散射变换是一种基于小波的多层转换，最初是作为卷积神经网络（CNN）的模型引入的，它在我们对这些网络稳定性和不变性属性的理解中发挥了基础作用。随后，人们普遍兴趣将CNN的成功扩展到具有非欧盟结构的数据集，例如图形和歧管，从而导致了几何深度学习的新兴领域。为了提高我们对这个新领域中使用的体系结构的理解，几篇论文提出了对非欧几里得数据结构（如无方向的图形和紧凑的Riemannian歧管）的散射转换的概括。在本文中，我们介绍了一个通用的统一模型，用于测量空间上的几何散射。我们提出的框架包括以前的几何散射作品作为特殊情况，但也适用于更通用的设置，例如有向图，签名图和带边界的歧管。我们提出了一个新标准，该标准可以识别哪些有用表示应该不变的组，并表明该标准足以确保散射变换具有理想的稳定性和不变性属性。此外，我们考虑从随机采样未知歧管获得的有限度量空间。我们提出了两种构造数据驱动图的方法，在该图上相关的图形散射转换近似于基础歧管上的散射变换。此外，我们使用基于扩散图的方法来证明这些近似值之一的收敛速率的定量估计值，因为样品点的数量趋向于无穷大。最后，我们在球形图像，有向图和高维单细胞数据上展示了方法的实用性。

歧管散射变换是用于在Riemannian歧管上定义的数据的深度提取器。它是将类似卷积神经网络的操作员扩展到一般流形的第一个例子之一。该模型的初始工作主要集中在其理论稳定性和不变性属性上，但没有为其数值实现提供方法，除非具有预定义的网格的二维表面。在这项工作中，我们根据扩散图的理论提出实用方案，以实现在自然主义系统（例如单细胞遗传学）中产生的流形散射转换，其中数据是一个高度点云，该云是模仿躺在上面的高维点云。低维歧管。我们证明我们的方法对于信号分类和多种分类任务有效。

The rapid development of remote sensing technologies have gained significant attention due to their ability to accurately localize, classify, and segment objects from aerial images. These technologies are commonly used in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with high-resolution cameras or sensors to capture data over large areas. This data is useful for various applications, such as monitoring and inspecting cities, towns, and terrains. In this paper, we presented a method for classifying and segmenting city road traffic dashed lines from aerial images using deep learning models such as U-Net and SegNet. The annotated data is used to train these models, which are then used to classify and segment the aerial image into two classes: dashed lines and non-dashed lines. However, the deep learning model may not be able to identify all dashed lines due to poor painting or occlusion by trees or shadows. To address this issue, we proposed a method to add missed lines to the segmentation output. We also extracted the x and y coordinates of each dashed line from the segmentation output, which can be used by city planners to construct a CAD file for digital visualization of the roads.

As information extraction (IE) systems have grown more capable at whole-document extraction, the classic task of \emph{template filling} has seen renewed interest as a benchmark for evaluating them. In this position paper, we call into question the suitability of template filling for this purpose. We argue that the task demands definitive answers to thorny questions of \emph{event individuation} -- the problem of distinguishing distinct events -- about which even human experts disagree. We show through annotation studies and error analysis that this raises concerns about the usefulness of template filling evaluation metrics, the quality of datasets for the task, and the ability of models to learn it. Finally, we consider possible solutions.

Bike sharing systems often suffer from poor capacity management as a result of variable demand. These bike sharing systems would benefit from models to predict demand in order to moderate the number of bikes stored at each station. In this paper, we attempt to apply a graph neural network model to predict bike demand in the New York City, Citi Bike dataset.

