106 research outputs found
Training-Free Instance Segmentation from Semantic Image Segmentation Masks
In recent years, the development of instance segmentation has garnered
significant attention in a wide range of applications. However, the training of
a fully-supervised instance segmentation model requires costly both
instance-level and pixel-level annotations. In contrast, weakly-supervised
instance segmentation methods (i.e., with image-level class labels or point
labels) struggle to satisfy the accuracy and recall requirements of practical
scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel paradigm for instance segmentation
called training-free instance segmentation (TFISeg), which achieves instance
segmentation results from image masks predicted using off-the-shelf semantic
segmentation models. TFISeg does not require training a semantic or/and
instance segmentation model and avoids the need for instance-level image
annotations. Therefore, it is highly efficient. Specifically, we first obtain a
semantic segmentation mask of the input image via a trained semantic
segmentation model. Then, we calculate a displacement field vector for each
pixel based on the segmentation mask, which can indicate representations
belonging to the same class but different instances, i.e., obtaining the
instance-level object information. Finally, instance segmentation results are
obtained after being refined by a learnable category-agnostic object boundary
branch. Extensive experimental results on two challenging datasets and
representative semantic segmentation baselines (including CNNs and
Transformers) demonstrate that TFISeg can achieve competitive results compared
to the state-of-the-art fully-supervised instance segmentation methods without
the need for additional human resources or increased computational costs. The
code is available at: TFISegComment: 14 pages,5 figure
Vertical Semi-Federated Learning for Efficient Online Advertising
As an emerging secure learning paradigm in leveraging cross-silo private
data, vertical federated learning (VFL) is expected to improve advertising
models by enabling the joint learning of complementary user attributes
privately owned by the advertiser and the publisher. However, the 1) restricted
applicable scope to overlapped samples and 2) high system challenge of
real-time federated serving have limited its application to advertising
systems.
In this paper, we advocate new learning setting Semi-VFL (Vertical
Semi-Federated Learning) as a lightweight solution to utilize all available
data (both the overlapped and non-overlapped data) that is free from federated
serving. Semi-VFL is expected to perform better than single-party models and
maintain a low inference cost. It's notably important to i) alleviate the
absence of the passive party's feature and ii) adapt to the whole sample space
to implement a good solution for Semi-VFL. Thus, we propose a carefully
designed joint privileged learning framework (JPL) as an efficient
implementation of Semi-VFL. Specifically, we build an inference-efficient
single-party student model applicable to the whole sample space and meanwhile
maintain the advantage of the federated feature extension. Novel feature
imitation and ranking consistency restriction methods are proposed to extract
cross-party feature correlations and maintain cross-sample-space consistency
for both the overlapped and non-overlapped data.
We conducted extensive experiments on real-world advertising datasets. The
results show that our method achieves the best performance over baseline
methods and validate its effectiveness in maintaining cross-view feature
correlation
New insights for the design of bionic robots:adaptive motion adjustment strategies during feline landings
Felines have significant advantages in terms of sports energy efficiency and flexibility compared with other animals, especially in terms of jumping and landing. The biomechanical characteristics of a feline (cat) landing from different heights can provide new insights into bionic robot design based on research results and the needs of bionic engineering. The purpose of this work was to investigate the adaptive motion adjustment strategy of the cat landing using a machine learning algorithm and finite element analysis (FEA). In a bionic robot, there are considerations in the design of the mechanical legs. (1) The coordination mechanism of each joint should be adjusted intelligently according to the force at the bottom of each mechanical leg. Specifically, with the increase in force at the bottom of the mechanical leg, the main joint bearing the impact load gradually shifts from the distal joint to the proximal joint; (2) the hardness of the materials located around the center of each joint of the bionic mechanical leg should be strengthened to increase service life; (3) the center of gravity of the robot should be lowered and the robot posture should be kept forward as far as possible to reduce machine wear and improve robot operational accuracy
N,N′-Bis(2,6-diethylphenyl)acenaphthylene-1,2-diimine
The title compound, C32H32N2, has crystallographic twofold rotation symmetry, with two C atoms lying on the rotation axis. The dihedral angle between the substituted benzene ring and the naphthalene ring system is 79.8 (1)°. The crystal structure is stabilized by C—H⋯N interactions, which form a chain motif along the b-axis direction
{(1R,2R)-N,N′-Bis[2-(N-methylanilino)benzylidene]cyclohexane-1,2-diamine-κ2 N,N′}dichloridoiron(II)
In the title compound, [FeCl2(C34H36N4)], the FeII ion is coordinated by two Cl atoms and by two N atoms from a (1R,2R)-N,N′-bis[2-(N-methylanilino)benzylidene]cyclohexane-1,2-diamine ligand in a distorted tetrahedral geometry. The molecule has approximate C
2 point symmetry. The dihedral angles between the phenyl and benzene rings on either side of the ligand are 64.56 (14) and 65.61 (13)°
Achieving Lightweight Federated Advertising with Self-Supervised Split Distillation
As an emerging secure learning paradigm in leveraging cross-agency private
data, vertical federated learning (VFL) is expected to improve advertising
models by enabling the joint learning of complementary user attributes
privately owned by the advertiser and the publisher. However, there are two key
challenges in applying it to advertising systems: a) the limited scale of
labeled overlapping samples, and b) the high cost of real-time cross-agency
serving.
In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised split distillation framework
VFed-SSD to alleviate the two limitations. We identify that: i) there are
massive unlabeled overlapped data available in advertising systems, and ii) we
can keep a balance between model performance and inference cost by decomposing
the federated model. Specifically, we develop a self-supervised task Matched
Pair Detection (MPD) to exploit the vertically partitioned unlabeled data and
propose the Split Knowledge Distillation (SplitKD) schema to avoid cross-agency
serving.
Empirical studies on three industrial datasets exhibit the effectiveness of
our methods, with the median AUC over all datasets improved by 0.86% and 2.6%
in the local deployment mode and the federated deployment mode respectively.
Overall, our framework provides an efficient federation-enhanced solution for
real-time display advertising with minimal deploying cost and significant
performance lift.Comment: Accepted to the Trustworthy Federated Learning workshop of IJCAI2022
(FL-IJCAI22). 6 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables Old title: Semi-Supervised
Cross-Silo Advertising with Partial Knowledge Transfe
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