The introduction of high-quality image generation models, particularly the StyleGAN family, provides a powerful tool to synthesize and manipulate images. However, existing models are built upon high-quality (HQ) data as desired outputs, making them unfit for in-the-wild low-quality (LQ) images, which are common inputs for manipulation. In this work, we bridge this gap by proposing a novel GAN structure that allows for generating images with controllable quality. The network can synthesize various image degradation and restore the sharp image via a quality control code. Our proposed QC-StyleGAN can directly edit LQ images without altering their quality by applying GAN inversion and manipulation techniques. It also provides for free an image restoration solution that can handle various degradations, including noise, blur, compression artifacts, and their mixtures. Finally, we demonstrate numerous other applications such as image degradation synthesis, transfer, and interpolation.

在本文中，我们提出了一个通用框架，以缩放图形自动编码器（AE）和图形自动编码器（VAE）。该框架利用图形退化概念仅从一个密集的节点子集训练模型，而不是使用整个图。加上一种简单而有效的传播机制，我们的方法可显着提高可扩展性和训练速度，同时保持性能。我们在现有图AE和VAE的几种变体上评估和讨论我们的方法，并将这些模型的首次应用于具有多达数百万个节点和边缘的大图。我们取得了经验竞争的结果W.R.T.几种流行的可扩展节点嵌入方法，这些方法强调了对更可扩展图AE和VAE进行进一步研究的相关性。

Adversarial machine learning has been both a major concern and a hot topic recently, especially with the ubiquitous use of deep neural networks in the current landscape. Adversarial attacks and defenses are usually likened to a cat-and-mouse game in which defenders and attackers evolve over the time. On one hand, the goal is to develop strong and robust deep networks that are resistant to malicious actors. On the other hand, in order to achieve that, we need to devise even stronger adversarial attacks to challenge these defense models. Most of existing attacks employs a single $\ell_p$ distance (commonly, $p\in\{1,2,\infty\}$) to define the concept of closeness and performs steepest gradient ascent w.r.t. this $p$-norm to update all pixels in an adversarial example in the same way. These $\ell_p$ attacks each has its own pros and cons; and there is no single attack that can successfully break through defense models that are robust against multiple $\ell_p$ norms simultaneously. Motivated by these observations, we come up with a natural approach: combining various $\ell_p$ gradient projections on a pixel level to achieve a joint adversarial perturbation. Specifically, we learn how to perturb each pixel to maximize the attack performance, while maintaining the overall visual imperceptibility of adversarial examples. Finally, through various experiments with standardized benchmarks, we show that our method outperforms most current strong attacks across state-of-the-art defense mechanisms, while retaining its ability to remain clean visually.

Pareto Front Learning (PFL) was recently introduced as an effective approach to obtain a mapping function from a given trade-off vector to a solution on the Pareto front, which solves the multi-objective optimization (MOO) problem. Due to the inherent trade-off between conflicting objectives, PFL offers a flexible approach in many scenarios in which the decision makers can not specify the preference of one Pareto solution over another, and must switch between them depending on the situation. However, existing PFL methods ignore the relationship between the solutions during the optimization process, which hinders the quality of the obtained front. To overcome this issue, we propose a novel PFL framework namely \ourmodel, which employs a hypernetwork to generate multiple solutions from a set of diverse trade-off preferences and enhance the quality of the Pareto front by maximizing the Hypervolume indicator defined by these solutions. The experimental results on several MOO machine learning tasks show that the proposed framework significantly outperforms the baselines in producing the trade-off Pareto front.

Diffusion models are rising as a powerful solution for high-fidelity image generation, which exceeds GANs in quality in many circumstances. However, their slow training and inference speed is a huge bottleneck, blocking them from being used in real-time applications. A recent DiffusionGAN method significantly decreases the models' running time by reducing the number of sampling steps from thousands to several, but their speeds still largely lag behind the GAN counterparts. This paper aims to reduce the speed gap by proposing a novel wavelet-based diffusion structure. We extract low-and-high frequency components from both image and feature levels via wavelet decomposition and adaptively handle these components for faster processing while maintaining good generation quality. Furthermore, we propose to use a reconstruction term, which effectively boosts the model training convergence. Experimental results on CelebA-HQ, CIFAR-10, LSUN-Church, and STL-10 datasets prove our solution is a stepping-stone to offering real-time and high-fidelity diffusion models. Our code and pre-trained checkpoints will be available at \url{https://github.com/VinAIResearch/WaveDiff.git}.

