Although DETR-based 3D detectors can simplify the detection pipeline and achieve direct sparse predictions, their performance still lags behind dense detectors with post-processing for 3D object detection from point clouds. DETRs usually adopt a larger number of queries than GTs (e.g., 300 queries v.s. 40 objects in Waymo) in a scene, which inevitably incur many false positives during inference. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective sparse 3D detector, named Query Contrast Voxel-DETR (ConQueR), to eliminate the challenging false positives, and achieve more accurate and sparser predictions. We observe that most false positives are highly overlapping in local regions, caused by the lack of explicit supervision to discriminate locally similar queries. We thus propose a Query Contrast mechanism to explicitly enhance queries towards their best-matched GTs over all unmatched query predictions. This is achieved by the construction of positive and negative GT-query pairs for each GT, and a contrastive loss to enhance positive GT-query pairs against negative ones based on feature similarities. ConQueR closes the gap of sparse and dense 3D detectors, and reduces up to ~60% false positives. Our single-frame ConQueR achieves new state-of-the-art (sota) 71.6 mAPH/L2 on the challenging Waymo Open Dataset validation set, outperforming previous sota methods (e.g., PV-RCNN++) by over 2.0 mAPH/L2.

Surgery is the only viable treatment for cataract patients with visual acuity (VA) impairment. Clinically, to assess the necessity of cataract surgery, accurately predicting postoperative VA before surgery by analyzing multi-view optical coherence tomography (OCT) images is crucially needed. Unfortunately, due to complicated fundus conditions, determining postoperative VA remains difficult for medical experts. Deep learning methods for this problem were developed in recent years. Although effective, these methods still face several issues, such as not efficiently exploring potential relations between multi-view OCT images, neglecting the key role of clinical prior knowledge (e.g., preoperative VA value), and using only regression-based metrics which are lacking reference. In this paper, we propose a novel Cross-token Transformer Network (CTT-Net) for postoperative VA prediction by analyzing both the multi-view OCT images and preoperative VA. To effectively fuse multi-view features of OCT images, we develop cross-token attention that could restrict redundant/unnecessary attention flow. Further, we utilize the preoperative VA value to provide more information for postoperative VA prediction and facilitate fusion between views. Moreover, we design an auxiliary classification loss to improve model performance and assess VA recovery more sufficiently, avoiding the limitation by only using the regression metrics. To evaluate CTT-Net, we build a multi-view OCT image dataset collected from our collaborative hospital. A set of extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of our model compared to existing methods in various metrics. Code is available at: https://github.com/wjh892521292/Cataract OCT.

Learning linear temporal logic (LTL) formulas from examples labeled as positive or negative has found applications in inferring descriptions of system behavior. We summarize two methods to learn LTL formulas from examples in two different problem settings. The first method assumes noise in the labeling of the examples. For that, they define the problem of inferring an LTL formula that must be consistent with most but not all of the examples. The second method considers the other problem of inferring meaningful LTL formulas in the case where only positive examples are given. Hence, the first method addresses the robustness to noise, and the second method addresses the balance between conciseness and specificity (i.e., language minimality) of the inferred formula. The summarized methods propose different algorithms to solve the aforementioned problems, as well as to infer other descriptions of temporal properties, such as signal temporal logic or deterministic finite automata.

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to widespread adoption, most LLMs are developed by resource-rich organizations and are frequently kept from the public. As a step towards democratizing this powerful technology, we present BLOOM, a 176B-parameter open-access language model designed and built thanks to a collaboration of hundreds of researchers. BLOOM is a decoder-only Transformer language model that was trained on the ROOTS corpus, a dataset comprising hundreds of sources in 46 natural and 13 programming languages (59 in total). We find that BLOOM achieves competitive performance on a wide variety of benchmarks, with stronger results after undergoing multitask prompted finetuning. To facilitate future research and applications using LLMs, we publicly release our models and code under the Responsible AI License.

3D convolutional neural networks have revealed superior performance in processing volumetric data such as video and medical imaging. However, the competitive performance by leveraging 3D networks results in huge computational costs, which are far beyond that of 2D networks. In this paper, we propose a novel Hilbert curve-based cross-dimensionality distillation approach that facilitates the knowledge of 3D networks to improve the performance of 2D networks. The proposed Hilbert Distillation (HD) method preserves the structural information via the Hilbert curve, which maps high-dimensional (>=2) representations to one-dimensional continuous space-filling curves. Since the distilled 2D networks are supervised by the curves converted from dimensionally heterogeneous 3D features, the 2D networks are given an informative view in terms of learning structural information embedded in well-trained high-dimensional representations. We further propose a Variable-length Hilbert Distillation (VHD) method to dynamically shorten the walking stride of the Hilbert curve in activation feature areas and lengthen the stride in context feature areas, forcing the 2D networks to pay more attention to learning from activation features. The proposed algorithm outperforms the current state-of-the-art distillation techniques adapted to cross-dimensionality distillation on two classification tasks. Moreover, the distilled 2D networks by the proposed method achieve competitive performance with the original 3D networks, indicating the lightweight distilled 2D networks could potentially be the substitution of cumbersome 3D networks in the real-world scenario.

