1.2SYMar 23, 2018
Distributed consensus of linear MASs with an unknown leader via a predictive extended state observer considering input delay and disturbancesWei Jiang, Zhaoxia Peng, Ahmed Rahmani et al.
The problem of disturbance rejection/attenuation for constant-input delayed linear multi-agent systems (MASs) with the directed communication topology is tackled in this paper, where a classic model reduction technique is introduced to transform the delayed MAS into the delay-free one. First, when the leader has no control input, a novel adaptive predictive extended state observer (ESO) using only relative state information of neighboring agents is designed to achieve disturbance-rejected consensus tracking. The stabilization analysis is presented via the Lyapunov function and sufficient conditions are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Then the result is extended to the disturbance-attenuated case where the leader has bounded control input which is only known by a portion of followers. Finally, two numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of proposed strategies. The main contribution focuses on the design of adaptive predictive ESO protocols with the fully distributed property.
LTRL: Boosting Long-tail Recognition via Reflective LearningQihao Zhao, Yalun Dai, Shen Lin et al.
In real-world scenarios, where knowledge distributions exhibit long-tail. Humans manage to master knowledge uniformly across imbalanced distributions, a feat attributed to their diligent practices of reviewing, summarizing, and correcting errors. Motivated by this learning process, we propose a novel learning paradigm, called reflecting learning, in handling long-tail recognition. Our method integrates three processes for reviewing past predictions during training, summarizing and leveraging the feature relation across classes, and correcting gradient conflict for loss functions. These designs are lightweight enough to plug and play with existing long-tail learning methods, achieving state-of-the-art performance in popular long-tail visual benchmarks. The experimental results highlight the great potential of reflecting learning in dealing with long-tail recognition.