Purpose: The aim of this study was to demonstrate the utility of unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) in automated knee osteoarthritis (OA) phenotype classification using a small dataset (n=50). Materials and Methods: For this retrospective study, we collected 3,166 three-dimensional (3D) double-echo steady-state magnetic resonance (MR) images from the Osteoarthritis Initiative dataset and 50 3D turbo/fast spin-echo MR images from our institute (in 2020 and 2021) as the source and target datasets, respectively. For each patient, the degree of knee OA was initially graded according to the MRI Osteoarthritis Knee Score (MOAKS) before being converted to binary OA phenotype labels. The proposed UDA pipeline included (a) pre-processing, which involved automatic segmentation and region-of-interest cropping; (b) source classifier training, which involved pre-training phenotype classifiers on the source dataset; (c) target encoder adaptation, which involved unsupervised adaption of the source encoder to the target encoder and (d) target classifier validation, which involved statistical analysis of the target classification performance evaluated by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC), sensitivity, specificity and accuracy. Additionally, a classifier was trained without UDA for comparison. Results: The target classifier trained with UDA achieved improved AUROC, sensitivity, specificity and accuracy for both knee OA phenotypes compared with the classifier trained without UDA. Conclusion: The proposed UDA approach improves the performance of automated knee OA phenotype classification for small target datasets by utilising a large, high-quality source dataset for training. The results successfully demonstrated the advantages of the UDA approach in classification on small datasets.

$ t_ {1 \ rho} $映射是一种有希望的定量MRI技术，用于对组织性质的非侵入性评估。基于学习的方法可以从减少数量的$ t_ {1 \ rho} $加权图像中映射$ t_ {1 \ rho} $，但需要大量的高质量培训数据。此外，现有方法不提供$ t_ {1 \ rho} $估计的置信度。为了解决这些问题，我们提出了一个自我监督的学习神经网络，该网络使用学习过程中的放松约束来学习$ t_ {1 \ rho} $映射。为$ t_ {1 \ rho} $量化网络建立了认知不确定性和态度不确定性，以提供$ t_ {1 \ rho} $映射的贝叶斯置信度估计。不确定性估计还可以使模型规范化，以防止其学习不完美的数据。我们对52例非酒精性脂肪肝病患者收集的$ T_ {1 \ rho} $数据进行了实验。结果表明，我们的方法优于$ t_ {1 \ rho} $量化肝脏的现有方法，使用少于两个$ t_ {1 \ rho} $加权图像。我们的不确定性估计提供了一种可行的方法，可以建模基于自我监督学习的$ t_ {1 \ rho} $估计的信心，这与肝脏中的现实$ t_ {1 \ rho} $成像是一致的。

实现域适应是有价值的，以将学习知识从标记为CT数据集传输到腹部多器官分段的目标未标记的MR DataSet。同时，非常希望避免目标数据集的高注重成本并保护源数据集的隐私。因此，我们提出了一种有效的无核心无监督域适应方法，用于跨型号腹部多器官分段而不访问源数据集。所提出的框架的过程包括两个阶段。在第一阶段，特征映射统计损失用于对准顶部分段网络中的源和目标特征的分布，并使用熵最小化损耗来鼓励高席位细分。从顶部分段网络输出的伪标签用于指导样式补偿网络生成类似源图像。从中间分割网络输出的伪标签用于监督所需模型的学习（底部分段网络）。在第二阶段，循环学习和像素自适应掩模细化用于进一步提高所需模型的性能。通过这种方法，我们在肝脏，肾脏，左肾肾脏和脾脏的分割中实现了令人满意的性能，骰子相似系数分别为0.884,0.891,0.864和0.911。此外，当存在目标注释数据时，所提出的方法可以很容易地扩展到情况。该性能在平均骰子相似度系数的0.888至0.922增加到0.888至0.922，靠近监督学习（0.929），只有一个标记的MR卷。

许多现实世界优化问题，如工程最优设计，最终可以被建模为必须解决的相应多目标优化问题（MOPS），以获得近似帕累托最佳前端。基于分解（MOEA / D）的多目标进化算法被认为是解决MOP的明显有希望的方法。最近的研究表明，具有均匀重量载体的MoEA / D非常适合于普通帕累托最佳前端的拖把，但在多样性方面的性能通常会在解决带有不规则帕累托最佳方向时造成拖镜时劣化。以这种方式，通过该算法获得的解决方案集不能为决策者提供更合理的选择。为了有效地克服这一缺点，我们通过众所周知的Pascoletti-Serafini标定方法和多参考点的新策略提出了一种改进的MoA / D算法。具体地，该策略包括由等距分区和投影的技术产生的参考点的设置和调整组成。对于性能评估，将所提出的算法与现有的四个最先进的多目标进化算法进行比较，这些算法与各种类型的帕累托最优前锋和两个现实世界拖把的基准测试问题相比，包括舱口盖设计和火箭喷射器设计在工程优化中。根据实验结果，所提出的算法表现出比其他比较算法更好的分集性能。

Deep learning models can achieve high accuracy when trained on large amounts of labeled data. However, real-world scenarios often involve several challenges: Training data may become available in installments, may originate from multiple different domains, and may not contain labels for training. Certain settings, for instance medical applications, often involve further restrictions that prohibit retention of previously seen data due to privacy regulations. In this work, to address such challenges, we study unsupervised segmentation in continual learning scenarios that involve domain shift. To that end, we introduce GarDA (Generative Appearance Replay for continual Domain Adaptation), a generative-replay based approach that can adapt a segmentation model sequentially to new domains with unlabeled data. In contrast to single-step unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), continual adaptation to a sequence of domains enables leveraging and consolidation of information from multiple domains. Unlike previous approaches in incremental UDA, our method does not require access to previously seen data, making it applicable in many practical scenarios. We evaluate GarDA on two datasets with different organs and modalities, where it substantially outperforms existing techniques.

