我们为2022年MIP竞争开发的混合整数程序（MIP）提供了一个求解器。鉴于竞争规则确定的计算时间限制了10分钟，我们的方法着重于找到可行的解决方案，并通过分支机构进行改进 - 和结合算法。竞争的另一个规则允许最多使用8个线程。为每个线程提供了不同的原始启发式，该启发式是通过超参数调整的，以找到可行的解决方案。在每个线程中，一旦找到了可行的解决方案，我们就会停止，然后使用嵌入本地搜索启发式方法的分支和结合方法来改善现有解决方案。我们实施的潜水启发式方法的三种变体设法为培训数据集的10个实例找到了可行的解决方案。这些启发式方法是我们实施的启发式方法中表现最好的。我们的分支机构和结合算法在培训数据集的一小部分中有效，并且它设法找到了一个可行的解决方案，以解决我们无法通过潜水启发式方法解决的实例。总体而言，当用广泛的计算能力实施时，我们的组合方法可以在时间限制内解决训练数据集的19个问题中的11个。我们对MIP竞赛的提交被授予“杰出学生提交”荣誉奖。

巴西最高法院每学期收到数万案件。法院员工花费数千个小时来执行这些案件的初步分析和分类 - 这需要努力从案件管理工作流的后部，更复杂的阶段进行努力。在本文中，我们探讨了来自巴西最高法院的文件多模式分类。我们在6,510起诉讼（339,478页）的新型多模式数据集上训练和评估我们的方法，并用手动注释将每个页面分配给六个类之一。每个诉讼都是页面的有序序列，它们既可以作为图像存储，又是通过光学特征识别提取的相应文本。我们首先训练两个单峰分类器：图像上对Imagenet进行了预先训练的重新编织，并且图像上进行了微调，并且具有多个内核尺寸过滤器的卷积网络在文档文本上从SCRATCH进行了训练。我们将它们用作视觉和文本特征的提取器，然后通过我们提出的融合模块组合。我们的融合模块可以通过使用学习的嵌入来处理缺失的文本或视觉输入，以获取缺少数据。此外，我们尝试使用双向长期记忆（BILSTM）网络和线性链条件随机字段进行实验，以模拟页面的顺序性质。多模式方法的表现都优于文本分类器和视觉分类器，尤其是在利用页面的顺序性质时。

深度学习（DL）是各种计算机视觉任务中使用的主要方法，因为它在许多任务上取得了相关结果。但是，在具有部分或没有标记数据的实际情况下，DL方法也容易出现众所周知的域移位问题。多源无监督的域适应性（MSDA）旨在通过从一袋源模型中分配弱知识来学习未标记域的预测指标。但是，大多数作品进行域适应性仅利用提取的特征并从损失函数设计的角度降低其域的转移。在本文中，我们认为仅基于域级特征处理域移动不足，但是在功能空间上对此类信息进行对齐也是必不可少的。与以前的工作不同，我们专注于网络设计，并建议将多源版本的域对齐层（MS-DIAL）嵌入预测变量的不同级别。这些层旨在匹配不同域之间的特征分布，并且可以轻松地应用于各种MSDA方法。为了显示我们方法的鲁棒性，我们考虑了两个具有挑战性的情况：数字识别和对象分类，进行了广泛的实验评估。实验结果表明，我们的方法可以改善最新的MSDA方法，从而在其分类精度上获得 +30.64％的相对增长。

Due to the environmental impacts caused by the construction industry, repurposing existing buildings and making them more energy-efficient has become a high-priority issue. However, a legitimate concern of land developers is associated with the buildings' state of conservation. For that reason, infrared thermography has been used as a powerful tool to characterize these buildings' state of conservation by detecting pathologies, such as cracks and humidity. Thermal cameras detect the radiation emitted by any material and translate it into temperature-color-coded images. Abnormal temperature changes may indicate the presence of pathologies, however, reading thermal images might not be quite simple. This research project aims to combine infrared thermography and machine learning (ML) to help stakeholders determine the viability of reusing existing buildings by identifying their pathologies and defects more efficiently and accurately. In this particular phase of this research project, we've used an image classification machine learning model of Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) to differentiate three levels of cracks in one particular building. The model's accuracy was compared between the MSX and thermal images acquired from two distinct thermal cameras and fused images (formed through multisource information) to test the influence of the input data and network on the detection results.

