Automation of machine learning model development is increasingly becoming an established research area. While automated model selection and automated data pre-processing have been studied in depth, there is, however, a gap concerning automated model adaptation strategies when multiple strategies are available. Manually…
Automated framework optimizes DNN deployment on Arm CPUs.
problem Lack of globally optimised DNN deployment across software levels.
method Reinforcement Learning search for automated design space exploration.
result Up to 4x improvement in performance and 2x reduction in memory.
Operations is a key challenge in the domain of machine learning pipeline deployments involving monitoring and management of real-time prediction quality. Typically, metrics like accuracy, RMSE etc., are used to track the performance of models in deployment. However, these metrics cannot be calculated in production due …
FLBench automates federated learning benchmarking.
problem Manual dataset partitioning fails to simulate real-world isolated data islands.
method Develops a federated learning benchmark suite with three domains.
result Automates evaluation of federated learning systems and algorithms.
Framework for responsible LLM deployment with human involvement and decentralized technologies.
problem Challenges in deploying LLMs for high-stakes decisions, including data security and accountability.
method Interactive human involvement through multiple iterations, decentralized technologies, and automated auditing.
result Enhanced security and accountability in LLM deployment for financial decisions.
Safety is an essential aspect in the facilitation of automated vehicle deployment. Current testing practices are not enough, and going beyond them leads to infeasible testing requirements, such as needing to drive billions of kilometres on public roads. Automated vehicles are exposed to an indefinite number of scenario…
Improved deep learning model deployment on tiny MCUs with mixed-precision quantization.
problem Memory limitations prevent accurate deployment of DNN models on tiny MCUs.
method Automated mixed-precision quantization using Reinforcement Learning for MCU constraints.
result Mixed-precision models achieve high accuracy with uniform quantization policies.
Deployment of machine learning (ML) algorithms in production for extended periods of time has uncovered new challenges such as monitoring and management of real-time prediction quality of a model in the absence of labels. However, such tracking is imperative to prevent catastrophic business outcomes resulting from inco…
With the continuous and vast increase in the amount of data in our digital world, it has been acknowledged that the number of knowledgeable data scientists can not scale to address these challenges. Thus, there was a crucial need for automating the process of building good machine learning models. In the last few years…
Mosquitoes are a major vector for malaria, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths in the developing world each year. Not only is the prevention of mosquito bites of paramount importance to the reduction of malaria transmission cases, but understanding in more forensic detail the interplay between malaria, mosquito vec…
Semantic segmentation remains a computationally intensive algorithm for embedded deployment even with the rapid growth of computation power. Thus efficient network design is a critical aspect especially for applications like automated driving which requires real-time performance. Recently, there has been a lot of resea…
Unified scoring model improves efficiency and performance across multiple tasks.
problem Efficient and resource-efficient automated scoring for diverse tasks.
method Knowledge-distilled multi-task Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) approach.
result Comparable performance to task-specific models with significantly less storage and training resources.
With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), an increasing number of energy harvesting methods are being used to supplement or supplant battery based sensors. Energy harvesting sensors need to be configured according to the application, hardware, and environmental conditions to maximize their usefulness. As of toda…
Decentralised fund framework allocates capital via tokenised vaults.
problem Traditional asset management's inefficiencies and centralisation.
method Permissionless, multi-strategy capital allocation through on-chain vaults.
result Self-regulating, cooperative optimisation across financial domains.
Infrastructure monitors AI/ML radiology models across multiple sites.
problem Monitoring and improving AI/ML radiology models across multiple sites.
method Interactive radiology reporting, centralized cloud system, post-marketing surveillance.
result Efficient monitoring and iterative development of AI/ML models without radiologist burden.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are successfully used for the important automotive visual perception tasks including object recognition, motion and depth estimation, visual SLAM, etc. However, these tasks are typically independently explored and modeled. In this paper, we propose a joint multi-task network design …
The ubiquitous availability of wearable sensors is responsible for driving the Internet-of-Things but is also making an impact on sport sciences and precision medicine. While human activity recognition from smartphone data or other types of inertial measurement units (IMU) has evolved to one of the most prominent daily…
We present CodeReef - an open platform to share all the components necessary to enable cross-platform MLOps (MLSysOps), i.e. automating the deployment of ML models across diverse systems in the most efficient way. We also introduce the CodeReef solution - a way to package and share models as non-virtualized, portable, …
DQN outperforms static policies in a dynamic fee environment for automated market makers.
problem How automated market makers (AMMs) perform under dynamic fees is unknown.
method Constructed a closed-loop simulator with dynamic fees, noise flow, and arbitrage.
result A small DQN policy outperforms static policies in a dynamic fee environment.
