我们提出了一种用于分布式培训神经网络模型的新型联合学习方法，其中服务器在每轮中随机选择的设备的子集之间编制协作。我们主要从通信角度查看联合学习问题，并允许更多设备级别计算来节省传输成本。我们指出了一个基本的困境，因为当地 - 设备水平的最低实证损失与全球经验损失的最小值不一致。与最近的事先有关的不同，尝试无所作用的最小化或利用用于并行化梯度计算的设备，我们为每轮的每个设备提出动态规范器，以便在极限中，全局和设备解决方案对齐。我们通过实证结果对真实的和合成数据以及我们的方案在凸和非凸面设置中导致有效培训的分析结果，同时对设备异质性完全不可知，以及大量设备，部分参与和不平衡的数据。

We propose the fully differentiable $\nabla$-RANSAC.It predicts the inlier probabilities of the input data points, exploits the predictions in a guided sampler, and estimates the model parameters (e.g., fundamental matrix) and its quality while propagating the gradients through the entire procedure. The random sampler in $\nabla$-RANSAC is based on a clever re-parametrization strategy, i.e.\ the Gumbel Softmax sampler, that allows propagating the gradients directly into the subsequent differentiable minimal solver. The model quality function marginalizes over the scores from all models estimated within $\nabla$-RANSAC to guide the network learning accurate and useful probabilities.$\nabla$-RANSAC is the first to unlock the end-to-end training of geometric estimation pipelines, containing feature detection, matching and RANSAC-like randomized robust estimation. As a proof of its potential, we train $\nabla$-RANSAC together with LoFTR, i.e. a recent detector-free feature matcher, to find reliable correspondences in an end-to-end manner. We test $\nabla$-RANSAC on a number of real-world datasets on fundamental and essential matrix estimation. It is superior to the state-of-the-art in terms of accuracy while being among the fastest methods. The code and trained models will be made public.

This paper tackles the challenging problem of automating code updates to fix deprecated API usages of open source libraries by analyzing their release notes. Our system employs a three-tier architecture: first, a web crawler service retrieves deprecation documentation from the web; then a specially built parser processes those text documents into tree-structured representations; finally, a client IDE plugin locates and fixes identified deprecated usages of libraries in a given codebase. The focus of this paper in particular is the parsing component. We introduce a novel transition-based parser in two variants: based on a classical feature engineered classifier and a neural tree encoder. To confirm the effectiveness of our method, we gathered and labeled a set of 426 API deprecations from 7 well-known Python data science libraries, and demonstrated our approach decisively outperforms a non-trivial neural machine translation baseline.

Generalisation to unseen contexts remains a challenge for embodied navigation agents. In the context of semantic audio-visual navigation (SAVi) tasks, the notion of generalisation should include both generalising to unseen indoor visual scenes as well as generalising to unheard sounding objects. However, previous SAVi task definitions do not include evaluation conditions on truly novel sounding objects, resorting instead to evaluating agents on unheard sound clips of known objects; meanwhile, previous SAVi methods do not include explicit mechanisms for incorporating domain knowledge about object and region semantics. These weaknesses limit the development and assessment of models' abilities to generalise their learned experience. In this work, we introduce the use of knowledge-driven scene priors in the semantic audio-visual embodied navigation task: we combine semantic information from our novel knowledge graph that encodes object-region relations, spatial knowledge from dual Graph Encoder Networks, and background knowledge from a series of pre-training tasks -- all within a reinforcement learning framework for audio-visual navigation. We also define a new audio-visual navigation sub-task, where agents are evaluated on novel sounding objects, as opposed to unheard clips of known objects. We show improvements over strong baselines in generalisation to unseen regions and novel sounding objects, within the Habitat-Matterport3D simulation environment, under the SoundSpaces task.

Our earlier research built a virtual shake robot in simulation to study the dynamics of precariously balanced rocks (PBR), which are negative indicators of earthquakes in nature. The simulation studies need validation through physical experiments. For this purpose, we developed Shakebot, a low-cost (under $2,000), open-source shake table to validate simulations of PBR dynamics and facilitate other ground motion experiments. The Shakebot is a custom one-dimensional prismatic robotic system with perception and motion software developed using the Robot Operating System (ROS). We adapted affordable and high-accuracy components from 3D printers, particularly a closed-loop stepper motor for actuation and a toothed belt for transmission. The stepper motor enables the bed to reach a maximum horizontal acceleration of 11.8 m/s^2 (1.2 g), and velocity of 0.5 m/s, when loaded with a 2 kg scale-model PBR. The perception system of the Shakebot consists of an accelerometer and a high frame-rate camera. By fusing camera-based displacements with acceleration measurements, the Shakebot is able to carry out accurate bed velocity estimation. The ROS-based perception and motion software simplifies the transition of code from our previous virtual shake robot to the physical Shakebot. The reuse of the control programs ensures that the implemented ground motions are consistent for both the simulation and physical experiments, which is critical to validate our simulation experiments.

