矢量量化变量自动编码器（VQ-VAE）是基于数据的离散潜在表示的生成模型，其中输入映射到有限的学习嵌入式集合。要生成新样品，必须对离散状态进行自动介绍的先验分布。分别地。这一先验通常非常复杂，并导致生成缓慢。在这项工作中，我们提出了一个新模型，以同时训练先验和编码器/解码器网络。我们在连续编码的向量和非信息性先验分布之间建立扩散桥。然后将潜在离散状态作为这些连续向量的随机函数。我们表明，我们的模型与迷你imagenet和Cifar数据集的自动回归先验具有竞争力，并且在优化和采样方面都有效。我们的框架还扩展了标准VQ-VAE，并可以启用端到端培训。

本文开发了一种基于模型的强化学习（MBR）框架，用于在线在线学习无限范围最佳控制问题的价值函数，同时遵循表示为控制屏障功能（CBFS）的安全约束。我们的方法是通过开发一种新型的CBFS，称为Lyapunov样CBF（LCBF），其保留CBFS的有益特性，以开发最微创的安全控制政策，同时也具有阳性半自动等所需的Lyapunov样品质 - 义法。我们展示这些LCBFS如何用于增强基于学习的控制策略，以保证安全性，然后利用这种方法在MBRL设置中开发安全探索框架。我们表明，我们的开发方法可以通过各种数值示例来处理比较法的更通用的安全限制。

在本文中，我们提出了一种新的端到端方法，以优化能量性能以及大型建筑物的舒适性和空气质量，而无需任何装修工作。我们介绍了基于经常性神经网络的元模型，并训练了使用从模拟程序采样的数据库预测一般大类建筑物的行为。然后将该元模型部署在不同的框架中，并且使用两个真实建筑的特定数据校准其参数。通过使用CMA-ES算法比较从传感器获得的真实数据的比较来估计参数，通过使用CMA-ES算法，衍生免费优化过程。然后，使用NSGA-II多目标优化过程保持目标热舒适度和空气质量的同时优化能量消耗。数值实验说明了该元模型如何确保能效显着增益，高达近10％，同时计算比数值模型更具吸引力，并且足够灵活地适应若干类型的建筑物。

定义网格上卷积的常用方法是将它们作为图形解释并应用图形卷积网络（GCN）。这种GCNS利用各向同性核，因此对顶点的相对取向不敏感，从而对整个网格的几何形状。我们提出了规范的等分性网状CNN，它概括了GCNS施加各向异性仪表等级核。由于产生的特征携带方向信息，我们引入了通过网格边缘并行传输特征来定义的几何消息传递方案。我们的实验验证了常规GCN和其他方法的提出模型的显着提高的表达性。

The principle of equivariance to symmetry transformations enables a theoretically grounded approach to neural network architecture design. Equivariant networks have shown excellent performance and data efficiency on vision and medical imaging problems that exhibit symmetries. Here we show how this principle can be extended beyond global symmetries to local gauge transformations. This enables the development of a very general class of convolutional neural networks on manifolds that depend only on the intrinsic geometry, and which includes many popular methods from equivariant and geometric deep learning.We implement gauge equivariant CNNs for signals defined on the surface of the icosahedron, which provides a reasonable approximation of the sphere. By choosing to work with this very regular manifold, we are able to implement the gauge equivariant convolution using a single conv2d call, making it a highly scalable and practical alternative to Spherical CNNs. Using this method, we demonstrate substantial improvements over previous methods on the task of segmenting omnidirectional images and global climate patterns.

We introduce Group equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks (G-CNNs), a natural generalization of convolutional neural networks that reduces sample complexity by exploiting symmetries. G-CNNs use G-convolutions, a new type of layer that enjoys a substantially higher degree of weight sharing than regular convolution layers. G-convolutions increase the expressive capacity of the network without increasing the number of parameters. Group convolution layers are easy to use and can be implemented with negligible computational overhead for discrete groups generated by translations, reflections and rotations. G-CNNs achieve state of the art results on CI-FAR10 and rotated MNIST.

