Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging aims to reconstruct the three-dimensional hidden scenes from the data measured in the line-of-sight, which uses photon time-of-flight information encoded in light after multiple diffuse reflections. The under-sampled scanning data can facilitate fast imaging. However, the resulting reconstruction problem becomes a serious ill-posed inverse problem, the solution of which is of high possibility to be degraded due to noises and distortions. In this paper, we propose two novel NLOS reconstruction models based on curvature regularization, i.e., the object-domain curvature regularization model and the dual (i.e., signal and object)-domain curvature regularization model. Fast numerical optimization algorithms are developed relying on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with the backtracking stepsize rule, which are further accelerated by GPU implementation. We evaluate the proposed algorithms on both synthetic and real datasets, which achieve state-of-the-art performance, especially in the compressed sensing setting. All our codes and data are available at https://github.com/Duanlab123/CurvNLOS.

The security of artificial intelligence (AI) is an important research area towards safe, reliable, and trustworthy AI systems. To accelerate the research on AI security, the Artificial Intelligence Security Competition (AISC) was organized by the Zhongguancun Laboratory, China Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University, and RealAI as part of the Zhongguancun International Frontier Technology Innovation Competition (https://www.zgc-aisc.com/en). The competition consists of three tracks, including Deepfake Security Competition, Autonomous Driving Security Competition, and Face Recognition Security Competition. This report will introduce the competition rules of these three tracks and the solutions of top-ranking teams in each track.

Researches of analysis and parsing around fa\c{c}ades to enrich the 3D feature of fa\c{c}ade models by semantic information raised some attention in the community, whose main idea is to generate higher resolution components with similar shapes and textures to increase the overall resolution at the expense of reconstruction accuracy. While this approach works well for components like windows and doors, there is no solution for fa\c{c}ade background at present. In this paper, we introduce the concept of representative region texture, which can be used in the above modeling approach by tiling the representative texture around the fa\c{c}ade region, and propose a semi-supervised way to do representative region texture extraction from a fa\c{c}ade image. Our method does not require any additional labelled data to train as long as the semantic information is given, while a traditional end-to-end model requires plenty of data to increase its performance. Our method can extract texture from any repetitive images, not just fa\c{c}ade, which is not capable in an end-to-end model as it relies on the distribution of training set. Clustering with weighted distance is introduced to further increase the robustness to noise or an imprecise segmentation, and make the extracted texture have a higher resolution and more suitable for tiling. We verify our method on various fa\c{c}ade images, and the result shows our method has a significant performance improvement compared to only a random crop on fa\c{c}ade. We also demonstrate some application scenarios and proposed a fa\c{c}ade modeling workflow with the representative region texture, which has a better visual resolution for a regular fa\c{c}ade.

对抗性训练（AT）通常被认为是防御对抗性例子的最有效的方法之一，可能会在很大程度上损害标准绩效，因此对工业规模的生产和应用的有用性有限。令人惊讶的是，这种现象在自然语言处理（NLP）任务中完全相反，在该任务中甚至可以从中受益。我们注意到NLP任务中AT的优点可能来自离散和符号输入空间。为了借用NLP风格的优势，我们提出了离散的对抗训练（DAT）。 DAT利用VQGAN改革图像数据以离散类似文本的输入，即视觉单词。然后，它可以最大程度地减少这种离散图像的最大风险，并具有符号对抗扰动。我们从分布的角度进一步提供了解释，以证明DAT的有效性。作为增强视觉表示的插件技术，DAT可以在多个任务上取得重大改进，包括图像分类，对象检测和自我监督学习。尤其是，该模型通过胶带自动编码（MAE）预先训练并由我们的DAT进行微调，而没有额外的数据可以在Imagenet-C上获得31.40 MCE，并且在Stylized-Imagenet上进行了32.77％的TOP-1准确性，建立了新的状态 - 艺术。该代码将在https://github.com/alibaba/easyrobust上找到。

在本文中，我们提出了一个全面的点云语义分割网络，该网络汇总了本地和全球多尺度信息。首先，我们提出一个角度相关点卷积（ACPCONV）模块，以有效地了解点的局部形状。其次，基于ACPCONV，我们引入了局部多规模拆分（MSS）块，该块从一个单个块中连接到一个单个块中的特征，并逐渐扩大了接受场，这对利用本地上下文是有益的。第三，受HRNET的启发，在2D图像视觉任务上具有出色的性能，我们构建了一个针对Point Cloud的HRNET，以学习全局多尺度上下文。最后，我们介绍了一种融合多分辨率预测并进一步改善点云语义分割性能的点上的注意融合方法。我们在几个基准数据集上的实验结果和消融表明，与现有方法相比，我们提出的方法有效，能够实现最先进的性能。

