尽管基于3D点云表示的基于自我监督的对比度学习模型最近取得了成功，但此类预训练模型的对抗性鲁棒性引起了人们的关注。对抗性对比学习（ACL）被认为是改善预训练模型的鲁棒性的有效方法。相比之下，投影仪被认为是在对比度预处理过程中删除不必要的特征信息的有效组成部分，并且大多数ACL作品还使用对比度损失，与预测的功能表示形式相比损失，在预处理中产生对抗性示例，而“未转移”的功能表征用于发电的对抗性输入。在推理期间。由于投影和“未投影”功能之间的分布差距，其模型受到限制，以获取下游任务的可靠特征表示。我们介绍了一种新方法，通过利用虚拟对抗性损失在对比度学习框架中使用“未重新注射”功能表示，以生成高质量的3D对抗示例，以进行对抗训练。我们介绍了强大的意识损失功能，以对抗自我监督对比度学习框架。此外，我们发现选择具有正常操作员（DON）操作员差异的高差异作为对抗性自学对比度学习的附加输入，可以显着提高预训练模型的对抗性鲁棒性。我们在下游任务上验证我们的方法，包括3D分类和使用多个数据集的3D分割。它在最先进的对抗性学习方法上获得了可比的鲁棒精度。

我们解决了一对图像之间找到密集的视觉对应关系的重要任务。由于各种因素，例如质地差，重复的模式，照明变化和运动模糊，这是一个具有挑战性的问题。与使用密集信号基础真相作为本地功能匹配培训的直接监督的方法相反，我们训练3DG-STFM：一种多模式匹配模型（教师），以在3D密集的对应性监督下执行深度一致性，并将知识转移到2D单峰匹配模型（学生）。教师和学生模型均由两个基于变压器的匹配模块组成，这些模块以粗略的方式获得密集的对应关系。教师模型指导学生模型学习RGB诱导的深度信息，以实现粗糙和精细分支的匹配目的。我们还在模型压缩任务上评估了3DG-STFM。据我们所知，3DG-STFM是第一种用于本地功能匹配任务的学生教师学习方法。该实验表明，我们的方法优于室内和室外摄像头姿势估计以及同型估计问题的最先进方法。代码可在以下网址获得：https：//github.com/ryan-prime/3dg-stfm。

人工神经网络（ANN）训练景观的非凸起带来了固有的优化困难。虽然传统的背传播随机梯度下降（SGD）算法及其变体在某些情况下是有效的，但它们可以陷入杂散的局部最小值，并且对初始化和普通公共表敏感。最近的工作表明，随着Relu激活的ANN的培训可以重新重整为凸面计划，使希望能够全局优化可解释的ANN。然而，天真地解决凸训练制剂具有指数复杂性，甚至近似启发式需要立方时间。在这项工作中，我们描述了这种近似的质量，并开发了两个有效的算法，这些算法通过全球收敛保证培训。第一算法基于乘法器（ADMM）的交替方向方法。它解决了精确的凸形配方和近似对应物。实现线性全局收敛，并且初始几次迭代通常会产生具有高预测精度的解决方案。求解近似配方时，每次迭代时间复杂度是二次的。基于“采样凸面”理论的第二种算法更简单地实现。它解决了不受约束的凸形制剂，并收敛到大约全球最佳的分类器。当考虑对抗性培训时，ANN训练景观的非凸起加剧了。我们将稳健的凸优化理论应用于凸训练，开发凸起的凸起制剂，培训Anns对抗对抗投入。我们的分析明确地关注一个隐藏层完全连接的ANN，但可以扩展到更复杂的体系结构。

Text clustering and topic extraction are two important tasks in text mining. Usually, these two tasks are performed separately. For topic extraction to facilitate clustering, we can first project texts into a topic space and then perform a clustering algorithm to obtain clusters. To promote topic extraction by clustering, we can first obtain clusters with a clustering algorithm and then extract cluster-specific topics. However, this naive strategy ignores the fact that text clustering and topic extraction are strongly correlated and follow a chicken-and-egg relationship. Performing them separately fails to make them mutually benefit each other to achieve the best overall performance. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised text clustering and topic extraction framework (ClusTop) which integrates text clustering and topic extraction into a unified framework and can achieve high-quality clustering result and extract topics from each cluster simultaneously. Our framework includes four components: enhanced language model training, dimensionality reduction, clustering and topic extraction, where the enhanced language model can be viewed as a bridge between clustering and topic extraction. On one hand, it provides text embeddings with a strong cluster structure which facilitates effective text clustering; on the other hand, it pays high attention on the topic related words for topic extraction because of its self-attention architecture. Moreover, the training of enhanced language model is unsupervised. Experiments on two datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework and provide benchmarks for different model combinations in this framework.

Dynamic Graph Neural Networks (DGNNs) have been broadly applied in various real-life applications, such as link prediction and pandemic forecast, to capture both static structural information and temporal characteristics from dynamic graphs. Combining both time-dependent and -independent components, DGNNs manifest substantial parallel computation and data reuse potentials, but suffer from severe memory access inefficiency and data transfer overhead under the canonical one-graph-at-a-time training pattern. To tackle the challenges, we propose PiPAD, a $\underline{\textbf{Pi}}pelined$ and $\underline{\textbf{PA}}rallel$ $\underline{\textbf{D}}GNN$ training framework for the end-to-end performance optimization on GPUs. From both the algorithm and runtime level, PiPAD holistically reconstructs the overall training paradigm from the data organization to computation manner. Capable of processing multiple graph snapshots in parallel, PiPAD eliminates the unnecessary data transmission and alleviates memory access inefficiency to improve the overall performance. Our evaluation across various datasets shows PiPAD achieves $1.22\times$-$9.57\times$ speedup over the state-of-the-art DGNN frameworks on three representative models.

