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48 results for cloud services

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.

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.

Optimizes resource allocation for virtualized network functions based on performance profiles.

problem Mapping SLA performance requirements to dynamic virtualized infrastructure resources.
method Profile-based resource allocation using VNF performance datasets and machine learning models.
result A method to predict and recommend optimal resource allocation for network services.

CloudLSTM forecasts geospatial point-cloud data streams accurately.

problem Forecasting over geospatial point-cloud data streams.
method Introduces CloudLSTM, a recurrent neural model with a Dynamic Point-cloud Convolution (DConv) operator.
result CloudLSTM outperforms competitor models in long-term predictions for point-cloud data.

New method detects anomalies in time series data, especially useful for monitoring services.

problem Detecting anomalies in time series data, especially for monitoring services and cloud resources.
method Models time series of probability distributions over real values, scales to millions of time series.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods in detecting anomalies on various data sets.

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.

Proposes a framework for energy-efficient AIGC workload scheduling in cloud data centers.

problem Challenges of scheduling AIGC workloads for energy efficiency and quality control.
method Joint energy management and coordinated AIGC workload scheduling framework with diffusion model-aided reward shaping.
result Effective learning of scheduling policies under sparse environmental feedback.

A wide variety of deep neural applications increasingly rely on the cloud to perform their compute-heavy inference. This common practice requires sending private and privileged data over the network to remote servers, exposing it to the service provider and potentially compromising its privacy. Even if the provider is …

2019-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

In the last two decades, automatic extractive text summarization on lectures has demonstrated to be a useful tool for collecting key phrases and sentences that best represent the content. However, many current approaches utilize dated approaches, producing sub-par outputs or requiring several hours of manual tuning to …

2019-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

The kk-Nearest Neighbor Search (kk-NNS) is the backbone of several cloud-based services such as recommender systems, face recognition, and database search on text and images. In these services, the client sends the query to the cloud server and receives the response in which case the query and response are revealed t…

2019-04-03abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

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 ↗

Modern information technology services largely depend on cloud infrastructures to provide their services. These cloud infrastructures are built on top of datacenter networks (DCNs) constructed with high-speed links, fast switching gear, and redundancy to offer better flexibility and resiliency. In this environment, net…

2018-09-24abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Reinforcement learning improves online matching by combining expert policies.

problem Efficient decision-making in complex systems like cloud services and marketplaces.
method Combines reinforcement learning with expert policies, using advantage-based weight updates.
result The orchestrated policy converges faster and yields higher efficiency than individual experts and conventional RL.

Cloak identifies essential features to preserve prediction privacy without provider collaboration.

problem Discovering the subset of features necessary for a prediction task.
method Gradient-based perturbation maximization method to identify essential features, followed by suppression of the rest using utility-preserving constant values.
result Cloak reduces mutual information between input and sifted representations by 85.01% with negligible utility loss.

MCAL reduces labeling costs by 6x for auto-labeling data sets.

problem Expensive human annotation for ground-truth data sets.
method Iterative approach that trains a classifier to auto-label part of the data set, determining which samples to label using humans and which to label using the classifier at each step.
result 6x lower overall cost compared to human labeling the entire data set, always cheaper than competing strategies.

In this work, we study the problem of learning a single model for multiple domains. Unlike the conventional machine learning scenario where each domain can have the corresponding model, multiple domains (i.e., applications/users) may share the same machine learning model due to maintenance loads in cloud computing serv…

2018-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep-Gap predicts crowdsourcing supply-demand gaps using deep learning.

problem Balancing supply and demand in mobile crowdsourcing.
method Residual learning-based deep neural networks trained on time series data and external factors.
result Deep-Gap achieves lowest forecasting errors compared to state-of-the-art methods.

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.

Orchestrating the Twin Transition in GBS: A Socio-Technical Framework

problem MNCs' need to harmonize digital efficiency with environmental stewardship
method Technology Roadmapping (TRM) with ICT-centric innovation ecosystem toolkit
result Central 'operational airlock' for GBS in harmonizing digital and environmental transformation

EI-MTD defends edge intelligence against adversarial attacks with dynamic scheduling.

problem Adversarial attacks on edge intelligence models.
method EI-MTD uses differential knowledge distillation to create robust member models and a dynamic scheduling policy based on a Bayesian Stackelberg game.
result EI-MTD effectively protects edge intelligence from black-box adversarial attacks.

Machine learning is being increasingly used by individuals, research institutions, and corporations. This has resulted in the surge of Machine Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) - cloud services that provide (a) tools and resources to learn the model, and (b) a user-friendly query interface to access the model. However, suc…

2018-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The study examines backward compatibility issues in ML systems, especially with noisy data.

problem Backward compatibility challenges in ML systems, especially with noisy data.
method Empirical analysis of ML systems across different architectures and datasets, focusing on data shifts and noise.
result Backward compatibility issues arise even without data shift due to optimization stochasticity and training on large-scale noisy datasets can significantly decrease compatibility.

SOTERIA optimizes neural networks for secure inference with minimal overhead.

problem Protecting user privacy in ML-as-a-service models with low overhead.
method Neural architecture search with dual objectives of accuracy and cryptographic efficiency.
result SOTERIA constructs efficient models for secure inference.

Graph neural network constructs a sparse latent point cloud from dense point clouds.

problem Efficiently reconstructing and simulating point clouds with fine details.
method Irregular graph convolutional neural network with non-isotropic operations.
result The model can reconstruct dense point clouds from a sparse latent representation.

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 ↗