Paper develops image disguising to protect privacy in outsourced deep learning.
problem Privacy concerns in outsourced deep learning, especially re-identification and model-based attacks.
method Develops image disguising approach to protect against attacks.
result Image-disguising mechanisms provide high protection against attacks while maintaining model quality.
Paper shows how noisy data can improve robust decision-making.
problem The challenge of noisy data in decision-making.
method Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) with a novel ambiguity set construction.
result Noisy data can lead to more robust and equitable decisions.
This study uses CNN-IOs to estimate MRI image reconstruction performance bounds.
problem Estimating task-based performance limits for MRI image reconstruction methods.
method Utilized stylized multi-coil SENSE MRI systems and deep-generated stochastic models to estimate IO performance.
result Estimation of IO performance provides guidance for designing under-sampled MRI systems.
New framework shows strategic behavior is actually a form of causal modeling.
problem Designing classifiers that incentivize strategic behavior to improve quality.
method Developed a causal framework to distinguish between gaming and improvement.
result Proved any procedure for designing incentive classifiers must solve a causal inference problem.
New framework explains why nonconvex methods work well in low-rank matrix estimation.
problem Nonconvex low-rank matrix estimation problems in machine learning.
method Developed a theoretical framework revealing a benign regularizer.
result Nonconvex procedures can behave well due to a disguised convexity.
The Adomian decomposition method is shown to be equivalent to the Taylor series approach.
problem Incorrectly perceived complexity of the Adomian decomposition method.
method Demonstrates the Adomian decomposition method as equivalent to the Taylor series approach.
result The Adomian decomposition method is simpler and more straightforward.
Lloyd's K-means is shown to be a Frank-Wolfe algorithm variant.
problem Optimizing the sum of squared errors in clustering.
method Established a connection between Lloyd's K-means and Frank-Wolfe algorithm, derived convergence rates, and developed FW variants for empty clusters.
result Lloyd's K-means is a special case of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm with a non-asymptotic convergence rate of O(1/t).
New duality relationships between finite element spaces on spheres derived from Hodge theory.
problem Developing finite element methods for differential forms on spheres.
method Showed that the duality relationships between finite element spaces are Hodge duality on the sphere, providing explicit correspondences.
result Explicit correspondences between finite element spaces and differential forms on the sphere, including new pointwise duality isomorphisms.
Many distinct problems give birth to Darboux-Halphen system of differential equations and here we review some of them. The first is the classical problem presented by Darboux and later solved by Halphen concerning finding infinite number of double orthogonal surfaces in R3. The second is a problem in genera…
Secret neural networks hidden within trained models.
problem Excess capacity in neural networks allows embedding secret models.
method Novel framework for hiding secret neural networks within carrier networks.
result Detection of hidden networks is computationally infeasible.
Paper discusses gliding algorithm to transform tangle diagrams into a specific form.
problem Transforming tangle diagrams into a specific form.
method Gliding algorithm to bring tangle diagrams to Over-then-Under (OU) form.
result Obtained a braid classification result and extended it to virtual braids.
Paper examines vulnerabilities in data-driven pricing schemes.
problem Vulnerability of clustering-oriented pricing schemes to malicious user behavior.
method Defined a notion of disguising to identify strategic behaviors of malicious users, characterized sensitivity zones to evaluate malicious user percentages, conducted cost benefit analysis.
result Concluded with a vulnerability analysis of data-driven pricing schemes.
A new copula estimation method using classification.
problem Estimating copula density from joint and marginal distributions.
method Train a classifier to distinguish joint density from product of marginals.
result Empirically outperforms existing copula estimators.
LLM safety alignment explained as divergence estimation.
problem Aligning large language models to avoid harmful outputs.
method Presented a theoretical framework showing alignment methods as divergence estimators.
result KLDO method improves safety alignment using compliance-refusal datasets.
This is a research monograph on symplectic cohomology (disguised as an advanced graduate textbook), which provides a construction of this version of Hamiltonian Floer cohomology for cotangent bundles of closed manifolds. The focus is on the aspects of the theory that have been neglected in the literature: (1) the base …
DeFi exploits lead to reduced CP spreads, contrary to contagion hypothesis.
problem Vulnerabilities in DeFi destabilize traditional short-term funding markets.
method Analysis of commercial paper spreads and regulatory segmentation.
result DeFi exploits lead to a 'Flight-to-Quality' pattern, narrowing rather than widening CP spreads.
