An approach to evolutionary ensemble learning for classification is proposed in which boosting is used to construct a stack of programs. Each application of boosting identifies a single champion and a residual dataset, i.e. the training records that thus far were not correctly classified. The next program is only trained against the residual, with the process iterating until some maximum ensemble size or no further residual remains. Training against a residual dataset actively reduces the cost of training. Deploying the ensemble as a stack also means that only one classifier might be necessary to make a prediction, so improving interpretability. Benchmarking studies are conducted to illustrate competitiveness with the prediction accuracy of current state-of-the-art evolutionary ensemble learning algorithms, while providing solutions that are orders of magnitude simpler. Further benchmarking with a high cardinality dataset indicates that the proposed method is also more accurate and efficient than XGBoost.

3D点云的卷积经过广泛研究，但在几何深度学习中却远非完美。卷积的传统智慧在3D点之间表现出特征对应关系，这是对差的独特特征学习的内在限制。在本文中，我们提出了自适应图卷积（AGCONV），以供点云分析的广泛应用。 AGCONV根据其动态学习的功能生成自适应核。与使用固定/各向同性核的解决方案相比，AGCONV提高了点云卷积的灵活性，有效，精确地捕获了不同语义部位的点之间的不同关系。与流行的注意力体重方案不同，AGCONV实现了卷积操作内部的适应性，而不是简单地将不同的权重分配给相邻点。广泛的评估清楚地表明，我们的方法优于各种基准数据集中的点云分类和分割的最新方法。同时，AGCONV可以灵活地采用更多的点云分析方法来提高其性能。为了验证其灵活性和有效性，我们探索了基于AGCONV的完成，DeNoing，Upsmpling，注册和圆圈提取的范式，它们与竞争对手相当甚至优越。我们的代码可在https://github.com/hrzhou2/adaptconv-master上找到。

高信心重叠的预测和准确的对应关系对于以部分到派对方式对齐成对点云至关重要。但是，重叠区域和非重叠区域之间存在固有的不确定性，这些区域一直被忽略并显着影响注册绩效。除了当前的智慧之外，我们提出了一种新颖的不确定性意识到的重叠预测网络，称为Utopic，以解决模棱两可的重叠预测问题。据我们所知，这是第一个明确引入重叠不确定性以指向云注册的人。此外，我们诱导特征提取器通过完成解码器隐式感知形状知识，并为变压器提供几何关系嵌入，以获得转换 - 不变性的几何形状感知特征表示。凭借更可靠的重叠得分和更精确的密度对应关系的优点，即使对于有限的重叠区域的输入，乌托邦也可以实现稳定而准确的注册结果。关于合成和实际基准的广泛定量和定性实验证明了我们的方法优于最先进的方法。代码可从https://github.com/zhileichen99/utopic获得。

我们开发了一种新的方法来漂移游戏，一类两人游戏，其中包括许多应用程序来增强和在线学习设置，包括使用专家建议和对冲游戏的预测。我们的方法涉及（a）通过求解相关的部分微分方程（PDE）来猜测渐近的最佳潜力；然后（b）通过证明最终时间损失的上限和下限来证明猜测的合理性，它们的差异像个时间步数的负能力一样。我们潜在的基于上限的证据是基本的，只需使用泰勒的扩展。我们潜在的基于潜在的下限的证明也相当基本，将泰勒的扩展与概率或组合论证相结合。先前关于渐近最佳策略的大多数工作都使用了通过解决离散动态编程原理获得的潜力。这些论点因其离散性而变得复杂。我们使用的潜力是PDE的明确解决方案，这使我们的方法促进了我们的方法。这些论点基于基本的演算。我们的方法不仅更基本，而且还提供了新的电位，并得出相应的上和下限，这些上限和下限在渐近方面相互匹配。

本文通过控制功能级别的RGB图像和深度图之间的消息，介绍了RGB-D显着对象检测的新型深神经网络框架，并探索有关RGB和深度特征的远程语义上下文和几何信息推断出明显的对象。为了实现这一目标，我们通过图神经网络和可变形的卷积制定动态消息传播（DMP）模块，以动态学习上下文信息，并自动预测消息传播控制的过滤权重和亲和力矩阵。我们将该模块进一步嵌入基于暹罗的网络中，分别处理RGB图像和深度图，并设计多级特征融合（MFF）模块，以探索精制的RGB和深度特征之间的跨级信息。与六个基准数据集上用于RGB-D显着对象检测的17种最先进的方法相比，实验结果表明，我们的方法在定量和视觉上都优于其他所有方法。

