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questions of R1,R2,R3: Definition of GCN: We define GCN in eq (4), which not only includes Kipf & Welling [16], but also D

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We sincerely thank the reviewers for their insightful and constructive comments. Xu et al, 2018, p3) also consider these as variants of GCN. We will make this explicit in the final version. We do not intend to achieve the state-of-the-art graph classification model. Next, we address the specific concerns raised by each reviewer below.


Learning Frequency-Adapted Vision Foundation Model for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation

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The emerging vision foundation model (VFM) has inherited the ability to generalize to unseen images. Nevertheless, the key challenge of domain-generalized semantic segmentation (DGSS) lies in the domain gap attributed to the cross-domain styles, e.g., the variance of urban landscape and environment dependencies. Hence, maintaining the style-invariant property with varying domain styles becomes the key bottleneck in harnessing VFM for DGSS. The frequency space after Haar wavelet transform provides a feasible way to decouple the style information from the domain-invariant content, since the content and style information is retained in the low-and high-frequency components of the space, respectively. To this end, we propose a novel Frequency-Adapted (FADA) learning scheme to advance the frontier. Its overall idea is to separately tackle the content and style information by frequency tokens throughout the learning process.


Learning from Highly Sparse Spatio-temporal Data Leyan Deng

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Incomplete spatio-temporal data in the real world has spawned much research. However, existing methods often utilize iterative message-passing across temporal and spatial dimensions, resulting in substantial information loss and high computational cost. We provide a theoretical analysis revealing that such iterative models are susceptible to data and graph sparsity, causing unstable performances on different datasets. To overcome these limitations, we introduce a novel method named One-step Propagation and Confidence-based Refinement (OPCR).


Greedy Sampling for Approximate Clustering in the Presence of Outliers

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Greedy algorithms such as adaptive sampling (k-means++) and furthest point traversal are popular choices for clustering problems. One the one hand, they possess good theoretical approximation guarantees, and on the other, they are fast and easy to implement. However, one main issue with these algorithms is the sensitivity to noise/outliers in the data. In this work we show that for k-means and k-center clustering, simple modifications to the well-studied greedy algorithms result in nearly identical guarantees, while additionally being robust to outliers. For instance, in the case of k-means++, we show that a simple thresholding operation on the distances suffices to obtain an O(log k) approximation to the objective. We obtain similar results for the simpler k-center problem. Finally, we show experimentally that our algorithms are easy to implement and scale well. We also measure their ability to identify noisy points added to a dataset.


Sequential Signal Mixing Aggregation for Message Passing Graph Neural Networks Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science Technion

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Message Passing Graph Neural Networks (MPGNNs) have emerged as the preferred method for modeling complex interactions across diverse graph entities. While the theory of such models is well understood, their aggregation module has not received sufficient attention. Sum-based aggregators have solid theoretical foundations regarding their separation capabilities. However, practitioners often prefer using more complex aggregations and mixtures of diverse aggregations. In this work, we unveil a possible explanation for this gap.


Unsupervised Modality Adaptation with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Semantic Segmentation

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Despite their success, unsupervised domain adaptation methods for semantic segmentation primarily focus on adaptation between image domains and do not utilize other abundant visual modalities like depth, infrared and event. This limitation hinders their performance and restricts their application in real-world multimodal scenarios. To address this issue, we propose Modality Adaptation with text-toimage Diffusion Models (MADM) for semantic segmentation task which utilizes text-to-image diffusion models pre-trained on extensive image-text pairs to enhance the model's cross-modality capabilities. Specifically, MADM comprises two key complementary components to tackle major challenges. First, due to the large modality gap, using one modal data to generate pseudo labels for another modality suffers from a significant drop in accuracy. To address this, MADM designs diffusion-based pseudo-label generation which adds latent noise to stabilize pseudolabels and enhance label accuracy. Second, to overcome the limitations of latent low-resolution features in diffusion models, MADM introduces the label palette and latent regression which converts one-hot encoded labels into the RGB form by palette and regresses them in the latent space, thus ensuring the pre-trained decoder for up-sampling to obtain fine-grained features. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that MADM achieves state-of-the-art adaptation performance across various modality tasks, including images to depth, infrared, and event modalities.


Neuralink brain implant helps Arizona man regain control of his life

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First Neuralink brain implant patient Noland Arbaugh discusses his paralysis, his implant and more on'The Will Cain Show.' Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implants are designed to help individuals with disabilities -- and the implant's first user told Fox News on Friday about the revolutionary technology. Arizona native Noland Arbaugh, the first Neuralink brain implant patient, joined "The Will Cain Show" to discuss how the device has helped him regain control of his life. "I'm just beyond grateful," Arbaugh told Fox News host Will Cain. "It's an incredible privilege to be a part of this." Elon Musk shows off his t-shirt reading "Tech Support" while speaking at the first Cabinet meeting hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 26, 2025.


Comments relevant to all reviewers: is essentially solving a supervised learning problem over two static networks

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We thank the reviewers for their interest in our work and their helpful comments. Please find our response below. DDPG and TD3, by keeping an exploration strategy which does not decay to zero. Gradient methods to bridge the gap between DPO and GAC. Reviewer 3: Thank you for pointing out some confusing explanations, we will make sure to clarify them in the paper.


NeuroGauss4D-PCI: 4D Neural Fields and Gaussian Deformation Fields for Point Cloud Interpolation

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Point Cloud Interpolation confronts challenges from point sparsity, complex spatiotemporal dynamics, and the difficulty of deriving complete 3D point clouds from sparse temporal information. This paper presents NeuroGauss4D-PCI, which excels at modeling complex non-rigid deformations across varied dynamic scenes. The method begins with an iterative Gaussian cloud soft clustering module, offering structured temporal point cloud representations. The proposed temporal radial basis function Gaussian residual utilizes Gaussian parameter interpolation over time, enabling smooth parameter transitions and capturing temporal residuals of Gaussian distributions. Additionally, a 4D Gaussian deformation field tracks the evolution of these parameters, creating continuous spatiotemporal deformation fields. A 4D neural field transforms low-dimensional spatiotemporal coordinates (x, y, z, t) into a high-dimensional latent space.


Light Unbalanced Optimal Transport

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While the continuous Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) field has been actively developing in recent years, it became evident that the classic EOT problem is prone to different issues like the sensitivity to outliers and imbalance of classes in the source and target measures. This fact inspired the development of solvers that deal with the unbalanced EOT (UEOT) problem the generalization of EOT allowing for mitigating the mentioned issues by relaxing the marginal constraints. Surprisingly, it turns out that the existing solvers are either based on heuristic principles or heavyweighted with complex optimization objectives involving several neural networks. We address this challenge and propose a novel theoretically-justified, lightweight, unbalanced EOT solver. Our advancement consists of developing a novel view on the optimization of the UEOT problem yielding tractable and a non-minimax optimization objective. We show that combined with a light parametrization recently proposed in the field our objective leads to a fast, simple, and effective solver which allows solving the continuous UEOT problem in minutes on CPU. We prove that our solver provides a universal approximation of UEOT solutions and obtain its generalization bounds. We give illustrative examples of the solver's performance.