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Machine learning methods are widely used for a variety of prediction problems. \emph{Prediction as a service} is a paradigm in which service providers with technological expertise and computational resources may perform predictions for clients. However, data privacy severely restricts the applicability of such services…
With the widespread use of machine learning (ML) techniques, ML as a service has become increasingly popular. In this setting, an ML model resides on a server and users can query it with their data via an API. However, if the user's input is sensitive, sending it to the server is undesirable and sometimes even legally …
Paper introduces privacy-preserving deep-learning service.
problem Privacy loss in deep-learning-as-a-service.
method Homomorphic Encryption tailored for CNNs.
result Effectiveness of proposed privacy-preserving architecture.
Network Based Pricing for 3D Printing Services in Two-Sided Manufacturing-as-a-Service Marketplacecs.LG
This paper presents approaches to determine a network based pricing for 3D printing services in the context of a two-sided manufacturing-as-a-service marketplace. The intent is to provide cost analytics to enable service bureaus to better compete in the market by moving away from setting ad-hoc and subjective prices. A…
Algorithms are increasingly common components of high-impact decision-making, and a growing body of literature on adversarial examples in laboratory settings indicates that standard machine learning models are not robust. This suggests that real-world systems are also susceptible to manipulation or misclassification, w…
The detection of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks remains a challenge for the cloud environment, affecting a massive number of services and applications hosted by such virtualized infrastructures. Typically, in the literature, the detection of DoS attacks is performed solely by analyzing the traffic of packets in the ne…
Future wireless networks have a substantial potential in terms of supporting a broad range of complex compelling applications both in military and civilian fields, where the users are able to enjoy high-rate, low-latency, low-cost and reliable information services. Achieving this ambitious goal requires new radio techn…
We introduce and describe the results of a novel shared task on bandit learning for machine translation. The task was organized jointly by Amazon and Heidelberg University for the first time at the Second Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2017). The goal of the task is to encourage research on learning machine tra…
Machine learning simplifies finance, but faces challenges.
problem Adopting machine learning in finance.
method Analyzing challenges in financial services adoption.
result Challenges in finance adoption of ML.
The boom of deep learning induced many industries and academies to introduce machine learning based approaches into their concern, competitively. However, existing machine learning frameworks are limited to sufficiently fulfill the collaboration and management for both data and models. We proposed NSML, a machine learn…
Machine learning improves financial stress testing in Indian markets.
problem Conventional stress testing limitations in Indian financial markets.
method Dimensionality reduction, latent factor modeling, Variational Autoencoders, Monte Carlo simulation.
result Improved flexibility, robustness, and realism in financial stress testing.
Classification-as-a-Service (CaaS) is widely deployed today in machine intelligence stacks for a vastly diverse set of applications including anything from medical prognosis to computer vision tasks to natural language processing to identity fraud detection. The computing power required for training complex models on l…
Recently, mobile operators in many developing economies have launched "Mobile Money" platforms that deliver basic financial services over the mobile phone network. While many believe that these services can improve the lives of the poor, a consistent difficulty has been identifying individuals most likely to benefit fr…
We present ease.ml, a declarative machine learning service platform we built to support more than ten research groups outside the computer science departments at ETH Zurich for their machine learning needs. With ease.ml, a user defines the high-level schema of a machine learning application and submits the task via a W…
FrugalML optimizes API selection for cost and accuracy.
problem Challenges in choosing the best ML prediction APIs.
method Proposes FrugalML, a framework that learns API strengths and weaknesses.
result Achieves up to 90% cost reduction with matching accuracy.
We introduce Microsoft Machine Learning for Apache Spark (MMLSpark), an ecosystem of enhancements that expand the Apache Spark distributed computing library to tackle problems in Deep Learning, Micro-Service Orchestration, Gradient Boosting, Model Interpretability, and other areas of modern computation. Furthermore, we…
Machine learning (ML) models may be deemed confidential due to their sensitive training data, commercial value, or use in security applications. Increasingly often, confidential ML models are being deployed with publicly accessible query interfaces. ML-as-a-service ("predictive analytics") systems are an example: Some …
VarDetect monitors API queries to detect model extraction attacks.
problem Attackers can extract ML models through API queries.
method VarDetect uses a modified variational autoencoder to track and detect attacker samples.
result VarDetect successfully detects and raises alarms for model extraction attacks.
Sherpa.ai framework combines federated learning and differential privacy for edge AI services.
problem Protecting data privacy in edge AI services.
method Holistic federated learning and differential privacy approach with methodological guidelines.
result Demonstrated through classification and regression use cases.
The paper proposes a method for interpretable mixture density estimation using a tree structure.
problem Complex probability distributions in machine learning models.
method Interpretable tree structure for mixture density estimation with fast inference.
result The method achieves both high speed and interpretability for mixture density estimation.
Future buildings will offer new convenience, comfort, and efficiency possibilities to their residents. Changes will occur to the way people live as technology involves into people's lives and information processing is fully integrated into their daily living activities and objects. The future expectation of smart build…
Federated Learning prioritizes client data contributions for better model quality.
problem Privacy concerns and reluctance to share private data in machine learning.
method Prioritizes client data contributions in Federated Learning by assigning scores based on defined criteria.
result The proposed approach yields a higher quality global model compared to standard Federated Learning.
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.