我们考虑了一个批处理活动的方案，其中学习者可以适应地向标签Oracle发出批处理。由于具有标签Oracle（通常是人类）的互动次数较少，因此在批处理中的采样标签在实践中是非常可取的。但是，批处理主动学习通常会支付降低的适应性的价格，从而导致次优结果。在本文中，我们提出了一种解决方案，该解决方案需要在查询点的信息和多样性的信息之间进行仔细的权衡。我们从理论上研究了在实际相关的方案中研究批次的活动，其中未标记的数据库事先可用（{\ em池基}主动学习）。我们分析了一种新颖的阶段贪婪算法，并表明，作为标签复杂性的函数，该算法的过量风险与标准统计学习环境中已知的最小值率相匹配。我们的结果还表现出对批处理大小的温和依赖。这些是在信息性和多样性之间进行仔细的交易来严格量化基于池的情况下批处理主动学习的统计表现的第一个理论结果。

Benefiting from the intrinsic supervision information exploitation capability, contrastive learning has achieved promising performance in the field of deep graph clustering recently. However, we observe that two drawbacks of the positive and negative sample construction mechanisms limit the performance of existing algorithms from further improvement. 1) The quality of positive samples heavily depends on the carefully designed data augmentations, while inappropriate data augmentations would easily lead to the semantic drift and indiscriminative positive samples. 2) The constructed negative samples are not reliable for ignoring important clustering information. To solve these problems, we propose a Cluster-guided Contrastive deep Graph Clustering network (CCGC) by mining the intrinsic supervision information in the high-confidence clustering results. Specifically, instead of conducting complex node or edge perturbation, we construct two views of the graph by designing special Siamese encoders whose weights are not shared between the sibling sub-networks. Then, guided by the high-confidence clustering information, we carefully select and construct the positive samples from the same high-confidence cluster in two views. Moreover, to construct semantic meaningful negative sample pairs, we regard the centers of different high-confidence clusters as negative samples, thus improving the discriminative capability and reliability of the constructed sample pairs. Lastly, we design an objective function to pull close the samples from the same cluster while pushing away those from other clusters by maximizing and minimizing the cross-view cosine similarity between positive and negative samples. Extensive experimental results on six datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of CCGC compared with the existing state-of-the-art algorithms.

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.

Text clustering and topic extraction are two important tasks in text mining. Usually, these two tasks are performed separately. For topic extraction to facilitate clustering, we can first project texts into a topic space and then perform a clustering algorithm to obtain clusters. To promote topic extraction by clustering, we can first obtain clusters with a clustering algorithm and then extract cluster-specific topics. However, this naive strategy ignores the fact that text clustering and topic extraction are strongly correlated and follow a chicken-and-egg relationship. Performing them separately fails to make them mutually benefit each other to achieve the best overall performance. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised text clustering and topic extraction framework (ClusTop) which integrates text clustering and topic extraction into a unified framework and can achieve high-quality clustering result and extract topics from each cluster simultaneously. Our framework includes four components: enhanced language model training, dimensionality reduction, clustering and topic extraction, where the enhanced language model can be viewed as a bridge between clustering and topic extraction. On one hand, it provides text embeddings with a strong cluster structure which facilitates effective text clustering; on the other hand, it pays high attention on the topic related words for topic extraction because of its self-attention architecture. Moreover, the training of enhanced language model is unsupervised. Experiments on two datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework and provide benchmarks for different model combinations in this framework.

An increasing number of public datasets have shown a marked clinical impact on assessing anatomical structures. However, each of the datasets is small, partially labeled, and rarely investigates severe tumor subjects. Moreover, current models are limited to segmenting specific organs/tumors, which can not be extended to novel domains and classes. To tackle these limitations, we introduce embedding learned from Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) to segmentation models, dubbed the CLIP-Driven Universal Model. The Universal Model can better segment 25 organs and 6 types of tumors by exploiting the semantic relationship between abdominal structures. The model is developed from an assembly of 14 datasets with 3,410 CT scans and evaluated on 6,162 external CT scans from 3 datasets. We rank first on the public leaderboard of the Medical Segmentation Decathlon (MSD) and achieve the state-of-the-art results on Beyond The Cranial Vault (BTCV). Compared with dataset-specific models, the Universal Model is computationally more efficient (6x faster), generalizes better to CT scans from varying sites, and shows stronger transfer learning performance on novel tasks. The design of CLIP embedding enables the Universal Model to be easily extended to new classes without catastrophically forgetting the previously learned classes.