Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), originally proposed for node classification, have also motivated many recent works on edge prediction (a.k.a., link prediction). However, existing methods lack elaborate design regarding the distinctions between two tasks that have been frequently overlooked: (i) edges only constitute the topology in the node classification task but can be used as both the topology and the supervisions (i.e., labels) in the edge prediction task; (ii) the node classification makes prediction over each individual node, while the edge prediction is determinated by each pair of nodes. To this end, we propose a novel edge prediction paradigm named Edge-aware Message PassIng neuRal nEtworks (EMPIRE). Concretely, we first introduce an edge splitting technique to specify use of each edge where each edge is solely used as either the topology or the supervision (named as topology edge or supervision edge). We then develop a new message passing mechanism that generates the messages to source nodes (through topology edges) being aware of target nodes (through supervision edges). In order to emphasize the differences between pairs connected by supervision edges and pairs unconnected, we further weight the messages to highlight the relative ones that can reflect the differences. In addition, we design a novel negative node-pair sampling trick that efficiently samples 'hard' negative instances in the supervision instances, and can significantly improve the performance. Experimental results verify that the proposed method can significantly outperform existing state-of-the-art models regarding the edge prediction task on multiple homogeneous and heterogeneous graph datasets.

机器学习（ML）是一种在车辆互联网（IOV）上培训预测模型的分布式方法，以实现智能公共交通。由于交通状况会随着时间而变化，因此必须连续有效地更新流量流动和乘客等待时间的ML模型。联合学习（FL）是一种分布式机器学习方案，允许车辆接收连续的模型更新，而无需将原始数据上传到云中并等待培训模型。但是，由于车辆在公共场所旅行以来，智能公共交通中FL容易受到中毒或DDOS攻击的影响。此外，由于设备异质性和不平衡数据分布，同步聚合策略在聚集之前从特定车辆中收集本地模型的同步聚合策略效率低下。尽管有异步联合学习（AFL）方案是通过收到本地模型来提高效率的，但陈旧的本地模型仍然不合理地加权，导致学习绩效不佳。为了实现更明智的公共交通，本文提供了一个基于动态缩放系数（DBAFL）的基于区块链的异步联合学习方案。具体而言，基于委员会的新型共识算法用于区块链，以最低的时间成本提高了可靠性。同时，设计的动态缩放系数允许AFL为陈旧的本地模型分配合理的重量。在异质设备上进行的广泛实验验证了DBAFL的学习效果，效率和可靠性优于外观的实验。

尽管在预验证的GAN模型的潜在空间中表现出的编辑能力，但倒置现实世界的图像被陷入困境，即重建不能忠于原始输入。这样做的主要原因是，训练和现实世界数据之间的分布未对准，因此，对于真实图像编辑而言，它不稳定。在本文中，我们提出了一个基于GAN的新型编辑框架，以通过组成分解范式解决室外反转问题。特别是，在构图阶段，我们引入了一个差分激活模块，用于从全局角度\ ie（IE）检测语义变化，这是编辑和未编辑图像的特征之间的相对差距。借助生成的diff-cam掩模，配对的原始图像和编辑图像可以直观地进行粗糙的重建。这样，几乎整体可以生存属性，而这种中间结果的质量仍然受到不可避免的幽灵效果的限制。因此，在分解阶段，我们进一步提出了一个基于GAN的基于GAN的DEGHOSTING网络，用于将最终的精细编辑图像与粗糙重建分开。在定性和定量评估方面，广泛的实验比最新方法具有优势。我们方法的鲁棒性和灵活性在两个属性和多属性操作的方案上也得到了验证。

随着深度学习技术扩展到现实世界推荐任务，已经开发出许多深度神经网络的协作滤波（CF）模型基于各种神经结构，例如多层的神经架构将用户项目交互项目投影到潜伏特征空间中Perceptron，自动编码器和图形神经网络。然而，大多数现有的协作过滤系统不充分设计用于处理缺失的数据。特别是，为了在训练阶段注入负信号，这些解决方案很大程度上依赖于未观察到的用户项交互，并且简单地将它们视为负实例，这带来了推荐性能下降。为了解决问题，我们开发了一个协作反射增强的AutoEncoder网络（Cranet），它能够探索从观察到和未观察的用户项交互的可转移知识。 Cranet的网络架构由具有反射接收器网络的集成结构和信息融合自动统计器模块形成，其推荐框架具有在互动和非互动项目上编码隐式用户的成对偏好的能力。另外，基于参数正规化的捆绑重量方案旨在对两级颅骨模型进行鲁棒联合训练。我们终于在对应于两个推荐任务的四个不同基准数据集上进行了实验验证了Cranet，以表明，与各种最先进的推荐技术相比，脱叠用户项交互的负信号提高了性能。我们的源代码可在https://github.com/akaxlh/cranet上获得。

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.

