Graph neural networks have achieved significant success in representation learning. However, the performance gains come at a cost; acquiring comprehensive labeled data for training can be prohibitively expensive. Active learning mitigates this issue by searching the unexplored data space and prioritizing the selection of data to maximize model's performance gain. In this paper, we propose a novel method SMARTQUERY, a framework to learn a graph neural network with very few labeled nodes using a hybrid uncertainty reduction function. This is achieved using two key steps: (a) design a multi-stage active graph learning framework by exploiting diverse explicit graph information and (b) introduce label propagation to efficiently exploit known labels to assess the implicit embedding information. Using a comprehensive set of experiments on three network datasets, we demonstrate the competitive performance of our method against state-of-the-arts on very few labeled data (up to 5 labeled nodes per class).

如图1所示，光学特征识别（OCR）技术已在各种场景中广泛使用。设计实用的OCR系统仍然是一项有意义但具有挑战性的任务。在以前的工作中，考虑到效率和准确性，我们提出了实用的超轻型OCR系统（PP-OCR）和优化的版本PP-OCRV2。为了进一步提高PP-OCRV2的性能，本文提出了更强大的OCR系统PP-OCRV3。 PP-OCRV3基于PP-OCRV2的9个方面升级了文本检测模型和文本识别模型。对于文本检测器，我们引入了一个带有大型接收场LK-PAN的锅模块，该模块是一个名为RSE-FPN的剩余注意机制的FPN模块和DML蒸馏策略。对于文本识别器，基本模型将从CRNN替换为SVTR，我们介绍了轻量级文本识别网络SVTR LCNET，通过注意力进行CTC的指导培训，数据增强策略TextConaug，由自我审查的TextRotnet，UDML和UDML和UDML和UDML和更好的预培训模型。 UIM加速模型并改善效果。实际数据上的实验表明，在可比的推理速度下，PP-OCRV3的Hmean比PP-OCRV2高5％。上述所有上述型号都是开源的，并且代码可在由PaddlePaddle供电的GitHub存储库Paddleocr中可用。

光流估计是自动驾驶和机器人系统系统中的一项基本任务，它可以在时间上解释流量场景。自动驾驶汽车显然受益于360 {\ deg}全景传感器提供的超宽视野（FOV）。但是，由于全景相机的独特成像过程，专为针孔图像设计的模型不会令人满意地概括为360 {\ deg}全景图像。在本文中，我们提出了一个新颖的网络框架 - panoflow，以学习全景图像的光流。为了克服全景转化中等应角投影引起的扭曲，我们设计了一种流动失真增强（FDA）方法，其中包含径向流量失真（FDA-R）或等骨流量失真（FDA-E）。我们进一步研究了全景视频的环状光流的定义和特性，并通过利用球形图像的环状来推断360 {\ deg}光流并将大型位移转换为相对小的位移，从而提出了环状流量估计（CFE）方法移位。 Panoflow适用于任何现有的流量估计方法，并从狭窄的FOL流量估计的进度中受益。此外，我们创建并释放基于CARLA的合成全景数据集Flow360，以促进训练和定量分析。 Panoflow在公共Omniflownet和已建立的Flow360基准中实现了最先进的表现。我们提出的方法将Flow360上的端点误差（EPE）降低了27.3％。在Omniflownet上，Panoflow获得了3.17像素的EPE，从最佳发布的结果中降低了55.5％的误差。我们还通过收集工具和公共现实世界中的全球数据集对我们的方法进行定性验证我们的方法，这表明对现实世界导航应用程序的强大潜力和稳健性。代码和数据集可在https://github.com/masterhow/panoflow上公开获取。

扩散降级概率模型（DDPM）和视觉变压器（VIT）分别在生成任务和判别任务中表现出重大进展，到目前为止，这些模型已在其自身领域中很大程度上开发出来。在本文中，我们通过将VIT结构集成到DDPM之间，建立DDPM和VIT之间的直接联系，并引入一种称为“生成Vit（Genvit）”的新生成模型。VIT的建模灵活性使我们能够将Genvit进一步扩展到混合判别生成建模，并引入混合VIT（HYBVIT）。我们的工作是最早探索单个VIT以共同探索图像生成和分类的人之一。我们进行了一系列实验，以分析提出的模型的性能，并证明它们在生成和判别任务中都超过了先前的最新技术。我们的代码和预培训模型可以在https://github.com/sndnyang/diffusion_vit中找到。

表格数据是业务应用程序中最常见的数据存储格式之一，范围从零售，银行和电子商务。这些应用在很大程度上依赖机器学习模型来取得业务成功。学习表格数据的关键问题之一是将有影响力的特征与所有预定特征区分开。假设所有实例都具有相同的影响力子集，那么全球功能选择已经进行了很长时间。但是，不同的实例依赖于实践中的不同特征子集，这也引起了实例的特征选择，在最近的研究中受到了越来越多的关注。在本文中，我们首先提出了一种新的方法，以发现表格数据的实例影响特征（DIWIFT），其核心是引入影响函数以衡量实例特征的重要性。 Diwift能够在不同实例中自动发现不同尺寸的影响力子集，这与全局特征选择不同，后者考虑了具有相同影响力特征子集的所有实例。另一方面，与以前的实例功能选择不同，DIWIFT最大程度地减少了验证集的验证损失，因此对于训练数据集和测试数据集中存在的分配变化更为强大，这在表格数据中很重要。最后，我们对合成数据集和现实数据集进行了广泛的实验，以验证我们的diwift的有效性，并将其与基线方法进行了比较。此外，我们还通过一些消融实验来证明我们方法的鲁棒性。

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.