This paper proposes an easy-to-compute upper bound for the overlap index between two probability distributions without requiring any knowledge of the distribution models. The computation of our bound is time-efficient and memory-efficient and only requires finite samples. The proposed bound shows its value in one-class classification and domain shift analysis. Specifically, in one-class classification, we build a novel one-class classifier by converting the bound into a confidence score function. Unlike most one-class classifiers, the training process is not needed for our classifier. Additionally, the experimental results show that our classifier \textcolor{\colorname}{can be accurate with} only a small number of in-class samples and outperforms many state-of-the-art methods on various datasets in different one-class classification scenarios. In domain shift analysis, we propose a theorem based on our bound. The theorem is useful in detecting the existence of domain shift and inferring data information. The detection and inference processes are both computation-efficient and memory-efficient. Our work shows significant promise toward broadening the applications of overlap-based metrics.

We propose a framework in which multiple entities collaborate to build a machine learning model while preserving privacy of their data. The approach utilizes feature embeddings from shared/per-entity feature extractors transforming data into a feature space for cooperation between entities. We propose two specific methods and compare them with a baseline method. In Shared Feature Extractor (SFE) Learning, the entities use a shared feature extractor to compute feature embeddings of samples. In Locally Trained Feature Extractor (LTFE) Learning, each entity uses a separate feature extractor and models are trained using concatenated features from all entities. As a baseline, in Cooperatively Trained Feature Extractor (CTFE) Learning, the entities train models by sharing raw data. Secure multi-party algorithms are utilized to train models without revealing data or features in plain text. We investigate the trade-offs among SFE, LTFE, and CTFE in regard to performance, privacy leakage (using an off-the-shelf membership inference attack), and computational cost. LTFE provides the most privacy, followed by SFE, and then CTFE. Computational cost is lowest for SFE and the relative speed of CTFE and LTFE depends on network architecture. CTFE and LTFE provide the best accuracy. We use MNIST, a synthetic dataset, and a credit card fraud detection dataset for evaluations.

Masked Language Modeling (MLM) has proven to be an essential component of Vision-Language (VL) pretraining. To implement MLM, the researcher must make two design choices: the masking strategy, which determines which tokens to mask, and the masking rate, which determines how many tokens to mask. Previous work has focused primarily on the masking strategy while setting the masking rate at a default of 15\%. In this paper, we show that increasing this masking rate improves downstream performance while simultaneously reducing performance gap among different masking strategies, rendering the uniform masking strategy competitive to other more complex ones. Surprisingly, we also discover that increasing the masking rate leads to gains in Image-Text Matching (ITM) tasks, suggesting that the role of MLM goes beyond language modeling in VL pretraining.

Predicting the physical interaction of proteins is a cornerstone problem in computational biology. New classes of learning-based algorithms are actively being developed, and are typically trained end-to-end on protein complex structures extracted from the Protein Data Bank. These training datasets tend to be large and difficult to use for prototyping and, unlike image or natural language datasets, they are not easily interpretable by non-experts. We present Dock2D-IP and Dock2D-IF, two "toy" datasets that can be used to select algorithms predicting protein-protein interactions$\unicode{x2014}$or any other type of molecular interactions. Using two-dimensional shapes as input, each example from Dock2D-IP ("interaction pose") describes the interaction pose of two shapes known to interact and each example from Dock2D-IF ("interaction fact") describes whether two shapes form a stable complex or not. We propose a number of baseline solutions to the problem and show that the same underlying energy function can be learned either by solving the interaction pose task (formulated as an energy-minimization "docking" problem) or the fact-of-interaction task (formulated as a binding free energy estimation problem).

This paper presents a new approach for analyzing and identifying potentially useful generalized plans. It presents a new conceptual framework along with an algorithmic process for assessing termination and reachability related properties of generalized plans. The presented framework builds upon classic results on the analysis of graphs to decompose generalized plans into smaller components in a novel algorithm for conducting a hierarchical analysis for termination of arbitrary generalized plans. Theoretical analysis of the new framework establishes soundness of the presented algorithms and shows how it goes beyond existing approaches; empirical analysis illustrates the scope of this approach. Our analysis shows that this new approach can effectively identify termination for a significantly larger class of generalized plans than was possible using existing methods.