A Hybrid Ensemble Deep Learning Approach for Early Prediction of Battery Remaining Useful Life

Accurate estimation of the remaining useful life (RUL) of lithium-ion batteries is critical for their large-scale deployment as energy storage devices in electric vehicles and stationary storage. A fundamental understanding of the factors affecting RUL is crucial for accelerating battery technology development. However, it is very challenging to predict RUL accurately because of complex degradation mechanisms occurring within the batteries, as well as dynamic operating conditions in practical applications. Moreover, due to insignificant capacity degradation in early stages, early prediction of battery life with early cycle data can be more difficult. In this paper, we propose a hybrid deep learning model for early prediction of battery RUL. The proposed method can effectively combine handcrafted features with domain knowledge and latent features learned by deep networks to boost the performance of RUL early prediction. We also design a non-linear correlation-based method to select effective domain knowledge-based features. Moreover, a novel snapshot ensemble learning strategy is proposed to further enhance model generalization ability without increasing any additional training cost. Our experimental results show that the proposed method not only outperforms other approaches in the primary test set having a similar distribution as the training set, but also generalizes well to the secondary test set having a clearly different distribution with the training set. The PyTorch implementation of our proposed approach is available athttps://github.com/batteryrul/battery_rul_early_prediction.      

MU-GAN: Facial Attribute Editing Based on Multi-Attention Mechanism

Facial attribute editing has mainly two objectives: 1) translating image from a source domain to a target one, and 2) only changing the facial regions related to a target attribute and preserving the attribute-excluding details. In this work, we propose a multi-attention U-Net-based generative adversarial network (MU-GAN). First, we replace a classic convolutional encoder-decoder with a symmetric U-Net-like structure in a generator, and then apply an additive attention mechanism to build attention-based U-Net connections for adaptively transferring encoder representations to complement a decoder with attribute-excluding detail and enhance attribute editing ability. Second, a self-attention (SA) mechanism is incorporated into convolutional layers for modeling long-range and multi-level dependencies across image regions. Experimental results indicate that our method is capable of balancing attribute editing ability and details preservation ability, and can decouple the correlation among attributes. It outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of attribute manipulation accuracy and image quality. Our code is available at https://github.com/SuSir1996/MU-GAN.      

Coarse-to-Fine Video Instance Segmentation With Factorized Conditional Appearance Flows

We introduce a novel method using a new generative model that automatically learns effective representations of the target and background appearance to detect, segment and track each instance in a video sequence. Differently from current discriminative tracking-by-detection solutions, our proposed hierarchical structural embedding learning can predict more high-quality masks with accurate boundary details over spatio-temporal space via the normalizing flows. We formulate the instance inference procedure as a hierarchical spatio-temporal embedded learning across time and space. Given the video clip, our method first coarsely locates pixels belonging to a particular instance with Gaussian distribution and then builds a novel mixing distribution to promote the instance boundary by fusing hierarchical appearance embedding information in a coarse-to-fine manner. For the mixing distribution, we utilize a factorization condition normalized flow fashion to estimate the distribution parameters to improve the segmentation performance. Comprehensive qualitative, quantitative, and ablation experiments are performed on three representative video instance segmentation benchmarks (i.e., YouTube-VIS₁₉, YouTube-VIS₂₁, and OVIS) and the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated. More impressively, the superior performance of our model on an unsupervised video object segmentation dataset (i.e., DAVIS₁₉) proves its generalizability. Our algorithm implementations are publicly available athttps://github.com/zyqin19/HEVis.      

一种面向多源领域的实例迁移学习

在迁移学习最大的特点就是利用相关领域的知识来帮助完成目标领域中的学习任务,它能够有效地在相似的领域或任务之间进行信息的共享和迁移,使传统的从零开始的学习变成可积累的学习,具有成本低、效率高等优点.针对源领域数据和目标领域数据分布类似的情况,提出一种基于多源动态TrAdaBoost的实例迁移学习方法.该方法考虑多个源领域知识,使得目标任务的学习可以充分利用所有源领域信息,每次训练候选分类器时,所有源领域样本都参与学习,可以获得有利于目标任务学习的有用信息,从而避免负迁移的产生.理论分析验证了所提算法较单源迁移的优势,以及加入动态因子改善了源权重收敛导致的权重熵由源样本转移到目标样本的问题.实验结果验证了此算法在提高识别率方面的优势.     

