With an increasing amount of data in the art world, discovering artists and artworks suitable to collectors' tastes becomes a challenge. It is no longer enough to use visual information, as contextual information about the artist has become just as important in contemporary art. In this work, we present a generic Natural Language Processing framework (called ArtLM) to discover the connections among contemporary artists based on their biographies. In this approach, we first continue to pre-train the existing general English language models with a large amount of unlabelled art-related data. We then fine-tune this new pre-trained model with our biography pair dataset manually annotated by a team of professionals in the art industry. With extensive experiments, we demonstrate that our ArtLM achieves 85.6% accuracy and 84.0% F1 score and outperforms other baseline models. We also provide a visualisation and a qualitative analysis of the artist network built from ArtLM's outputs.

现有的出版物表明，限制票据数据可用于预测股票市场的短期波动性。由于股票不独立，因此一股股票的变化也会影响其他相关股票。在本文中，我们有兴趣以基于限制票据数据和关系数据的多变量方法预测短期实现波动性。为实现这一目标，我们引入了绘图变压器网络以实现波动预测。该模型允许组合限制票据特征和与不同来源的无限数量的时间和横截面关系。通过基于S＆P 500指数的大约500股股票的实验，我们为我们的模型找到了比其他基准更好的表现。

由于市场的不确定性，预测文本信息的股票价格是一个具有挑战性的任务，并且难以理解机器的观点。以前的研究主要关注基于单一新闻的情绪提取。但是，金融市场上的股票可以高度相关，有关一股股票的一个新闻可以迅速影响其他股票的价格。要考虑到这一效果，我们提出了一种新的股票运动预测框架：用于库存预测（MGRN）的多图复发网络。该架构允许将文本情绪与其他财务数据中提取的财务新闻和多个关系信息相结合。通过精度测试和STOXX Europe 600指数中的股票的交易仿真，我们展示了我们模型的更好的性能而不是其他基准。

对图形的对抗攻击对图形机器学习（GML）模型的鲁棒性构成了重大威胁。当然，攻击者和捍卫者之间存在一场易于升级的军备竞赛。但是，在相同和现实的条件下，双方背后的策略往往不相当。为了弥合这一差距，我们展示了Graph稳健性基准（GRB），其目的是为GML模型的对抗鲁棒性提供可扩展，统一，模块化和可重复的评估。 GRB将攻击和防御过程标准化1）开发可扩展和多样化的数据集，2）模块化攻击和防御实现，以及统一精细方案中的评估协议。通过利用GRB管道，最终用户可以专注于具有自动数据处理和实验评估的强大GML模型的开发。为了支持对图形对抗性学习的开放和可重复研究，GRB还遍布不同方案的公共排行榜。作为起点，我们对基准基线技术进行了广泛的实验。 GRB是开放的，欢迎社区的贡献。数据集，代码，排行榜可在https://cogdl.ai/grb/home获得。

图形神经网络（GNNS）在各种现实世界应用中取得了有希望的性能。然而，最近的研究表明，GNN易受对抗性发作的影响。在本文中，我们研究了关于图表 - 图 - 图注射攻击（GIA）的最近引入的现实攻击情景。在GIA场景中，对手无法修改输入图的现有链路结构和节点属性，而是通过将逆势节点注入到它中来执行攻击。我们对GIA环境下GNN的拓扑脆弱性分析，基于该拓扑结构，我们提出了用于有效注射攻击的拓扑缺陷图注射攻击（TDGIA）。 TDGIA首先介绍了拓扑有缺陷的边缘选择策略，可以选择与注入的原始节点连接。然后，它设计平滑功能优化目标，以生成注入节点的功能。大规模数据集的广泛实验表明，TDGIA可以一致而明显优于攻击数十个防御GNN模型中的各种攻击基线。值得注意的是，来自TDGIA的目标GNNS上的性能下降比KDD-CUP 2020上的数百个提交所带来的最佳攻击解决方案所带来的损坏多于两倍。

