Layout hotpot detection is one of the main steps in modern VLSI design. A typical hotspot detection flow is extremely time consuming due to the computationally expensive mask optimization and lithographic simulation. Recent researches try to facilitate the procedure with a reduced flow including feature extraction, tra…
This work evaluates machine learning-based hotspot detectors on synthesized layout patterns.
problem Evaluating model robustness and generality of machine learning-based hotspot detectors.
method Developed an automatic layout generation tool to synthesize various layout patterns and tested machine learning-based detectors on these synthesized layouts.
result Machine learning-based detectors need continuous study for robustness and generality in DFM flows.
Paper presents a spatio-temporal Bayesian model for early detection of COVID-19 hotspots.
problem Understanding spatio-temporal dynamics of COVID-19 hotspots to prevent outbreaks.
method Spatio-temporal Bayesian framework with a zero-mean Gaussian process and non-stationary kernel function enhanced by deep neural networks.
result Model demonstrates superior hotspot-detection performance compared to baseline methods.
Defense against DL-based lithographic hotspot detectors backdooring attacks reduces success rate from 84% to ~0%
problem DL-based lithographic hotspot detectors are vulnerable to backdoor attacks that can misclassify hotspots.
method Training data augmentation to eliminate intentional biases introduced during training.
result Significant reduction in attack success rate (from 84% to ~0%) using the proposed defense.
There is substantial interest in the use of machine learning (ML) based techniques throughout the electronic computer-aided design (CAD) flow, particularly those based on deep learning. However, while deep learning methods have surpassed state-of-the-art performance in several applications, they have exhibited intrinsi…
New method enhances hotspot prediction in IC designs.
problem Design hotspots vary between designs and are hard to predict.
method Synthetic pattern generation based on DOEs.
result Significantly reduces false alarms in hotspot prediction.
Survey of robust clustering methods for hotspot detection.
problem Detecting false positives in spatial hotspot mapping.
method Statistically rigorous clustering techniques.
result Survey of models and algorithms for robust clustering.
A new clustering algorithm tracks satellite hotspot data for bushfire tracking.
problem Tracking bushfires using satellite data.
method Spatiotemporal clustering algorithm with adjustable parameters.
result The algorithm effectively clusters satellite hotspot data for tracking bushfires.
Modeling infection hotspots to quantify effects of contact tracing and testing.
problem Capturing the role of infection hotspots in disease transmission.
method Temporal point process modeling framework to represent visits and disease transmission.
result Estimation of transmission rates at sites and households using Bayesian optimization.
Anomaly detection identifies unusual malaria transmission patterns in Ghana.
problem Identifying atypical malaria transmission patterns in Ghana's spatiotemporal surveillance data.
method Consensus-based anomaly detection framework applied to monthly malaria surveillance data.
result High-burden areas are not necessarily those with the most frequent anomalous transmission.
The first step in constructing a machine learning model is defining the features of the data set that can be used for optimal learning. In this work we discuss feature selection methods, which can be used to build better models, as well as achieve model interpretability. We applied these methods in the context of stres…
Robust model detects outliers in spatiotemporal epidemic data.
problem Outliers in epidemic data can mislead public health decisions.
method RST-GAM with mean-shift, adaptive Lasso, splines, and proximal algorithm.
result Demonstrates effectiveness in real-world COVID-19 data analysis.
Design rule check is a critical step in the physical design of integrated circuits to ensure manufacturability. However, it can be done only after a time-consuming detailed routing procedure, which adds drastically to the time of design iterations. With advanced technology nodes, the outcomes of global routing and deta…
Model predicts drug overdose hotspots using EMS and toxicology data.
problem Predicting drug overdose hotspots to focus limited services.
method Spatial-temporal point process model integrating EMS and toxicology data.
result Model improves prediction accuracy by integrating heterogeneous data.
Model predicts unseen climate extremes to inform risk planning.
problem Missing unseen climate extremes in historical records.
method DeepX-GAN model capturing spatial dependence.
result Unseen heat extremes disproportionately threaten vulnerable regions.
