Multi-resolution Spatiotemporal Enhanced Transformer Denoising with Functional Diffusive GANs for Constructing Brain Effective Connectivity in MCI analysis

Effective connectivity can describe the causal patterns among brain regions. These patterns have the potential to reveal the pathological mechanism and promote early diagnosis and effective drug development for cognitive disease. However, the current studies mainly focus on using empirical functional time series to calculate effective connections, which may not comprehensively capture the complex causal relationships between brain regions. In this paper, a novel Multi-resolution Spatiotemporal Enhanced Transformer Denoising (MSETD) network with an adversarially functional diffusion model is proposed to map functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) into effective connectivity for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) analysis. To be specific, the denoising framework leverages a conditional diffusion process that progressively translates the noise and conditioning fMRI to effective connectivity in an end-to-end manner. To ensure reverse diffusion quality and diversity, the multi-resolution enhanced transformer generator is designed to extract local and global spatiotemporal features. Furthermore, a multi-scale diffusive transformer discriminator is devised to capture the temporal patterns at different scales for generation stability. Evaluations of the ADNI datasets demonstrate the feasibility and efficacy of the proposed model. The proposed model not only achieves superior prediction performance compared with other competing methods but also identifies MCI-related causal connections that are consistent with clinical studies.

DiffuseRoll: Multi-track multi-category music generation based on diffusion model

Recent advancements in generative models have shown remarkable progress in music generation. However, most existing methods focus on generating monophonic or homophonic music, while the generation of polyphonic and multi-track music with rich attributes is still a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for multi-track, multi-attribute symphonic music generation using the diffusion model. Specifically, we generate piano-roll representations with a diffusion model and map them to MIDI format for output. To capture rich attribute information, we introduce a color coding scheme to encode note sequences into color and position information that represents pitch,velocity, and instrument. This scheme enables a seamless mapping between discrete music sequences and continuous images. We also propose a post-processing method to optimize the generated scores for better performance. Experimental results show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of polyphonic music generation with rich attribute information compared to the figure methods.

Chinese Grammatical Correction Using BERT-based Pre-trained Model

In recent years, pre-trained models have been extensively studied, and several downstream tasks have benefited from their utilization. In this study, we verify the effectiveness of two methods that incorporate a BERT-based pre-trained model developed by Cui et al. (2020) into an encoder-decoder model on Chinese grammatical error correction tasks. We also analyze the error type and conclude that sentence-level errors are yet to be addressed.

Mobile APP User Attribute Prediction by Heterogeneous Information Network Modeling

User-based attribute information, such as age and gender, is usually considered as user privacy information. It is difficult for enterprises to obtain user-based privacy attribute information. However, user-based privacy attribute information has a wide range of applications in personalized services, user behavior analysis and other aspects. this paper advances the HetPathMine model and puts forward TPathMine model. With applying the number of clicks of attributes under each node to express the user's emotional preference information, optimizations of the solution of meta-path weight are also presented. Based on meta-path in heterogeneous information networks, the new model integrates all relationships among objects into isomorphic relationships of classified objects. Matrix is used to realize the knowledge dissemination of category knowledge among isomorphic objects. The experimental results show that: (1) the prediction of user attributes based on heterogeneous information networks can achieve higher accuracy than traditional machine learning classification methods; (2) TPathMine model based on the number of clicks is more accurate in classifying users of different age groups, and the weight of each meta-path is consistent with human intuition or the real world situation.