Study shows impersonators generate fake engagement on Instagram.
problem Impersonators exploit Instagram for fake engagement.
method Examined three communities (Politician, News agency, Sports star) on Instagram, collected data on 4.8K comments and 2.6K likes from 3.8K impersonators over 7 months.
result Impersonators generate significant fake engagement on verified accounts.
Bayesian system helps identify and thwart terrorist plans.
problem Identifying and thwarting terrorist plans before they occur.
method Develops a Bayesian decision support system to integrate member and group activities.
result Estimates the combined threat posed by a terrorist group.
The paper explores machine learning methods for proxy modeling in life insurance solvency capital requirements.
problem Life insurance companies need to estimate solvency capital requirements from full loss distributions, but computational limitations restrict full simulations.
method The paper presents various adaptive machine learning approaches to approximate the risk-dependent proxy function using least-squares Monte Carlo.
result The machine learning methods significantly improve the accuracy and efficiency of proxy modeling compared to traditional regression techniques.
DeepHGNN detects program identity changes using system behaviors.
problem Detecting program identity changes to prevent malware.
method Attentional heterogeneous graph neural network (DeepHGNN) for graph classification.
result DeepHGNN effectively identifies program identities across various metrics.
New study tackles free-rider attacks in federated learning models.
problem Free-rider attacks compromise federated learning models by non-contributing to data updates.
method Theoretical and experimental analysis of iterative federated learning schemes, including FedAvg and FedProx.
result Formal guarantees for free-rider attacks to converge to aggregated models of fair participants.
A new property fixes look-ahead bias in backtesting and trading pipelines.
problem Fixing look-ahead bias in backtesting and trading pipelines.
method Developed a pipeline calculus separating availability from reference time, and a type-and-effect system for the value-independent fragment.
result The check scales linearly and catches all leaks, including those missed by differential and tiling detectors.
DMD separates mixed time series with uncorrelated components.
problem Separating mixed time series with uncorrelated components.
method Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) applied to a data matrix of mixed time series.
result DMD can approximate the mixing matrix of uncorrelated time series.
Using a model based on generalised Lotka Volterra dynamics together with some recent results for the solution of generalised Langevin equations, we show that the equilibrium solution for the probability distribution of wealth has two characteristic regimes. For large values of wealth it takes the form of a Pareto style…
MACH reduces memory usage for extreme classification by hashing.
problem Expensive training of deep models with large softmax layers.
method Merged-Average Classifiers via Hashing (MACH) using count-min sketch.
result Significant memory reduction and training speedup.
CatSIM measures image similarity robustly to small changes.
problem Measuring similarity between images, especially with small perturbations.
method Uses structural similarity image quality paradigm, robust to small location changes.
result Structural similarity between images rated higher when not entirely overlapping.
Develops statistical guarantees for image-to-image regression models.
problem Current image-to-image regression models lack statistical guarantees for model mistakes and hallucinations.
method Uncertainty quantification techniques with rigorous statistical guarantees for image-to-image regression problems.
result Derives uncertainty intervals around each pixel with formal mathematical guarantees.
AugurOne trains single image generators without GANs using image warps.
problem Training end-to-end single image generators without GANs.
method Non-affine augmentations of single input images for training an upscaling neural network.
result End-to-end training yields state-of-the-art performance on conditional generation tasks.
Paper analyzes learning from ghost imaging without reconstruction bottleneck.
problem High-speed cell classification bottleneck in ghost cytometry.
method Theoretical analysis of learning from ghost imaging without reconstruction.
result Theoretical analysis supports learning from ghost imaging without reconstruction.
Total variation denoising improves image quality adaptively.
problem Improving image quality from noisy data.
method Total variation regularization for image denoising.
result Denoised images converge to true images at a parametric rate.
