Existing deep learning-based traffic forecasting models are mainly trained with MSE (or MAE) as the loss function, assuming that residuals/errors follow independent and isotropic Gaussian (or Laplacian) distribution for simplicity. However, this assumption rarely holds for real-world traffic forecasting tasks, where the unexplained residuals are often correlated in both space and time. In this study, we propose Spatiotemporal Residual Regularization by modeling residuals with a dynamic (e.g., time-varying) mixture of zero-mean multivariate Gaussian distribution with learnable spatiotemporal covariance matrices. This approach allows us to directly capture spatiotemporally correlated residuals. For scalability, we model the spatiotemporal covariance for each mixture component using a Kronecker product structure, which significantly reduces the number of parameters and computation complexity. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method on a traffic speed forecasting task. Our results show that, by properly modeling residual distribution, the proposed method not only improves the model performance but also provides interpretable structures.

Spatiotemporal traffic data imputation is of great significance in intelligent transportation systems and data-driven decision-making processes. To make an accurate reconstruction on partially observed traffic data, we assert the importance of characterizing both global and local trends in traffic time series. In the literature, substantial prior works have demonstrated the effectiveness of utilizing low-rankness property of traffic data by matrix/tensor completion models. In this study, we first introduce a Laplacian kernel to temporal regularization for characterizing local trends in traffic time series, which can be formulated in the form of circular convolution. Then, we develop a low-rank Laplacian convolutional representation (LCR) model by putting the nuclear norm of a circulant matrix and the Laplacian temporal regularization together, which is proved to meet a unified framework that takes a fast Fourier transform solution in a relatively low time complexity. Through extensive experiments on some traffic datasets, we demonstrate the superiority of LCR for imputing traffic time series of various time series behaviors (e.g., data noises and strong/weak periodicity). The proposed LCR model is an efficient and effective solution to large-scale traffic data imputation over the existing baseline models. The adapted datasets and Python implementation are publicly available at https://github.com/xinychen/transdim.

The problem of broad practical interest in spatiotemporal data analysis, i.e., discovering interpretable dynamic patterns from spatiotemporal data, is studied in this paper. Towards this end, we develop a time-varying reduced-rank vector autoregression (VAR) model whose coefficient matrices are parameterized by low-rank tensor factorization. Benefiting from the tensor factorization structure, the proposed model can simultaneously achieve model compression and pattern discovery. In particular, the proposed model allows one to characterize nonstationarity and time-varying system behaviors underlying spatiotemporal data. To evaluate the proposed model, extensive experiments are conducted on various spatiotemporal data representing different nonlinear dynamical systems, including fluid dynamics, sea surface temperature, USA surface temperature, and NYC taxi trips. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of modeling spatiotemporal data and characterizing spatial/temporal patterns with the proposed model. In the spatial context, the spatial patterns can be automatically extracted and intuitively characterized by the spatial modes. In the temporal context, the complex time-varying system behaviors can be revealed by the temporal modes in the proposed model. Thus, our model lays an insightful foundation for understanding complex spatiotemporal data in real-world dynamical systems. The adapted datasets and Python implementation are publicly available at https://github.com/xinychen/vars.

现代时间序列数据集通常是高维，不完整/稀疏和非组织的。这些属性阻碍了时间序列预测和分析的可扩展和高效解决方案的开发。为了应对这些挑战，我们提出了一个非平稳的时间矩阵分解（NOTMF）模型，其中使用矩阵分解来重建整个时间序列矩阵和矢量自回旋（var）过程，该过程施加在适当差异的时间因子矩阵的副本上。这种方法不仅保留了数据的低级属性，还提供了一致的时间动力。 NOTMF的学习过程涉及两个因子矩阵和VAR系数矩阵集合的优化。为了有效地解决优化问题，我们得出了一个交替的最小化框架，其中使用共轭梯度和最小二乘方法来解决子问题。特别是，使用共轭梯度方法提供了有效的例程，并允许我们在大规模问题上应用NOTMF。通过对Uber运动速度数据集进行的广泛实验，我们证明了NOTMF的卓越准确性和有效性，而不是其他基线模型。我们的结果还证实了解决现实世界中时间序列数据（如时空交通流/速度）的非平稳性的重要性。

智能流量系统的进步（其）通过自动数据收集提供了大量的交通数据。该数据的大部分存储为移动车辆和道路用户的轨迹。通过最小的人类监督对该数据的自动分析将降低成本并消除分析的主观性。轨迹群集是一个无人监督的任务。在本文中，我们使用来自七个交叉点的轨迹数据进行相似度测量，聚类算法和评估措施的全面比较。我们还提出了一种基于其原点和目的地自动生成轨迹参考集群的方法，以用于基于标签的评估措施。因此，整个过程在聚类和评估水平中仍然无监督。最后，我们使用评估措施的组合来找到每个交叉点的最高执行相似度测量和聚类算法。结果表明，没有单一的距离和聚类算法组合，始终是前十个聚类设置中的距离和聚类算法。