Traditionally, data analysis and theory have been viewed as separate disciplines, each feeding into fundamentally different types of models. Modern deep learning technology is beginning to unify these two disciplines and will produce a new class of predictively powerful space weather models that combine the physical insights gained by data and theory. We call on NASA to invest in the research and infrastructure necessary for the heliophysics' community to take advantage of these advances.

We seek methods to model, control, and analyze robot teams performing environmental monitoring tasks. During environmental monitoring, the goal is to have teams of robots collect various data throughout a fixed region for extended periods of time. Standard bottom-up task assignment methods do not scale as the number of robots and task locations increases and require computationally expensive replanning. Alternatively, top-down methods have been used to combat computational complexity, but most have been limited to the analysis of methods which focus on transition times between tasks. In this work, we study a class of nonlinear macroscopic models which we use to control a time-varying distribution of robots performing different tasks throughout an environment. Our proposed ensemble model and control maintains desired time-varying populations of robots by leveraging naturally occurring interactions between robots performing tasks. We validate our approach at multiple fidelity levels including experimental results, suggesting the effectiveness of our approach to perform environmental monitoring.

The field of robotics, and more especially humanoid robotics, has several established competitions with research oriented goals in mind. Challenging the robots in a handful of tasks, these competitions provide a way to gauge the state of the art in robotic design, as well as an indicator for how far we are from reaching human performance. The most notable competitions are RoboCup, which has the long-term goal of competing against a real human team in 2050, and the FIRA HuroCup league, in which humanoid robots have to perform tasks based on actual Olympic events. Having robots compete against humans under the same rules is a challenging goal, and, we believe that it is in the sport of archery that humanoid robots have the most potential to achieve it in the near future. In this work, we perform a first step in this direction. We present a humanoid robot that is capable of gripping, drawing and shooting a recurve bow at a target 10 meters away with considerable accuracy. Additionally, we show that it is also capable of shooting distances of over 50 meters.

Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) is becoming relevant with the growth of textual data; however, with the popularization of public large-scale datasets, some recent machine learning approaches have focused on dense models and architectures that, despite producing notable results, usually turn out in models difficult to interpret. Given the challenge behind interpretable learning-based text summarization and the importance it may have for evolving the current state of the ATS field, this work studies the application of two modern Generalized Additive Models with interactions, namely Explainable Boosting Machine and GAMI-Net, to the extractive summarization problem based on linguistic features and binary classification.

Any strategy used to distribute a robot ensemble over a set of sequential tasks is subject to inaccuracy due to robot-level uncertainties and environmental influences on the robots' behavior. We approach the problem of inaccuracy during task allocation by modeling and controlling the overall ensemble behavior. Our model represents the allocation problem as a stochastic jump process and we regulate the mean and variance of such a process. The main contributions of this paper are: Establishing a structure for the transition rates of the equivalent stochastic jump process and formally showing that this approach leads to decoupled parameters that allow us to adjust the first- and second-order moments of the ensemble distribution over tasks, which gives the flexibility to decrease the variance in the desired final distribution. This allows us to directly shape the impact of uncertainties on the group allocation over tasks. We introduce a detailed procedure to design the gains to achieve the desired mean and show how the additional parameters impact the covariance matrix, which is directly associated with the degree of task allocation precision. Our simulation and experimental results illustrate the successful control of several robot ensembles during task allocation.

This paper focuses on the broadcast of information on robot networks with stochastic network interconnection topologies. Problematic communication networks are almost unavoidable in areas where we wish to deploy multi-robotic systems, usually due to a lack of environmental consistency, accessibility, and structure. We tackle this problem by modeling the broadcast of information in a multi-robot communication network as a stochastic process with random arrival times, which can be produced by irregular robot movements, wireless attenuation, and other environmental factors. Using this model, we provide and analyze a receding horizon control strategy to control the statistics of the information broadcast. The resulting strategy compels the robots to re-direct their communication resources to different neighbors according to the current propagation process to fulfill global broadcast requirements. Based on this method, we provide an approach to compute the expected time to broadcast the message to all nodes. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the results.