Multi-view data containing complementary and consensus information can facilitate representation learning by exploiting the intact integration of multi-view features. Because most objects in real world often have underlying connections, organizing multi-view data as heterogeneous graphs is beneficial to extracting latent information among different objects. Due to the powerful capability to gather information of neighborhood nodes, in this paper, we apply Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) to cope with heterogeneous-graph data originating from multi-view data, which is still under-explored in the field of GCN. In order to improve the quality of network topology and alleviate the interference of noises yielded by graph fusion, some methods undertake sorting operations before the graph convolution procedure. These GCN-based methods generally sort and select the most confident neighborhood nodes for each vertex, such as picking the top-k nodes according to pre-defined confidence values. Nonetheless, this is problematic due to the non-differentiable sorting operators and inflexible graph embedding learning, which may result in blocked gradient computations and undesired performance. To cope with these issues, we propose a joint framework dubbed Multi-view Graph Convolutional Network with Differentiable Node Selection (MGCN-DNS), which is constituted of an adaptive graph fusion layer, a graph learning module and a differentiable node selection schema. MGCN-DNS accepts multi-channel graph-structural data as inputs and aims to learn more robust graph fusion through a differentiable neural network. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by rigorous comparisons with considerable state-of-the-art approaches in terms of multi-view semi-supervised classification tasks.

Federated Learning (FL) is pervasive in privacy-focused IoT environments since it enables avoiding privacy leakage by training models with gradients instead of data. Recent works show the uploaded gradients can be employed to reconstruct data, i.e., gradient leakage attacks, and several defenses are designed to alleviate the risk by tweaking the gradients. However, these defenses exhibit weak resilience against threatening attacks, as the effectiveness builds upon the unrealistic assumptions that deep neural networks are simplified as linear models. In this paper, without such unrealistic assumptions, we present a novel defense, called Refiner, instead of perturbing gradients, which refines ground-truth data to craft robust data that yields sufficient utility but with the least amount of privacy information, and then the gradients of robust data are uploaded. To craft robust data, Refiner promotes the gradients of critical parameters associated with robust data to close ground-truth ones while leaving the gradients of trivial parameters to safeguard privacy. Moreover, to exploit the gradients of trivial parameters, Refiner utilizes a well-designed evaluation network to steer robust data far away from ground-truth data, thereby alleviating privacy leakage risk. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate the superior defense effectiveness of Refiner at defending against state-of-the-art threats.

在不同模型中，对抗性示例（AES）的可传递性对于黑盒对抗攻击至关重要，在黑框对抗攻击中，攻击者无法访问有关黑盒模型的信息。但是，制作的AE总是表现出差的可转移性。在本文中，通过将AES作为模型的概括能力的可传递性，我们揭示了Vanilla Black-Box攻击通过解决最大似然估计（MLE）问题来制作AES。对于MLE，结果可能是特定于模型的本地最佳最佳，当可用数据较小时，即限制了AE的可传递性。相比之下，我们将可转移的AES重新构建为最大化后验概率估计问题，这是一种有效的方法，可以提高结果有限的结果的概括。由于贝叶斯后推断通常很棘手，因此开发了一种简单而有效的方法称为MaskBlock以近似估计。此外，我们表明该配方框架是各种攻击方法的概括版本。广泛的实验说明了面具可以显着提高制作的对抗性例子的可转移性，最多可以提高20％。

神经网络的不透明度导致其脆弱性发生后门攻击，其中触发了感染神经元的隐藏注意力，以覆盖对攻击者选择的神经元的正常预测。在本文中，我们提出了一种新型的后门防御方法，以标记和净化后门神经网络中受感染的神经元。具体来说，我们首先定义了一个名为良性显着性的新指标。通过将一阶梯度组合以保持神经元之间的连接，良性显着性可以鉴定出比后门防御中常用度量的高精度的感染神经元。然后，提出了一种新的自适应正则化（AR）机制，以通过微调来帮助净化这些被鉴定的感染神经元。由于能够适应不同参数幅度的能力，与神经元纯化中的共同正则化机制相比，AR可以提供更快，更稳定的收敛性。广泛的实验结果表明，我们的方法可以消除具有可忽略的性能降解的神经网络中的后门。

这项工作为聚类提供了无监督的深入判别分析。该方法基于深层神经网络，旨在最大程度地减少群集内差异，并以无监督的方式最大化集群间差异。该方法能够将数据投射到具有紧凑和不同分布模式的非线性低维潜在空间中，以便可以有效地识别数据簇。我们进一步提供了该方法的扩展，以便可以有效利用可用的图形信息来提高聚类性能。带有或没有图形信息的图像和非图像数据的广泛数值结果证明了所提出的方法的有效性。

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains challenging due to the diversity of distortion and image content variation, which complicate the distortion patterns crossing different scales and aggravate the difficulty of the regression problem for BIQA. However, existing BIQA methods often fail to consider multi-scale distortion patterns and image content, and little research has been done on learning strategies to make the regression model produce better performance. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective Progressive Multi-Task Image Quality Assessment (PMT-IQA) model, which contains a multi-scale feature extraction module (MS) and a progressive multi-task learning module (PMT), to help the model learn complex distortion patterns and better optimize the regression issue to align with the law of human learning process from easy to hard. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed PMT-IQA model, we conduct experiments on four widely used public datasets, and the experimental results indicate that the performance of PMT-IQA is superior to the comparison approaches, and both MS and PMT modules improve the model's performance.

