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48 results for covert communications

Adversarial perturbations and RIS interaction vectors improve covert communication.

problem Covert communication in the presence of RISs.
method Designing RIS interaction vectors to balance receiver and eavesdropper detection, adding adversarial perturbations to signals.
result Adversarial perturbations and RIS interaction vectors can be jointly designed to boost covert communications.

Evidence acquisition costs influence disclosure behavior and preference.

problem How evidence acquisition costs affect disclosure behavior and preference.
method Analyzes sender-receiver interactions with covert and overt evidence acquisition, varying certification costs.
result Equilibria converge to the Pareto-worst free-learning equilibrium as costs vanish, and receivers prefer covert to overt acquisition.

Watermarking of deep neural networks (DNN) can enable their tracing once released by a data owner. In this paper, we generalize white-box watermarking algorithms for DNNs, where the data owner needs white-box access to the model to extract the watermark. White-box watermarking algorithms have the advantage that they do…

2019-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

A novel unified Bayesian framework for network detection is developed, under which a detection algorithm is derived based on random walks on graphs. The algorithm detects threat networks using partial observations of their activity, and is proved to be optimum in the Neyman-Pearson sense. The algorithm is defined by a …

2013-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Framework detects covert financial market manipulation using LOB representations.

problem Detecting covert financial market manipulation (spoofing) from complex anomaly patterns in multilevel prices.
method Cascaded contrastive representation learning of LOB data.
result Transformer-based architectures achieve state-of-the-art results in detection performance.

Network detection is an important capability in many areas of applied research in which data can be represented as a graph of entities and relationships. Oftentimes the object of interest is a relatively small subgraph in an enormous, potentially uninteresting background. This aspect characterizes network detection as …

2013-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Matryoshka hides secret models in a carrier model, achieving high capacity and robustness.

problem Stealing functionality of private ML data by hiding models in a carrier model.
method Parameter sharing approach exploiting the learning capacity of the carrier model.
result Hides a 26x larger secret model or 8 secret models in the carrier model.

New model detects hidden group structures in criminal networks.

problem Challenges in identifying group structures in criminal networks with noisy data.
method Developed an extended stochastic block model (ESBM) to infer group structures.
result Unveiled complex block structures in an Italian mafia network.

Theory explains power-law distributions without complex models.

problem Understanding power-law distributions in geometrically growing systems.
method Developed a theory of geometrically growing systems and applied it to explain various distributions.
result The geometrically growing system's distribution flattens over time, increasing relative size ratios.

The functional and structural representation of the brain as a complex network is marked by the fact that the comparison of noisy and intrinsically correlated high-dimensional structures between experimental conditions or groups shuns typical mass univariate methods. Furthermore most network estimation methods cannot d…

2013-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

A new framework maximizes influence spread in social networks by accounting for inter-community diffusion.

problem Real-world social networks have inter-community influence that is often overlooked in community-based IM approaches.
method Community-IM++ uses a heuristic based on community-based diffusion degree and progressive budgeting to model and prioritize cross-community diffusion.
result Community-IM++ achieves near-greedy influence spread at up to 100 times lower runtime than existing methods.

We introduce the concept of community trees that summarizes topological structures within a network. A community tree is a tree structure representing clique communities from the clique percolation method (CPM). The community tree also generates a persistent diagram. Community trees and persistent diagrams reveal topol…

2017-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a new paradigm that is important for community detection in the realm of network analysis. Networks contain a set of strong, dominant communities, which interfere with the detection of weak, natural community structure. When most of the members of the weak communities also belong to stronger communities, t…

2017-02-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Study exact community detection in k-community Gaussian mixtures with different intensities.

problem Community detection in k-community Gaussian mixtures with varying intensities.
method Explicitly find the threshold for exact recovery of maximum likelihood estimation.
result Threshold for exact recovery of maximum likelihood estimation is identified.

The paper introduces a method for detecting principal communities and embedding vertices.

problem Detecting and embedding vertices in graphs with community structure.
method Principal graph encoder embedding method that detects principal communities and produces vertex embeddings.
result The method successfully detects principal communities and produces accurate vertex embeddings.

Improved distributed learning with reduced communication costs.

problem Efficient communication in resource-constrained environments for distributed learning.
method Proposed a cost-effective partial communication protocol.
result Communication cost is reduced to O(logT)O(\log T), improving significantly on full communication.

Statistical estimates can often be improved by fusion of data from several different sources. One example is so-called ensemble methods which have been successfully applied in areas such as machine learning for classification and clustering. In this paper, we present an ensemble method to improve community detection by…

2013-09-01abs ↗pdf ↗

MACC learns communication protocols by adapting counterfactual reasoning.

problem Credit assignment and non-stationarity in communication environments.
method Adapts counterfactual reasoning to overcome credit assignment and uses action policy and Q-function of other agents to handle non-stationarity.
result MACC outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in four scenarios.