Deep learning models can achieve high accuracy when trained on large amounts of labeled data. However, real-world scenarios often involve several challenges: Training data may become available in installments, may originate from multiple different domains, and may not contain labels for training. Certain settings, for instance medical applications, often involve further restrictions that prohibit retention of previously seen data due to privacy regulations. In this work, to address such challenges, we study unsupervised segmentation in continual learning scenarios that involve domain shift. To that end, we introduce GarDA (Generative Appearance Replay for continual Domain Adaptation), a generative-replay based approach that can adapt a segmentation model sequentially to new domains with unlabeled data. In contrast to single-step unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), continual adaptation to a sequence of domains enables leveraging and consolidation of information from multiple domains. Unlike previous approaches in incremental UDA, our method does not require access to previously seen data, making it applicable in many practical scenarios. We evaluate GarDA on two datasets with different organs and modalities, where it substantially outperforms existing techniques.

The development of social media user stance detection and bot detection methods rely heavily on large-scale and high-quality benchmarks. However, in addition to low annotation quality, existing benchmarks generally have incomplete user relationships, suppressing graph-based account detection research. To address these issues, we propose a Multi-Relational Graph-Based Twitter Account Detection Benchmark (MGTAB), the first standardized graph-based benchmark for account detection. To our knowledge, MGTAB was built based on the largest original data in the field, with over 1.55 million users and 130 million tweets. MGTAB contains 10,199 expert-annotated users and 7 types of relationships, ensuring high-quality annotation and diversified relations. In MGTAB, we extracted the 20 user property features with the greatest information gain and user tweet features as the user features. In addition, we performed a thorough evaluation of MGTAB and other public datasets. Our experiments found that graph-based approaches are generally more effective than feature-based approaches and perform better when introducing multiple relations. By analyzing experiment results, we identify effective approaches for account detection and provide potential future research directions in this field. Our benchmark and standardized evaluation procedures are freely available at: https://github.com/GraphDetec/MGTAB.

As one of the prevalent methods to achieve automation systems, Imitation Learning (IL) presents a promising performance in a wide range of domains. However, despite the considerable improvement in policy performance, the corresponding research on the explainability of IL models is still limited. Inspired by the recent approaches in explainable artificial intelligence methods, we proposed a model-agnostic explaining framework for IL models called R2RISE. R2RISE aims to explain the overall policy performance with respect to the frames in demonstrations. It iteratively retrains the black-box IL model from the randomized masked demonstrations and uses the conventional evaluation outcome environment returns as the coefficient to build an importance map. We also conducted experiments to investigate three major questions concerning frames' importance equality, the effectiveness of the importance map, and connections between importance maps from different IL models. The result shows that R2RISE successfully distinguishes important frames from the demonstrations.

Compressed videos often exhibit visually annoying artifacts, known as Perceivable Encoding Artifacts (PEAs), which dramatically degrade video visual quality. Subjective and objective measures capable of identifying and quantifying various types of PEAs are critical in improving visual quality. In this paper, we investigate the influence of four spatial PEAs (i.e. blurring, blocking, bleeding, and ringing) and two temporal PEAs (i.e. flickering and floating) on video quality. For spatial artifacts, we propose a visual saliency model with a low computational cost and higher consistency with human visual perception. In terms of temporal artifacts, self-attention based TimeSFormer is improved to detect temporal artifacts. Based on the six types of PEAs, a quality metric called Saliency-Aware Spatio-Temporal Artifacts Measurement (SSTAM) is proposed. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art metrics. We believe that SSTAM will be beneficial for optimizing video coding techniques.

We propose a distributionally robust return-risk model for Markov decision processes (MDPs) under risk and reward ambiguity. The proposed model optimizes the weighted average of mean and percentile performances, and it covers the distributionally robust MDPs and the distributionally robust chance-constrained MDPs (both under reward ambiguity) as special cases. By considering that the unknown reward distribution lies in a Wasserstein ambiguity set, we derive the tractable reformulation for our model. In particular, we show that that the return-risk model can also account for risk from uncertain transition kernel when one only seeks deterministic policies, and that a distributionally robust MDP under the percentile criterion can be reformulated as its nominal counterpart at an adjusted risk level. A scalable first-order algorithm is designed to solve large-scale problems, and we demonstrate the advantages of our proposed model and algorithm through numerical experiments.