The cooperation of a human pilot with an autonomous agent during flight control realizes parallel autonomy. A parallel-autonomous system acts as a guardian that significantly enhances the robustness and safety of flight operations in challenging circumstances. Here, we propose an air-guardian concept that facilitates cooperation between an artificial pilot agent and a parallel end-to-end neural control system. Our vision-based air-guardian system combines a causal continuous-depth neural network model with a cooperation layer to enable parallel autonomy between a pilot agent and a control system based on perceived differences in their attention profile. The attention profiles are obtained by computing the networks' saliency maps (feature importance) through the VisualBackProp algorithm. The guardian agent is trained via reinforcement learning in a fixed-wing aircraft simulated environment. When the attention profile of the pilot and guardian agents align, the pilot makes control decisions. If the attention map of the pilot and the guardian do not align, the air-guardian makes interventions and takes over the control of the aircraft. We show that our attention-based air-guardian system can balance the trade-off between its level of involvement in the flight and the pilot's expertise and attention. We demonstrate the effectivness of our methods in simulated flight scenarios with a fixed-wing aircraft and on a real drone platform.

线性状态空间模型（SSM）的状态过渡矩阵的适当参数化，然后是标准非线性，使他们能够从顺序数据中有效地学习表示形式，从。在本文中，我们表明，当线性液体时恒定（LTC）状态空间模型给出诸如S4之类的结构SSM时，我们可以进一步改善。 LTC神经网络是带有输入依赖性状态过渡模块的因果连续神经网络，这使他们学会在推理时适应传入的输入。我们表明，通过使用对角和S4中引入的状态过渡矩阵的对角线加低级分解以及一些简化的基于LTC的结构状态空间模型（称为Liquid-S4）实现了新的最新最先进的最先进跨序列建模任务具有长期依赖性（例如图像，文本，音频和医疗时间序列）的艺术概括，在远程竞技场基准中的平均性能为87.32％。在完整的原始语音命令识别中，数据集Liquid-S4的精度达到96.78％，与S4相比，参数计数降低了30％。性能的额外增益是液体-S4的核结构的直接结果，该结构考虑了训练和推理过程中输入序列样本的相似性。

本文介绍了可怜的高阶控制屏障功能（CBF），即结束于最终的可训练以及学习系统。CBFS通常是过于保守的，同时保证安全。在这里，我们通过使用环境依赖性软化它们的定义来解决它们的保守性，而不会损失安全保证，并将其嵌入到可分辨率的二次方案中。这些新颖的安全层称为巴里斯网，可以与任何基于神经网络的控制器结合使用，并且可以通过梯度下降训练。Barriernet允许神经控制器的安全约束适应改变环境。我们在一系列控制问题上进行评估，例如2D和3D空间中的交通合并和机器人导航，并与最先进的方法相比，证明其有效性。

我们介绍了一种新的随机验证算法，该算法正式地定量了配制成连续深度模型的任何连续过程的行为稳健性。我们的算法在给定的时间范围内解决了一组全局优化（GO）问题，以构造从初始状态的球开始的所有处理执行集的紧密机箱（管）。我们称我们的算法GoTube。通过其结构，GoTube确保边界管保守达到所需的概率和最高的紧密性。 GoTube以JAX实现，并优化以扩展到复杂的连续深度神经网络模型。与用于时间持续神经网络的高级可达性分析工具相比，GoTube不会在时间步骤之间积累过度估计误差，并避免符号技术中固有的臭名昭着包装效果。我们展示了GOTUBE在初始球，速度，时间 - 地平线，任务完成和大量实验中的可扩展性方面表现出最先进的验证工具。 GOTUBE是稳定的，并在其能够扩展到以前可能的视野的能力方面来设置最先进的。

连续深度学习架构能够学习用于预测建模的灵活概率模型作为神经常规差分方程（ODES），以及作为连续标准化流动的生成建模。在这项工作中，我们通过修剪网络架构来设计一个框架来破译这些连续深度模型的内部动态。我们的经验结果表明，修剪改善了生成建模中神经杂物的概括。我们经验表明，改进是因为修剪有助于避免模式塌陷并压平损耗表面。此外，修剪发现高效的神经颂歌表示，与原始网络相比，参数减少了98％，而不会损失准确性。我们希望我们的结果将使进一步研究现代持续深度模型的性能尺寸折衷。

