Learning fair graph representations for downstream applications is becoming increasingly important, but existing work has mostly focused on improving fairness at the global level by either modifying the graph structure or objective function without taking into account the local neighborhood of a node. In this work, we formally introduce the notion of neighborhood fairness and develop a computational framework for learning such locally fair embeddings. We argue that the notion of neighborhood fairness is more appropriate since GNN-based models operate at the local neighborhood level of a node. Our neighborhood fairness framework has two main components that are flexible for learning fair graph representations from arbitrary data: the first aims to construct fair neighborhoods for any arbitrary node in a graph and the second enables adaption of these fair neighborhoods to better capture certain application or data-dependent constraints, such as allowing neighborhoods to be more biased towards certain attributes or neighbors in the graph.Furthermore, while link prediction has been extensively studied, we are the first to investigate the graph representation learning task of fair link classification. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed neighborhood fairness framework for a variety of graph machine learning tasks including fair link prediction, link classification, and learning fair graph embeddings. Notably, our approach achieves not only better fairness but also increases the accuracy in the majority of cases across a wide variety of graphs, problem settings, and metrics.

基于会话的建议系统在会话中捕获用户的短期兴趣。会话上下文（即，会话中用户在会话中的高级兴趣或意图）在大多数数据集中都没有明确给出，并且隐式推断会话上下文作为项目级属性的汇总是粗略的。在本文中，我们提出了ISCON，该ISCON隐含地将会议上下文化。ISCON首先通过创建会话信息图，学习图嵌入和聚类来为会话生成隐式上下文，以将会话分配给上下文。然后，ISCON训练会话上下文预测器，并使用预测上下文的嵌入来增强下一项目的预测准确性。四个数据集的实验表明，ISCON比最新模型具有优越的下一项目预测准确性。REDDIT数据集中的ISCON的案例研究证实，分配的会话上下文是独特而有意义的。

捆绑式推荐系统向用户推荐一组物品（例如裤子，衬衫和鞋子），但他们经常遇到两个问题：重大的互动稀疏性和大型输出空间。在这项工作中，我们扩展了多轮对话建议（MCR）以减轻这些问题。 MCR是使用对话范式通过询问标签（例如类别或属性）的用户偏好来引起用户兴趣的MCR，并在多个回合中处理用户反馈，是一个新兴的建议设置，以获取用户反馈并缩小输出空间，但具有缩小的输出空间没有在捆绑建议的背景下探索。在这项工作中，我们提出了一个名为Bundle MCR的新颖推荐任务。我们首先提出了一个新框架，以将MCR作为Markov决策过程（MDP），其中有多个代理，用于用户建模，咨询和反馈处理。在此框架下，我们向（1）推荐项目，（2）提出问题和（3）基于捆绑感的对话状态来管理对话。此外，要有效地训练Bunt，我们提出了两阶段的培训策略。在离线预训练阶段，Bunt使用多个披肩任务进行训练，以模仿对话中的捆绑互动。然后，在在线微调阶段，用户交互增强了Bunt代理。我们在多个离线数据集以及人类评估上进行的实验显示了将MCR框架扩展到捆绑设置的价值以及我们的Bunt设计的有效性。

给定实体及其在Web数据中的交互，可能在不同的时间发生，我们如何找到实体社区并跟踪其演变？在本文中，我们从图形群集的角度处理这项重要任务。最近，通过深层聚类方法，已经实现了各个领域的最新聚类性能。特别是，深图聚类（DGC）方法通过学习节点表示和群集分配在关节优化框架中成功扩展到图形结构的数据。尽管建模选择有所不同（例如，编码器架构），但现有的DGC方法主要基于自动编码器，并使用相同的群集目标和相对较小的适应性。同样，尽管许多现实世界图都是动态的，但以前的DGC方法仅被视为静态图。在这项工作中，我们开发了CGC，这是一个新颖的端到端图形聚类框架，其与现有方法的根本不同。 CGC在对比度图学习框架中学习节点嵌入和群集分配，在多级别方案中仔细选择了正面和负样本，以反映层次结构的社区结构和网络同质。此外，我们将CGC扩展到时间不断发展的数据，其中时间图以增量学习方式执行，并具有检测更改点的能力。对现实世界图的广泛评估表明，所提出的CGC始终优于现有方法。

The 3D-aware image synthesis focuses on conserving spatial consistency besides generating high-resolution images with fine details. Recently, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has been introduced for synthesizing novel views with low computational cost and superior performance. While several works investigate a generative NeRF and show remarkable achievement, they cannot handle conditional and continuous feature manipulation in the generation procedure. In this work, we introduce a novel model, called Class-Continuous Conditional Generative NeRF ($\text{C}^{3}$G-NeRF), which can synthesize conditionally manipulated photorealistic 3D-consistent images by projecting conditional features to the generator and the discriminator. The proposed $\text{C}^{3}$G-NeRF is evaluated with three image datasets, AFHQ, CelebA, and Cars. As a result, our model shows strong 3D-consistency with fine details and smooth interpolation in conditional feature manipulation. For instance, $\text{C}^{3}$G-NeRF exhibits a Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID) of 7.64 in 3D-aware face image synthesis with a $\text{128}^{2}$ resolution. Additionally, we provide FIDs of generated 3D-aware images of each class of the datasets as it is possible to synthesize class-conditional images with $\text{C}^{3}$G-NeRF.