Proposes a group-splicing algorithm for efficient BSGS in high-dimensional settings.
problem Efficiently selecting a small part of non-overlapping groups for best interpretability in high-dimensional settings.
method Iteratively detects relevant groups and excludes irrelevant ones using a novel group information criterion.
result Certifiable polynomial-time algorithm for identifying the optimal subset of groups with high probability.
In this study, the wind data series from five locations in Aegean Sea islands, the most active `hotspots' in terms of refugee influx during the Oct/2015 - Jan/2016 period, are investigated. The analysis of the three-per-site data series includes standard statistical analysis and parametric distributions, auto-correlati…
The anomaly detection of time series is a hotspot of time series data mining. The own characteristics of different anomaly detectors determine the abnormal data that they are good at. There is no detector can be optimizing in all types of anomalies. Moreover, it still has difficulties in industrial production due to pr…
Vacant taxi drivers' passenger seeking process in a road network generates additional vehicle miles traveled, adding congestion and pollution into the road network and the environment. This paper aims to employ a Markov Decision Process (MDP) to model idle e-hailing drivers' optimal sequential decisions in passenger-se…
Automated rock fragmentation assessment using deep learning and spatial statistics.
problem Assessing post-blast rock fragmentation in real-time.
method Fine-tuned YOLO12l-seg model for instance segmentation, followed by spatial statistics.
result Framework accurately assesses rock fragmentation patterns in real-time.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown huge superiority over humans in image recognition, speech processing, autonomous vehicles and medical diagnosis. However, recent studies indicate that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs), which are designed by attackers to fool deep learning models. Different from re…
Population migration is valuable information which leads to proper decision in urban-planning strategy, massive investment, and many other fields. For instance, inter-city migration is a posterior evidence to see if the government's constrain of population works, and inter-community immigration might be a prior evidenc…
DNN-based cross-modal retrieval has become a research hotspot, by which users can search results across various modalities like image and text. However, existing methods mainly focus on the pairwise correlation and reconstruction error of labeled data. They ignore the semantically similar and dissimilar constraints bet…
This paper reviews digital transformation research from 2011-2024, focusing on corporate finance.
problem Lack of systematic review in digital transformation from corporate finance perspective.
method Combines bibliometric and content analysis methods.
result Emerging and rapidly growing focus on digital transformation, particularly in developed countries.
Study estimates heterogeneous principal causal effects with binary treatments and intermediate variables.
problem Estimating subgroup effects within strata defined by potential values of an intermediate variable.
method Proposes a framework for estimating and forming confidence intervals for heterogeneous principal causal effects under principal ignorability assumption. Develops several estimators with varying robustness properties.
result Established large-sample theory and analyzed bias contributions of each approach.
This paper studies how social media posts, especially by executives, affect stock prices.
problem Predicting stock market movements using social media data.
method Integrated sentiment analysis of Twitter and Reddit posts with historical stock data using time series models and deep learning.
result Improvements in stock price prediction when social media data, especially executive posts, are included.
An explosion of high-throughput DNA sequencing in the past decade has led to a surge of interest in population-scale inference with whole-genome data. Recent work in population genetics has centered on designing inference methods for relatively simple model classes, and few scalable general-purpose inference techniques…
Study predicts wind energy potential in Gulf of Oman using climate models.
problem Predicting future wind energy potential in the Gulf of Oman.
method Used ERA5 and MENA simulations to project historical and future wind energy variability.
result Selected locations have suitable potential for wind power turbine construction.
Algorithm improves wildlife protection patrols.
problem Balancing exploration and exploitation in patrolling vast protected areas.
method Formulated as a stochastic multi-armed bandit problem, leveraging smoothness and decomposability.
result Algorithm LIZARD improves performance on real-world poaching data.
Predictive policing models can be biased by differential crime reporting rates.
problem Bias in predictive policing models due to differential crime reporting.
method Simulation based on Bogotá, Colombia's victimization and crime reporting data.
result Differential crime reporting rates can lead to misallocation of police patrols.
Survival analysis is a hotspot in statistical research for modeling time-to-event information with data censorship handling, which has been widely used in many applications such as clinical research, information system and other fields with survivorship bias. Many works have been proposed for survival analysis ranging …
Paper proposes methods to localize sources in WSNs without knowing sensor parameters.
problem Source localization in WSNs without sensor parameter knowledge.
method Hitting set approach and feature selection method.
result Effective source localization methods validated through simulations.
