The development of deep learning models in medical image analysis is majorly limited by the lack of large-sized and well-annotated datasets. Unsupervised learning does not require labels and is more suitable for solving medical image analysis problems. However, most of the current unsupervised learning methods need to be applied to large datasets. To make unsupervised learning applicable to small datasets, we proposed Swin MAE, which is a masked autoencoder with Swin Transformer as its backbone. Even on a dataset of only a few thousand medical images and without using any pre-trained models, Swin MAE is still able to learn useful semantic features purely from images. It can equal or even slightly outperform the supervised model obtained by Swin Transformer trained on ImageNet in terms of the transfer learning results of downstream tasks. The code will be publicly available soon.

The recent trend in multiple object tracking (MOT) is jointly solving detection and tracking, where object detection and appearance feature (or motion) are learned simultaneously. Despite competitive performance, in crowded scenes, joint detection and tracking usually fail to find accurate object associations due to missed or false detections. In this paper, we jointly model counting, detection and re-identification in an end-to-end framework, named CountingMOT, tailored for crowded scenes. By imposing mutual object-count constraints between detection and counting, the CountingMOT tries to find a balance between object detection and crowd density map estimation, which can help it to recover missed detections or reject false detections. Our approach is an attempt to bridge the gap of object detection, counting, and re-Identification. This is in contrast to prior MOT methods that either ignore the crowd density and thus are prone to failure in crowded scenes, or depend on local correlations to build a graphical relationship for matching targets. The proposed MOT tracker can perform online and real-time tracking, and achieves the state-of-the-art results on public benchmarks MOT16 (MOTA of 77.6), MOT17 (MOTA of 78.0%) and MOT20 (MOTA of 70.2%).

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.

Learning with noisy labels is a vital topic for practical deep learning as models should be robust to noisy open-world datasets in the wild. The state-of-the-art noisy label learning approach JoCoR fails when faced with a large ratio of noisy labels. Moreover, selecting small-loss samples can also cause error accumulation as once the noisy samples are mistakenly selected as small-loss samples, they are more likely to be selected again. In this paper, we try to deal with error accumulation in noisy label learning from both model and data perspectives. We introduce mean point ensemble to utilize a more robust loss function and more information from unselected samples to reduce error accumulation from the model perspective. Furthermore, as the flip images have the same semantic meaning as the original images, we select small-loss samples according to the loss values of flip images instead of the original ones to reduce error accumulation from the data perspective. Extensive experiments on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and large-scale Clothing1M show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art noisy label learning methods with different levels of label noise. Our method can also be seamlessly combined with other noisy label learning methods to further improve their performance and generalize well to other tasks. The code is available in https://github.com/zyh-uaiaaaa/MDA-noisy-label-learning.

对使用基于深度学习的方法来实现正电子发射断层扫描（PET CT）扫描中的病变的完全自动分割的研究兴趣越来越多，以实现各种癌症的预后。医学图像细分的最新进展表明，NNUNET对于各种任务是可行的。但是，PET图像中的病变分割并不直接，因为病变和生理摄取具有相似的分布模式。它们的区别需要CT图像中的额外结构信息。本文引入了一种基于NNUNET的病变分割任务的方法。提出的模型是根据关节2D和3D NNUNET结构设计的，以预测整个身体的病变。它允许对潜在病变的自动分割。我们在AUTOPET挑战的背景下评估了所提出的方法，该方法衡量了骰子评分指标，假阳性体积和假阴性体积的病变分割性能。

大量证据表明，深神经网络（DNN）容易受到后门攻击的影响，这激发了后门检测方法的发展。现有的后门检测方法通常是针对具有单个特定类型（例如基于补丁或基于扰动）的后门攻击而定制的。但是，在实践中，对手可能会产生多种类型的后门攻击，这挑战了当前的检测策略。基于以下事实：对抗性扰动与触发模式高度相关，本文提出了自适应扰动生成（APG）框架，以通过自适应注射对抗性扰动来检测多种类型的后门攻击。由于不同的触发模式在相同的对抗扰动下显示出高度多样的行为，因此我们首先设计了全球到本地策略，以通过调整攻击的区域和预算来适应多种类型的后门触发器。为了进一步提高扰动注入的效率，我们引入了梯度引导的掩模生成策略，以寻找最佳区域以进行对抗攻击。在多个数据集（CIFAR-10，GTSRB，Tiny-Imagenet）上进行的广泛实验表明，我们的方法以大幅度优于最先进的基线（+12％）。

