黑匣子逆势攻击中的一个主要问题是硬盘标签攻击设置中的高查询复杂性，其中仅提供前1个预测标签。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的基于几何方法，称为切线攻击（TA），其识别位于决策边界上的虚拟半球的最佳切线，以降低攻击的失真。假设决策边界是本地平整的，我们理论上证明了最小$ \ ell_2 $失真可以通过沿着每次迭代中的这种切线的切线线路达到决策边界来获得。为了提高我们方法的稳健性，我们进一步提出了一种通过半椭圆体取代半球的广义方法，以适应弯曲的决策边界。我们的方法是免费的Quand参数和预训练。在ImageNet和CiFar-10数据集上进行的广泛实验表明，我们的方法只能消耗少量查询来实现低幅度失真。实施源代码在https://github.com/machanic/tangentattack上在线发布。

本文回顾了关于压缩视频质量增强质量的第一个NTIRE挑战，重点是拟议的方法和结果。在此挑战中，采用了新的大型不同视频（LDV）数据集。挑战有三个曲目。Track 1和2的目标是增强HEVC在固定QP上压缩的视频，而Track 3旨在增强X265压缩的视频，以固定的位速率压缩。此外，轨道1和3的质量提高了提高保真度（PSNR）的目标，以及提高感知质量的2个目标。这三个曲目完全吸引了482个注册。在测试阶段，分别提交了12个团队，8支球队和11支球队，分别提交了轨道1、2和3的最终结果。拟议的方法和解决方案衡量视频质量增强的最先进。挑战的首页：https：//github.com/renyang-home/ntire21_venh

在本文中，提出了一种称为POP-Net的实时方法，以预测来自深度图像的多人3D。 POP-Net了解到在一次拍摄中预测自下而上的部分表示和自上而下的全球姿势。具体地，介绍了一种名为截断的零件位移场（TPDF）的新的零级表示，这使得明确的融合过程能够统一自下而上部分检测和全局姿势检测的优点。同时，引入了有效的模式选择方案以自动解决全局姿势和部分检测之间的冲突案例。最后，由于缺乏用于开发多人3D姿势估计的高质量深度数据集，我们将多人3D人类姿势数据集（MP-3DHP）引入新的基准。 MP-3DHP旨在在模型培训中实现有效的多人和背景数据增强，并在不受控制的多人场景下评估3D人类姿势估计。我们表明Pop-Net在MP-3DHP和广泛使用的ITOP数据集上实现了最先进的结果，并对多人处理的效率具有显着的优势。为了证明我们的算法管道的应用之一，我们还显示了由我们计算的3D关节位置驱动的虚拟化身的结果。 MP-3DHP数据集和评估代码已提供：https://github.com/oppo-us-research/pop-net。

光谱聚类是网络中广泛使用的社区检测方法之一。然而，大型网络为其中的特征值分解带来了计算挑战。在本文中，我们研究了从统计角度使用随机草图算法的光谱聚类，在那里我们通常假设网络数据是从随机块模型生成的，这些模型不一定是完整等级的。为此，我们首先使用最近开发的草图算法来获得两个随机谱聚类算法，即基于随机投影和基于随机采样的光谱聚类。然后，我们在群体邻接矩阵的近似误差，错误分类误差和链路概率矩阵的估计误差方面研究得到的算法的理论界限。事实证明，在温和条件下，随机谱聚类算法导致与原始光谱聚类算法相同的理论界。我们还将结果扩展到校正的程度校正的随机块模型。数值实验支持我们的理论发现并显示随机化方法的效率。一个名为rclusct的新R包是开发的，并提供给公众。

We revisit the one-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) paradigm and analyze its advantages over existing NAS approaches. Existing one-shot method, however, is hard to train and not yet effective on large scale datasets like ImageNet. This work propose a Single Path One-Shot model to address the challenge in the training. Our central idea is to construct a simplified supernet, where all architectures are single paths so that weight co-adaption problem is alleviated. Training is performed by uniform path sampling. All architectures (and their weights) are trained fully and equally. Comprehensive experiments verify that our approach is flexible and effective. It is easy to train and fast to search. It effortlessly supports complex search spaces (e.g., building blocks, channel, mixed-precision quantization) and different search constraints (e.g., FLOPs, latency). It is thus convenient to use for various needs. It achieves start-of-the-art performance on the large dataset ImageNet.Equal contribution. This work is done when Haoyuan Mu and Zechun Liu are interns at MEGVII Technology.

