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FedML aims to improve FL research by providing a library and benchmark.

problem Inconsistent FL algorithm development and performance comparison.
method FedML offers an open research library and benchmark supporting diverse computing paradigms and flexible API design.
result FedML facilitates fair algorithm comparison and development in federated learning.

This review covers learning under concept drift, including detection, understanding, and adaptation.

problem Unforeseeable changes in data distribution over time impact machine learning performance.
method Reviews and analyzes methodologies and techniques for concept drift detection, understanding, and adaptation.
result Establishes a framework for learning under concept drift with three main components.

To accelerate research on adversarial examples and robustness of machine learning classifiers, Google Brain organized a NIPS 2017 competition that encouraged researchers to develop new methods to generate adversarial examples as well as to develop new ways to defend against them. In this chapter, we describe the struct…

2018-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

A modular framework for knowledge distillation simplifies experiments and reproducibility.

problem Difficulty in reproducing knowledge distillation studies due to lack of generalized frameworks.
method A configuration-driven PyTorch framework for knowledge distillation studies.
result Demonstrates efficient training strategies and various knowledge distillation methods.

Accessibility is a major challenge of machine learning (ML). Typical ML models are built by specialists and require specialized hardware/software as well as ML experience to validate. This makes it challenging for non-technical collaborators and endpoint users (e.g. physicians) to easily provide feedback on model devel…

2019-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

A successful response to climate change needs vast investments in low-carbon research, energy, and sustainable development. Governments can drive research, provide environmental regulation, and accelerate global development, but the necessary low-carbon investments of 2-3% GDP have yet to materialise. A new strategy to…

2018-07-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Fuzzing has played an important role in improving software development and testing over the course of several decades. Recent research in fuzzing has focused on applications of machine learning (ML), offering useful tools to overcome challenges in the fuzzing process. This review surveys the current research in applyin…

2019-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep-CAPTCHA cracks visual CAPTCHAs using deep learning.

problem Cracking visual CAPTCHAs to assess vulnerabilities.
method Developed a Convolutional Neural Network (Deep-CAPTCHA) to solve numerical and alphanumeric CAPTCHAs.
result Cracking accuracy of 98.94% and 98.31% for numerical and alphanumeric datasets respectively.

Machine learning suffers from poor design, data, and evaluation practices.

problem Ad hoc design, poor data hygiene, and lack of statistical rigor in model evaluation.
method Examines the entire machine learning process from design to evaluation, highlighting common pitfalls and providing recommendations.
result Common pitfalls in machine learning research and development are identified and actionable recommendations are provided.

Study examines machine learning competitions' impact on AI development.

problem Fostering innovation and skill development in AI.
method Analysis of major competition platforms, workflows, and participant demographics.
result MLCs promote collaboration, reproducibility, and continuous innovation in AI.

Enhancement attacks can falsely improve machine learning model performance in biomedical research.

problem The trustworthiness of machine learning in biomedical research is threatened by enhancement attacks.
method Developed two techniques to enhance prediction performance with minimal changes to features.
result Falsely improved classifiers' accuracy from 50% to almost 100% while maintaining high feature similarities.

Retrospective and prospective analysis of Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness research.

problem Assessing the Diebold-Yilmaz approach to dynamic network connectedness.
method Retrospective and prospective analysis of Diebold-Yilmaz (2014) and personal recollections.
result Personal insights and retrospective analysis of Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness research.

One of the impediments in advancing actuarial research and developing open source assets for insurance analytics is the lack of realistic publicly available datasets. In this work, we develop a workflow for synthesizing insurance datasets leveraging CTGAN, a recently proposed neural network architecture for generating …

2019-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning has been applied to several problems in particle physics research, beginning with applications to high-level physics analysis in the 1990s and 2000s, followed by an explosion of applications in particle and event identification and reconstruction in the 2010s. In this document we discuss promising futu…

2018-07-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce here very briefly, through some selective choices of problems and through the sample computer simulation programs (following the request of the editor for this invited review in the Journal of Physics Through Computation), the newly developed field of econophysics. Though related attempts could be traced m…

2020-01-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Surveying machine learning for solving graph optimization problems.

problem Solving combinatorial optimization problems on graphs requires algorithmic engineering.
method Surveying machine learning approaches for graph optimization.
result Machine learning offers new ways to solve graph optimization problems.

This research proposes methods to model and assess liability liquidity risk in asset management.

problem Lack of standardized models for liability liquidity risk in asset management.
method Statistical models, zero-inflated models, aggregate and individual-based approaches, and factor models.
result Developed mathematical and statistical approaches to estimate and assess redemption shocks.

Attention Model has now become an important concept in neural networks that has been researched within diverse application domains. This survey provides a structured and comprehensive overview of the developments in modeling attention. In particular, we propose a taxonomy which groups existing techniques into coherent …

2019-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

A recent trend observed in traditionally challenging fields such as computer vision and natural language processing has been the significant performance gains shown by deep learning (DL). In many different research fields, DL models have been evolving rapidly and become ubiquitous. Despite researchers' excitement, unfo…

2019-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Nanotechnology is the first major worldwide research initiative of the 21st century and probably is the solution vector in the economic environment. Also, innovation is widely recognized as a key factor in the economic development of nations, and is essential for the competitiveness of the industrial firms as well. Pol…

2013-03-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Current advances in research, development and application of artificial intelligence (AI) systems have yielded a far-reaching discourse on AI ethics. In consequence, a number of ethics guidelines have been released in recent years. These guidelines comprise normative principles and recommendations aimed to harness the …

2019-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

These are the proceedings of the workshop "Math in the Black Forest", which brought together researchers in shape analysis to discuss promising new directions. Shape analysis is an inter-disciplinary area of research with theoretical foundations in infinite-dimensional Riemannian geometry, geometric statistics, and geo…

2018-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

RD-Agent(Q) automates quantitative finance research and development.

problem Challenges in asset return prediction due to high dimensionality and volatility.
method Data-centric multi-agent framework for automated research and development of quantitative strategies.
result Up to 2X higher annualized returns with 70% fewer factors.

In this paper, we use replica analysis to determine the investment strategy that can maximize the net present value for portfolios containing multiple development projects. Replica analysis was developed in statistical mechanical informatics and econophysics to evaluate disordered systems, and here we use it to formula…

2018-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