本文介绍了一种名为Polytrack的新方法，用于使用边界多边形的快速多目标跟踪和分段。PolyTrack通过产生其中心键盘的热插拔来检测物体。对于它们中的每一个，通过在每个实例上计算限定多边形而不是传统边界框来完成粗略分割。通过将两个连续帧作为输入来完成跟踪，并计算在第一帧中检测到的每个对象的中心偏移，以预测其在第二帧中的位置。还应用了卡尔曼滤波器以减少ID交换机的数量。由于我们的目标应用程序是自动化驾驶系统，因此我们在城市环境视频上应用了方法。我们在MOTS和Kittimots数据集上培训和评估多轨。结果表明，跟踪多边形可以是边界框和掩模跟踪的良好替代品。Polytrack代码可在https://github.com/gafaua/polytrack上获得。

This article formulates a generic representation of a path-following controller operating under contained motion, which was developed in the context of surgical robotics. It reports two types of constrained motion: i) Bilateral Constrained Motion, also called Remote Center Motion (RCM), and ii) Unilaterally Constrained Motion (UCM). In the first case, the incision hole has almost the same diameter as the robotic tool. In contrast, in the second state, the diameter of the incision orifice is larger than the tool diameter. The second case offers more space where the surgical instrument moves freely without constraints before touching the incision wall. The proposed method combines two tasks that must operate hierarchically: i) respect the RCM or UCM constraints formulated by equality or inequality, respectively, and ii) perform a surgical assignment, e.g., scanning or ablation expressed as a 3D path-following task. The proposed methods and materials were tested first on our simulator that mimics realistic conditions of middle ear surgery, and then on an experimental platform. Different validation scenarios were carried out experimentally to assess quantitatively and qualitatively each developed approach. Although ultimate precision was not the goal of this work, our concept is validated with enough accuracy (inferior to 100 micrometres) for ear surgery.

Several self-supervised representation learning methods have been proposed for reinforcement learning (RL) with rich observations. For real-world applications of RL, recovering underlying latent states is crucial, particularly when sensory inputs contain irrelevant and exogenous information. In this work, we study how information bottlenecks can be used to construct latent states efficiently in the presence of task-irrelevant information. We propose architectures that utilize variational and discrete information bottlenecks, coined as RepDIB, to learn structured factorized representations. Exploiting the expressiveness bought by factorized representations, we introduce a simple, yet effective, bottleneck that can be integrated with any existing self-supervised objective for RL. We demonstrate this across several online and offline RL benchmarks, along with a real robot arm task, where we find that compressed representations with RepDIB can lead to strong performance improvements, as the learned bottlenecks help predict only the relevant state while ignoring irrelevant information.

To face the dependency on fossil fuels and limit carbon emissions, fuel cells are a very promising technology and appear to be a key candidate to tackle the increase of the energy demand and promote the energy transition. To meet future needs for both transport and stationary applications, the time to market of fuel cell stacks must be drastically reduced. Here, a new concept to shorten their development time by introducing a disruptive and highefficiency data augmentation approach based on artificial intelligence is presented. Our results allow reducing the testing time before introducing a product on the market from a thousand to a few hours. The innovative concept proposed here can support engineering and research tasks during the fuel cell development process to achieve decreased development costs alongside a reduced time to market.

A learned system uses machine learning (ML) internally to improve performance. We can expect such systems to be vulnerable to some adversarial-ML attacks. Often, the learned component is shared between mutually-distrusting users or processes, much like microarchitectural resources such as caches, potentially giving rise to highly-realistic attacker models. However, compared to attacks on other ML-based systems, attackers face a level of indirection as they cannot interact directly with the learned model. Additionally, the difference between the attack surface of learned and non-learned versions of the same system is often subtle. These factors obfuscate the de-facto risks that the incorporation of ML carries. We analyze the root causes of potentially-increased attack surface in learned systems and develop a framework for identifying vulnerabilities that stem from the use of ML. We apply our framework to a broad set of learned systems under active development. To empirically validate the many vulnerabilities surfaced by our framework, we choose 3 of them and implement and evaluate exploits against prominent learned-system instances. We show that the use of ML caused leakage of past queries in a database, enabled a poisoning attack that causes exponential memory blowup in an index structure and crashes it in seconds, and enabled index users to snoop on each others' key distributions by timing queries over their own keys. We find that adversarial ML is a universal threat against learned systems, point to open research gaps in our understanding of learned-systems security, and conclude by discussing mitigations, while noting that data leakage is inherent in systems whose learned component is shared between multiple parties.