从观察数据中恢复基本的定向无环形结构（DAG），由于DAG受限的优化问题的组合性质，因此极具挑战性。最近，通过将DAG约束将DAG的限制定义为平滑的平等性，通常基于邻接矩阵上的多项式，将DAG学习作为连续优化问题。现有方法将非常小的系数放在高阶多项式术语上以进行稳定，因为它们认为由于数字爆炸而导致高阶项上的大系数有害。相反，我们发现，高阶术语上的大系数对DAG学习有益，当邻接矩阵的光谱辐射小时，高阶术语的较大系数可以比小尺寸近似于小的限制。同行。基于此，我们提出了一种具有有效截短的矩阵功率迭代的新型DAG学习方法，以近似于基于几何序列的DAG约束。从经验上讲，我们的DAG学习方法在各种环境中的表现优于先前的最新方法，在结构锤距离上通常以3倍或以上的倍数。

多源域适应（MSDA）学会了预测目标域数据中的标签，在标记来自多个源域的所有数据并且来自目标域的所有数据的设置下。为了解决这个问题，大多数方法都集中在跨域中学习不变表示。但是，他们的成功严重依赖于标签分布在跨域保持不变的假设。为了减轻它，我们提出了一个新的假设，潜在的协变量移位，其中潜在内容变量的边际分布跨域变化，并且给定标签的条件分布在跨域之间保持不变。我们引入了一个潜在样式变量，以补充潜在因果图作为数据和标签生成过程的潜在内容变量。我们表明，尽管潜在样式变量由于潜在空间中的传输性能而无法识别，但在某些温和条件下，可以将潜在内容变量识别为简单缩放。这激发了我们为MSDA提出一种新颖的方法，该方法在潜在内容变量上学习了不变标签的分布，而不是学习不变表示。与基于不变表示的许多最新方法相比，对模拟和真实数据的经验评估证明了该方法的有效性。

因果代表学习揭示了低级观察背后的潜在高级因果变量，这对于一组感兴趣的下游任务具有巨大的潜力。尽管如此，从观察到的数据中确定真正的潜在因果表示是一个巨大的挑战。在这项工作中，我们专注于确定潜在的因果变量。为此，我们分析了潜在空间中的三个固有特性，包括传递性，置换和缩放。我们表明，传递性严重阻碍了潜在因果变量的可识别性，而排列和缩放指导指导了识别潜在因果变量的方向。为了打破传递性，我们假设潜在的潜在因果关系是线性高斯模型，其中高斯噪声的权重，平均值和方差受到额外观察到的变量的调节。在这些假设下，我们从理论上表明，潜在因果变量可以识别为微不足道的置换和缩放。基于这个理论结果，我们提出了一种新型方法，称为结构性因果变异自动编码器，该方法直接学习潜在因果变量，以及从潜在因果变量到观察到的映射。关于合成和实际数据的实验结果证明了可识别的结果以及所提出的学习潜在因果变量的能力。

The development of social media user stance detection and bot detection methods rely heavily on large-scale and high-quality benchmarks. However, in addition to low annotation quality, existing benchmarks generally have incomplete user relationships, suppressing graph-based account detection research. To address these issues, we propose a Multi-Relational Graph-Based Twitter Account Detection Benchmark (MGTAB), the first standardized graph-based benchmark for account detection. To our knowledge, MGTAB was built based on the largest original data in the field, with over 1.55 million users and 130 million tweets. MGTAB contains 10,199 expert-annotated users and 7 types of relationships, ensuring high-quality annotation and diversified relations. In MGTAB, we extracted the 20 user property features with the greatest information gain and user tweet features as the user features. In addition, we performed a thorough evaluation of MGTAB and other public datasets. Our experiments found that graph-based approaches are generally more effective than feature-based approaches and perform better when introducing multiple relations. By analyzing experiment results, we identify effective approaches for account detection and provide potential future research directions in this field. Our benchmark and standardized evaluation procedures are freely available at: https://github.com/GraphDetec/MGTAB.