Different people speak with diverse personalized speaking styles. Although existing one-shot talking head methods have made significant progress in lip sync, natural facial expressions, and stable head motions, they still cannot generate diverse speaking styles in the final talking head videos. To tackle this problem, we propose a one-shot style-controllable talking face generation framework. In a nutshell, we aim to attain a speaking style from an arbitrary reference speaking video and then drive the one-shot portrait to speak with the reference speaking style and another piece of audio. Specifically, we first develop a style encoder to extract dynamic facial motion patterns of a style reference video and then encode them into a style code. Afterward, we introduce a style-controllable decoder to synthesize stylized facial animations from the speech content and style code. In order to integrate the reference speaking style into generated videos, we design a style-aware adaptive transformer, which enables the encoded style code to adjust the weights of the feed-forward layers accordingly. Thanks to the style-aware adaptation mechanism, the reference speaking style can be better embedded into synthesized videos during decoding. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method is capable of generating talking head videos with diverse speaking styles from only one portrait image and an audio clip while achieving authentic visual effects. Project Page: https://github.com/FuxiVirtualHuman/styletalk.

后门深度学习（DL）模型的行为通常在清洁输入上，但在触发器输入时不端行为，因为后门攻击者希望为DL模型部署构成严重后果。最先进的防御是限于特定的后门攻击（源无关攻击）或在该机器学习（ML）专业知识或昂贵的计算资源中不适用于源友好的攻击。这项工作观察到所有现有的后门攻击都具有不可避免的内在弱点，不可转换性，即触发器输入劫持劫持模型，但不能对另一个尚未植入同一后门的模型有效。通过此密钥观察，我们提出了不可转换性的反向检测（NTD）来识别运行时在运行时的模型欠测试（MUT）的触发输入。特定，NTD允许潜在的回溯静电预测输入的类别。同时，NTD利用特征提取器（FE）来提取输入的特征向量，并且从其预测类随机拾取的一组样本，然后比较FE潜在空间中的输入和样本之间的相似性。如果相似性低，则输入是对逆势触发输入;否则，良性。 FE是一个免费的预训练模型，私下从开放平台保留。随着FE和MUT来自不同来源，攻击者非常不可能将相同的后门插入其中两者。由于不可转换性，不能将突变处工作的触发效果转移到FE，使NTD对不同类型的后门攻击有效。我们在三个流行的定制任务中评估NTD，如面部识别，交通标志识别和一般动物分类，结果确认NDT具有高效率（低假验收率）和具有低检测延迟的可用性（低误报率）。

尽管深度神经网络模型在各种应用程序中表现出出色的性能，但它们的较大模型大小和广泛的浮点操作使移动计算平台上的部署成为主要挑战，尤其是在物联网设备上。一种吸引人的解决方案是模型量化，可降低模型大小并使用微控制器通常支持的整数操作。为此，1位量化的DNN模型或深二进制神经网络可最大化存储效率，其中BNN模型中的每个参数仅具有1位。在本文中，我们提出了一个可重构的BNN（RBNN），以进一步扩大资源约束的物联网设备的内存效率。通常，可以根据需要重新配置RBNN，以实现具有相同参数集的M（m> 1）不同的任务，因此只有一个任务决定了内存要求。换句话说，通过时间M改善了内存利用率。我们的广泛实验证实了多达七个常用的任务可以共存（M的值更大）。这些具有不同类别的任务在三个二氧化流行的DNN体系结构（包括VGG，Resnet和ReactNet）上没有准确性或微不足道的准确性下降。这些任务跨越了不同域，例如本文验证的计算机视觉和音频域，并以模型体系结构可以服务于这些跨域任务的先决条件。为了保护RBNN模型的知识属性，可以通过用户密钥和由固有硬件指纹生成的设备唯一的根键来控制重新配置。通过这样做，RBNN模型只能使用每个授权设备的每个付费用户使用，从而使用户和模型提供商受益。

Through a study of multi-gas mixture datasets, we show that in multi-component spectral analysis, the number of functional or non-functional principal components required to retain the essential information is the same as the number of independent constituents in the mixture set. Due to the mutual in-dependency among different gas molecules, near one-to-one projection from the principal component to the mixture constituent can be established, leading to a significant simplification of spectral quantification. Further, with the knowledge of the molar extinction coefficients of each constituent, a complete principal component set can be extracted from the coefficients directly, and few to none training samples are required for the learning model. Compared to other approaches, the proposed methods provide fast and accurate spectral quantification solutions with a small memory size needed.

Body Mass Index (BMI), age, height and weight are important indicators of human health conditions, which can provide useful information for plenty of practical purposes, such as health care, monitoring and re-identification. Most existing methods of health indicator prediction mainly use front-view body or face images. These inputs are hard to be obtained in daily life and often lead to the lack of robustness for the models, considering their strict requirements on view and pose. In this paper, we propose to employ gait videos to predict health indicators, which are more prevalent in surveillance and home monitoring scenarios. However, the study of health indicator prediction from gait videos using deep learning was hindered due to the small amount of open-sourced data. To address this issue, we analyse the similarity and relationship between pose estimation and health indicator prediction tasks, and then propose a paradigm enabling deep learning for small health indicator datasets by pre-training on the pose estimation task. Furthermore, to better suit the health indicator prediction task, we bring forward Global-Local Aware aNd Centrosymmetric Encoder (GLANCE) module. It first extracts local and global features by progressive convolutions and then fuses multi-level features by a centrosymmetric double-path hourglass structure in two different ways. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed paradigm achieves state-of-the-art results for predicting health indicators on MoVi, and that the GLANCE module is also beneficial for pose estimation on 3DPW.

