Framework optimizes cloud container sizing for ML tasks.
problem Challenges in cloud container configuration for ML services.
method Autonomous scaling using nested-loop Monte Carlo simulation.
result Reduces compute cost and accelerates ML algorithms.
In recent decades, the use of 3D point clouds has been widespread in computer industry. The development of techniques in analyzing point clouds is increasingly important. In particular, mapping of point clouds has been a challenging problem. In this paper, we develop a discrete analogue of the Teichmüller extremal mapp…
Method computes harmonic and conformal maps from point clouds.
problem Computing maps from irregular point cloud data.
method Meshless method using cubic lattice approximations.
result Harmonic and conformal maps computed accurately.
Paper proposes a hierarchical approach to malware detection in cloud environments.
problem Malware threat in cloud computing environments.
method Machine learning on graphs, hypergraphs, and natural language for malware detection and analysis.
result Federated learning for malware detection in multicloud environments.
SPINN optimizes neural network inference on devices and cloud.
problem Inference on mobile devices is challenging due to high computational demands and dynamic connectivity.
method Synergistic progressive inference with a novel scheduler.
result SPINN achieves up to 2x higher throughput and reduces server cost by up to 6.8x.
Develops a method for conformal parameterization of point clouds without fixed boundaries.
problem Desirable distortion in fixed-boundary parameterizations of point clouds.
method Free-boundary conformal parameterization method involving approximation of point cloud Laplacian and boundary treatment.
result High-quality point cloud meshing achieved through the proposed method.
RL enhances cloud autoscaling by learning optimal resource allocation.
problem Optimizing resource allocation in dynamic, uncertain cloud environments.
method Reinforcement Learning for dynamic, transparent, and adaptable resource management policies.
result RL enables transparent, dynamic, and adaptable resource management policies.
Serverless cloud computing speeds up double machine learning model estimation.
problem Efficiently estimating double machine learning models with minimal cloud resource management.
method Serverless computing with AWS Lambda for repeated cross-fitting.
result Demonstrates significant reduction in estimation times and costs.
Point cloud is the most fundamental representation of 3D geometric objects. Analyzing and processing point cloud surfaces is important in computer graphics and computer vision. However, most of the existing algorithms for surface analysis require connectivity information. Therefore, it is desirable to develop a mesh st…
Simple policy outperforms complex ones in cloud auto-scaling.
problem Predicting resource scaling for large-scale cloud applications with limited deployment throughput.
method Probabilistic workload forecast for auto-scaling decisions based on risk aversion.
result The proposed policy outperforms sophisticated and simple benchmark policies in real-world and synthetic data.
Extracts geometric information from point-clouds for multiclass classification.
problem Multiclass Classification with labeled point-clouds.
method Stochastic partial orderings and label embedding trees.
result Computes multiscale geometries for explainable prediction and error-free labeling.
Estimating boundaries from point clouds with improved accuracy and rigorous error estimates.
problem Identifying the boundary of a domain from point cloud samples.
method Developed new estimators for normal vectors, distances, and boundary tests; provided error estimates.
result Efficient and accurate estimators for boundary properties on point clouds.
This study uses LSTM and SARIMA models to forecast CPU usage in cloud computing.
problem Predicting future CPU usage in cloud computing centers.
method Used LSTM and SARIMA models to forecast CPU usage over short and long time scales.
result SARIMA model performed better for long-term predictions but LSTM was more robust.
A hybrid neural network optimizes AI deployment on edge and cloud for energy efficiency.
problem Energy and resource constraints in edge devices for deep learning models.
method Conditionally deep hybrid neural network with quantized layers at edge and full-precision layers at cloud.
result Early classification at the edge reduces energy consumption by 5.5x on CIFAR-10 dataset.
Novel neural network layer improves long-range interactions in point clouds.
problem Efficiently treating long-range interactions in point clouds.
method Long-range convolutional (LRC)-layer that incorporates Fourier transforms.
result Global all-to-all convolution operation performed in nearly-linear time.
Computes bounds on reach and r-convexity from point cloud data.
problem Computing geometric properties of sets from sparse data.
method Computes upper bounds on reach and r-convexity from point cloud data.
result Bounds converge to true values as point cloud density increases.
