联合学习（FL）是一个蓬勃发展的分布式机器学习框架，其中中心参数服务器（PS）协调许多本地用户以训练全局一致的模型。传统的联合学习不可避免地依赖于具有PS的集中拓扑。因此，一旦PS失败，它将瘫痪。为了缓解如此单点故障，特别是在PS上，一些现有的工作已经提供了CDSGD和D-PSGD等分散的FL（DFL）实现，以便于分散拓扑中的流体。然而，这些方法仍存在一些问题，例如，在CDSGD中的用户最终模型和D-PSGD中的网络范围的模型平均必需品之间存在一些问题。为了解决这些缺陷，本文设计了一种作为DACFL的新DFL实现，其中每个用户使用自己的训练数据列举其模型，并通过对称和双随机矩阵将中间模型与其邻居交换。 DACFL将每个用户本地培训的进度视为离散时间过程，并采用第一个订单动态平均共识（FODAC）方法来跟踪\ Texit {平均模型}在没有PS的情况下。在本文中，我们还提供了DACFL的理论收敛性分析，即在I.I.D数据的前提下，以加强其合理性。 Mnist，Fashion-Mnist和CiFar-10的实验结果验证了我们在几间不变性和时变网络拓扑中的解决方案的可行性，并在大多数情况下声明DACFL优于D-PSGD和CDSGD。

Machine Unerning是在收到删除请求时从机器学习（ML）模型中删除某些培训数据的影响的过程。虽然直接而合法，但从划痕中重新训练ML模型会导致高计算开销。为了解决这个问题，在图像和文本数据的域中提出了许多近似算法，其中SISA是最新的解决方案。它将训练集随机分配到多个碎片中，并为每个碎片训练一个组成模型。但是，将SISA直接应用于图形数据可能会严重损害图形结构信息，从而导致的ML模型实用程序。在本文中，我们提出了Grapheraser，这是一种针对图形数据量身定制的新型机器学习框架。它的贡献包括两种新型的图形分区算法和一种基于学习的聚合方法。我们在五个现实世界图数据集上进行了广泛的实验，以说明Grapheraser的学习效率和模型实用程序。它可以实现2.06 $ \ times $（小数据集）至35.94 $ \ times $（大数据集）未学习时间的改进。另一方面，Grapheraser的实现最高62.5美元\％$更高的F1分数，我们提出的基于学习的聚合方法可达到高达$ 112 \％$ $ F1分数。 github.com/minchen00/graph-unlearning}。}。}

关于神经体系结构搜索（NAS）的现有研究主要集中于有效地搜索具有更好性能的网络体系结构。几乎没有取得进展，以系统地了解NAS搜索的架构是否对隐私攻击是强大的，而丰富的工作已经表明，人类设计的架构容易受到隐私攻击。在本文中，我们填补了这一空白，并系统地衡量了NAS体系结构的隐私风险。利用我们的测量研究中的见解，我们进一步探索了基于细胞的NAS架构的细胞模式，并评估细胞模式如何影响NAS搜索架构的隐私风险。通过广泛的实验，我们阐明了如何针对隐私攻击设计强大的NAS体系结构，还提供了一种通用方法，以了解NAS搜索的体系结构与其他隐私风险之间的隐藏相关性。

Deep learning models can achieve high accuracy when trained on large amounts of labeled data. However, real-world scenarios often involve several challenges: Training data may become available in installments, may originate from multiple different domains, and may not contain labels for training. Certain settings, for instance medical applications, often involve further restrictions that prohibit retention of previously seen data due to privacy regulations. In this work, to address such challenges, we study unsupervised segmentation in continual learning scenarios that involve domain shift. To that end, we introduce GarDA (Generative Appearance Replay for continual Domain Adaptation), a generative-replay based approach that can adapt a segmentation model sequentially to new domains with unlabeled data. In contrast to single-step unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), continual adaptation to a sequence of domains enables leveraging and consolidation of information from multiple domains. Unlike previous approaches in incremental UDA, our method does not require access to previously seen data, making it applicable in many practical scenarios. We evaluate GarDA on two datasets with different organs and modalities, where it substantially outperforms existing techniques.

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.

As one of the prevalent methods to achieve automation systems, Imitation Learning (IL) presents a promising performance in a wide range of domains. However, despite the considerable improvement in policy performance, the corresponding research on the explainability of IL models is still limited. Inspired by the recent approaches in explainable artificial intelligence methods, we proposed a model-agnostic explaining framework for IL models called R2RISE. R2RISE aims to explain the overall policy performance with respect to the frames in demonstrations. It iteratively retrains the black-box IL model from the randomized masked demonstrations and uses the conventional evaluation outcome environment returns as the coefficient to build an importance map. We also conducted experiments to investigate three major questions concerning frames' importance equality, the effectiveness of the importance map, and connections between importance maps from different IL models. The result shows that R2RISE successfully distinguishes important frames from the demonstrations.

