Visual localization, i.e., camera pose estimation in a known scene, is a core component of technologies such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. State-of-the-art localization approaches often rely on image retrieval techniques for one of two tasks: (1) provide an approximate pose estimate or (2) determine which parts of the scene are potentially visible in a given query image… It is common practice to use state-of-the-art image retrieval algorithms for these tasks. These algorithms are often trained for the goal […]

Cross-document event coreference resolution (CDCR) is an NLP task in which mentions of events need to be identified and clustered throughout a collection of documents. CDCR aims to benefit downstream multi-document applications, but despite recent progress on corpora and model development, downstream improvements from applying CDCR have not been shown yet… The reason lies in the fact that every CDCR system released to date was developed, trained, and tested only on a single respective corpus. This raises strong concerns on […]

Extracting robust and general 3D local features is key to downstream tasks such as point cloud registration and reconstruction. Existing learning-based local descriptors are either sensitive to rotation transformations, or rely on classical handcrafted features which are neither general nor representative… In this paper, we introduce a new, yet conceptually simple, neural architecture, termed SpinNet, to extract local features which are rotationally invariant whilst sufficiently informative to enable accurate registration. A Spatial Point Transformer is first introduced to map the […]

Legged robots are popular candidates for missions in challenging terrains due to the wide variety of locomotion strategies they can employ. Terrain classification is a key enabling technology for autonomous legged robots, as it allows the robot to harness their innate flexibility to adapt their behaviour to the demands of their operating environment… In this paper, we show how highly capable machine learning techniques, namely gated recurrent neural networks, allow our target legged robot to correctly classify the terrain it […]

We report on a sub-percent scale determination using the omega baryon mass and gradient-flow methods. The calculations are performed on 22 ensembles of $N_f=2+1+1$ highly improved, rooted staggered sea-quark configurations generated by the MILC and CalLat Collaborations… The valence quark action used is M”obius Domain-Wall fermions solved on these configurations after a gradient-flow smearing is applied with a flowtime of $t_{rm gf}=1$ in lattice units. The ensembles span four lattice spacings in the range $0.06 lesssim a lesssim 0.15$~fm, six […]

Lipophilicity is one of the factors determining the permeability of the cell membrane to a drug molecule. Hence, accurate lipophilicity prediction is an essential step in the development of new drugs… In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to encoding additional graph information by extracting molecular substructures. By adding a set of generalized atomic features of these substructures to an established Direct Message Passing Neural Network (D-MPNN) we were able to achieve a new state-of-the-art result at the task […]

Mirage mediation realized in the KKLT flux compactification can naturally suppress the up-type Higgs soft mass at low energy scales, and consequently it can reduce the degree of electroweak fine-tuning up to a loop factor. Interestingly, this feature holds even in high-scale supersymmetry as long as the gauge coupling unification is achieved for light Higgsinos below TeV… Under the experimental constraints on the observed Higgs boson, it turns out that mirage mediation can exhibit low electroweak fine-tuning better than a […]

Multi-task benchmarks such as GLUE and SuperGLUE have driven great progress of pretraining and transfer learning in Natural Language Processing (NLP). These benchmarks mostly focus on a range of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks, without considering the Natural Language Generation (NLG) models… In this paper, we present the General Language Generation Evaluation (GLGE), a new multi-task benchmark for evaluating the generalization capabilities of NLG models across eight language generation tasks. For each task, we continue to design three subtasks in […]

State estimation plays a key role in the transition from the passive to the active operation of distribution systems, as it allows to monitor these networks and, successively, to perform control actions. However, designing state estimators for distribution systems carries a significant amount of challenges… This is due to the physical complexity of the networks, e.g., phase unbalance, and limited measurements. Furthermore, the features of the distribution system present significant local variations, e.g., voltage level and number and type of […]

Re-identification (re-ID) is currently investigated as a closed-world image retrieval task, and evaluated by retrieval based metrics. The algorithms return ranking lists to users, but cannot tell which images are the true target… In essence, current re-ID overemphasizes the importance of retrieval but underemphasizes that of verification, textit{i.e.}, all returned images are considered as the target. On the other hand, re-ID should also include the scenario that the query identity does not appear in the gallery. To this end, we […]