有监督的深度学习算法具有自动化筛查，监视和分级的医学图像的巨大潜力。但是，培训表现模型通常需要大量的标记数据，这在医疗领域几乎无法获得。自我监督的对比框架通过首先从未标记的图像中学习来放松这种依赖性。在这项工作中，我们表明使用两种对比方法进行了预处理，即SIMCLR和BYOL，就与年龄相关的黄斑变性（AMD）的临床评估有关深度学习的实用性。在实验中，使用两个大型临床数据集，其中包含7,912名患者的170,427个光学相干断层扫描（OCT）图像，我们评估了从AMD阶段和类型分类到功能性终点的七个下游任务，从七个下游任务进行预处理，从在标签较少的七个任务中，六个任务中有六个显着增加。但是，标准的对比框架具有两个已知的弱点，这些弱点不利于医疗领域的预处理。用于创建正面对比对的几种图像转换不适用于灰度医学扫描。此外，医学图像通常描绘了相同的解剖区域和疾病的严重程度，从而导致许多误导性负面对。为了解决这些问题，我们开发了一种新颖的元数据增强方法，该方法利用了丰富的固有可用患者信息集。为此，我们采用了患者身份，眼睛位置（即左或右）和时间序列数据的记录，以指示典型的不可知的对比关系。通过利用这种经常被忽视的信息，我们元数据增强的对比预处理可带来进一步的好处，并且在下游七个任务中有五个任务中的五个中的五分之一。

The success of neural networks builds to a large extent on their ability to create internal knowledge representations from real-world high-dimensional data, such as images, sound, or text. Approaches to extract and present these representations, in order to explain the neural network's decisions, is an active and multifaceted research field. To gain a deeper understanding of a central aspect of this field, we have performed a targeted review focusing on research that aims to associate internal representations with human understandable concepts. In doing this, we added a perspective on the existing research by using primarily deductive nomological explanations as a proposed taxonomy. We find this taxonomy and theories of causality, useful for understanding what can be expected, and not expected, from neural network explanations. The analysis additionally uncovers an ambiguity in the reviewed literature related to the goal of model explainability; is it understanding the ML model or, is it actionable explanations useful in the deployment domain?

Human motion prediction is a complex task as it involves forecasting variables over time on a graph of connected sensors. This is especially true in the case of few-shot learning, where we strive to forecast motion sequences for previously unseen actions based on only a few examples. Despite this, almost all related approaches for few-shot motion prediction do not incorporate the underlying graph, while it is a common component in classical motion prediction. Furthermore, state-of-the-art methods for few-shot motion prediction are restricted to motion tasks with a fixed output space meaning these tasks are all limited to the same sensor graph. In this work, we propose to extend recent works on few-shot time-series forecasting with heterogeneous attributes with graph neural networks to introduce the first few-shot motion approach that explicitly incorporates the spatial graph while also generalizing across motion tasks with heterogeneous sensors. In our experiments on motion tasks with heterogeneous sensors, we demonstrate significant performance improvements with lifts from 10.4% up to 39.3% compared to best state-of-the-art models. Moreover, we show that our model can perform on par with the best approach so far when evaluating on tasks with a fixed output space while maintaining two magnitudes fewer parameters.

The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

This volume contains revised versions of the papers selected for the third volume of the Online Handbook of Argumentation for AI (OHAAI). Previously, formal theories of argument and argument interaction have been proposed and studied, and this has led to the more recent study of computational models of argument. Argumentation, as a field within artificial intelligence (AI), is highly relevant for researchers interested in symbolic representations of knowledge and defeasible reasoning. The purpose of this handbook is to provide an open access and curated anthology for the argumentation research community. OHAAI is designed to serve as a research hub to keep track of the latest and upcoming PhD-driven research on the theory and application of argumentation in all areas related to AI.