The development of social media user stance detection and bot detection methods rely heavily on large-scale and high-quality benchmarks. However, in addition to low annotation quality, existing benchmarks generally have incomplete user relationships, suppressing graph-based account detection research. To address these issues, we propose a Multi-Relational Graph-Based Twitter Account Detection Benchmark (MGTAB), the first standardized graph-based benchmark for account detection. To our knowledge, MGTAB was built based on the largest original data in the field, with over 1.55 million users and 130 million tweets. MGTAB contains 10,199 expert-annotated users and 7 types of relationships, ensuring high-quality annotation and diversified relations. In MGTAB, we extracted the 20 user property features with the greatest information gain and user tweet features as the user features. In addition, we performed a thorough evaluation of MGTAB and other public datasets. Our experiments found that graph-based approaches are generally more effective than feature-based approaches and perform better when introducing multiple relations. By analyzing experiment results, we identify effective approaches for account detection and provide potential future research directions in this field. Our benchmark and standardized evaluation procedures are freely available at: https://github.com/GraphDetec/MGTAB.

As one of the prevalent methods to achieve automation systems, Imitation Learning (IL) presents a promising performance in a wide range of domains. However, despite the considerable improvement in policy performance, the corresponding research on the explainability of IL models is still limited. Inspired by the recent approaches in explainable artificial intelligence methods, we proposed a model-agnostic explaining framework for IL models called R2RISE. R2RISE aims to explain the overall policy performance with respect to the frames in demonstrations. It iteratively retrains the black-box IL model from the randomized masked demonstrations and uses the conventional evaluation outcome environment returns as the coefficient to build an importance map. We also conducted experiments to investigate three major questions concerning frames' importance equality, the effectiveness of the importance map, and connections between importance maps from different IL models. The result shows that R2RISE successfully distinguishes important frames from the demonstrations.

Compressed videos often exhibit visually annoying artifacts, known as Perceivable Encoding Artifacts (PEAs), which dramatically degrade video visual quality. Subjective and objective measures capable of identifying and quantifying various types of PEAs are critical in improving visual quality. In this paper, we investigate the influence of four spatial PEAs (i.e. blurring, blocking, bleeding, and ringing) and two temporal PEAs (i.e. flickering and floating) on video quality. For spatial artifacts, we propose a visual saliency model with a low computational cost and higher consistency with human visual perception. In terms of temporal artifacts, self-attention based TimeSFormer is improved to detect temporal artifacts. Based on the six types of PEAs, a quality metric called Saliency-Aware Spatio-Temporal Artifacts Measurement (SSTAM) is proposed. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art metrics. We believe that SSTAM will be beneficial for optimizing video coding techniques.

We propose a distributionally robust return-risk model for Markov decision processes (MDPs) under risk and reward ambiguity. The proposed model optimizes the weighted average of mean and percentile performances, and it covers the distributionally robust MDPs and the distributionally robust chance-constrained MDPs (both under reward ambiguity) as special cases. By considering that the unknown reward distribution lies in a Wasserstein ambiguity set, we derive the tractable reformulation for our model. In particular, we show that that the return-risk model can also account for risk from uncertain transition kernel when one only seeks deterministic policies, and that a distributionally robust MDP under the percentile criterion can be reformulated as its nominal counterpart at an adjusted risk level. A scalable first-order algorithm is designed to solve large-scale problems, and we demonstrate the advantages of our proposed model and algorithm through numerical experiments.

Witnessing the impressive achievements of pre-training techniques on large-scale data in the field of computer vision and natural language processing, we wonder whether this idea could be adapted in a grab-and-go spirit, and mitigate the sample inefficiency problem for visuomotor driving. Given the highly dynamic and variant nature of the input, the visuomotor driving task inherently lacks view and translation invariance, and the visual input contains massive irrelevant information for decision making, resulting in predominant pre-training approaches from general vision less suitable for the autonomous driving task. To this end, we propose PPGeo (Policy Pre-training via Geometric modeling), an intuitive and straightforward fully self-supervised framework curated for the policy pretraining in visuomotor driving. We aim at learning policy representations as a powerful abstraction by modeling 3D geometric scenes on large-scale unlabeled and uncalibrated YouTube driving videos. The proposed PPGeo is performed in two stages to support effective self-supervised training. In the first stage, the geometric modeling framework generates pose and depth predictions simultaneously, with two consecutive frames as input. In the second stage, the visual encoder learns driving policy representation by predicting the future ego-motion and optimizing with the photometric error based on current visual observation only. As such, the pre-trained visual encoder is equipped with rich driving policy related representations and thereby competent for multiple visuomotor driving tasks. Extensive experiments covering a wide span of challenging scenarios have demonstrated the superiority of our proposed approach, where improvements range from 2% to even over 100% with very limited data. Code and models will be available at https://github.com/OpenDriveLab/PPGeo.