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) were introduced by Goodfellow in 2014, and since then have become popular for constructing generative artificial intelligence models. However, the drawbacks of such networks are numerous, like their longer training times, their sensitivity to hyperparameter tuning, several types of loss and optimization functions and other difficulties like mode collapse. Current applications of GANs include generating photo-realistic human faces, animals and objects. However, I wanted to explore the artistic ability of GANs in more detail, by using existing models and learning from them. This dissertation covers the basics of neural networks and works its way up to the particular aspects of GANs, together with experimentation and modification of existing available models, from least complex to most. The intention is to see if state of the art GANs (specifically StyleGAN2) can generate album art covers and if it is possible to tailor them by genre. This was attempted by first familiarizing myself with 3 existing GANs architectures, including the state of the art StyleGAN2. The StyleGAN2 code was used to train a model with a dataset containing 80K album cover images, then used to style images by picking curated images and mixing their styles.

Graph learning problems are typically approached by focusing on learning the topology of a single graph when signals from all nodes are available. However, many contemporary setups involve multiple related networks and, moreover, it is often the case that only a subset of nodes is observed while the rest remain hidden. Motivated by this, we propose a joint graph learning method that takes into account the presence of hidden (latent) variables. Intuitively, the presence of the hidden nodes renders the inference task ill-posed and challenging to solve, so we overcome this detrimental influence by harnessing the similarity of the estimated graphs. To that end, we assume that the observed signals are drawn from a Gaussian Markov random field with latent variables and we carefully model the graph similarity among hidden (latent) nodes. Then, we exploit the structure resulting from the previous considerations to propose a convex optimization problem that solves the joint graph learning task by providing a regularized maximum likelihood estimator. Finally, we compare the proposed algorithm with different baselines and evaluate its performance over synthetic and real-world graphs.

我们考虑了从节点观测值估算多个网络拓扑的问题，其中假定这些网络是从相同（未知）随机图模型中绘制的。我们采用图形作为我们的随机图模型，这是一个非参数模型，可以从中绘制出潜在不同大小的图形。图形子的多功能性使我们能够解决关节推理问题，即使对于要恢复的图形包含不同数量的节点并且缺乏整个图形的精确比对的情况。我们的解决方案是基于将最大似然惩罚与Graphon估计方案结合在一起，可用于增强现有网络推理方法。通过引入嘈杂图抽样信息的强大方法，进一步增强了所提出的联合网络和图形估计。我们通过将其性能与合成和实际数据集中的竞争方法进行比较来验证我们提出的方法。

随着跨领域的机器人在共享环境中开始与人类合作，使他们能够推理人类意图的算法对于实现安全的相互作用很重要。在我们的工作中，我们通过预测动态环境中的轨迹的问题来研究人类的意图。我们探索导航准则相对严格定义但在其物理环境中没有明确标记的域。我们假设在这些领域内，代理人倾向于表现出短期运动模式，这些模式揭示了与代理人的一般方向，中间目标和运动规则相关的上下文信息，例如社会行为。从这种直觉中，我们提出了社交模式，这是一种复发，多模式轨迹预测的算法，该预测利用运动模式来编码上述上下文。我们的方法通过学习预测短期运动模式来指导长期的轨迹预测。然后，它从模式中提取次目标信息，并将其汇总为社会环境。我们评估了跨三个领域的方法：人类人群，体育中的人类和码头领空中的载人飞机，以实现最先进的表现。

从单个图像中恢复人头的几何形状，同时对材料和照明进行分解是一个严重不良的问题，需要事先解决。基于3D形态模型（3DMM）及其与可区分渲染器的组合的方法已显示出令人鼓舞的结果。但是，3DMM的表现力受到限制，它们通常会产生过度平滑和身份敏捷的3D形状，仅限于面部区域。最近，使用多层感知器参数化几何形状的神经场获得了高度准确的全头部重建。这些表示形式的多功能性也已被证明可有效解开几何形状，材料和照明。但是，这些方法需要几十个输入图像。在本文中，我们介绍了Sira，该方法从单个图像中，从一个图像中重建了具有高保真度几何形状和分解的灯光和表面材料的人头头像。我们的关键成分是基于神经场的两个数据驱动的统计模型，这些模型可以解决单视3D表面重建和外观分解的歧义。实验表明，Sira获得了最新的状态导致3D头重建，同时它成功地解开了全局照明以及弥漫性和镜面反照率。此外，我们的重建适合基于物理的外观编辑和头部模型重新构建。