Rapid building detection using machine learning

This work describes algorithms for performing discrete object detection, specifically in the case of buildings, where usually only low quality RGB-only geospatial reflective imagery is available. We utilize new candidate search and feature extraction techniques to reduce the problem to a machine learning (ML) classification task. Here we can harness the complex patterns of contrast features contained in training data to establish a model of buildings. We avoid costly sliding windows to generate candidates; instead we innovatively stitch together well known image processing techniques to produce candidates for building detection that cover 80–85 % of buildings. Reducing the number of possible candidates is important due to the scale of the problem. Each candidate is subjected to classification which, although linear, costs time and prohibits large scale evaluation. We propose a candidate alignment algorithm to boost classification performance to 80–90 % precision with a linear time algorithm and show it has negligible cost. Also, we propose a new concept called a Permutable Haar Mesh (PHM) which we use to form and traverse a search space to recover candidate buildings which were lost in the initial preprocessing phase. All code and datasets from this paper are made available online (http://kdl.cs.umb.edu/w/datasets/ and https://github.com/caitlinkuhlman/ObjectDetectionCLUtility).     

一种异构直推式迁移学习算法

目标领域已有类别标注的数据较少时会影响学习性能,而与之相关的其他源领域中存在一些已标注数据.迁移学习针对这一情况,提出将与目标领域不同但相关的源领域上学习到的知识应用到目标领域.在实际应用中,例如文本-图像、跨语言迁移学习等,源领域和目标领域的特征空间是不相同的,这就是异构迁移学习.关注的重点是利用源领域中已标注的数据来提高目标领域中未标注数据的学习性能,这种情况是异构直推式迁移学习.因为源领域和目标领域的特征空间不同,异构迁移学习的一个关键问题是学习从源领域到目标领域的映射函数.提出采用无监督匹配源领域和目标领域的特征空间的方法来学习映射函数.学到的映射函数可以把源领域中的数据在目标领域中重新表示.这样,重表示之后的已标注源领域数据可以被迁移到目标领域中.因此,可以采用标准的机器学习方法(例如支持向量机方法)来训练分类器,以对目标领域中未标注的数据进行类别预测.给出一个概率解释以说明其对数据中的一些噪声是具有鲁棒性的.同时还推导了一个样本复杂度的边界,也就是寻找映射函数时需要的样本数.在4个实际的数据库上的实验结果,展示了该方法的有效性.     

一种基于局部分类精度的多源在线迁移学习算法

近年来,迁移学习得到越来越多的关注.现有的在线迁移学习算法一般从单个源领域迁移知识,然而,当源领域与目标领域相似度较低时,很难进行有效的迁移学习.基于此,提出了一种基于局部分类精度的多源在线迁移学习方法——LC-MSOTL.LC-MSOTL存储多个源领域分类器,计算新到样本与目标领域已有样本之间的距离以及各源领域分类器对其最近邻样本的分类精度,从源领域分类器中挑选局部精度最高的分类器与目标领域分类器加权组合,从而实现多个源领域知识到目标领域的迁移学习.在人工数据集和实际数据集上的实验结果表明,LC-MSOTL能够有效地从多个源领域实现选择性迁移,相对于单源在线迁移学习算法OTL,显示出了更高的分类准确率.     

