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Large-scale datasets have played a significant role in progress of neural network and deep learning areas. YouTube-8M is such a benchmark dataset for general multi-label video classification. It was created from over 7 million YouTube videos (450,000 hours of video) and includes video labels from a vocabulary of 4716 c…
Research aims to predict fallen angel bonds' bankruptcy using machine learning.
problem Predicting which fallen angel bonds will become investment grade or go bankrupt.
method Used four classification methods (logistic regression, KNN, SVM, NN) and Google Cloud's automated machine learning.
result Google Cloud's machine learning model performed best in over-sampled and feature selection data sets.
This paper compares machine learning models for pricing European options.
problem Pricing European options using traditional methods like Black Scholes Model.
method Google AutoML Regressor, TensorFlow Neural Networks, and XGBoost Gradient Boosting Decision Trees.
result All models outperformed the Black Scholes Model in terms of mean absolute error.
We present a solution to "Google Cloud and YouTube-8M Video Understanding Challenge" that ranked 5th place. The proposed model is an ensemble of three model families, two frame level and one video level. The training was performed on augmented dataset, with cross validation.
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…
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…
Highly Accurate CNN Inference Using Approximate Activation Functions over Homomorphic Encryptioncs.LG
Improved CNN accuracy for encrypted data using approximate activation functions.
problem Low accuracy in classifying encrypted data using homomorphic encryption.
method Used a fourth-order polynomial approximation of the Swish activation function with batch normalization for homomorphic encryption.
result Achieved 99.22% accuracy on MNIST and 80.48% on CIFAR-10, improving by 0.04% and 4.11% respectively.
This paper optimizes deep learning training by efficiently sharding weight updates across replicas.
problem Redundant weight update computation on all replicas in data-parallel training.
method Automatic sharding of weight updates using static analysis and transformations on the training graph.
result Substantial speedups achieved on large-scale models using Cloud TPUs.
Bitcoin's attention is linked to Google Trends data, not general uncertainty.
problem Bitcoin's correlation with Google Trends data was previously misunderstood.
method Analyzed bidirectional relationships between Bitcoin returns and Google Trends attention over six days.
result Information flows from Bitcoin volatility to Google Trends attention, not the other way.
Training deep learning models is compute-intensive and there is an industry-wide trend towards hardware specialization to improve performance. To systematically benchmark deep learning platforms, we introduce ParaDnn, a parameterized benchmark suite for deep learning that generates end-to-end models for fully connected…
Google Trends data improves economic forecasts of private consumption.
problem Improving economic forecasts of private consumption.
method Machine learning techniques applied to categorized Google search data.
result Google data can identify patterns to generate a leading indicator in real time.
Paper introduces TVaRD, a new topological risk measure for financial portfolios.
problem Traditional risk measures like VaR and CVaR are insufficient for complex market conditions.
method Topological data analysis (TDA) using cohomology groups on financial time series data.
result TVaRD reveals significant changes in financial time series during stress conditions.
We present a new method for black-box adversarial attack. Unlike previous methods that combined transfer-based and scored-based methods by using the gradient or initialization of a surrogate white-box model, this new method tries to learn a low-dimensional embedding using a pretrained model, and then performs efficient…
Google Trends can lead to misleading forecasts if not used carefully.
problem Misleading forecasts due to the variability of Google Trends data.
method Analyzing the variability of Google Trends data and proposing solutions.
result Google Trends can be a problem if not used with caution.
With a new era of cloud and big data, Database Management Systems (DBMSs) have become more crucial in numerous enterprise business applications in all the industries. Accordingly, the importance of their proactive and preventive maintenance has also increased. However, detecting problems by predefined rules or stochast…
We investigate how an adversary can optimally use its query budget for targeted evasion attacks against deep neural networks in a black-box setting. We formalize the problem setting and systematically evaluate what benefits the adversary can gain by using substitute models. We show that there is an exploration-exploita…
Accurate real-time tracking of influenza outbreaks helps public health officials make timely and meaningful decisions that could save lives. We propose an influenza tracking model, ARGO (AutoRegression with GOogle search data), that uses publicly available online search data. In addition to having a rigorous statistica…
We consider adversarial examples for image classification in the black-box decision-based setting. Here, an attacker cannot access confidence scores, but only the final label. Most attacks for this scenario are either unreliable or inefficient. Focusing on the latter, we show that a specific class of attacks, Boundary …
Current neural network-based classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples even in the black-box setting, where the attacker only has query access to the model. In practice, the threat model for real-world systems is often more restrictive than the typical black-box model where the adversary can observe the full …
We propose an intriguingly simple method for the construction of adversarial images in the black-box setting. In constrast to the white-box scenario, constructing black-box adversarial images has the additional constraint on query budget, and efficient attacks remain an open problem to date. With only the mild assumpti…
Note that this paper is superceded by "Black-Box Adversarial Attacks with Limited Queries and Information." Current neural network-based image classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples, even in the black-box setting, where the attacker is limited to query access without access to gradients. Previous methods -…
Study links public concern in Italy to financial markets worldwide.
problem Understanding public concern's impact on financial markets during pandemics.
method Used Google Trends data from YouTube, News, and Search to measure public concern and correlate it with stock index returns.
result Public concern in Italy drives concerns in other countries and explains stock index returns of multiple nations.
Empirical law predicts accuracy of Google Translate's translation chains.
problem Predicting accuracy in machine translation with multiple hops.
method Empirical testing of Google Translate's sequential translation.
result Accuracy decreases with the number of translating hops, following a power law.