语义分割是开发医学图像诊断系统的重要任务。但是，构建注释的医疗数据集很昂贵。因此，在这种情况下，半监督方法很重要。在半监督学习中，标签的质量在模型性能中起着至关重要的作用。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种新的伪标签策略，可提高用于培训学生网络的伪标签的质量。我们遵循多阶段的半监督训练方法，该方法在标记的数据集上训练教师模型，然后使用训练有素的老师将伪标签渲染用于学生培训。通过这样做，伪标签将被更新，并且随着培训的进度更加精确。上一个和我们的方法之间的关键区别在于，我们在学生培训过程中更新教师模型。因此，在学生培训过程中，提高了伪标签的质量。我们还提出了一种简单但有效的策略，以使用动量模型来提高伪标签的质量 - 训练过程中原始模型的慢复制版本。通过应用动量模型与学生培训期间的重新渲染伪标签相结合，我们在五个数据集中平均达到了84.1％的骰子分数（即Kvarsir，CVC-ClinicdB，Etis-laribpolypdb，cvc-colondb，cvc-colondb，cvc-colondb和cvc-300）和CVC-300）只有20％的数据集用作标记数据。我们的结果超过了3％的共同实践，甚至在某些数据集中取得了完全监督的结果。我们的源代码和预培训模型可在https://github.com/sun-asterisk-research/online学习SSL上找到

尽管在过去的几年中取得了重大进展，但歧义仍然是面部表情识别（FER）的关键挑战。它可能导致嘈杂和不一致的注释，这阻碍了现实世界中深度学习模型的性能。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的不确定性标签分布学习方法，以提高深层模型的鲁棒性，以防止不确定性和歧义。我们利用价值空间中的邻里信息来适应培训训练样本的情绪分布。我们还考虑提供的标签将其纳入标签分布时的不确定性。我们的方法可以轻松地集成到深层网络中，以获得更多的培训监督并提高识别准确性。在各种嘈杂和模棱两可的环境下，在几个数据集上进行了密集的实验表明，我们的方法取得了竞争成果，并且超出了最新的最新方法。我们的代码和模型可在https://github.com/minhnhatvt/label-distribution-learning-fer-tf上找到。

物理受限的机器学习正在成为物理机器学习领域的重要主题。将物理限制纳入机器学习方法的最重要的优势之一是，由此产生的模型需要较少的数据训练。通过将物理规则纳入机器学习配方本身，预计预测将在物理上合理。高斯流程（GP）可能是小型数据集的机器学习中最常见的方法之一。在本文中，我们研究了在三个不同的材料数据集上限制具有单调性的GP公式的可能性，其中使用了一个实验和两个计算数据集。比较单调的GP与常规GP进行比较，该GP观察到后方差的显着降低。单调的GP在插值方面严格单调性，但是在外推方案中，随着训练数据集超越训练数据集，单调效应开始消失。与常规GP相比，GP对GP的单调性施加的精度为较小。单调的GP可能在数据稀缺和嘈杂的应用中最有用，并且由强有力的物理证据支持单调性。

无线传感器网络由随机分布的传感器节点组成，用于监视目标或感兴趣的区域。由于每个传感器的电池容量有限，因此维持连续监视的网络是一个挑战。无线电源传输技术正在作为可靠的解决方案，用于通过部署移动充电器（MC）为传感器充电传感器。但是，由于网络中出现不确定性，为MC设计最佳的充电路径是具有挑战性的。由于网络拓扑的不可预测的变化，例如节点故障，传感器的能耗率可能会显着波动。这些变化也导致每个传感器的重要性变化，在现有作品中通常被认为是相同的。我们在本文中提出了一种使用深度强化学习（DRL）方法提出新颖的自适应充电方案，以解决这些挑战。具体来说，我们赋予MC采用充电策略，该策略确定了下一个在网络当前状态上充电条件的传感器。然后，我们使用深层神经网络来参数这项收费策略，该策略将通过强化学习技术进行培训。我们的模型可以适应网络拓扑的自发变化。经验结果表明，所提出的算法的表现优于现有的按需算法的大幅度边缘。

在处理机器人技术，游戏和组合优化等领域的问题时，质量多样性（QD）算法已被证明非常成功。它们的目的是最大程度地提高基本问题所谓行为空间不同区域的解决方案的质量。在本文中，我们应用QD范式来模拟背包问题上的动态编程行为，并提供对QD算法的第一个运行时分析。我们证明他们能够在预期的伪多项式时间内计算最佳解决方案，并揭示导致完全多项式随机近似方案（FPRAS）的参数设置。我们的实验研究根据在行为空间中构建的解决方案以及获得最佳解决方案所需的运行时评估了经典基准集的不同方法。