在本文中，我们研究了随机控制屏障功能（SCBF），以在存在不确定性的情况下实现概率安全实时控制器的设计，并基于嘈杂的测量。我们的目标是设计控制器，该控制器将系统故障的概率与给定的所需值相结合。为此，我们首先使用扩展的卡尔曼滤波器从嘈杂测量估计系统状态，并计算过滤错误上的置信区间。然后，我们根据估计的状态归因于过滤错误并在控制输入上导出足够的条件，以绑定系统的实际状态在有限时间间隔内输入不安全区域的概率。我们表明，这些充足的条件是对控制输入的线性约束，因此，除了可达性等其他性能之外，它们可以用于实现安全性以实现安全性，以及稳定性。我们的方法是使用浓密交通的高速公路上的车道改变情景进行了评估。

Color is a critical design factor for web pages, affecting important factors such as viewer emotions and the overall trust and satisfaction of a website. Effective coloring requires design knowledge and expertise, but if this process could be automated through data-driven modeling, efficient exploration and alternative workflows would be possible. However, this direction remains underexplored due to the lack of a formalization of the web page colorization problem, datasets, and evaluation protocols. In this work, we propose a new dataset consisting of e-commerce mobile web pages in a tractable format, which are created by simplifying the pages and extracting canonical color styles with a common web browser. The web page colorization problem is then formalized as a task of estimating plausible color styles for a given web page content with a given hierarchical structure of the elements. We present several Transformer-based methods that are adapted to this task by prepending structural message passing to capture hierarchical relationships between elements. Experimental results, including a quantitative evaluation designed for this task, demonstrate the advantages of our methods over statistical and image colorization methods. The code is available at https://github.com/CyberAgentAILab/webcolor.

Human pose estimation, particularly in athletes, can help improve their performance. However, this estimation is difficult using existing methods, such as human annotation, if the subjects wear loose-fitting clothes such as ski/snowboard wears. This study developed a method for obtaining the ground truth data on two-dimensional (2D) poses of a human wearing loose-fitting clothes. This method uses fast-flushing light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The subjects were required to wear loose-fitting clothes and place the LED on the target joints. The LEDs were observed directly using a camera by selecting thin filmy loose-fitting clothes. The proposed method captures the scene at 240 fps by using a high-frame-rate camera and renders two 30 fps image sequences by extracting LED-on and -off frames. The temporal differences between the two video sequences can be ignored, considering the speed of human motion. The LED-on video was used to manually annotate the joints and thus obtain the ground truth data. Additionally, the LED-off video, equivalent to a standard video at 30 fps, confirmed the accuracy of existing machine learning-based methods and manual annotations. Experiments demonstrated that the proposed method can obtain ground truth data for standard RGB videos. Further, it was revealed that neither manual annotation nor the state-of-the-art pose estimator obtains the correct position of target joints.

Transparency of Machine Learning models used for decision support in various industries becomes essential for ensuring their ethical use. To that end, feature attribution methods such as SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) are widely used to explain the predictions of black-box machine learning models to customers and developers. However, a parallel trend has been to train machine learning models in collaboration with other data holders without accessing their data. Such models, trained over horizontally or vertically partitioned data, present a challenge for explainable AI because the explaining party may have a biased view of background data or a partial view of the feature space. As a result, explanations obtained from different participants of distributed machine learning might not be consistent with one another, undermining trust in the product. This paper presents an Explainable Data Collaboration Framework based on a model-agnostic additive feature attribution algorithm (KernelSHAP) and Data Collaboration method of privacy-preserving distributed machine learning. In particular, we present three algorithms for different scenarios of explainability in Data Collaboration and verify their consistency with experiments on open-access datasets. Our results demonstrated a significant (by at least a factor of 1.75) decrease in feature attribution discrepancies among the users of distributed machine learning.