有时将儿童的认知能力视为AI基准。在自然主义儿童的环境中，如何学习最常见的1,000个概念（每天使用的89％）？儿童的认知发展是关于质量的，可以通过简单的例子传达新概念。我们的知识脚手架方法使用简单的对象和动作来传达概念，例如如何教授孩子。我们介绍了ABCDE，这是一种以典型的儿童游戏室为基础的交互式3D环境。它带有300多个唯一的3D对象资产（主要是玩具），以及一个宽敞的动作空间，可供孩子和父代理与对象互动。ABCDE是旨在模仿儿童认知发展的自然主义环境的第一个环境。没有其他环境通过学习者的互动来研究高级概念学习。可以在https://pypi.org/project/abcdesim/1.0.0/上找到模拟器

分布式数据并行训练已被广泛用于深神经网络（DNN）模型。尽管当前的深度学习（DL）框架对于图像分类模型（例如图像分类模型）的密集模型很好地扩展了，但我们发现这些DL框架对于具有高度稀疏嵌入表的稀疏模型（NLP）模型（NLP）模型（NLP）模型具有相对较低的可扩展性。大多数现有作品忽略了模型参数的稀疏性，因此遭受了重要但不必要的沟通开销。在本文中，我们提出了Ablace，这是一个有效的沟通框架，以加快稀疏模型分布式培训的通信。 Embrace引入了稀疏感知的混合通信，将AlltoAll和模型并行置于数据并行训练中，以减少高度稀疏参数的交流开销。为了有效地重叠稀疏的通信与后向前和前向计算，采用进一步设计的2D通信调度方法，该方法优化了模型计算过程，放松嵌入式的依赖性，并计划以优先级的排队来安排每个嵌入行的稀疏通信。我们已经基于Pytorch和Horovod实施了Embrace的原型，并通过四个代表性的NLP模型进行了全面的评估。实验结果表明，与最先进的分布式训练基线相比，Embrace的速度高达2.41倍。

Accurate determination of a small molecule candidate (ligand) binding pose in its target protein pocket is important for computer-aided drug discovery. Typical rigid-body docking methods ignore the pocket flexibility of protein, while the more accurate pose generation using molecular dynamics is hindered by slow protein dynamics. We develop a tiered tensor transform (3T) algorithm to rapidly generate diverse protein-ligand complex conformations for both pose and affinity estimation in drug screening, requiring neither machine learning training nor lengthy dynamics computation, while maintaining both coarse-grain-like coordinated protein dynamics and atomistic-level details of the complex pocket. The 3T conformation structures we generate are closer to experimental co-crystal structures than those generated by docking software, and more importantly achieve significantly higher accuracy in active ligand classification than traditional ensemble docking using hundreds of experimental protein conformations. 3T structure transformation is decoupled from the system physics, making future usage in other computational scientific domains possible.

For Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) of Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, many models have been established to characterize their degradation process. The existing empirical or physical models can reveal important information regarding the degradation dynamics. However, there is no general and flexible methods to fuse the information represented by those models. Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) is an efficient tool to fuse empirical or physical dynamic models with data-driven models. To take full advantage of various information sources, we propose a model fusion scheme based on PINN. It is implemented by developing a semi-empirical semi-physical Partial Differential Equation (PDE) to model the degradation dynamics of Li-ion-batteries. When there is little prior knowledge about the dynamics, we leverage the data-driven Deep Hidden Physics Model (DeepHPM) to discover the underlying governing dynamic models. The uncovered dynamics information is then fused with that mined by the surrogate neural network in the PINN framework. Moreover, an uncertainty-based adaptive weighting method is employed to balance the multiple learning tasks when training the PINN. The proposed methods are verified on a public dataset of Li-ion Phosphate (LFP)/graphite batteries.

Masked image modeling (MIM) has shown great promise for self-supervised learning (SSL) yet been criticized for learning inefficiency. We believe the insufficient utilization of training signals should be responsible. To alleviate this issue, we introduce a conceptually simple yet learning-efficient MIM training scheme, termed Disjoint Masking with Joint Distillation (DMJD). For disjoint masking (DM), we sequentially sample multiple masked views per image in a mini-batch with the disjoint regulation to raise the usage of tokens for reconstruction in each image while keeping the masking rate of each view. For joint distillation (JD), we adopt a dual branch architecture to respectively predict invisible (masked) and visible (unmasked) tokens with superior learning targets. Rooting in orthogonal perspectives for training efficiency improvement, DM and JD cooperatively accelerate the training convergence yet not sacrificing the model generalization ability. Concretely, DM can train ViT with half of the effective training epochs (3.7 times less time-consuming) to report competitive performance. With JD, our DMJD clearly improves the linear probing classification accuracy over ConvMAE by 5.8%. On fine-grained downstream tasks like semantic segmentation, object detection, etc., our DMJD also presents superior generalization compared with state-of-the-art SSL methods. The code and model will be made public at https://github.com/mx-mark/DMJD.