DiffLight: A Partial Rewards Conditioned Diffusion Model for Traffic Signal Control with Missing Data

The application of reinforcement learning in traffic signal control (TSC) has been extensively researched and yielded notable achievements. However, most existing works for TSC assume that traffic data from all surrounding intersections is fully and continuously available through sensors. In real-world applications, this assumption often fails due to sensor malfunctions or data loss, making TSC with missing data a critical challenge. To meet the needs of practical applications, we introduce DiffLight, a novel conditional diffusion model for TSC under data-missing scenarios in the offline setting. Specifically, we integrate two essential sub-tasks, i.e., traffic data imputation and decision-making, by leveraging a Partial Rewards Conditioned Diffusion (PRCD) model to prevent missing rewards from interfering with the learning process. Meanwhile, to effectively capture the spatial-temporal dependencies among intersections, we design a Spatial-Temporal transFormer (STFormer) architecture. In addition, we propose a Diffusion Communication Mechanism (DCM) to promote better communication and control performance under data-missing scenarios. Extensive experiments on five datasets with various data-missing scenarios demonstrate that DiffLight is an effective controller to address TSC with missing data. The code of DiffLight is released at https://github.com/lokol5579/DiffLight-release.

Random resistive memory-based deep extreme point learning machine for unified visual processing

Visual sensors, including 3D LiDAR, neuromorphic DVS sensors, and conventional frame cameras, are increasingly integrated into edge-side intelligent machines. Realizing intensive multi-sensory data analysis directly on edge intelligent machines is crucial for numerous emerging edge applications, such as augmented and virtual reality and unmanned aerial vehicles, which necessitates unified data representation, unprecedented hardware energy efficiency and rapid model training. However, multi-sensory data are intrinsically heterogeneous, causing significant complexity in the system development for edge-side intelligent machines. In addition, the performance of conventional digital hardware is limited by the physically separated processing and memory units, known as the von Neumann bottleneck, and the physical limit of transistor scaling, which contributes to the slowdown of Moore's law. These limitations are further intensified by the tedious training of models with ever-increasing sizes. We propose a novel hardware-software co-design, random resistive memory-based deep extreme point learning machine (DEPLM), that offers efficient unified point set analysis. We show the system's versatility across various data modalities and two different learning tasks. Compared to a conventional digital hardware-based system, our co-design system achieves huge energy efficiency improvements and training cost reduction when compared to conventional systems. Our random resistive memory-based deep extreme point learning machine may pave the way for energy-efficient and training-friendly edge AI across various data modalities and tasks.

Human 3D Avatar Modeling with Implicit Neural Representation: A Brief Survey

A human 3D avatar is one of the important elements in the metaverse, and the modeling effect directly affects people's visual experience. However, the human body has a complex topology and diverse details, so it is often expensive, time-consuming, and laborious to build a satisfactory model. Recent studies have proposed a novel method, implicit neural representation, which is a continuous representation method and can describe objects with arbitrary topology at arbitrary resolution. Researchers have applied implicit neural representation to human 3D avatar modeling and obtained more excellent results than traditional methods. This paper comprehensively reviews the application of implicit neural representation in human body modeling. First, we introduce three implicit representations of occupancy field, SDF, and NeRF, and make a classification of the literature investigated in this paper. Then the application of implicit modeling methods in the body, hand, and head are compared and analyzed respectively. Finally, we point out the shortcomings of current work and provide available suggestions for researchers.

High-Accuracy Absolute-Position-Aided Code Phase Tracking Based on RTK/INS Deep Integration in Challenging Static Scenarios

Many multi-sensor navigation systems urgently demand accurate positioning initialization from global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) in challenging static scenarios. However, ground blockages against line-of-sight (LOS) signal reception make it difficult for GNSS users. Steering local codes in GNSS basebands is a desiring way to correct instantaneous signal phase misalignment, efficiently gathering useful signal power and increasing positioning accuracy. Besides, inertial navigation systems (INSs) have been used as a well-complementary dead reckoning (DR) sensor for GNSS receivers in kinematic scenarios resisting various interferences since early. But little work focuses on the case of whether the INS can improve GNSS receivers in static scenarios. Thus, this paper proposes an enhanced navigation system deeply integrated with low-cost INS solutions and GNSS high-accuracy carrier-based positioning. First, an absolute code phase is predicted from base station information, and integrated solution of the INS DR and real-time kinematic (RTK) results through an extended Kalman filter (EKF). Then, a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) leverages the predicted code phase to improve the alignment between instantaneous local code phases and received ones. The proposed algorithm is realized in a vector-tracking GNSS software-defined radio (SDR). Real-world experiments demonstrate the proposed SDR regarding estimating time-of-arrival (TOA) and positioning accuracy.

Using Whole Slide Image Representations from Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Melanoma Concordance Regression

Although melanoma occurs more rarely than several other skin cancers, patients' long term survival rate is extremely low if the diagnosis is missed. Diagnosis is complicated by a high discordance rate among pathologists when distinguishing between melanoma and benign melanocytic lesions. A tool that provides potential concordance information to healthcare providers could help inform diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic decision-making for challenging melanoma cases. We present a melanoma concordance regression deep learning model capable of predicting the concordance rate of invasive melanoma or melanoma in-situ from digitized Whole Slide Images (WSIs). The salient features corresponding to melanoma concordance were learned in a self-supervised manner with the contrastive learning method, SimCLR. We trained a SimCLR feature extractor with 83,356 WSI tiles randomly sampled from 10,895 specimens originating from four distinct pathology labs. We trained a separate melanoma concordance regression model on 990 specimens with available concordance ground truth annotations from three pathology labs and tested the model on 211 specimens. We achieved a Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of 0.28 +/- 0.01 on the test set. We also investigated the performance of using the predicted concordance rate as a malignancy classifier, and achieved a precision and recall of 0.85 +/- 0.05 and 0.61 +/- 0.06, respectively, on the test set. These results are an important first step for building an artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of predicting the results of consulting a panel of experts and delivering a score based on the degree to which the experts would agree on a particular diagnosis. Such a system could be used to suggest additional testing or other action such as ordering additional stains or genetic tests.