This paper compares deep learning and knowledge-based methods for pedestrian trajectory prediction.
problem Predicting pedestrian trajectories in crowded scenes is challenging due to external factors.
method Comprehensive comparison of deep learning and knowledge-based models.
result Deep learning models outperform knowledge-based models in local trajectory prediction.
AI enhances quantitative investment for better returns and risk control.
problem Achieving stable returns through AI in quantitative investment.
method Application of AI technology in quantitative investment strategies.
result AI improves investment performance and risk management.
This research predicts Bitcoin prices using wavelet and deep stacking approach.
problem Predicting price fluctuations of Bitcoin due to its price volatility.
method Wavelet for noise removal, deep learning models (neural networks and transformers), feature selection.
result The model achieved high accuracy in predicting Bitcoin prices at different time intervals.
Conditional diffusion models improve data generation with non-asymptotic convergence bounds.
problem Lack of non-asymptotic properties in conditional diffusion models.
method Integrates a pre-trained model into the diffusion model framework to capture conditional distributions.
result Established upper error bounds for the convergence between original and generated conditional distributions.
Survey on machine learning from very few samples.
problem Learning and generalizing from very few samples.
method Comprehensive review of 300+ FSL papers.
result Meta learning based FSL approaches are emphasized.
New link detection results using closures of 3-braids.
problem Link detection using homology theories.
method Closure operations on 3-braids and homology theories.
result Detection of specific links using link Floer homology, Khovanov homology, and annular Khovanov homology.
Deep learning improves anomaly detection across various fields.
problem Detecting anomalies in data with advanced approaches.
method Survey of deep learning methods for anomaly detection.
result Advancements in deep anomaly detection address unique challenges.
Graph energy helps detect communities in networks better than traditional methods.
problem Detecting communities in sparse networks where traditional methods fail.
method Using graph energy based on the full spectrum of adjacency matrices.
result The difference in graph energy between a planted partition model and an Erdős--Rényi network has a distinct transition at the detectability threshold.
Monitoring gas turbine combustors health, in particular, early detecting abnormal behaviors and incipient faults, is critical in ensuring gas turbines operating efficiently and in preventing costly unplanned maintenance. One popular means of detecting combustor abnormalities is through continuously monitoring exhaust g…
Develops slope detection for 3-manifolds with torus boundaries.
problem Determining slopes on the boundary of 3-manifolds with torus boundaries.
method Introduces order-detection and representation-detection of slopes, proving their equivalence.
result Shows how slopes' behavior changes with cabling, improving previous results.
2DSig-Detect detects adversarial perturbations in images.
problem Adversarial attacks degrade image model performance.
method 2D-signature embedded semi-supervised framework using rough path theory.
result 2DSig-Detect outperforms other methods in detecting adversarial perturbations.
Develops a method to detect changes in linear systems with temporal correlations.
problem Detect abrupt changes in time series data with temporal correlations.
method Data-dependent threshold for online change point detection in linear dynamical systems.
result Achieves a pre-specified upper bound on the probability of false alarms and provides a finite-sample-based bound for detection probability.
Tackles the computational hardness of HPC detection, conjecturing equivalence to PC detection.
problem Computational hardness of hypergraphic planted clique detection.
method No specific method mentioned; focuses on conjecturing equivalence.
result Equivalence of computational hardness between HPC and PC detection.
Reduced order modeling of energetic materials using physics-aware neural networks.
problem Simulating complex spatiotemporal dynamics in energetic materials.
method Physics-aware recurrent convolutions (PARC) combined with latent space projection to accelerate model training and inference.
result Significant decrease in training and inference time with comparable accuracy.
Real-time fuel leakage detection framework MOCPD improves accuracy.
problem Early detection of fuel leakage to prevent hazards and losses.
method Memory-based Online Change Point Detection (MOCPD) framework.
result MOCPD outperforms baseline methods in detection accuracy.
Study on detecting hierarchical community structures in networks.
problem Detecting hierarchical community structures in networks.
method Analysis of planted hierarchies of partitions in networks, identifying additional detectability phases.
result There are additional phases in which the presence of multiple consistent partitions can either help or hinder detection of hierarchical structures.