We propose a novel teacher-student model for semi-supervised multi-organ segmentation. In teacher-student model, data augmentation is usually adopted on unlabeled data to regularize the consistent training between teacher and student. We start from a key perspective that fixed relative locations and variable sizes of different organs can provide distribution information where a multi-organ CT scan is drawn. Thus, we treat the prior anatomy as a strong tool to guide the data augmentation and reduce the mismatch between labeled and unlabeled images for semi-supervised learning. More specifically, we propose a data augmentation strategy based on partition-and-recovery N$^3$ cubes cross- and within- labeled and unlabeled images. Our strategy encourages unlabeled images to learn organ semantics in relative locations from the labeled images (cross-branch) and enhances the learning ability for small organs (within-branch). For within-branch, we further propose to refine the quality of pseudo labels by blending the learned representations from small cubes to incorporate local attributes. Our method is termed as MagicNet, since it treats the CT volume as a magic-cube and $N^3$-cube partition-and-recovery process matches with the rule of playing a magic-cube. Extensive experiments on two public CT multi-organ datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of MagicNet, and noticeably outperforms state-of-the-art semi-supervised medical image segmentation approaches, with +7% DSC improvement on MACT dataset with 10% labeled images.

The task of referring video object segmentation aims to segment the object in the frames of a given video to which the referring expressions refer. Previous methods adopt multi-stage approach and design complex pipelines to obtain promising results. Recently, the end-to-end method based on Transformer has proved its superiority. In this work, we draw on the advantages of the above methods to provide a simple and effective pipeline for RVOS. Firstly, We improve the state-of-the-art one-stage method ReferFormer to obtain mask sequences that are strongly correlated with language descriptions. Secondly, based on a reliable and high-quality keyframe, we leverage the superior performance of video object segmentation model to further enhance the quality and temporal consistency of the mask results. Our single model reaches 70.3 J &F on the Referring Youtube-VOS validation set and 63.0 on the test set. After ensemble, we achieve 64.1 on the final leaderboard, ranking 1st place on CVPR2022 Referring Youtube-VOS challenge. Code will be available at https://github.com/Zhiweihhh/cvpr2022-rvos-challenge.git.

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the target object described by a given natural language expression. Typically, referring expressions contain complex relationships between the target and its surrounding objects. The main challenge of this task is to understand the visual and linguistic content simultaneously and to find the referred object accurately among all instances in the image. Currently, the most effective way to solve the above problem is to obtain aligned multi-modal features by computing the correlation between visual and linguistic feature modalities under the supervision of the ground-truth mask. However, existing paradigms have difficulty in thoroughly understanding visual and linguistic content due to the inability to perceive information directly about surrounding objects that refer to the target. This prevents them from learning aligned multi-modal features, which leads to inaccurate segmentation. To address this issue, we present a position-aware contrastive alignment network (PCAN) to enhance the alignment of multi-modal features by guiding the interaction between vision and language through prior position information. Our PCAN consists of two modules: 1) Position Aware Module (PAM), which provides position information of all objects related to natural language descriptions, and 2) Contrastive Language Understanding Module (CLUM), which enhances multi-modal alignment by comparing the features of the referred object with those of related objects. Extensive experiments on three benchmarks demonstrate our PCAN performs favorably against the state-of-the-art methods. Our code will be made publicly available.

Continual Learning is considered a key step toward next-generation Artificial Intelligence. Among various methods, replay-based approaches that maintain and replay a small episodic memory of previous samples are one of the most successful strategies against catastrophic forgetting. However, since forgetting is inevitable given bounded memory and unbounded tasks, how to forget is a problem continual learning must address. Therefore, beyond simply avoiding catastrophic forgetting, an under-explored issue is how to reasonably forget while ensuring the merits of human memory, including 1. storage efficiency, 2. generalizability, and 3. some interpretability. To achieve these simultaneously, our paper proposes a new saliency-augmented memory completion framework for continual learning, inspired by recent discoveries in memory completion separation in cognitive neuroscience. Specifically, we innovatively propose to store the part of the image most important to the tasks in episodic memory by saliency map extraction and memory encoding. When learning new tasks, previous data from memory are inpainted by an adaptive data generation module, which is inspired by how humans complete episodic memory. The module's parameters are shared across all tasks and it can be jointly trained with a continual learning classifier as bilevel optimization. Extensive experiments on several continual learning and image classification benchmarks demonstrate the proposed method's effectiveness and efficiency.

Diffractive optical networks provide rich opportunities for visual computing tasks since the spatial information of a scene can be directly accessed by a diffractive processor without requiring any digital pre-processing steps. Here we present data class-specific transformations all-optically performed between the input and output fields-of-view (FOVs) of a diffractive network. The visual information of the objects is encoded into the amplitude (A), phase (P), or intensity (I) of the optical field at the input, which is all-optically processed by a data class-specific diffractive network. At the output, an image sensor-array directly measures the transformed patterns, all-optically encrypted using the transformation matrices pre-assigned to different data classes, i.e., a separate matrix for each data class. The original input images can be recovered by applying the correct decryption key (the inverse transformation) corresponding to the matching data class, while applying any other key will lead to loss of information. The class-specificity of these all-optical diffractive transformations creates opportunities where different keys can be distributed to different users; each user can only decode the acquired images of only one data class, serving multiple users in an all-optically encrypted manner. We numerically demonstrated all-optical class-specific transformations covering A-->A, I-->I, and P-->I transformations using various image datasets. We also experimentally validated the feasibility of this framework by fabricating a class-specific I-->I transformation diffractive network using two-photon polymerization and successfully tested it at 1550 nm wavelength. Data class-specific all-optical transformations provide a fast and energy-efficient method for image and data encryption, enhancing data security and privacy.