Compressed videos often exhibit visually annoying artifacts, known as Perceivable Encoding Artifacts (PEAs), which dramatically degrade video visual quality. Subjective and objective measures capable of identifying and quantifying various types of PEAs are critical in improving visual quality. In this paper, we investigate the influence of four spatial PEAs (i.e. blurring, blocking, bleeding, and ringing) and two temporal PEAs (i.e. flickering and floating) on video quality. For spatial artifacts, we propose a visual saliency model with a low computational cost and higher consistency with human visual perception. In terms of temporal artifacts, self-attention based TimeSFormer is improved to detect temporal artifacts. Based on the six types of PEAs, a quality metric called Saliency-Aware Spatio-Temporal Artifacts Measurement (SSTAM) is proposed. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art metrics. We believe that SSTAM will be beneficial for optimizing video coding techniques.

We propose a distributionally robust return-risk model for Markov decision processes (MDPs) under risk and reward ambiguity. The proposed model optimizes the weighted average of mean and percentile performances, and it covers the distributionally robust MDPs and the distributionally robust chance-constrained MDPs (both under reward ambiguity) as special cases. By considering that the unknown reward distribution lies in a Wasserstein ambiguity set, we derive the tractable reformulation for our model. In particular, we show that that the return-risk model can also account for risk from uncertain transition kernel when one only seeks deterministic policies, and that a distributionally robust MDP under the percentile criterion can be reformulated as its nominal counterpart at an adjusted risk level. A scalable first-order algorithm is designed to solve large-scale problems, and we demonstrate the advantages of our proposed model and algorithm through numerical experiments.

Witnessing the impressive achievements of pre-training techniques on large-scale data in the field of computer vision and natural language processing, we wonder whether this idea could be adapted in a grab-and-go spirit, and mitigate the sample inefficiency problem for visuomotor driving. Given the highly dynamic and variant nature of the input, the visuomotor driving task inherently lacks view and translation invariance, and the visual input contains massive irrelevant information for decision making, resulting in predominant pre-training approaches from general vision less suitable for the autonomous driving task. To this end, we propose PPGeo (Policy Pre-training via Geometric modeling), an intuitive and straightforward fully self-supervised framework curated for the policy pretraining in visuomotor driving. We aim at learning policy representations as a powerful abstraction by modeling 3D geometric scenes on large-scale unlabeled and uncalibrated YouTube driving videos. The proposed PPGeo is performed in two stages to support effective self-supervised training. In the first stage, the geometric modeling framework generates pose and depth predictions simultaneously, with two consecutive frames as input. In the second stage, the visual encoder learns driving policy representation by predicting the future ego-motion and optimizing with the photometric error based on current visual observation only. As such, the pre-trained visual encoder is equipped with rich driving policy related representations and thereby competent for multiple visuomotor driving tasks. Extensive experiments covering a wide span of challenging scenarios have demonstrated the superiority of our proposed approach, where improvements range from 2% to even over 100% with very limited data. Code and models will be available at https://github.com/OpenDriveLab/PPGeo.

As one of the most important psychic stress reactions, micro-expressions (MEs), are spontaneous and transient facial expressions that can reveal the genuine emotions of human beings. Thus, recognizing MEs (MER) automatically is becoming increasingly crucial in the field of affective computing, and provides essential technical support in lie detection, psychological analysis and other areas. However, the lack of abundant ME data seriously restricts the development of cutting-edge data-driven MER models. Despite the recent efforts of several spontaneous ME datasets to alleviate this problem, it is still a tiny amount of work. To solve the problem of ME data hunger, we construct a dynamic spontaneous ME dataset with the largest current ME data scale, called DFME (Dynamic Facial Micro-expressions), which includes 7,526 well-labeled ME videos induced by 671 participants and annotated by more than 20 annotators throughout three years. Afterwards, we adopt four classical spatiotemporal feature learning models on DFME to perform MER experiments to objectively verify the validity of DFME dataset. In addition, we explore different solutions to the class imbalance and key-frame sequence sampling problems in dynamic MER respectively on DFME, so as to provide a valuable reference for future research. The comprehensive experimental results show that our DFME dataset can facilitate the research of automatic MER, and provide a new benchmark for MER. DFME will be published via https://mea-lab-421.github.io.