The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

With the progress of sensor technology in wearables, the collection and analysis of PPG signals are gaining more interest. Using Machine Learning, the cardiac rhythm corresponding to PPG signals can be used to predict different tasks such as activity recognition, sleep stage detection, or more general health status. However, supervised learning is often limited by the amount of available labeled data, which is typically expensive to obtain. To address this problem, we propose a Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) method with a pretext task of signal reconstruction to learn an informative generalized PPG representation. The performance of the proposed SSL framework is compared with two fully supervised baselines. The results show that in a very limited label data setting (10 samples per class or less), using SSL is beneficial, and a simple classifier trained on SSL-learned representations outperforms fully supervised deep neural networks. However, the results reveal that the SSL-learned representations are too focused on encoding the subjects. Unfortunately, there is high inter-subject variability in the SSL-learned representations, which makes working with this data more challenging when labeled data is scarce. The high inter-subject variability suggests that there is still room for improvements in learning representations. In general, the results suggest that SSL may pave the way for the broader use of machine learning models on PPG data in label-scarce regimes.

The field of cybersecurity is evolving fast. Experts need to be informed about past, current and - in the best case - upcoming threats, because attacks are becoming more advanced, targets bigger and systems more complex. As this cannot be addressed manually, cybersecurity experts need to rely on machine learning techniques. In the texutual domain, pre-trained language models like BERT have shown to be helpful, by providing a good baseline for further fine-tuning. However, due to the domain-knowledge and many technical terms in cybersecurity general language models might miss the gist of textual information, hence doing more harm than good. For this reason, we create a high-quality dataset and present a language model specifically tailored to the cybersecurity domain, which can serve as a basic building block for cybersecurity systems that deal with natural language. The model is compared with other models based on 15 different domain-dependent extrinsic and intrinsic tasks as well as general tasks from the SuperGLUE benchmark. On the one hand, the results of the intrinsic tasks show that our model improves the internal representation space of words compared to the other models. On the other hand, the extrinsic, domain-dependent tasks, consisting of sequence tagging and classification, show that the model is best in specific application scenarios, in contrast to the others. Furthermore, we show that our approach against catastrophic forgetting works, as the model is able to retrieve the previously trained domain-independent knowledge. The used dataset and trained model are made publicly available

Bayesian optimization (BO) is increasingly employed in critical applications such as materials design and drug discovery. An increasingly popular strategy in BO is to forgo the sole reliance on high-fidelity data and instead use an ensemble of information sources which provide inexpensive low-fidelity data. The overall premise of this strategy is to reduce the overall sampling costs by querying inexpensive low-fidelity sources whose data are correlated with high-fidelity samples. Here, we propose a multi-fidelity cost-aware BO framework that dramatically outperforms the state-of-the-art technologies in terms of efficiency, consistency, and robustness. We demonstrate the advantages of our framework on analytic and engineering problems and argue that these benefits stem from our two main contributions: (1) we develop a novel acquisition function for multi-fidelity cost-aware BO that safeguards the convergence against the biases of low-fidelity data, and (2) we tailor a newly developed emulator for multi-fidelity BO which enables us to not only simultaneously learn from an ensemble of multi-fidelity datasets, but also identify the severely biased low-fidelity sources that should be excluded from BO.

The ongoing transition from a linear (produce-use-dispose) to a circular economy poses significant challenges to current state-of-the-art information and communication technologies. In particular, the derivation of integrated, high-level views on material, process, and product streams from (real-time) data produced along value chains is challenging for several reasons. Most importantly, sufficiently rich data is often available yet not shared across company borders because of privacy concerns which make it impossible to build integrated process models that capture the interrelations between input materials, process parameters, and key performance indicators along value chains. In the current contribution, we propose a privacy-preserving, federated multivariate statistical process control (FedMSPC) framework based on Federated Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Secure Multiparty Computation to foster the incentive for closer collaboration of stakeholders along value chains. We tested our approach on two industrial benchmark data sets - SECOM and ST-AWFD. Our empirical results demonstrate the superior fault detection capability of the proposed approach compared to standard, single-party (multiway) PCA. Furthermore, we showcase the possibility of our framework to provide privacy-preserving fault diagnosis to each data holder in the value chain to underpin the benefits of secure data sharing and federated process modeling.