Text classification, a core component of task-oriented dialogue systems, attracts continuous research from both the research and industry community, and has resulted in tremendous progress. However, existing method does not consider the use of label information, which may weaken the performance of text classification systems in some token-aware scenarios. To address the problem, in this paper, we introduce the use of label information as label embedding for the task of text classification and achieve remarkable performance on benchmark dataset.

Recent research has reported a performance degradation in self-supervised contrastive learning for specially designed efficient networks, such as MobileNet and EfficientNet. A common practice to address this problem is to introduce a pretrained contrastive teacher model and train the lightweight networks with distillation signals generated by the teacher. However, it is time and resource consuming to pretrain a teacher model when it is not available. In this work, we aim to establish a stronger baseline for lightweight contrastive models without using a pretrained teacher model. Specifically, we show that the optimal recipe for efficient models is different from that of larger models, and using the same training settings as ResNet50, as previous research does, is inappropriate. Additionally, we observe a common issu e in contrastive learning where either the positive or negative views can be noisy, and propose a smoothed version of InfoNCE loss to alleviate this problem. As a result, we successfully improve the linear evaluation results from 36.3\% to 62.3\% for MobileNet-V3-Large and from 42.2\% to 65.8\% for EfficientNet-B0 on ImageNet, closing the accuracy gap to ResNet50 with $5\times$ fewer parameters. We hope our research will facilitate the usage of lightweight contrastive models.

Estimating the probability of failure for complex real-world systems using high-fidelity computational models is often prohibitively expensive, especially when the probability is small. Exploiting low-fidelity models can make this process more feasible, but merging information from multiple low-fidelity and high-fidelity models poses several challenges. This paper presents a robust multi-fidelity surrogate modeling strategy in which the multi-fidelity surrogate is assembled using an active learning strategy using an on-the-fly model adequacy assessment set within a subset simulation framework for efficient reliability analysis. The multi-fidelity surrogate is assembled by first applying a Gaussian process correction to each low-fidelity model and assigning a model probability based on the model's local predictive accuracy and cost. Three strategies are proposed to fuse these individual surrogates into an overall surrogate model based on model averaging and deterministic/stochastic model selection. The strategies also dictate which model evaluations are necessary. No assumptions are made about the relationships between low-fidelity models, while the high-fidelity model is assumed to be the most accurate and most computationally expensive model. Through two analytical and two numerical case studies, including a case study evaluating the failure probability of Tristructural isotropic-coated (TRISO) nuclear fuels, the algorithm is shown to be highly accurate while drastically reducing the number of high-fidelity model calls (and hence computational cost).

In natural language processing (NLP), the context of a word or sentence plays an essential role. Contextual information such as the semantic representation of a passage or historical dialogue forms an essential part of a conversation and a precise understanding of the present phrase or sentence. However, the standard attention mechanisms typically generate weights using query and key but ignore context, forming a Bi-Attention framework, despite their great success in modeling sequence alignment. This Bi-Attention mechanism does not explicitly model the interactions between the contexts, queries and keys of target sequences, missing important contextual information and resulting in poor attention performance. Accordingly, a novel and general triple-attention (Tri-Attention) framework expands the standard Bi-Attention mechanism and explicitly interacts query, key, and context by incorporating context as the third dimension in calculating relevance scores. Four variants of Tri-Attention are generated by expanding the two-dimensional vector-based additive, dot-product, scaled dot-product, and bilinear operations in Bi-Attention to the tensor operations for Tri-Attention. Extensive experiments on three NLP tasks demonstrate that Tri-Attention outperforms about 30 state-of-the-art non-attention, standard Bi-Attention, contextual Bi-Attention approaches and pretrained neural language models1.

Time series motif discovery has been a fundamental task to identify meaningful repeated patterns in time series. Recently, time series chains were introduced as an expansion of time series motifs to identify the continuous evolving patterns in time series data. Informally, a time series chain (TSC) is a temporally ordered set of time series subsequences, in which every subsequence is similar to the one that precedes it, but the last and the first can be arbitrarily dissimilar. TSCs are shown to be able to reveal latent continuous evolving trends in the time series, and identify precursors of unusual events in complex systems. Despite its promising interpretability, unfortunately, we have observed that existing TSC definitions lack the ability to accurately cover the evolving part of a time series: the discovered chains can be easily cut by noise and can include non-evolving patterns, making them impractical in real-world applications. Inspired by a recent work that tracks how the nearest neighbor of a time series subsequence changes over time, we introduce a new TSC definition which is much more robust to noise in the data, in the sense that they can better locate the evolving patterns while excluding the non-evolving ones. We further propose two new quality metrics to rank the discovered chains. With extensive empirical evaluations, we demonstrate that the proposed TSC definition is significantly more robust to noise than the state of the art, and the top ranked chains discovered can reveal meaningful regularities in a variety of real world datasets.