Visual Structure Constraint for Transductive Zero-Shot Learning in the Wild

To recognize objects of the unseen classes, most existing Zero-Shot Learning(ZSL) methods first learn a compatible projection function between the common semantic space and the visual space based on the data of source seen classes, then directly apply it to the target unseen classes. However, for data in the wild, distributions between the source and target domain might not match well, thus causing the well-known domain shift problem. Based on the observation that visual features of test instances can be separated into different clusters, we propose a new visual structure constraint on class centers for transductive ZSL, to improve the generality of the projection function (i.e.alleviate the above domain shift problem). Specifically, three different strategies (symmetric Chamfer-distance, Bipartite matching distance, and Wasserstein distance) are adopted to align the projected unseen semantic centers and visual cluster centers of test instances. We also propose two new training strategies to handle the data in the wild, where many unrelated images in the test dataset may exist. This realistic setting has never been considered in previous methods. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed visual structure constraint brings substantial performance gain consistently and the new training strategies make it generalize well for data in the wild. The source code is available at https://github.com/raywzy/VSC.

     

Counterfactual inference to predict causal knowledge graph for relational transfer learning by assimilating expert knowledge --Relational feature transfer learning algorithm

Transfer learning (TL) is a machine learning (ML) method in which knowledge is transferred from the existing models of related problems to the model for solving the problem at hand. Relational TL enables the ML models to transfer the relationship networks from one domain to another. However, it has two critical issues. One is determining the proper way of extracting and expressing relationships among data features in the source domain such that the relationships can be transferred to the target domain. The other is how to do the transfer procedure. Knowledge graphs (KGs) are knowledge bases that use data and logic to graph-structured information; they are helpful tools for dealing with the first issue. The proposed relational feature transfer learning algorithm (RF-TL) embodies an extended structural equation modelling (SEM) as a method for constructing KGs. Additionally, in fields such as medicine, economics, and law related to people’s lives and property safety and security, the knowledge of domain experts is a gold standard. This paper introduces the causal analysis and counterfactual inference in the TL domain that directs the transfer procedure. Different from traditional feature-based TL algorithms like transfer component analysis (TCA) and CORelation Alignment (CORAL), RF-TL not only considers relations between feature items but also utilizes causality knowledge, enabling it to perform well in practical cases. The algorithm was tested on two different healthcare-related datasets — sleep apnea questionnaire study data and COVID-19 case data on ICU admission — and compared its performance with TCA and CORAL. The experimental results show that RF-TL can generate better transferred models that give more accurate predictions with fewer input features.     

Fusion that matters: convolutional fusion networks for visual recognition

In recent years, deep learning has been successfully applied to diverse multimedia research areas, with the aim of learning powerful and informative representations for a variety of visual recognition tasks. In this work, we propose convolutional fusion networks (CFN) to integrate multi-level deep features and fuse a richer visual representation. Despite recent advances in deep fusion networks, they still have limitations due to expensive parameters and weak fusion modules. Instead, CFN uses 1 × 1 convolutional layers and global average pooling to generate side branches with few parameters, and employs a locally-connected fusion module, which can learn adaptive weights for different side branches and form a better fused feature. Specifically, we introduce three key components of the proposed CFN, and discuss its differences from other deep models. Moreover, we propose fully convolutional fusion networks (FCFN) that are an extension of CFN for pixel-level classification applied to several tasks, such as semantic segmentation and edge detection. Our experiments demonstrate that CFN (and FCFN) can achieve promising performance by consistent improvements for both image-level and pixel-level classification tasks, compared to a plain CNN. We release our codes on https://github.com/yuLiu24/CFN. Also, we make a live demo (goliath.liacs.nl) using a CFN model trained on the ImageNet dataset.     

Document segmentation and classification into musical scores and text

A new algorithm for segmenting documents into regions containing musical scores and text is proposed. Such segmentation is a required step prior to applying optical character recognition and optical music recognition on scanned pages that contain both music notation and text. Our segmentation technique is based on the bag-of-visual-words representation followed by random block voting (RBV) in order to detect the bounding boxes containing the musical score and text within a document image. The RBV procedure consists of extracting a fixed number of blocks whose position and size are sampled from a discrete uniform distribution that “over”-covers the input image. Each block is automatically classified as either coming from musical score or text and votes with a particular posterior probability of classification in its spatial domain. An initial coarse segmentation is obtained by summarizing all the votes in a single image. Subsequently, the final segmentation is obtained by subdividing the image in microblocks and classifying them using a N-nearest neighbor classifier which is trained using the coarse segmentation. We demonstrate the potential of the proposed method by experiments on two different datasets. One is on a challenging dataset of images collected and artificially combined and manipulated for this project. The other is a music dataset obtained by the scanning of two music books. The results are reported using precision/recall metrics of the overlapping area with respect to the ground truth. The proposed system achieves an overall averaged F-measure of 85 %. The complete source code package and associated data are available at https://github.com/fpeder/mscr under the FreeBSD license to support reproducibility.     