In both terrestrial and marine ecology, physical tagging is a frequently used method to study population dynamics and behavior. However, such tagging techniques are increasingly being replaced by individual re-identification using image analysis. This paper introduces a contrastive learning-based model for identifying individuals. The model uses the first parts of the Inception v3 network, supported by a projection head, and we use contrastive learning to find similar or dissimilar image pairs from a collection of uniform photographs. We apply this technique for corkwing wrasse, Symphodus melops, an ecologically and commercially important fish species. Photos are taken during repeated catches of the same individuals from a wild population, where the intervals between individual sightings might range from a few days to several years. Our model achieves a one-shot accuracy of 0.35, a 5-shot accuracy of 0.56, and a 100-shot accuracy of 0.88, on our dataset.

Feature selection helps reduce data acquisition costs in ML, but the standard approach is to train models with static feature subsets. Here, we consider the dynamic feature selection (DFS) problem where a model sequentially queries features based on the presently available information. DFS is often addressed with reinforcement learning (RL), but we explore a simpler approach of greedily selecting features based on their conditional mutual information. This method is theoretically appealing but requires oracle access to the data distribution, so we develop a learning approach based on amortized optimization. The proposed method is shown to recover the greedy policy when trained to optimality and outperforms numerous existing feature selection methods in our experiments, thus validating it as a simple but powerful approach for this problem.

The purpose of this work was to tackle practical issues which arise when using a tendon-driven robotic manipulator with a long, passive, flexible proximal section in medical applications. A separable robot which overcomes difficulties in actuation and sterilization is introduced, in which the body containing the electronics is reusable and the remainder is disposable. A control input which resolves the redundancy in the kinematics and a physical interpretation of this redundancy are provided. The effect of a static change in the proximal section angle on bending angle error was explored under four testing conditions for a sinusoidal input. Bending angle error increased for increasing proximal section angle for all testing conditions with an average error reduction of 41.48% for retension, 4.28% for hysteresis, and 52.35% for re-tension + hysteresis compensation relative to the baseline case. Two major sources of error in tracking the bending angle were identified: time delay from hysteresis and DC offset from the proximal section angle. Examination of these error sources revealed that the simple hysteresis compensation was most effective for removing time delay and re-tension compensation for removing DC offset, which was the primary source of increasing error. The re-tension compensation was also tested for dynamic changes in the proximal section and reduced error in the final configuration of the tip by 89.14% relative to the baseline case.

According to the rapid development of drone technologies, drones are widely used in many applications including military domains. In this paper, a novel situation-aware DRL- based autonomous nonlinear drone mobility control algorithm in cyber-physical loitering munition applications. On the battlefield, the design of DRL-based autonomous control algorithm is not straightforward because real-world data gathering is generally not available. Therefore, the approach in this paper is that cyber-physical virtual environment is constructed with Unity environment. Based on the virtual cyber-physical battlefield scenarios, a DRL-based automated nonlinear drone mobility control algorithm can be designed, evaluated, and visualized. Moreover, many obstacles exist which is harmful for linear trajectory control in real-world battlefield scenarios. Thus, our proposed autonomous nonlinear drone mobility control algorithm utilizes situation-aware components those are implemented with a Raycast function in Unity virtual scenarios. Based on the gathered situation-aware information, the drone can autonomously and nonlinearly adjust its trajectory during flight. Therefore, this approach is obviously beneficial for avoiding obstacles in obstacle-deployed battlefields. Our visualization-based performance evaluation shows that the proposed algorithm is superior from the other linear mobility control algorithms.

In robotics and computer vision communities, extensive studies have been widely conducted regarding surveillance tasks, including human detection, tracking, and motion recognition with a camera. Additionally, deep learning algorithms are widely utilized in the aforementioned tasks as in other computer vision tasks. Existing public datasets are insufficient to develop learning-based methods that handle various surveillance for outdoor and extreme situations such as harsh weather and low illuminance conditions. Therefore, we introduce a new large-scale outdoor surveillance dataset named eXtremely large-scale Multi-modAl Sensor dataset (X-MAS) containing more than 500,000 image pairs and the first-person view data annotated by well-trained annotators. Moreover, a single pair contains multi-modal data (e.g. an IR image, an RGB image, a thermal image, a depth image, and a LiDAR scan). This is the first large-scale first-person view outdoor multi-modal dataset focusing on surveillance tasks to the best of our knowledge. We present an overview of the proposed dataset with statistics and present methods of exploiting our dataset with deep learning-based algorithms. The latest information on the dataset and our study are available at https://github.com/lge-robot-navi, and the dataset will be available for download through a server.