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48 results for cloud environments

RODMAN improves ML-based disk failure prediction accuracy in cloud environments.

problem Imperfect data quality in real-world cloud environments degrades ML-based disk failure prediction accuracy.
method RODMAN uses three data preprocessing techniques: failure-type filtering, spline-based data filling, and automated pre-failure backtracking.
result RODMAN significantly improves prediction accuracy compared to no preprocessing.

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.

Bayesian segmentation and uncertainty estimation improve 3D model accuracy for factory planning.

problem Generating accurate 3D models from outdated and incomplete 2D data.
method Bayesian neural network for point cloud segmentation and entropy-based uncertainty estimation.
result Bayesian segmentation network significantly improves model accuracy and object identification.

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.

This paper analyzes CNNs for malware detection in cloud IaaS.

problem Malware vulnerability in cloud IaaS environments.
method Analysis of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for online malware detection using process-level performance metrics.
result State-of-the-art DenseNets and ResNets effectively detect malware in online cloud systems.

Cloud computing is gaining significant attention, however, security is the biggest hurdle in its wide acceptance. Users of cloud services are under constant fear of data loss, security threats and availability issues. Recently, learning-based methods for security applications are gaining popularity in the literature wi…

2018-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep learning within the context of point clouds has gained much research interest in recent years mostly due to the promising results that have been achieved on a number of challenging benchmarks, such as 3D shape recognition and scene semantic segmentation. In many realistic settings however, snapshots of the environ…

2018-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

HL algorithms improve resource allocation in cloud environments.

problem Sequential decision-making under uncertainty with exogenous variables.
method HL algorithms leverage exogenous variable samples to infer counterfactual consequences.
result HL algorithms outperform classic methods and reinforcement learning in resource allocation.

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.

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular as a platform for distributed training of deep neural networks. Synchronous stochastic gradient descent (SSGD) suffers from substantial slowdowns due to stragglers if the environment is non-dedicated, as is common in cloud computing. Asynchronous SGD (ASGD) methods are i…

2019-09-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Edge language models show bias over time, especially on resource-constrained devices.

problem Bias in edge language models on resource-constrained devices.
method Comparative analysis of text-based bias across edge, cloud, and desktop environments; optimized Llama-2 model on Raspberry Pi 4; feedback loop mechanism to correct bias.
result Llama-2 on Raspberry Pi 4 shows 43.23% and 21.89% more bias over time compared to cloud and desktop models.

Bayesian neural networks improve uncertainty estimation in 3D point cloud segmentation for factory planning.

problem Improving uncertainty estimation in 3D point cloud segmentation for factory planning.
method Proposed fully Bayesian and approximate Bayesian neural networks for point cloud segmentation.
result Superior model performance and improved segmentation results with uncertainty incorporation.

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.

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…

2018-07-05abs ↗pdf ↗

We present the OpenAI Remote Rendering Backend (ORRB), a system that allows fast and customizable rendering of robotics environments. It is based on the Unity3d game engine and interfaces with the MuJoCo physics simulation library. ORRB was designed with visual domain randomization in mind. It is optimized for cloud de…

2019-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds for autonomous vehicles.

problem Semantic understanding of 3D LiDAR data for autonomous vehicles.
method Image-based semantic segmentation architectures, network size optimization, improved point cloud projection, soft Dice loss, reduced weight-sharing convolution.
result 3.2% increase in mIoU segmentation performance with 42% reduction in inference time.

FinRL-Meta offers market environments and benchmarks for financial reinforcement learning.

problem Challenges in creating high-quality market environments and benchmarks for financial reinforcement learning.
method DataOps paradigm, automatic pipeline, community-wise competitions, Jupyter/Python demos.
result Openly accessible FinRL-Meta library for data-driven financial reinforcement learning.

Fast and efficient motion planning algorithms are crucial for many state-of-the-art robotics applications such as self-driving cars. Existing motion planning methods become ineffective as their computational complexity increases exponentially with the dimensionality of the motion planning problem. To address this issue…

2018-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2018-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified AI system for data quality control and governance in regulated environments.

problem Isolated data quality control steps in existing systems.
method AI-driven framework integrating rule-based, statistical, and AI methods.
result Empirical gains in anomaly detection, reduced manual remediation, improved auditability.

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…

2015-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2019-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

A novel method compresses point cloud attributes by folding them onto a 2D grid.

problem Efficiently compressing point cloud attributes for storage and transmission.
method Interpreting point clouds as 2D manifolds, folding onto a grid, and mapping attributes to the grid using optimized methods.
result The proposed folding-based approach achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art codecs.

FlexServe simplifies deployment of PyTorch models as REST endpoints.

problem Lack of control over model evolution and strict security requirements in operational environments.
method Developed FlexServe, a library to deploy multi-model ensembles with flexible batching.
result Rapid deployment of PyTorch models without intermediate transformations.

Graph neural networks fail to distinguish certain 3D atom configurations.

problem Graph neural networks (GNN) fail to distinguish certain 3D atom configurations.
method Construction of degenerate 3D atom configurations that are indistinguishable by first-order GNNs.
result First-order GNNs are incomplete for 3D atom configurations.

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…

2019-10-07abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Electroencephalography (EEG) is an extensively-used and well-studied technique in the field of medical diagnostics and treatment for brain disorders, including epilepsy, migraines, and tumors. The analysis and interpretation of EEGs require physicians to have specialized training, which is not common even among most do…

2017-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Point clouds provide a flexible and natural representation usable in countless applications such as robotics or self-driving cars. Recently, deep neural networks operating on raw point cloud data have shown promising results on supervised learning tasks such as object classification and semantic segmentation. While mas…

2019-01-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The virtualization of compute and network resources enables an unseen flexibility for deploying network services. A wide spectrum of emerging technologies allows an ever-growing range of orchestration possibilities in cloud-based environments. But in this context it remains challenging to rhyme dynamic cloud configurat…

2019-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