Wide-AdGraph detects ads and trackers using a graph of resource requests.
problem Detecting and blocking ad trackers to protect user privacy.
method Combining a large-scale graph of resource requests from multiple websites to train a machine learning algorithm.
result High accuracy (96.1% biased, 90.9% unbiased) in detecting ads and trackers.
This paper improves bidding price prediction for ancillary services markets, boosting revenues.
problem Volatility in renewable energy sources affects grid stability and revenue optimization.
method Machine learning models (SVR, DT, k-NN) and offset adjustment for pay-as-bid markets.
result The proposed approach increases potential revenues by 27.43% to 37.31% compared to baseline models.
Introducing CausalBench: A Flexible Benchmark Framework for Causal Analysis and Machine Learningcs.LG
CausalBench aims to advance causal learning research with a transparent platform.
problem Lack of unified benchmark datasets, algorithms, metrics, and evaluation interfaces for causal learning.
method Introduces CausalBench, a flexible benchmark framework for causal analysis and machine learning.
result Promotes scientific collaboration, reproducibility, and awareness in causal learning research.
Detecting faults and SLA violations in a timely manner is critical for telecom providers, in order to avoid loss in business, revenue and reputation. At the same time predicting SLA violations for user services in telecom environments is difficult, due to time-varying user demands and infrastructure load conditions. In…
Quantum computing offers new solutions for finance problems.
problem Challenging classical computational problems in finance.
method Quantum algorithms for finance applications.
result Potential benefits for financial services.
The financial services industry has unique explainability and fairness challenges arising from compliance and ethical considerations in credit decisioning. These challenges complicate the use of model machine learning and artificial intelligence methods in business decision processes.
Paper uses machine learning to optimize UAV deployment for traffic offloading.
problem Optimizing UAV deployment for efficient traffic offloading from ground BSs.
method LSTM for traffic prediction, KEG algorithm for service area determination, multi-access techniques comparison.
result RSMA reduces up to 24% total power consumption compared to conventional methods.
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 …
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.
Counterfactual learning is a natural scenario to improve web-based machine translation services by offline learning from feedback logged during user interactions. In order to avoid the risk of showing inferior translations to users, in such scenarios mostly exploration-free deterministic logging policies are in place. …
Using Reinforcement Learning to Allocate and Manage Service Function Chains in Cellular Networkscs.NI
Paper uses RL to optimize SFC deployment and VNF management in NFV networks.
problem Optimizing SFC deployment and VNF management in NFV networks to reduce packet loss.
method Reinforcement Learning (PPO) to optimize SFC deployment and VNF management.
result PPO agent reduces packet loss in SFC deployment and VNF management.
Focuses on monitoring and explaining models in real-world applications.
problem Ensuring high quality machine learning services in production environments.
method Statistical techniques for model performance and data monitoring, explanations of predictions.
result Challenges and solutions for implementing monitoring and explanation in production models.
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.
PSO optimizes hyperparameters for edge ML models in FL.
problem Efficient local training and inference at edge devices.
method Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for hyperparameter tuning.
result PSO reduces the number of communication rounds by 2 orders of magnitude.
This papers presents a deep learning-based framework to predict crowdsourced service availability spatially and temporally. A novel two-stage prediction model is introduced based on historical spatio-temporal traces of mobile crowdsourced services. The prediction model first clusters mobile crowdsourced services into r…
The remarkable success of machine learning, especially deep learning, has produced a variety of cloud-based services for mobile users. Such services require an end user to send data to the service provider, which presents a serious challenge to end-user privacy. To address this concern, prior works either add noise to …
In this paper, we present machine learning approaches for characterizing and forecasting the short-term demand for on-demand ride-hailing services. We propose the spatio-temporal estimation of the demand that is a function of variable effects related to traffic, pricing and weather conditions. With respect to the metho…
In the industry of video content providers such as VOD and IPTV, predicting the popularity of video contents in advance is critical not only from a marketing perspective but also from a network optimization perspective. By predicting whether the content will be successful or not in advance, the content file, which is l…
Machine learning services pose privacy risks if data or model parameters are compromised.
problem Privacy risks in machine learning services when data or model parameters are exposed.
method Systematic review of privacy challenges, adversarial models, attacks, and defenses.
result Need for better evaluations, targeted defenses, and policy studies.
This paper tackles fair same-day delivery service by optimizing regional service rates.
problem Fairness in same-day delivery service for different neighborhoods.
method Partition service area into regions, use multi-objective Markov decision process and deep Q-learning.
result Our approach maximizes fairness across all regions while maintaining overall service rate.
We propose a framework for verifying data deletion in MLaaS systems.
problem Ensuring compliance with data deletion requests in MLaaS systems.
method Formal framework based on hypothesis testing, novel backdoor-based verification mechanism.
result Demonstrated high confidence in certifying data deletion with minimal impact on ML service accuracy.
Improves ASR accuracy for domain mismatch using machine translation.
problem Domain mismatch in ASR systems leads to suboptimal results.
method Machine translation to map out-of-domain ASR errors to in-domain terms.
result 7% absolute improvement in word error rate, 4 point BLEU score improvement.
With the growing demand for data connectivity, network service providers are faced with the task of reducing their capital and operational expenses while simultaneously improving network performance and addressing the increased connectivity demand. Although Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been identified as a…
PASS protects private attributes by stochastically substituting data.
problem Protecting private attributes in ML services while maintaining data utility.
method PASS uses stochastic data substitution with a novel loss function derived from information theory.
result PASS effectively protects private attributes across various datasets.