Industrial defect detection is commonly addressed with anomaly detection (AD) methods where no or only incomplete data of potentially occurring defects is available. This work discovers previously unknown problems of student-teacher approaches for AD and proposes a solution, where two neural networks are trained to produce the same output for the defect-free training examples. The core assumption of student-teacher networks is that the distance between the outputs of both networks is larger for anomalies since they are absent in training. However, previous methods suffer from the similarity of student and teacher architecture, such that the distance is undesirably small for anomalies. For this reason, we propose asymmetric student-teacher networks (AST). We train a normalizing flow for density estimation as a teacher and a conventional feed-forward network as a student to trigger large distances for anomalies: The bijectivity of the normalizing flow enforces a divergence of teacher outputs for anomalies compared to normal data. Outside the training distribution the student cannot imitate this divergence due to its fundamentally different architecture. Our AST network compensates for wrongly estimated likelihoods by a normalizing flow, which was alternatively used for anomaly detection in previous work. We show that our method produces state-of-the-art results on the two currently most relevant defect detection datasets MVTec AD and MVTec 3D-AD regarding image-level anomaly detection on RGB and 3D data.

Luke Swanson, Field Day Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison David Gagnon, Field Day Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jennifer Scianna, Field Day Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison John McCloskey, Field Day Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison Nicholas Spevacek, Field Day Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison Stefan Slater, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania Erik Harpstead, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Abstract: The ability for an educational game designer to understand their audience's play styles and resulting experience is an essential tool for improving their game's design. As a game is subjected to large-scale player testing, the designers require inexpensive, automated methods for categorizing patterns of player-game interactions. In this paper we present a simple, reusable process using best practices for data clustering, feasible for use within a small educational game studio. We utilize the method to analyze a real-time strategy game, processing game telemetry data to determine categories of players based on their in-game actions, the feedback they received, and their progress through the game. Introduction Playtesting is a well-adopted method for iteratively testing and improving educational games. As a game moves through development phases, members of the target audience are given versions of the game to play, and in exchange generate feedback. This feedback can then be used to validate the design decisions made during the game's development, and to direct the next iterations of work.

We propose a non-iterative method to optimize pseudo-labeling thresholds for learning object detection from a collection of low-cost datasets, each of which is annotated for only a subset of all the object classes. A popular approach to this problem is first to train teacher models and then to use their confident predictions as pseudo ground-truth labels when training a student model. To obtain the best result, however, thresholds for prediction confidence must be adjusted. This process typically involves iterative search and repeated training of student models and is time-consuming. Therefore, we develop a method to optimize the thresholds without iterative optimization by maximizing the $F_\beta$-score on a validation dataset, which measures the quality of pseudo labels and can be measured without training a student model. We experimentally demonstrate that our proposed method achieves an mAP comparable to that of grid search on the COCO and VOC datasets.

The goal of this thesis is to develop the optimisation and generalisation theoretic foundations of learning in artificial neural networks. On optimisation, a new theoretical framework is proposed for deriving architecture-dependent first-order optimisation algorithms. The approach works by combining a "functional majorisation" of the loss function with "architectural perturbation bounds" that encode an explicit dependence on neural architecture. The framework yields optimisation methods that transfer hyperparameters across learning problems. On generalisation, a new correspondence is proposed between ensembles of networks and individual networks. It is argued that, as network width and normalised margin are taken large, the space of networks that interpolate a particular training set concentrates on an aggregated Bayesian method known as a "Bayes point machine". This correspondence provides a route for transferring PAC-Bayesian generalisation theorems over to individual networks. More broadly, the correspondence presents a fresh perspective on the role of regularisation in networks with vastly more parameters than data.

We propose Dense FixMatch, a simple method for online semi-supervised learning of dense and structured prediction tasks combining pseudo-labeling and consistency regularization via strong data augmentation. We enable the application of FixMatch in semi-supervised learning problems beyond image classification by adding a matching operation on the pseudo-labels. This allows us to still use the full strength of data augmentation pipelines, including geometric transformations. Figure 1: Dense FixMatch (blue) on unlabeled data We evaluate it on semi-supervised semantic segmentation improves the performance of semi-supervised semantic on Cityscapes and Pascal VOC with different segmentation on Cityscapes val set using percentages of labeled data and ablate design DeepLabv3+ with ResNet-101 backbone over supervised choices and hyper-parameters. Dense FixMatch baselines (red) across different amounts of significantly improves results compared to supervised labeled samples.

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