据收集来涵盖校园上各种环境。一些序列对现有的SLAM算法具有挑战性。第三，我们为将本地化和映射绩效评估提供了基础真理。我们还评估最新的大满贯方法并确定其局限性。该数据集将发布由原始传感器的设置，地面真相，校准数据和评估算法组成：https：//ram-lab.com/file/site/site/multi-sensor-dataset。