Minghua Pan

Haozhen Situ, Tianxiang Lu, Minghua Pan et al.

For the goal of strong artificial intelligence that can mimic human-level intelligence, AI systems would have the ability to adapt to ever-changing scenarios and learn new knowledge continuously without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. When a machine learning model is consecutively trained on multiple tasks that come in sequence, its performance on previously learned tasks may drop dramatically during the learning process of the newly seen task. To avoid this phenomenon termed catastrophic forgetting, continual learning, also known as lifelong learning, has been proposed and become one of the most up-to-date research areas of machine learning. As quantum machine learning blossoms in recent years, it is interesting to develop quantum continual learning. This paper focuses on the case of quantum models for quantum data where the computation model and the data to be processed are both quantum. The gradient episodic memory method is incorporated to design a quantum continual learning scheme that overcomes catastrophic forgetting and realizes knowledge backward transfer. Specifically, a sequence of quantum state classification tasks is continually learned by a variational quantum classifier whose parameters are optimized by a classical gradient-based optimizer. The gradient of the current task is projected to the closest gradient, avoiding the increase of the loss at previous tasks, but allowing the decrease. Numerical simulation results show that our scheme not only overcomes catastrophic forgetting, but also realize knowledge backward transfer, which means the classifier's performance on previous tasks is enhanced rather than compromised while learning a new task.

Nengbo Lu, Minghua Pan

Learning a physical model from video data that can comprehend physical laws and predict the future trajectories of objects is a formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Prior approaches either leverage various Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) as soft constraints in the form of PINN losses, or integrate physics simulators into neural networks; however, they often rely on strong priors or high-quality geometry reconstruction. In this paper, we propose CausalGS, a framework that learns the causal dynamics of complex dynamic 3D scenes solely from multi-view videos, while dispensing with the reliance on explicit priors. At its core is an inverse physics inference module that decouples the complex dynamics problem from the video into the joint inference of two factors: the initial velocity field representing the scene's kinematics, and the intrinsic material properties governing its dynamics. This inferred physical information is then utilized within a differentiable physics simulator to guide the learning process in a physics-regularized manner. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CausalGS surpasses the state-of-the-art on the highly challenging task of long-term future frame extrapolation, while also exhibiting advanced performance in novel view interpolation. Crucially, our work shows that, without any human annotation, the model is able to learn the complex interactions between multiple physical properties and understand the causal relationships driving the scene's dynamic evolution, solely from visual observations.

Nengbo Lu, Minghua Pan, Shaohua Sun et al.

In the field of 3D dynamic scene reconstruction, how to balance model convergence rate and rendering quality has long been a critical challenge that urgently needs to be addressed, particularly in high-precision modeling of scenes with complex dynamic motions. To tackle this issue, this study proposes the GS-DMSR method. By quantitatively analyzing the dynamic evolution process of Gaussian attributes, this mechanism achieves adaptive gradient focusing, enabling it to dynamically identify significant differences in the motion states of Gaussian models. It then applies differentiated optimization strategies to Gaussian models with varying degrees of significance, thereby significantly improving the model convergence rate. Additionally, this research integrates a multi-scale manifold enhancement module, which leverages the collaborative optimization of an implicit nonlinear decoder and an explicit deformation field to enhance the modeling efficiency for complex deformation scenes. Experimental results demonstrate that this method achieves a frame rate of up to 96 FPS on synthetic datasets, while effectively reducing both storage overhead and training time.Our code and data are available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/GS-DMSR-2212.