It has been observed in practice that applying pruning-at-initialization methods to neural networks and training the sparsified networks can not only retain the testing performance of the original dense models, but also sometimes even slightly boost the generalization performance. Theoretical understanding for such experimental observations are yet to be developed. This work makes the first attempt to study how different pruning fractions affect the model's gradient descent dynamics and generalization. Specifically, this work considers a classification task for overparameterized two-layer neural networks, where the network is randomly pruned according to different rates at the initialization. It is shown that as long as the pruning fraction is below a certain threshold, gradient descent can drive the training loss toward zero and the network exhibits good generalization performance. More surprisingly, the generalization bound gets better as the pruning fraction gets larger. To complement this positive result, this work further shows a negative result: there exists a large pruning fraction such that while gradient descent is still able to drive the training loss toward zero (by memorizing noise), the generalization performance is no better than random guessing. This further suggests that pruning can change the feature learning process, which leads to the performance drop of the pruned neural network. Up to our knowledge, this is the \textbf{first} generalization result for pruned neural networks, suggesting that pruning can improve the neural network's generalization.

Time-series anomaly detection is an important task and has been widely applied in the industry. Since manual data annotation is expensive and inefficient, most applications adopt unsupervised anomaly detection methods, but the results are usually sub-optimal and unsatisfactory to end customers. Weak supervision is a promising paradigm for obtaining considerable labels in a low-cost way, which enables the customers to label data by writing heuristic rules rather than annotating each instance individually. However, in the time-series domain, it is hard for people to write reasonable labeling functions as the time-series data is numerically continuous and difficult to be understood. In this paper, we propose a Label-Efficient Interactive Time-Series Anomaly Detection (LEIAD) system, which enables a user to improve the results of unsupervised anomaly detection by performing only a small amount of interactions with the system. To achieve this goal, the system integrates weak supervision and active learning collaboratively while generating labeling functions automatically using only a few labeled data. All of these techniques are complementary and can promote each other in a reinforced manner. We conduct experiments on three time-series anomaly detection datasets, demonstrating that the proposed system is superior to existing solutions in both weak supervision and active learning areas. Also, the system has been tested in a real scenario in industry to show its practicality.

As an important variant of entity alignment (EA), multi-modal entity alignment (MMEA) aims to discover identical entities across different knowledge graphs (KGs) with multiple modalities like images. However, current MMEA algorithms all adopt KG-level modality fusion strategies but ignore modality differences among individual entities, hurting the robustness to potential noise involved in modalities (e.g., unidentifiable images and relations). In this paper we present MEAformer, a multi-modal entity alignment transformer approach for meta modality hybrid, to dynamically predict the mutual correlation coefficients among modalities for instance-level feature fusion. A modal-aware hard entity replay strategy is also proposed for addressing vague entity details. Extensive experimental results show that our model not only achieves SOTA performance on multiple training scenarios including supervised, unsupervised, iterative, and low resource, but also has limited parameters, optimistic speed, and good interpretability. Our code will be available soon.

The task of video prediction and generation is known to be notoriously difficult, with the research in this area largely limited to short-term predictions. Though plagued with noise and stochasticity, videos consist of features that are organised in a spatiotemporal hierarchy, different features possessing different temporal dynamics. In this paper, we introduce Dynamic Latent Hierarchy (DLH) -- a deep hierarchical latent model that represents videos as a hierarchy of latent states that evolve over separate and fluid timescales. Each latent state is a mixture distribution with two components, representing the immediate past and the predicted future, causing the model to learn transitions only between sufficiently dissimilar states, while clustering temporally persistent states closer together. Using this unique property, DLH naturally discovers the spatiotemporal structure of a dataset and learns disentangled representations across its hierarchy. We hypothesise that this simplifies the task of modeling temporal dynamics of a video, improves the learning of long-term dependencies, and reduces error accumulation. As evidence, we demonstrate that DLH outperforms state-of-the-art benchmarks in video prediction, is able to better represent stochasticity, as well as to dynamically adjust its hierarchical and temporal structure. Our paper shows, among other things, how progress in representation learning can translate into progress in prediction tasks.