TL-SVM:一种迁移学习新算法

迁移学习旨在利用大量已标签源域数据解决相关但不相同的目标域问题. 当与某领域相关的新领域出现时, 若重新标注新领域, 则样本代价昂贵, 丢弃所有旧领域数据又十分浪费. 对此, 基于SVM算法提出一种新颖的迁移学习算法—–TL-SVM, 通过使用目标域少量已标签数据和大量相关领域的旧数据来为目标域构建一个高质量的分类模型, 该方法既继承了基于经验风险最小化最大间隔SVM的优点, 又弥补了传统SVM不能进行知识迁移的缺陷. 实验结果验证了该算法的有效性.     

A novel unsupervised Globality-Locality Preserving Projections in transfer learning

In this paper, a novel unsupervised dimensionality reduction algorithm, unsupervised Globality-Locality Preserving Projections in Transfer Learning (UGLPTL) is proposed, based on the conventional Globality-Locality Preserving dimensionality reduction algorithm (GLPP) that does not work well in real-world Transfer Learning (TL) applications. In TL applications, one application (source domain) contains sufficient labeled data, but the related application contains only unlabeled data (target domain). Compared to the existing TL methods, our proposed method incorporates all the objectives, such as minimizing the marginal and conditional distributions between both the domains, maximizing the variance of the target domain, and performing Geometrical Diffusion on Manifolds, all of which are essential for transfer learning applications. UGLPTL seeks a projection vector that projects the source and the target domains data into a common subspace where both the labeled source data and the unlabeled target data can be utilized to perform dimensionality reduction. Comprehensive experiments have verified that the proposed method outperforms many state-of-the-art non-transfer learning and transfer learning methods on two popular real-world cross-domain visual transfer learning data sets. Our proposed UGLPTL approach achieved 82.18% and 87.14% mean accuracies over all the tasks of PIE Face and Office-Caltech data sets, respectively.     

基于多对多生成对抗网络的非对称跨域迁移行人再识别

无监督跨域迁移学习是行人再识别中一个非常重要的任务. 给定一个有标注的源域和一个没有标注的目标域, 无监督跨域迁移的关键点在于尽可能地把源域的知识迁移到目标域. 然而, 目前的跨域迁移方法忽略了域内各视角分布的差异性, 导致迁移效果不好. 针对这个缺陷, 本文提出了一个基于多视角的非对称跨域迁移学习的新问题. 为了实现这种非对称跨域迁移, 提出了一种基于多对多生成对抗网络(Many-to-many generative adversarial network, M2M-GAN)的迁移方法. 该方法嵌入了指定的源域视角标记和目标域视角标记作为引导信息, 并增加了视角分类器用于鉴别不同的视角分布, 从而使模型能自动针对不同的源域视角和目标域视角组合采取不同的迁移方式. 在行人再识别基准数据集Market1501、DukeMTMC-reID和MSMT17上, 实验验证了本文的方法能有效提升迁移效果, 达到更高的无监督跨域行人再识别准确率.     

Pentagons: A weakly relational abstract domain for the efficient validation of array accesses

We introduce Pentagons (), a weakly relational numerical abstract domain useful for the validation of array accesses in byte-code and intermediate languages (IL). This abstract domain captures properties of the form of . It is more precise than the well known Interval domain, but it is less precise than the Octagon domain.The goal of is to be a lightweight numerical domain useful for adaptive static analysis, where is used to quickly prove the safety of most array accesses, restricting the use of more precise (but also more expensive) domains to only a small fraction of the code.We implemented the abstract domain in , a generic abstract interpreter for.NET assemblies. Using it, we were able to validate 83% of array accesses in the core runtime library in a little bit more than 3 minutes.     