In this paper, we propose a novel meta learning approach for automatic channel pruning of very deep neural networks. We first train a PruningNet, a kind of meta network, which is able to generate weight parameters for any pruned structure given the target network. We use a simple stochastic structure sampling method for training the PruningNet. Then, we apply an evolutionary procedure to search for good-performing pruned networks. The search is highly efficient because the weights are directly generated by the trained PruningNet and we do not need any finetuning at search time. With a single PruningNet trained for the target network, we can search for various Pruned Networks under different constraints with little human participation. Compared to the state-of-the-art pruning methods, we have demonstrated superior performances on Mo-bileNet V1/V2 and ResNet. Codes are available on https: //github.com/liuzechun/MetaPruning. This work is done when Zechun Liu and Haoyuan Mu are interns at Megvii Technology.

In this paper, we propose a robust 3D detector, named Cross Modal Transformer (CMT), for end-to-end 3D multi-modal detection. Without explicit view transformation, CMT takes the image and point clouds tokens as inputs and directly outputs accurate 3D bounding boxes. The spatial alignment of multi-modal tokens is performed implicitly, by encoding the 3D points into multi-modal features. The core design of CMT is quite simple while its performance is impressive. CMT obtains 73.0% NDS on nuScenes benchmark. Moreover, CMT has a strong robustness even if the LiDAR is missing. Code will be released at https://github.com/junjie18/CMT.

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains challenging due to the diversity of distortion and image content variation, which complicate the distortion patterns crossing different scales and aggravate the difficulty of the regression problem for BIQA. However, existing BIQA methods often fail to consider multi-scale distortion patterns and image content, and little research has been done on learning strategies to make the regression model produce better performance. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective Progressive Multi-Task Image Quality Assessment (PMT-IQA) model, which contains a multi-scale feature extraction module (MS) and a progressive multi-task learning module (PMT), to help the model learn complex distortion patterns and better optimize the regression issue to align with the law of human learning process from easy to hard. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed PMT-IQA model, we conduct experiments on four widely used public datasets, and the experimental results indicate that the performance of PMT-IQA is superior to the comparison approaches, and both MS and PMT modules improve the model's performance.

A recent study has shown a phenomenon called neural collapse in that the within-class means of features and the classifier weight vectors converge to the vertices of a simplex equiangular tight frame at the terminal phase of training for classification. In this paper, we explore the corresponding structures of the last-layer feature centers and classifiers in semantic segmentation. Based on our empirical and theoretical analysis, we point out that semantic segmentation naturally brings contextual correlation and imbalanced distribution among classes, which breaks the equiangular and maximally separated structure of neural collapse for both feature centers and classifiers. However, such a symmetric structure is beneficial to discrimination for the minor classes. To preserve these advantages, we introduce a regularizer on feature centers to encourage the network to learn features closer to the appealing structure in imbalanced semantic segmentation. Experimental results show that our method can bring significant improvements on both 2D and 3D semantic segmentation benchmarks. Moreover, our method ranks 1st and sets a new record (+6.8% mIoU) on the ScanNet200 test leaderboard. Code will be available at https://github.com/dvlab-research/Imbalanced-Learning.

It has been observed in practice that applying pruning-at-initialization methods to neural networks and training the sparsified networks can not only retain the testing performance of the original dense models, but also sometimes even slightly boost the generalization performance. Theoretical understanding for such experimental observations are yet to be developed. This work makes the first attempt to study how different pruning fractions affect the model's gradient descent dynamics and generalization. Specifically, this work considers a classification task for overparameterized two-layer neural networks, where the network is randomly pruned according to different rates at the initialization. It is shown that as long as the pruning fraction is below a certain threshold, gradient descent can drive the training loss toward zero and the network exhibits good generalization performance. More surprisingly, the generalization bound gets better as the pruning fraction gets larger. To complement this positive result, this work further shows a negative result: there exists a large pruning fraction such that while gradient descent is still able to drive the training loss toward zero (by memorizing noise), the generalization performance is no better than random guessing. This further suggests that pruning can change the feature learning process, which leads to the performance drop of the pruned neural network. Up to our knowledge, this is the \textbf{first} generalization result for pruned neural networks, suggesting that pruning can improve the neural network's generalization.