Time series, sets of sequences in chronological order, are essential data in statistical research with many forecasting applications. Although recent performance in many Transformer-based models has been noticeable, long multi-horizon time series forecasting remains a very challenging task. Going beyond transformers in sequence translation and transduction research, we observe the effects of down-and-up samplings that can nudge temporal saliency patterns to emerge in time sequences. Motivated by the mentioned observation, in this paper, we propose a novel architecture, Temporal Saliency Detection (TSD), on top of the attention mechanism and apply it to multi-horizon time series prediction. We renovate the traditional encoder-decoder architecture by making as a series of deep convolutional blocks to work in tandem with the multi-head self-attention. The proposed TSD approach facilitates the multiresolution of saliency patterns upon condensed multi-heads, thus progressively enhancing complex time series forecasting. Experimental results illustrate that our proposed approach has significantly outperformed existing state-of-the-art methods across multiple standard benchmark datasets in many far-horizon forecasting settings. Overall, TSD achieves 31% and 46% relative improvement over the current state-of-the-art models in multivariate and univariate time series forecasting scenarios on standard benchmarks. The Git repository is available at https://github.com/duongtrung/time-series-temporal-saliency-patterns.

Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) provides detailed spectral information and has been utilised in many real-world applications. This work introduces an HSI dataset of building facades in a light industry environment with the aim of classifying different building materials in a scene. The dataset is called the Light Industrial Building HSI (LIB-HSI) dataset. This dataset consists of nine categories and 44 classes. In this study, we investigated deep learning based semantic segmentation algorithms on RGB and hyperspectral images to classify various building materials, such as timber, brick and concrete.

We propose a novel multi-task method for quantile forecasting with shared Linear layers. Our method is based on the Implicit quantile learning approach, where samples from the Uniform distribution $\mathcal{U}(0, 1)$ are reparameterized to quantile values of the target distribution. We combine the implicit quantile and input time series representations to directly forecast multiple quantile estimations for multiple horizons jointly. Prior works have adopted a Linear layer for the direct estimation of all forecasting horizons in a multi-task learning setup. We show that following similar intuition from multi-task learning to exploit correlations among forecast horizons, we can model multiple quantile estimates as auxiliary tasks for each of the forecast horizon to improve forecast accuracy across the quantile estimates compared to modeling only a single quantile estimate. We show learning auxiliary quantile tasks leads to state-of-the-art performance on deterministic forecasting benchmarks concerning the main-task of forecasting the 50$^{th}$ percentile estimate.

Point cloud analysis is receiving increasing attention, however, most existing point cloud models lack the practical ability to deal with the unavoidable presence of unknown objects. This paper mainly discusses point cloud analysis under open-set settings, where we train the model without data from unknown classes and identify them in the inference stage. Basically, we propose to solve open-set point cloud analysis using a novel Point Cut-and-Mix mechanism consisting of Unknown-Point Simulator and Unknown-Point Estimator modules. Specifically, we use the Unknown-Point Simulator to simulate unknown data in the training stage by manipulating the geometric context of partial known data. Based on this, the Unknown-Point Estimator module learns to exploit the point cloud's feature context for discriminating the known and unknown data. Extensive experiments show the plausibility of open-set point cloud analysis and the effectiveness of our proposed solutions. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/ShiQiu0419/pointcam}.

The use of deep neural networks (DNNs) has recently attracted great attention in the framework of the multi-label classification (MLC) of remote sensing (RS) images. To optimize the large number of parameters of DNNs a high number of reliable training images annotated with multi-labels is often required. However, the collection of a large training set is time-consuming, complex and costly. To minimize annotation efforts for data-demanding DNNs, in this paper we present several query functions for active learning (AL) in the context of DNNs for the MLC of RS images. Unlike the AL query functions defined for single-label classification or semantic segmentation problems, each query function presented in this paper is based on the evaluation of two criteria: i) multi-label uncertainty; and ii) multi-label diversity. The multi-label uncertainty criterion is associated to the confidence of the DNNs in correctly assigning multi-labels to each image. To assess the multi-label uncertainty, we present and adapt to the MLC problems three strategies: i) learning multi-label loss ordering; ii) measuring temporal discrepancy of multi-label prediction; and iii) measuring magnitude of approximated gradient embedding. The multi-label diversity criterion aims at selecting a set of uncertain images that are as diverse as possible to reduce the redundancy among them. To assess this criterion we exploit a clustering based strategy. We combine each of the above-mentioned uncertainty strategy with the clustering based diversity strategy, resulting in three different query functions. Experimental results obtained on two benchmark archives show that our query functions result in the selection of a highly informative set of samples at each iteration of the AL process in the context of MLC.