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From Trainable Negative Depth to Edge Heterophily in Graphs
Finding the proper depth d of a graph convolutional network (GCN) that provides strong representation ability has drawn significant attention, yet nonetheless largely remains an open problem for the graph learning community. Although noteworthy progress has been made, the depth or the number of layers of a corresponding GCN is realized by a series of graph convolution operations, which naturally makes da positive integer (d N+). An interesting question is whether breaking the constraint of N+ by making d a real number (d R) can bring new insights into graph learning mechanisms. In this work, by redefining GCN's depth d as a trainable parameter continuously adjustable within (,+), we open a new door of controlling its signal processing capability to model graph homophily/heterophily (nodes with similar/dissimilar labels/attributes tend to be inter-connected). A simple and powerful GCN model TEDGCN, is proposed to retain the simplicity of GCN and meanwhile automatically search for the optimal d without the prior knowledge regarding whether the input graph is homophilic or heterophilic. Negative-valued dintrinsically enables high-pass frequency filtering functionality via augmented topology for graph heterophily. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of TEDGCN on node classification tasks for a variety of homophilic and heterophilic graphs.
OV-PARTS: Towards Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation (Supplementary Material) Coauthor Affiliation Address email
The supplementary material is organized as follows:1 Implementation Details.(Sec. Except for the Object Mask Prompt and Compositional Prompt Tuning designs,7 we follow the default architecture in the original ZSseg paper. The number of part queries is set to 50.8 All the two-stage baselines are trained with AdamW optimizer with the initial learning rate of 1e-49 and weight decay of 1e-4. A poly learning rate policy with a power of 0.9is adopted.
OV-PARTS: Towards Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
Furthermore, the large-scale vision and language models, which play a key role in the open vocabulary setting, struggle to recognize parts as effectively as objects. To comprehensively investigate and tackle these challenges, we propose an Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation (OV-PARTS) benchmark. OV-PARTS includes refined versions of two publicly available datasets: Pascal-Part-116 and ADE20K-Part-234.
Shape Non-rigid Kinematics (SNK): AZero-Shot Method for Non-Rigid Shape Matching via Unsupervised Functional Map Regularized Reconstruction
We present Shape Non-rigid Kinematics (SNK), a novel zero-shot method for non-rigid shape matching that eliminates the need for extensive training or ground truth data. SNK operates on a single pair of shapes, and employs a reconstructionbased strategy using an encoder-decoder architecture, which deforms the source shape to closely match the target shape. During the process, an unsupervised functional map is predicted and converted into a point-to-point map, serving as a supervisory mechanism for the reconstruction. To aid in training, we have designed a new decoder architecture that generates smooth, realistic deformations. SNK demonstrates competitive results on traditional benchmarks, simplifying the shapematching process without compromising accuracy. Our code can be found online: https://github.com/pvnieo/SNK.
OneNet: Enhancing Time Series Forecasting Models under Concept Drift by Online Ensembling
Online updating of time series forecasting models aims to address the concept drifting problem by efficiently updating forecasting models based on streaming data. Many algorithms are designed for online time series forecasting, with some exploiting cross-variable dependency while others assume independence among variables. Given every data assumption has its own pros and cons in online time series modeling, we propose Online ensembling Network (OneNet). It dynamically updates and combines two models, with one focusing on modeling the dependency across the time dimension and the other on cross-variate dependency. Our method incorporates a reinforcement learning-based approach into the traditional online convex programming framework, allowing for the linear combination of the two models with dynamically adjusted weights. OneNet addresses the main shortcoming of classical online learning methods that tend to be slow in adapting to the concept drift. Empirical results show that OneNet reduces online forecasting error by more than 50%compared to the State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) method.