Generative model creates high-quality meshes from point clouds.
problem Creating accurate meshes from point cloud data.
method Modeling point cloud generation as sphere deformation through deep neural networks.
result The model efficiently generates high-quality meshes from point clouds.
A new method for computing shape barycenters from point clouds using Procrustes-Wasserstein distance.
problem Computing representative shapes from point clouds with precise alignment and shape preservation.
method Developed a new distance metric (Procrustes-Wasserstein) and algorithms for computing barycenters.
result Superior performance in precise alignment and shape preservation compared to existing OT approaches.
Thanks to the advances in machine learning, data-driven analysis tools have become valuable solutions for various applications. However, there still remain essential challenges to develop effective data-driven methods because of the need to acquire a large amount of data and to have sufficient computing power to handle…
Robustly computes intrinsic coordinates on point clouds using resampling and averaging.
problem Computing intrinsic coordinates on noisy or outlier-prone point clouds.
method Subsample data, vary hyperparameters, cluster candidate embeddings, identify representative embeddings, and average them using Procrustes analysis.
result Robust to noise and outliers, validated on synthetic and real data.
Enhanced 3D shape analysis using information geometry.
problem Challenges in comparing 3D point clouds due to their unstructured nature and complex geometry.
method Information geometric framework for 3D point cloud shape analysis using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) on a statistical manifold. Proposed MSKL divergence with upper and lower bounds.
result MSKL provides stable and monotonically varying values that directly reflect geometric variation, outperforming traditional distances and existing KL approximations.
Paper introduces IAD for detecting anomalous VMMs in cloud without VMM access.
problem Anomalous VMMs in cloud-based environments without direct access.
method IAD: Indirect Anomalous VMMs Detection algorithm using VM resource utilization data.
result IAD algorithm outperforms other methods with an average F1-score of 83.7%.
The concept of a Point Cloud has played an increasingly important role in many areas of Engineering, Science, and Mathematics. Examples are: LIDAR, 3D-Printing, Data Analysis, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Mathematical Visualization, Numerical Analysis, and Monte Carlo Methods. Entering point cloud into Google r…
Detects backdoors in outsourced models by replicating training steps across multiple servers.
problem Detecting backdoors in models trained on cloud providers without prior knowledge.
method Replicate training steps across multiple servers to identify deviations and malicious updates.
result 99.6% accuracy in identifying backdoored models out of 50% malicious providers.
Anomaly detecting as an important technical in cloud computing is applied to support smooth running of the cloud platform. Traditional detecting methods based on statistic, analysis, etc. lead to the high false-alarm rate due to non-adaptive and sensitive parameters setting. We presented an online model for anomaly det…
Many hyperparameter optimization (HyperOpt) methods assume restricted computing resources and mainly focus on enhancing performance. Here we propose a novel cloud-based HyperOpt (CHOPT) framework which can efficiently utilize shared computing resources while supporting various HyperOpt algorithms. We incorporate conven…
New method calibrates probabilistic linear solver for online coverage guarantees.
problem Uncertainty in probabilistic linear solver solutions without coverage guarantees.
method Online conformal prediction-PLS (OCP-PLS) method to calibrate uncertainty thresholds.
result Validates online calibration of uncertainty thresholds via online conformal prediction.
SCENE-Net improves 3D point cloud segmentation with low resource usage and transparency.
problem Lack of resources and transparency in 3D semantic segmentation models.
method SCENE-Net uses signature shapes identified via GENEOs to achieve semantic segmentation with minimal resources.
result SCENE-Net achieves comparable IoU to state-of-the-art methods with less data and computational resources.
Framework prevents data leakage in mobile cloud DNNs.
problem Data leakage from cloud DNNs poses privacy risks.
method Privacy-preserving reinforcement learning framework.
result Framework successfully defends against various privacy attacks.
Graph Neural Networks improve 3D object detection in LiDAR point clouds.
problem Challenges in processing LiDAR data due to its 3D geometry and massive volume.
method Proposes a Graph Neural Network (GNN) based framework for 3D object detection.
result GNNs successfully identify objects in 3D LiDAR point clouds.
Deep neural networks require large amounts of resources which makes them hard to use on resource constrained devices such as Internet-of-things devices. Offloading the computations to the cloud can circumvent these constraints but introduces a privacy risk since the operator of the cloud is not necessarily trustworthy.…
Adaptive anomaly detection for IoT data reduces delay by 84%.
problem Real-time anomaly detection for IoT devices with limited resources.
method Hierarchical edge computing with adaptive anomaly detection models.
result Reduces detection delay by 84% while maintaining accuracy.