Robotic hands with soft surfaces can perform stable grasping, but the high friction of the soft surfaces makes it difficult to release objects, or to perform operations that require sliding. To solve this issue, we previously developed a contact area variable surface (CAVS), whose friction changed according to the load. However, only our fundamental results were previously presented, with detailed analyses not provided. In this study, we first investigated the CAVS friction anisotropy, and demonstrated that the longitudinal direction exhibited a larger ratio of friction change. Next, we proposed a sensible CAVS, capable of providing a variable-friction mechanism, and tested its sensing and control systems in operations requiring switching between sliding and stable-grasping modes. Friction sensing was performed using an embedded camera, and we developed a gripper using the sensible CAVS, considering the CAVS friction anisotropy. In CAVS, the low-friction mode corresponds to a small grasping force, while the high-friction mode corresponds to a greater grasping force. Therefore, by controlling only the friction mode, the gripper mode can be set to either the sliding or stable-grasping mode. Based on this feature, a methodology for controlling the contact mode was constructed. We demonstrated a manipulation involving sliding and stable grasping, and thus verified the efficacy of the developed sensible CAVS.

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to widespread adoption, most LLMs are developed by resource-rich organizations and are frequently kept from the public. As a step towards democratizing this powerful technology, we present BLOOM, a 176B-parameter open-access language model designed and built thanks to a collaboration of hundreds of researchers. BLOOM is a decoder-only Transformer language model that was trained on the ROOTS corpus, a dataset comprising hundreds of sources in 46 natural and 13 programming languages (59 in total). We find that BLOOM achieves competitive performance on a wide variety of benchmarks, with stronger results after undergoing multitask prompted finetuning. To facilitate future research and applications using LLMs, we publicly release our models and code under the Responsible AI License.

Our team, Hibikino-Musashi@Home (the shortened name is HMA), was founded in 2010. It is based in the Kitakyushu Science and Research Park, Japan. We have participated in the RoboCup@Home Japan open competition open platform league every year since 2010. Moreover, we participated in the RoboCup 2017 Nagoya as open platform league and domestic standard platform league teams. Currently, the Hibikino-Musashi@Home team has 20 members from seven different laboratories based in the Kyushu Institute of Technology. In this paper, we introduce the activities of our team and the technologies.

我们已经开发了带有被动动态步行机制的双头机器人。这项研究提出了一个指南针模型，其摇摆质量连接到上半身，并沿水平方向振荡，以阐明上半身水平动力学对两足动物行走的影响。该模型的极限周期进行了数值搜索，并研究了它们的稳定性和能源效率。根据支持摇摆质量的弹簧常数，获得了几个不同的极限周期。特定类型的解决方案降低了稳定性，同时降低了意外下降并提高能源效率的风险。获得的结果归因于摇摆的质量朝与上半身相反的方向移动，从而防止行走时加速和减速的大幅变化。研究了所提出的模型的运动与实际的双头机器人与人类步态之间的关系。

虽然减少方差方法在解决大规模优化问题方面取得了巨大成功，但其中许多人遭受了累积错误，因此应定期需要进行完整的梯度计算。在本文中，我们提出了一种用于有限的和非convex优化的单环算法（梯度估计器的单环方法），该算法不需要定期刷新梯度估计器，但实现了几乎最佳的梯度复杂性。与现有方法不同，雪橇具有多功能性的优势。 （i）二阶最优性，（ii）PL区域中的指数收敛性，以及（iii）在较小的数据异质性下较小的复杂性。我们通过利用这些有利的特性来构建有效的联合学习算法。我们展示了输出的一阶和二阶最优性，并在PL条件下提供分析。当本地预算足够大，并且客户少（Hessian-）〜异质时，该算法需要较少的通信回合，而不是现有方法，例如FedAvg，脚手架和Mime。我们方法的优势在数值实验中得到了验证。

多源数据融合，共同分析了多个数据源以获得改进的信息，引起了广泛的研究关注。对于多个医疗机构的数据集，数据机密性和跨机构沟通至关重要。在这种情况下，数据协作（DC）分析通过共享维数减少的中间表示，而无需迭代跨机构通信可能是合适的。在分析包括个人信息在内的数据时，共享数据的可识别性至关重要。在这项研究中，研究了DC分析的可识别性。结果表明，共享的中间表示很容易识别为原始数据以进行监督学习。然后，这项研究提出了一个非可读性可识别的直流分析，仅共享多个医疗数据集（包括个人信息）的非可读数据。所提出的方法基于随机样本排列，可解释的直流分析的概念以及无法重建的功能的使用来解决可识别性问题。在医学数据集的数值实验中，提出的方法表现出非可读性可识别性，同时保持了常规DC分析的高识别性能。对于医院的数据集，提出的方法在仅使用本地数据集的本地分析的识别性能方面表现出了9个百分点的改善。