Classical methods for acoustic scene mapping require the estimation of time difference of arrival (TDOA) between microphones. Unfortunately, TDOA estimation is very sensitive to reverberation and additive noise. We introduce an unsupervised data-driven approach that exploits the natural structure of the data. Our method builds upon local conformal autoencoders (LOCA) - an offline deep learning scheme for learning standardized data coordinates from measurements. Our experimental setup includes a microphone array that measures the transmitted sound source at multiple locations across the acoustic enclosure. We demonstrate that LOCA learns a representation that is isometric to the spatial locations of the microphones. The performance of our method is evaluated using a series of realistic simulations and compared with other dimensionality-reduction schemes. We further assess the influence of reverberation on the results of LOCA and show that it demonstrates considerable robustness.

Software Defect Prediction aims at predicting which software modules are the most probable to contain defects. The idea behind this approach is to save time during the development process by helping find bugs early. Defect Prediction models are based on historical data. Specifically, one can use data collected from past software distributions, or Versions, of the same target application under analysis. Defect Prediction based on past versions is called Cross Version Defect Prediction (CVDP). Traditionally, Static Code Metrics are used to predict defects. In this work, we use the Class Dependency Network (CDN) as another predictor for defects, combined with static code metrics. CDN data contains structural information about the target application being analyzed. Usually, CDN data is analyzed using different handcrafted network measures, like Social Network metrics. Our approach uses network embedding techniques to leverage CDN information without having to build the metrics manually. In order to use the embeddings between versions, we incorporate different embedding alignment techniques. To evaluate our approach, we performed experiments on 24 software release pairs and compared it against several benchmark methods. In these experiments, we analyzed the performance of two different graph embedding techniques, three anchor selection approaches, and two alignment techniques. We also built a meta-model based on two different embeddings and achieved a statistically significant improvement in AUC of 4.7% (p < 0.002) over the baseline method.

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are regularly used for deep ocean applications. Commonly, the autonomous navigation task is carried out by a fusion between two sensors: the inertial navigation system and the Doppler velocity log (DVL). The DVL operates by transmitting four acoustic beams to the sea floor, and once reflected back, the AUV velocity vector can be estimated. However, in real-life scenarios, such as an uneven seabed, sea creatures blocking the DVL's view and, roll/pitch maneuvers, the acoustic beams' reflection is resulting in a scenario known as DVL outage. Consequently, a velocity update is not available to bind the inertial solution drift. To cope with such situations, in this paper, we leverage our BeamsNet framework and propose a Set-Transformer-based BeamsNet (ST-BeamsNet) that utilizes inertial data readings and previous DVL velocity measurements to regress the current AUV velocity in case of a complete DVL outage. The proposed approach was evaluated using data from experiments held in the Mediterranean Sea with the Snapir AUV and was compared to a moving average (MA) estimator. Our ST-BeamsNet estimated the AUV velocity vector with an 8.547% speed error, which is 26% better than the MA approach.

We consider a long-term average profit maximizing admission control problem in an M/M/1 queuing system with a known arrival rate but an unknown service rate. With a fixed reward collected upon service completion and a cost per unit of time enforced on customers waiting in the queue, a dispatcher decides upon arrivals whether to admit the arriving customer or not based on the full history of observations of the queue-length of the system. \cite[Econometrica]{Naor} showed that if all the parameters of the model are known, then it is optimal to use a static threshold policy - admit if the queue-length is less than a predetermined threshold and otherwise not. We propose a learning-based dispatching algorithm and characterize its regret with respect to optimal dispatch policies for the full information model of \cite{Naor}. We show that the algorithm achieves an $O(1)$ regret when all optimal thresholds with full information are non-zero, and achieves an $O(\ln^{3+\epsilon}(N))$ regret in the case that an optimal threshold with full information is $0$ (i.e., an optimal policy is to reject all arrivals), where $N$ is the number of arrivals and $\epsilon>0$.