Research on Cross-media Science and Technology Information Data Retrieval

Since the era of big data, the Internet has been flooded with all kinds of information. Browsing information through the Internet has become an integral part of people's daily life. Unlike the news data and social data in the Internet, the cross-media technology information data has different characteristics. This data has become an important basis for researchers and scholars to track the current hot spots and explore the future direction of technology development. As the volume of science and technology information data becomes richer, the traditional science and technology information retrieval system, which only supports unimodal data retrieval and uses outdated data keyword matching model, can no longer meet the daily retrieval needs of science and technology scholars. Therefore, in view of the above research background, it is of profound practical significance to study the cross-media science and technology information data retrieval system based on deep semantic features, which is in line with the development trend of domestic and international technologies.

Research Scholar Interest Mining Method based on Load Centrality

In the era of big data, it is possible to carry out cooperative research on the research results of researchers through papers, patents and other data, so as to study the role of researchers, and produce results in the analysis of results. For the important problems found in the research and application of reality, this paper also proposes a research scholar interest mining algorithm based on load centrality (LCBIM), which can accurately solve the problem according to the researcher's research papers and patent data. Graphs of creative algorithms in various fields of the study aggregated ideas, generated topic graphs by aggregating neighborhoods, used the generated topic information to construct with similar or similar topic spaces, and utilize keywords to construct one or more topics. The regional structure of each topic can be used to closely calculate the weight of the centrality research model of the node, which can analyze the field in the complete coverage principle. The scientific research cooperation based on the load rate center proposed in this paper can effectively extract the interests of scientific research scholars from papers and corpus.

Scientific and Technological Information Oriented Semantics-adversarial and Media-adversarial Cross-media Retrieval

Cross-media retrieval of scientific and technological information is one of the important tasks in the cross-media study. Cross-media scientific and technological information retrieval obtain target information from massive multi-source and heterogeneous scientific and technological resources, which helps to design applications that meet users' needs, including scientific and technological information recommendation, personalized scientific and technological information retrieval, etc. The core of cross-media retrieval is to learn a common subspace, so that data from different media can be directly compared with each other after being mapped into this subspace. In subspace learning, existing methods often focus on modeling the discrimination of intra-media data and the invariance of inter-media data after mapping; however, they ignore the semantic consistency of inter-media data before and after mapping and media discrimination of intra-semantics data, which limit the result of cross-media retrieval. In light of this, we propose a scientific and technological information oriented Semantics-adversarial and Media-adversarial Cross-media Retrieval method (SMCR) to find an effective common subspace. Specifically, SMCR minimizes the loss of inter-media semantic consistency in addition to modeling intra-media semantic discrimination, to preserve semantic similarity before and after mapping. Furthermore, SMCR constructs a basic feature mapping network and a refined feature mapping network to jointly minimize the media discriminative loss within semantics, so as to enhance the feature mapping network's ability to confuse the media discriminant network. Experimental results on two datasets demonstrate that the proposed SMCR outperforms state-of-the-art methods in cross-media retrieval.

Enhancement or Super-Resolution: Learning-based Adaptive Video Streaming with Client-Side Video Processing

The rapid development of multimedia and communication technology has resulted in an urgent need for high-quality video streaming. However, robust video streaming under fluctuating network conditions and heterogeneous client computing capabilities remains a challenge. In this paper, we consider an enhancement-enabled video streaming network under a time-varying wireless network and limited computation capacity. "Enhancement" means that the client can improve the quality of the downloaded video segments via image processing modules. We aim to design a joint bitrate adaptation and client-side enhancement algorithm toward maximizing the quality of experience (QoE). We formulate the problem as a Markov decision process (MDP) and propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based framework, named ENAVS. As video streaming quality is mainly affected by video compression, we demonstrate that the video enhancement algorithm outperforms the super-resolution algorithm in terms of signal-to-noise ratio and frames per second, suggesting a better solution for client processing in video streaming. Ultimately, we implement ENAVS and demonstrate extensive testbed results under real-world bandwidth traces and videos. The simulation shows that ENAVS is capable of delivering 5%-14% more QoE under the same bandwidth and computing power conditions as conventional ABR streaming.

Neural Architecture Refinement: A Practical Way for Avoiding Overfitting in NAS

Neural architecture search (NAS) is proposed to automate the architecture design process and attracts overwhelming interest from both academia and industry. However, it is confronted with overfitting issue due to the high-dimensional search space composed by $operator$ selection and $skip$ connection of each layer. This paper analyzes the overfitting issue from a novel perspective, which separates the primitives of search space into architecture-overfitting related and parameter-overfitting related elements. The $operator$ of each layer, which mainly contributes to parameter-overfitting and is important for model acceleration, is selected as our optimization target based on state-of-the-art architecture, meanwhile $skip$ which related to architecture-overfitting, is ignored. With the largely reduced search space, our proposed method is both quick to converge and practical to use in various tasks. Extensive experiments have demonstrated that the proposed method can achieve fascinated results, including classification, face recognition etc.