迁移学习研究进展

近年来,迁移学习已经引起了广泛的关注和研究.迁移学习是运用已存有的知识对不同但相关领域问题进行求解的一种新的机器学习方法.它放宽了传统机器学习中的两个基本假设:(1)用于学习的训练样本与新的测试样本满足独立同分布的条件;(2)必须有足够可利用的训练样本才能学习得到一个好的分类模型.目的是迁移已有的知识来解决目标领域中仅有少量有标签样本数据甚至没有的学习问题.对迁移学习算法的研究以及相关理论研究的进展进行了综述,并介绍了在该领域所做的研究工作,特别是利用生成模型在概念层面建立迁移学习模型.最后介绍了迁移学习在文本分类、协同过滤等方面的应用工作,并指出了迁移学习下一步可能的研究方向.     

The Train Benchmark: cross-technology performance evaluation of continuous model queries

In model-driven development of safety-critical systems (like automotive, avionics or railways), well-formedness of models is repeatedly validated in order to detect design flaws as early as possible. In many industrial tools, validation rules are still often implemented by a large amount of imperative model traversal code which makes those rule implementations complicated and hard to maintain. Additionally, as models are rapidly increasing in size and complexity, efficient execution of validation rules is challenging for the currently available tools. Checking well-formedness constraints can be captured by declarative queries over graph models, while model update operations can be specified as model transformations. This paper presents a benchmark for systematically assessing the scalability of validating and revalidating well-formedness constraints over large graph models. The benchmark defines well-formedness validation scenarios in the railway domain: a metamodel, an instance model generator and a set of well-formedness constraints captured by queries, fault injection and repair operations (imitating the work of systems engineers by model transformations). The benchmark focuses on the performance of query evaluation, i.e. its execution time and memory consumption, with a particular emphasis on reevaluation. We demonstrate that the benchmark can be adopted to various technologies and query engines, including modeling tools; relational, graph and semantic databases. The Train Benchmark is available as an open-source project with continuous builds from https://github.com/FTSRG/trainbenchmark.     

适用于不确定类标签数据学习的迁移支持向量机

为了解决包含不确定信息的分类学习问题,提出一种新的适用于不确定类标签数据的迁移支持向量机。该方法基于结构风险最小化模型,同时将源领域中所学知识、领域间的共享数据、目标领域中已标定的和不确定的数据纳入学习框架中,进而实现了源领域和目标领域的知识迁移。在多种真实数据集上的实验结果表明了所提出方法的有效性。     

基于变权重迁移学习的BN参数学习算法

针对小数据集条件下的贝叶斯网络(Bayesian network,BN)参数估计困难问题,提出了一种基于变权重迁移学习(DWTL)的BN参数学习算法。首先,利用MAP和MLE方法学习得到目标域初始参数和各源域参数;然后根据不同源域数据样本贡献的不同计算源权重因子;接着基于目标域样本统计量与小数据集样本阈值的关系设计了目标域初始参数和源域参数的平衡系数;最后,基于上述参数、源权重因子和平衡系数计算得到新的目标参数。在实验研究中,通过对经典BN模型的参数学习问题验证了DWTL算法的有效性;针对小数据集下的轴承故障诊断问题,相较于传统迁移学习(LP)算法,DWTL算法学习精度提高了10%。实验结果表明:所提出的算法能够较好地解决样本数据集在相对稀缺条件下的目标参数建模问题。     

基于动态策略的多源迁移学习数据流分类研究

为解决数据流分类中的概念漂移和噪声问题,提出一种基于样本确定性的多源迁移学习方法。该方法存储多源领域上由训练得到的分类器,求出各源领域分类器对目标领域数据块中每个样本的类别后验概率和样本确定性值。在此基础上,将样本确定性值满足当前阈值限制的源领域分类器与目标领域分类器进行在线集成,从而将多个源领域的知识迁移到目标领域。实验结果表明,该方法能够有效消除噪声数据流给不确定分类器带来的不利影响,与基于准确率选择集成的多源迁移学习方法相比,具有更高的分类准确率和抗噪稳定性。