New framework assesses LLM security risks in BFSI.
problem Lack of domain-specific security evaluation for LLMs in BFSI.
method Risk-aware evaluation framework combining taxonomy, automated red-teaming, and ensemble judging.
result Higher decoding stochasticity and adaptive interaction lead to more severe disclosures.
Work shows hallucination detection by LLMs is impossible without expert feedback.
problem Detecting hallucinations in LLMs is theoretically impossible without expert-labeled feedback.
method Investigated hallucination detection using a theoretical framework inspired by language identification.
result Automated hallucination detection is impossible for most language collections without expert-labeled feedback.
This paper tackles AI model governance challenges in financial services.
problem Challenges in current AI model governance practices in financial services.
method Proposes a system-level framework for increased self-regulation.
result Enhanced model governance and risk management capabilities.
Deployment-complete benchmarking assesses if evidence leads to consistent deployment actions.
problem Lack of clear evidence leading to consistent deployment actions.
method Introduces deployment-complete benchmarking to test if benchmark evidence determines deployment actions.
result Benchmark evidence must be complete for a claim to lead to a consistent deployment action.
Deep-n-Cheap automates deep learning model search for low complexity.
problem Finding efficient deep learning models for various datasets.
method Automated search framework for architecture and hyperparameters, including search transfer.
result Models offer comparable performance to state-of-the-art but are faster to train.
The success of automated driving deployment is highly depending on the ability to develop an efficient and safe driving policy. The problem is well formulated under the framework of optimal control as a cost optimization problem. Model based solutions using traditional planning are efficient, but require the knowledge …
FPGAs have become a popular choice for deploying deep learning architectures (DLA). There are many researchers that have explored the deployment and mapping of DLA on FPGA. However, there has been a growing need to do design-time hardware-software co-verification of these deployments. To the best of our knowledge this …
Paper establishes lower bounds and optimal algorithms for deployment-efficient RL.
problem Deployment efficiency in reinforcement learning.
method Optimization with constraints, lower bounds, algorithms.
result Established optimal algorithms for deployment-efficient RL.
This work shifts focus from prediction to intervention in social systems.
problem The limitations of focusing solely on prediction in automated decision systems.
method Shift from prediction-focused paradigm to intervention-oriented approach.
result A new perspective unifies statistical frameworks and tools for ADS design, implementation, and evaluation.
DUPLE tackles cross-deployment recognition in fiber-optic perimeter security with meta-learning.
problem Cross-deployment recognition challenges in fiber-optic perimeter security due to label scarcity and distribution shifts.
method DUPLE employs statistically guided meta-learning to enhance recognition robustness across unseen deployments.
result DUPLE consistently outperforms traditional and meta-learning baselines in cross-deployment DFOS benchmarks.
New active learning method uses combinatorial coverage to improve data transfer and reduce bias.
problem Inability to transfer sampled data to new models and sampling bias issues.
method Data-centric active learning methods utilizing combinatorial coverage.
result Sampling data with coverage leads to better data transfer and competitive sampling bias.
Cost-effective models detect depression from speech.
problem Detecting depression from speech with limited resources.
method Comparison of conventional and deep acoustic features for depression prediction.
result Conventional acoustic features perform as well as deep representations at lower cost.
Machine learning (ML), especially deep learning is made possible by the availability of big data, enormous compute power and, often overlooked, development tools or frameworks. As the algorithms become mature and efficient, more and more ML inference is moving out of datacenters/cloud and deployed on edge devices. This…
Automates phased release strategy to balance risk and speed.
problem Balancing risk and speed in phased product releases.
method Formalizes as constrained batched bandit problem, uses adaptive Bayesian approach.
result Proposes algorithm that determines optimal release percentages.