Dataset distillation has emerged as a prominent technique to improve data efficiency when training machine learning models. It encapsulates the knowledge from a large dataset into a smaller synthetic dataset. A model trained on this smaller distilled dataset can attain comparable performance to a model trained on the original training dataset. However, the existing dataset distillation techniques mainly aim at achieving the best trade-off between resource usage efficiency and model utility. The security risks stemming from them have not been explored. This study performs the first backdoor attack against the models trained on the data distilled by dataset distillation models in the image domain. Concretely, we inject triggers into the synthetic data during the distillation procedure rather than during the model training stage, where all previous attacks are performed. We propose two types of backdoor attacks, namely NAIVEATTACK and DOORPING. NAIVEATTACK simply adds triggers to the raw data at the initial distillation phase, while DOORPING iteratively updates the triggers during the entire distillation procedure. We conduct extensive evaluations on multiple datasets, architectures, and dataset distillation techniques. Empirical evaluation shows that NAIVEATTACK achieves decent attack success rate (ASR) scores in some cases, while DOORPING reaches higher ASR scores (close to 1.0) in all cases. Furthermore, we conduct a comprehensive ablation study to analyze the factors that may affect the attack performance. Finally, we evaluate multiple defense mechanisms against our backdoor attacks and show that our attacks can practically circumvent these defense mechanisms.

Automatic music generation with artificial intelligence typically requires a large amount of data which is hard to obtain for many less common genres and musical instruments. To tackle this issue, we present ongoing work and preliminary findings on the possibility for deep models to transfer knowledge from language to music, by finetuning large language models pre-trained on a massive text corpus on only hundreds of MIDI files of drum performances. We show that by doing so, one of the largest, state-of-the-art models (GPT3) is capable of generating reasonable drum grooves, while models that are not pre-trained (Transformer) shows no such ability beyond naive repetition. Evaluating generated music is a challenging task, more so is evaluating drum grooves with little precedence in literature. Hence, we propose a tailored structural evaluation method and analyze drum grooves produced by GPT3 compared to those played by human professionals, exposing the strengths and weaknesses of such generation by language-to-music transfer. Our findings suggest that language-to-music transfer learning with large language models is viable and promising.

Few Shot Instance Segmentation (FSIS) requires models to detect and segment novel classes with limited several support examples. In this work, we explore a simple yet unified solution for FSIS as well as its incremental variants, and introduce a new framework named Reference Twice (RefT) to fully explore the relationship between support/query features based on a Transformer-like framework. Our key insights are two folds: Firstly, with the aid of support masks, we can generate dynamic class centers more appropriately to re-weight query features. Secondly, we find that support object queries have already encoded key factors after base training. In this way, the query features can be enhanced twice from two aspects, i.e., feature-level and instance-level. In particular, we firstly design a mask-based dynamic weighting module to enhance support features and then propose to link object queries for better calibration via cross-attention. After the above steps, the novel classes can be improved significantly over our strong baseline. Additionally, our new framework can be easily extended to incremental FSIS with minor modification. When benchmarking results on the COCO dataset for FSIS, gFSIS, and iFSIS settings, our method achieves a competitive performance compared to existing approaches across different shots, e.g., we boost nAP by noticeable +8.2/+9.4 over the current state-of-the-art FSIS method for 10/30-shot. We further demonstrate the superiority of our approach on Few Shot Object Detection. Code and model will be available.

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown satisfying performance on various graph learning tasks. To achieve better fitting capability, most GNNs are with a large number of parameters, which makes these GNNs computationally expensive. Therefore, it is difficult to deploy them onto edge devices with scarce computational resources, e.g., mobile phones and wearable smart devices. Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a common solution to compress GNNs, where a light-weighted model (i.e., the student model) is encouraged to mimic the behavior of a computationally expensive GNN (i.e., the teacher GNN model). Nevertheless, most existing GNN-based KD methods lack fairness consideration. As a consequence, the student model usually inherits and even exaggerates the bias from the teacher GNN. To handle such a problem, we take initial steps towards fair knowledge distillation for GNNs. Specifically, we first formulate a novel problem of fair knowledge distillation for GNN-based teacher-student frameworks. Then we propose a principled framework named RELIANT to mitigate the bias exhibited by the student model. Notably, the design of RELIANT is decoupled from any specific teacher and student model structures, and thus can be easily adapted to various GNN-based KD frameworks. We perform extensive experiments on multiple real-world datasets, which corroborates that RELIANT achieves less biased GNN knowledge distillation while maintaining high prediction utility.