深Q学习网络（DQN）是一种成功的方式，将增强学习与深神经网络结合在一起，并导致广泛应用强化学习。当将DQN或其他强化学习算法应用于现实世界问题时，一个具有挑战性的问题是数据收集。因此，如何提高数据效率是强化学习研究中最重要的问题之一。在本文中，我们提出了一个框架，该框架使用深q网络中的最大均值损失（m $^2 $ dqn）。我们没有在训练步骤中抽样一批体验，而是从体验重播中采样了几批，并更新参数，以使这些批次的最大td-Error最小化。所提出的方法可以通过替换损耗函数来与DQN算法的大多数现有技术结合使用。我们在几个健身游戏中使用了最广泛的技术DQN（DDQN）之一来验证该框架的有效性。结果表明，我们的方法会导致学习速度和性能的实质性提高。

区分计算机生成（CG）和自然摄影图像（PG）图像对于验证数字图像的真实性和独创性至关重要。但是，最近的尖端生成方法使CG图像中的合成质量很高，这使得这项具有挑战性的任务变得更加棘手。为了解决这个问题，提出了具有深层质地和高频特征的联合学习策略，以进行CG图像检测。我们首先制定并深入分析CG和PG图像的不同采集过程。基于这样的发现，即图像采集中的多个不同模块将导致对图像中基于卷积神经网络（CNN）渲染的不同敏感性不一致，我们提出了一个深层纹理渲染模块，以增强纹理差异和歧视性纹理表示。具体而言，生成语义分割图来指导仿射转换操作，该操作用于恢复输入图像不同区域中的纹理。然后，原始图像和原始图像和渲染图像的高频组件的组合被馈入配备了注意机制的多支球神经网络，该神经网络分别优化了中间特征，并分别促进了空间和通道维度的痕量探索。在两个公共数据集和一个具有更现实和多样化图像的新构建的数据集上进行的广泛实验表明，所提出的方法的表现优于现有方法，从而明确的余量。此外，结果还证明了拟议方法后处理操作和生成对抗网络（GAN）生成的图像的检测鲁棒性和泛化能力。

我们考虑使用人解剖模型来解释黑盒系统的时间行为的问题。为此，根据最近的研究趋势，我们依靠确定性有限自动机（DFAS）和线性时间逻辑（LTL）公式的基本但可解释的模型。与学习DFA和LTL公式的大多数现有作品相反，我们仅依靠积极的例子。我们的动机是，通常很难从黑盒系统中观察到负面例子。为了仅从积极的示例中学习有意义的模型，我们设计了依赖于模型作为正规化器的简洁性和语言最小性的算法。为此，我们的算法采用了两种方法：一种符号和反例引导。尽管符号方法利用语言最小值作为约束满意度问题的有效编码，但反例引入的人依靠生成合适的负面示例来修剪搜索。两种方法都为我们提供了有效的算法，并在学习模型上具有理论保证。为了评估我们的算法的有效性，我们在合成数据上评估了所有算法。

跟踪控制一直是机器人技术的重要研究主题。本文为基于生物启发的神经动力学模型提供了一种新型的混合控制策略（UUV）。首先开发了增强的反向运动控制策略，以避免急速速度跳跃，并提供相对于常规方法的光滑速度命令。然后，提出了一种新颖的滑动模式控制，该控制能够提供平滑而连续的扭矩命令，没有颤动。在比较研究中，提出的合并混合控制策略确保了控制信号的平滑度，这在现实世界中至关重要，尤其是对于需要在复杂的水下环境中运行的无人水下车辆。

线云虽然在先前的工作中受到评价不足，但与从多视图图像中提取的点云相比，可能对建筑物的结构信息进行了更紧凑的结构信息。在这项工作中，我们建议第一个处理用于构建线框抽象的线云的网络。该网络将线云作为输入，即从多视图图像提取的3D线段的非结构和无序集，并输出基础建筑物的3D线框，该建筑物由稀疏的3D连接组组成，由线段连接， 。我们观察到一个线斑块，即一组相邻的线段，编码足够的轮廓信息，以预测潜在连接的存在甚至3D位置，以及两个查询连接之间的连通性的可能性。因此，我们引入了两层线斑变压器，以从采样线贴片中提取连接和连接性，以形成3D构建线框模型。我们还介绍了带有地面3D线框的多视图图像的合成数据集。我们广泛证明，在多个基线建筑重建方法上，我们的重建3D线框模型可显着改善。