New method automates asymmetric choice for better skill transfer in reinforcement learning.
problem Improving sample efficiency and transferability of reinforcement learning agents.
method Attentive Priors for Expressive and Transferable Skills (APES) using hierarchical KL-regularization.
result APES automates asymmetric choice, leading to better skill transfer across sequential tasks.
VarDetect monitors API queries to detect model extraction attacks.
problem Attackers can extract ML models through API queries.
method VarDetect uses a modified variational autoencoder to track and detect attacker samples.
result VarDetect successfully detects and raises alarms for model extraction attacks.
CK simplifies ML model deployment and reproducibility with open APIs and DevOps.
problem Making ML models reproducible and deployable across different environments.
method Decompose complex systems into reusable sub-components with unified APIs and DevOps principles.
result Automatically co-design and optimize ML models for speed, accuracy, energy, and size.
This paper explores BTC-denominated prediction markets to avoid stablecoin opportunity costs.
problem Opportunity costs and loss of BTC exposure when converting to stablecoins.
method Analyzes three methods of liquidity provision: cross-market making, automated market making, and DeFi redirection.
result Cross-market making provides the best user risk profile but requires active liquidity.
FAST-DAD distills complex ensemble models into faster, more accurate individual models.
problem Deploying complex AutoML ensemble predictors on tabular data is slow, large, and opaque.
method Data augmentation strategy based on Gibbs sampling from a self-attention pseudolikelihood estimator.
result FAST-DAD distillation produces significantly better individual models than standard training.
Adaptive Bayesian learning agent for non-stationary bandits.
problem Non-stationary rewards in reinforcement learning.
method Dynamic memory and statistical hypothesis testing.
result Adapts to changing rewards with minimal regret.
A method for quickly determining deployment schedules that meet a given fuel cycle demand is presented here. This algorithm is fast enough to perform in situ within low-fidelity fuel cycle simulators. It uses Gaussian process regression models to predict the production curve as a function of time and the number of depl…
The paper develops methods to reduce deployment risk under dynamic covariate shifts.
problem Reduction of deployment risk under dynamic covariate shifts.
method Time-domain Poincare inequality and Jacobian-velocity theorem to identify and control directional tangent energy.
result Drift-aligned tangent regularization (DTR) reduces risk volatility and directional gain in low-rank drift regimes.
RAID algorithm detects anomalies in real-time IoT systems.
problem Anomaly detection limitations in multivariate dynamic processes.
method Adapts to non-stationary effects and handles data drift.
result Improved detection accuracy and root cause isolation.
New multi-spiral approach improves packaging of thick membranes.
problem Deploying thick membranes on curved surfaces efficiently.
method Multi-spiral folding approach with prismatic folding lines.
result Improved deployment performance of thick membranes on curved surfaces.
RL research overhypes potential but lacks deployable solutions.
problem Current RL research overhypes potential and lacks deployable solutions.
method Identifies and critiques current RL research practices.
result Current RL research direction is unlikely to lead to practical, economically viable solutions.
MLDemon monitors ML systems post-deployment, improving reliability with real-time performance estimates and expert labels.
problem Ensuring reliability of machine learning systems post-deployment, especially when user inputs differ from training data.
method Integrates unlabeled and on-demand labeled data to monitor ML model performance in real-time, deciding when to acquire expert labels.
result Outperforms existing approaches in temporal datasets with diverse distribution drifts, providing theoretical optimality for distribution drifts.
Safe offline RL for chemical reactors using input convex neural networks.
problem Safe control of exothermic polymerization reactors using historical data.
method Gymnasium-compatible simulation, behaviour cloning, implicit Q-learning, input convex neural networks (PICNNs).
result Offline RL with convex action correction outperforms traditional control approaches.
Survey of challenges and future directions in applying RL to real-world settings.
problem Challenges in deploying RL in practical settings due to limited interaction and changing environments.
method Analysis of RL system design, implementation, and continual improvement.
result Need for theory and methodology to bridge research and application gap.
QTNet uses deep reinforcement learning to automate trading strategies.
problem Handling noisy and high-frequency financial data, balancing exploration and exploitation.
method QTNet employs deep reinforcement learning (DRL) with imitative learning to autonomously formulate trading strategies.
result QTNet demonstrates proficiency in extracting robust market features and adaptability to diverse conditions.