A framework for multi-agent communication over noisy channels in reinforcement learning.

problem Effective communication between multiple agents in a noisy environment.
method A novel multi-agent partially observable Markov decision process (MA-POMDP) framework considering noisy communication channels.
result Jointly learned policies outperform separate learning of communication and decision making.

Real-world networks usually have community structure, that is, nodes are grouped into densely connected communities. Community detection is one of the most popular and best-studied research topics in network science and has attracted attention in many different fields, including computer science, statistics, social sci…

2018-08-26abs ↗pdf ↗

GRADE models evolving graph dynamics by learning node and community representations.

problem Lack of tools to study temporal community dynamics in evolving graphs.
method GRADE is a probabilistic model that learns evolving node and community representations via a random walk prior and variational inference.
result GRADE outperforms baselines in dynamic link prediction and dynamic community detection.

Paper studies fundamental limits of communication in distributed learning.

problem Communication efficiency in model aggregation for distributed learning.
method Rate-Distortion approach to model aggregation as a vector Gaussian CEO problem.
result Derives rate region bound and sum-rate-distortion function for model aggregation.

Study recovers community structure from coarse graph measurements.

problem Community recovery from low-resolution graph measurements.
method Formalized coarsening process of graph measurements, developed conditions for perfect recovery.
result Simple and closed-form asymptotic conditions for perfect recovery of coarse graph communities.

New algorithm reduces communication traffic in decentralized learning.

problem Communication bottleneck in decentralized learning for low-bandwidth workers.
method Sparsification and adaptive peer selection to reduce communication traffic.
result Significant reduction in communication traffic compared to existing methods.

I2C enables agents to learn efficient communication without redundancy.

problem Redundant broadcast communication in multi-agent cooperation.
method I2C learns a prior for agent-agent communication via causal inference and reinforcement learning.
result I2C reduces communication overhead and improves multi-agent cooperative performance.

Paper explores exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs using Gaussian and exponential distributions.

problem Exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs with Gaussian and exponential distributions.
method Introduces a new semi-metric to describe conditions for exact recovery and analyzes conditions for both complete and incomplete graphs.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for exact recovery are asymptotically tight and applicable to both complete and incomplete graphs.

We investigate the community structure of the global ownership network of transnational corporations. We find a pronounced organization in communities that cannot be explained by randomness. Despite the global character of this network, communities reflect first of all the geographical location of firms, while the indu…

2013-01-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a method to detect fair communities in graphs considering demographic attributes.

problem Inconsistent community detection violates fairness constraints for nodes with demographic attributes.
method Develops an 1\ell_1-regularized pseudo-likelihood approach for fair graphical model selection.
result The method ensures demographic groups are fairly represented within detected communities.

Generative model for creating graphs with new communities.

problem Generating graphs with a new community structure.
method Fit Gaussian mixture model to latent space data and add new clusters based on MDL principle.
result Empirically demonstrated effectiveness of GCA for generating graphs with new community structures.

Study examines Fed's pandemic communication strategies.

problem Analyzing Federal Reserve's communication during the COVID-19 pandemic.
method Sentiment analysis, topic modeling, comparative analysis of previous crises.
result Fed's communication during the pandemic focused on financial stability, market volatility, social welfare, and unconventional monetary policy.

Across many scientific domains, there is a common need to automatically extract a simplified view or coarse-graining of how a complex system's components interact. This general task is called community detection in networks and is analogous to searching for clusters in independent vector data. It is common to evaluate …

2016-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Community detection is a central problem of network data analysis. Given a network, the goal of community detection is to partition the network nodes into a small number of clusters, which could often help reveal interesting structures. The present paper studies community detection in Degree-Corrected Block Models (DCB…

2016-07-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Local network community detection aims to find a single community in a large network, while inspecting only a small part of that network around a given seed node. This is much cheaper than finding all communities in a network. Most methods for local community detection are formulated as ad-hoc optimization problems. In…

2018-04-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows it's impossible to count communities without finding them.

problem Determining the number and sizes of communities in random graph models.
method Hypothesis testing between models with different community structures, using low-degree polynomial framework.
result Testing between two different planted distributions is as hard as finding the communities.

A new MARL framework for community-based cooperation with transfer and active exploration.

problem Flexible coordination patterns in multi-agent systems with community structures.
method Community-based multi-agent reinforcement learning with transfer and active exploration.
result Provably convergent actor-critic algorithms for structured information sharing and transfer learning.