Improves text-to-image generation with bidirectional capabilities.
problem Generating realistic images from text descriptions.
method Integrates text and image modalities using MMVR architecture with n-gram cost function and multiple sentences.
result Significant improvement in image quality over existing methods (over 20%).
Transmission imaging, as an important imaging technique widely used in astronomy, medical diagnosis, and biology science, has been shown in [49] quite different from reflection imaging used in our everyday life. Understanding the structures of images (the prior information) is important for designing, testing, and choo…
A new metric FRD improves comparing medical images.
problem Comparing medical images for distribution or domain differences.
method Developed a new metric FRD using standardized radiomic features.
result FRD outperforms other metrics in various medical imaging applications.
This study investigates how much knowledge from natural images can be transferred to pathology images.
problem Quantifying how much knowledge from natural images can be transferred to pathology images.
method Proposes a framework to quantify knowledge gain by a particular layer, conducts empirical investigation in pathology image centered transfer learning.
result Early layers of deep models can transfer knowledge to pathology image classification tasks.
Generates high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs.
problem Generating realistic images from low-resolution inputs.
method Latent Adversarial Generator (LAG) using perceptual loss.
result Samples of high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs.
Few-shot unsupervised image-to-image translation model learns from a few examples.
problem Current unsupervised image-to-image translation methods require many images at training time.
method Coupling adversarial training with a novel network design for few-shot learning.
result Model achieves effective few-shot image-to-image translation.
Generates synthetic laparoscopic images for training deep neural networks.
problem Lack of large labeled data sets for laparoscopic image processing.
method Unpaired image-to-image translation to generate realistic synthetic images.
result Synthetic data set improves liver segmentation performance without manual labeling.
Content based image retrieval, a technique which uses visual contents of image to search images from large scale image databases according to users' interests. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on recent technology used in the area of content based face image retrieval. Nowadays digital devices and photo shari…
Generative Adversarial Networks optimize model parameters for image matching.
problem Optimizing model parameters for accurate image matching.
method Model-Assisted Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to produce fake images matching true images.
result Best match model parameter values can minimize bias in image recognition.
PG-IM uses neural-symbolic programs to manipulate images.
problem Creating holistic image representations and manipulations.
method PG-IM detects patterns, induces symbolic programs, and manipulates images using a neural network.
result PG-IM learns from a single image and achieves superior performance.
Paper introduces LLISE for image structure learning using SSIM.
problem Image quality assessment using MSE or ℓ2 norm is not promising. method Locally Linear Image Structural Embedding (LLISE) using SSIM.
result LLISE captures image structure features and discriminates distortions.
Paper proposes method to generate images from text using GANs trained on uncaptioned images.
problem Limited captioned image datasets for text-to-image synthesis.
method Conditional GANs trained on uncaptioned images with an Image Captioning Module.
result Promising preliminary results compared to unconditional GANs.
Latent feature models are attractive for image modeling, since images generally contain multiple objects. However, many latent feature models ignore that objects can appear at different locations or require pre-segmentation of images. While the transformed Indian buffet process (tIBP) provides a method for modeling tra…
The paper analyzes relationships between various image models for restoration.
problem Unclear relationships among popular image models for restoration.
method Theoretical analysis and experimental study of image models.
result Improved denoising performance by combining multiple image models.
Deep models generate images with missing high-frequency details.
problem Malicious use of realistic deep-generated images.
method Analysis of Fourier spectrum discrepancies between real and generated images.
result Detection method achieves up to 99.2% accuracy in classifying real and generated images.
StrokeCoder uses Transformers to generate images from single examples.
problem Creating diverse images from a single example.
method Transformer Neural Network learns from a single path-based example to generate a set of images.
result The model can generate a large set of deviated images that still represent the original image's style and concept.
New method reconstructs images from fMRI data using unlabeled data.
problem Challenges in acquiring labeled data for fMRI-to-image reconstruction.
method Self-supervised training with Encoder-Decoder and Decoder-Encoder networks.
result Reconstruction network adapts to new unlabeled test data.
Improved self-supervised learning for document images.
problem Performance of self-supervised pre-training on document images is poor.
method Proposed context-aware alternatives and a novel multi-modal method.
result Novel method outperforms other self-supervised methods on document image classification.