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.

In contrast to the control-theoretic methods, the lack of stability guarantee remains a significant problem for model-free reinforcement learning (RL) methods. Jointly learning a policy and a Lyapunov function has recently become a promising approach to ensuring the whole system with a stability guarantee. However, the classical Lyapunov constraints researchers introduced cannot stabilize the system during the sampling-based optimization. Therefore, we propose the Adaptive Stability Certification (ASC), making the system reach sampling-based stability. Because the ASC condition can search for the optimal policy heuristically, we design the Adaptive Lyapunov-based Actor-Critic (ALAC) algorithm based on the ASC condition. Meanwhile, our algorithm avoids the optimization problem that a variety of constraints are coupled into the objective in current approaches. When evaluated on ten robotic tasks, our method achieves lower accumulated cost and fewer stability constraint violations than previous studies.

New architecture GPUs like A100 are now equipped with multi-instance GPU (MIG) technology, which allows the GPU to be partitioned into multiple small, isolated instances. This technology provides more flexibility for users to support both deep learning training and inference workloads, but efficiently utilizing it can still be challenging. The vision of this paper is to provide a more comprehensive and practical benchmark study for MIG in order to eliminate the need for tedious manual benchmarking and tuning efforts. To achieve this vision, the paper presents MIGPerf, an open-source tool that streamlines the benchmark study for MIG. Using MIGPerf, the authors conduct a series of experiments, including deep learning training and inference characterization on MIG, GPU sharing characterization, and framework compatibility with MIG. The results of these experiments provide new insights and guidance for users to effectively employ MIG, and lay the foundation for further research on the orchestration of hybrid training and inference workloads on MIGs. The code and results are released on https://github.com/MLSysOps/MIGProfiler. This work is still in progress and more results will be published soon.

In the scenario of black-box adversarial attack, the target model's parameters are unknown, and the attacker aims to find a successful adversarial perturbation based on query feedback under a query budget. Due to the limited feedback information, existing query-based black-box attack methods often require many queries for attacking each benign example. To reduce query cost, we propose to utilize the feedback information across historical attacks, dubbed example-level adversarial transferability. Specifically, by treating the attack on each benign example as one task, we develop a meta-learning framework by training a meta-generator to produce perturbations conditioned on benign examples. When attacking a new benign example, the meta generator can be quickly fine-tuned based on the feedback information of the new task as well as a few historical attacks to produce effective perturbations. Moreover, since the meta-train procedure consumes many queries to learn a generalizable generator, we utilize model-level adversarial transferability to train the meta-generator on a white-box surrogate model, then transfer it to help the attack against the target model. The proposed framework with the two types of adversarial transferability can be naturally combined with any off-the-shelf query-based attack methods to boost their performance, which is verified by extensive experiments.

Medical image segmentation (MIS) is essential for supporting disease diagnosis and treatment effect assessment. Despite considerable advances in artificial intelligence (AI) for MIS, clinicians remain skeptical of its utility, maintaining low confidence in such black box systems, with this problem being exacerbated by low generalization for out-of-distribution (OOD) data. To move towards effective clinical utilization, we propose a foundation model named EvidenceCap, which makes the box transparent in a quantifiable way by uncertainty estimation. EvidenceCap not only makes AI visible in regions of uncertainty and OOD data, but also enhances the reliability, robustness, and computational efficiency of MIS. Uncertainty is modeled explicitly through subjective logic theory to gather strong evidence from features. We show the effectiveness of EvidenceCap in three segmentation datasets and apply it to the clinic. Our work sheds light on clinical safe applications and explainable AI, and can contribute towards trustworthiness in the medical domain.