We describe a new public-domain open-source simulator of an electronic financial exchange, and of the traders that interact with the exchange, which is a truly distributed and cloud-native system that been designed to run on widely available commercial cloud-computing services, and in which various components can be pl…
The detection of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks remains a challenge for the cloud environment, affecting a massive number of services and applications hosted by such virtualized infrastructures. Typically, in the literature, the detection of DoS attacks is performed solely by analyzing the traffic of packets in the ne…
3D capsule network for point clouds handles rotations and translations.
problem Processing 3D point clouds with equivariance and invariance.
method Quaternion equivariant capsule network with dynamic routing on quaternions.
result Parsimonious capsule network disentangles geometry and pose.
DEEPLY improves cloud service partitioning across multiple datasets and goals.
problem Finding a generally useful method to partition monolithic enterprise applications into cloud-based microservices.
method DEEPLY extends CO-GCN with a novel loss function and hyper-parameter optimization.
result DEEPLY outperforms prior work across multiple datasets and goals.
The introduction of cheap RGB-D cameras, stereo cameras, and LIDAR devices has given the computer vision community 3D information that conventional RGB cameras cannot provide. This data is often stored as a point cloud. In this paper, we present a novel method to apply the concept of convolutional neural networks to th…
PILNO uses neural operators to solve PDEs efficiently on point clouds.
problem Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on point cloud data efficiently.
method Physics-informed low-rank neural operator framework combining low-rank kernel approximations and an encoder-decoder architecture.
result PILNO efficiently approximates solution operators of PDEs on point cloud data, satisfying PDE constraints and boundary conditions.
New method for high-fidelity shape representations from raw data.
problem Creating accurate shape representations from raw data.
method A simple loss function encouraging neural network to vanish on input point cloud and have unit norm gradient.
result Our method produces high-fidelity, smooth, and natural zero level set surfaces.
Cloud based medical image analysis has become popular recently due to the high computation complexities of various deep neural network (DNN) based frameworks and the increasingly large volume of medical images that need to be processed. It has been demonstrated that for medical images the transmission from local to clo…
Point clouds, as a form of Lagrangian representation, allow for powerful and flexible applications in a large number of computational disciplines. We propose a novel deep-learning method to learn stable and temporally coherent feature spaces for points clouds that change over time. We identify a set of inherent problem…
Proposes a robust 3D classification method for sparse point clouds.
problem Invariance to rotation, positional shift, scaling, and robustness to point sparsity in point cloud classification.
method Introduces a graph-based feature learning approach with an end-to-end neural network.
result Significantly improves 3D object classification and retrieval tasks with sparse point clouds.
A JAX toolbox solves optimal transport problems for point clouds and histograms.
problem Optimal transport problems between point clouds and histograms.
method Automatic and custom reverse mode differentiation, vectorization, just-in-time compilation, and accelerators support.
result Solves a wide range of optimal transport problems including regularized OT, barycenters, Gromov-Wasserstein, and low-rank solvers.
Paper reduces false positives in lung nodule detection using deep learning on point clouds.
problem Reduces false positives in lung nodule detection.
method Uses deep learning models for point clouds to transform 3D CT scan data.
result Achieved 85.98 FROC compared to 77.26 FROC for baseline models.
With the rapid growth of the data volume and the fast increasing of the computational model complexity in the scenario of cloud computing, it becomes an important topic that how to handle users' requests by scheduling computational jobs and assigning the resources in data center. In order to have a better perception of…
Paper defines and evaluates DR complex for persistent homology.
problem Computing persistent homology of Euclidean point cloud data.
method Delaunay-Rips complex construction for speed and stability.
result DR produces stable persistence diagrams under point cloud perturbations.
Information-theoretic quantities, such as entropy, are used to quantify the amount of information a given variable provides. Entropies can be used together to compute the mutual information, which quantifies the amount of information two variables share. However, accurately estimating these quantities from data is extr…
Paper introduces privacy-preserving deep-learning service.
problem Privacy loss in deep-learning-as-a-service.
method Homomorphic Encryption tailored for CNNs.
result Effectiveness of proposed privacy-preserving architecture.