A new adversarial attack method using structured search and contextual bandits.
problem Black-box adversarial attacks on deep learning models.
method Structured search space and Bayesian optimization for contextual bandits.
result Achieves state-of-the-art success rates and query efficiencies.
Smartphones have become the ultimate 'personal' computer, yet despite this, general-purpose data-mining and knowledge discovery tools for mobile devices are surprisingly rare. DataLearner is a new data-mining application designed specifically for Android devices that imports the Weka data-mining engine and augments it …
Continued reliance on human operators for managing data centers is a major impediment for them from ever reaching extreme dimensions. Large computer systems in general, and data centers in particular, will ultimately be managed using predictive computational and executable models obtained through data-science tools, an…
Open-source Vizier optimizes complex systems for Google and beyond.
problem Optimizing large-scale systems with multiple objectives and constraints.
method Distributed, fault-tolerant, flexible API for blackbox optimization.
result OSS Vizier supports a wide range of optimization problems and is available as open-source.
PANDA: Predicting the change in proteins binding affinity upon mutations using sequence informationq-bio.BM
PANDA predicts protein binding affinity changes from sequences, outperforming existing methods.
problem Accurately predicting changes in protein binding affinity due to mutations.
method Sequence-based machine learning approach using protein sequence information.
result PANDA achieves higher Pearson correlation coefficients than existing methods.
NP-Attack reduces query counts for black-box adversarial attacks.
problem Efficiency of black-box adversarial attacks is low.
method Uses Neural Process to characterize image structure and find adversarial examples.
result NP-Attack significantly decreases query counts.
The scarcity of data and isolated data islands encourage different organizations to share data with each other to train machine learning models. However, there are increasing concerns on the problems of data privacy and security, which urges people to seek a solution like Federated Transfer Learning (FTL) to share trai…
In this contribution, we present a novel approach for segmenting laser radar (lidar) imagery into geometric time-height cloud locations with a fully convolutional network (FCN). We describe a semi-supervised learning method to train the FCN by: pre-training the classification layers of the FCN with image-level annotati…
New method upsamples sparse, non-uniform point clouds more accurately.
problem Suboptimal results from existing point cloud upsampling methods.
method Imposes manifold distribution constraints using Gaussian functions.
result Generates higher-quality, more uniformly distributed dense point clouds.
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…
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.
This paper focuses on a novel generative approach for 3D point clouds that makes use of invertible flow-based models. The main idea of the method is to treat a point cloud as a probability density in 3D space that is modeled using a cloud-specific neural network. To capture the similarity between point clouds we rely o…
A tailored HTR system improves CER to 0.015 for medieval Latin.
problem Digitizing handwritten medieval Latin records for a low-resource language.
method End-to-end pipeline using image segmentation and transformer-based models with extensive data augmentation.
result Best-performing setup achieved CER of 0.015, superior to commercial models.
Clouds frequently cover the Earth's surface and pose an omnipresent challenge to optical Earth observation methods. The vast majority of remote sensing approaches either selectively choose single cloud-free observations or employ a pre-classification strategy to identify and mask cloudy pixels. We follow a different st…
Using non-linear machine learning methods and a proper backtest procedure, we critically examine the claim that Google Trends can predict future price returns. We first review the many potential biases that may influence backtests with this kind of data positively, the choice of keywords being by far the greatest culpr…
We proposed a novel graph convolutional neural network that could construct a coarse, sparse latent point cloud from a dense, raw point cloud. With a novel non-isotropic convolution operation defined on irregular geometries, the model then can reconstruct the original point cloud from this latent cloud with fine detail…
A novel method compares 3D point clouds using information geometry.
problem Comparing 3D point clouds in machine learning applications.
method Interprets point clouds as probability density functions on a statistical manifold, using GMM and Modified Symmetric KL divergence.
result Demonstrates effectiveness through various case studies.
Existing techniques to compress point cloud attributes leverage either geometric or video-based compression tools. We explore a radically different approach inspired by recent advances in point cloud representation learning. Point clouds can be interpreted as 2D manifolds in 3D space. Specifically, we fold a 2D grid on…
Study evaluates clustering methods for Google Trends data.
problem Clustering high-dimensional, noisy time series data.
method Symbolic Aggregate Approximation (SAX), Enhanced SAX (eSAX), and Topological Data Analysis (TDA).
result TDA provides more balanced and meaningful groupings than SAX and eSAX.
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.
Algorithm classifies point clouds using deep set linearized optimal transport.
problem Classifying point clouds efficiently and accurately.
method Deep Set Linearized Optimal Transport, ICNNs, and a discriminator network.
result Efficiently distinguishes between various classes of point clouds.
MLBench: How Good Are Machine Learning Clouds for Binary Classification Tasks on Structured Data?cs.DC
We conduct an empirical study of machine learning functionalities provided by major cloud service providers, which we call machine learning clouds. Machine learning clouds hold the promise of hiding all the sophistication of running large-scale machine learning: Instead of specifying how to run a machine learning task,…
The paper uses data science to predict stock trends of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
problem Short-term market movement prediction for major tech stocks.
method Combination of technical analysis and machine/deep learning for trend classification.
result Generated labels for data set: +1 (buy), 0 (hold), -1 (sell).
Ethereum trends analyzed through blockchain transactions and Google searches.
problem Identifying market manipulation in crypto prices.
method Big data analysis of Ethereum transactions, smart contracts, and search volumes.
result Big players manipulate crypto markets after price drops.