YOLOv3 detects ships in real-time with high accuracy.
problem Real-time target detection in maritime scenarios.
method YOLOv3 model trained on a large dataset of marine vessels.
result Average Precision up to 96% for IoU of 0.5.
Enhances safety of 3D object detection neural networks.
problem Ensuring robustness and safety of 3D object detection systems.
method Symbolic error propagation, specialized loss function, safety-aware non-max-inclusion algorithm.
result Improved safety and robustness of 3D object detection neural networks.
Single-stage neural architecture improves text-to-image synthesis.
problem Combining text and image generation is challenging.
method Used deep residual networks and sentence interpolation.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance with single-stage training.
This letter presents the sparse vector signal detection from one bit compressed sensing measurements, in contrast to the previous works which deal with scalar signal detection. In this letter, available results are extended to the vector case and the GLRT detector and the optimal quantizer design are obtained. Also, a …
A novel framework for regression with multiple experts, addressing challenges in infinite and continuous label spaces.
problem Challenges in regression with multiple experts due to the infinite and continuous nature of the label space.
method Introduces a novel framework for regression with deferral, analyzing both single-stage and two-stage scenarios with new surrogate loss functions.
result Proves H-consistency bounds for both single-stage and two-stage methods, providing stronger guarantees than Bayes consistency. Dual-stage sEMG classification improves gesture recognition accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy in hand gesture recognition from sEMG signals.
method Dual-stage classification approach: first stage groups similar activities, second stage classifies within groups.
result Dual-stage classification yields significantly higher accuracy than single-stage approach.
Adversarial perturbations fool deepfake detectors with high accuracy.
problem Improving deepfake detection accuracy against adversarial attacks.
method Used adversarial perturbations and two defenses: Lipschitz regularization and Deep Image Prior (DIP).
result Deepfake detectors achieved 27% accuracy on perturbed images, compared to 95% on unperturbed.
This paper studies concept drift detectors for financial time series.
problem Improving accuracy on financial time series with concept drifts.
method Three simple concept drift detectors tailored to financial time series.
result Two of the detectors are as effective as state-of-the-art detectors.
This thesis tackles learning with multi-class abstention and multi-expert deferral, improving model reliability and efficiency.
problem Improving model reliability and efficiency in large language models (LLMs) by leveraging multiple experts.
method Developed new surrogate losses and consistency guarantees for multi-class classification and regression with deferral.
result Strong consistency guarantees for surrogate losses in multi-class classification and regression with deferral.
We explore the use of graph networks to deal with irregular-geometry detectors in the context of particle reconstruction. Thanks to their representation-learning capabilities, graph networks can exploit the full detector granularity, while natively managing the event sparsity and arbitrarily complex detector geometries…
In this paper, deep neural network (DNN) is utilized to improve the belief propagation (BP) detection for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. A neural network architecture suitable for detection task is firstly introduced by unfolding BP algorithms. DNN MIMO detectors are then proposed based on two m…
New method uses neural networks to estimate parameters without needing detector simulations.
problem Estimating parameters in high-energy physics with detector effects.
method Two-level fitting approach: SRGN (Simulation-level fit based on Reweighting Generator-level events with Neural networks).
result Demonstrated using simulated datasets, SRGN can estimate parameters without detector effects.
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…
We introduce a Bayesian defect detector to facilitate the defect detection on the motion blurred images on rough texture surfaces. To enhance the accuracy of Bayesian detection on removing non-defect pixels, we develop a class of reflected non-local prior distributions, which is constructed by using the mode of a distr…
Modern smart grids rely on advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) networks for monitoring and billing purposes. However, such an approach suffers from electricity theft cyberattacks. Different from the existing research that utilizes shallow, static, and customer-specific-based electricity theft detectors, this paper p…
TomOpt optimizes muon detector designs using differentiable programming.
problem Designing efficient particle detectors for muon tomography.
method Differentiable programming for muon interaction modeling, inference, and optimisation.
result Demonstrated end-to-end differentiable and inference-aware optimisation of particle physics instruments.
DCSO dynamically selects top-performing base detectors for outlier ensembles.
problem Challenges in selecting and combining outlier scores from different detectors.
method DCSO dynamically selects top-performing base detectors based on local k-nearest neighbors.
result DCSO provides consistent performance improvement over static combination approaches.
ImageNet pre-training has been regarded as essential for training accurate object detectors for a long time. Recently, it has been shown that object detectors trained from randomly initialized weights can be on par with those fine-tuned from ImageNet pre-trained models. However, the effects of pre-training and the diff…
Improves relevancy of black-box anomaly detectors with user feedback.
problem Users often ignore many detected anomalies, requiring a method to identify and prioritize relevant ones.
method Uses user feedback to adjust anomaly selection process based on identified anomaly types.
result Significant improvements in precision and recall over various anomaly detectors.
Variational autoencoders model water Cherenkov detector data.
problem Modeling generative distribution of water Cherenkov detector data.
method Variational autoencoders and normalizing flows.
result Demonstrated capability of variational autoencoders for generative modelling.
The paper introduces a privacy-preserving method for estimating treatment effects that maintains accuracy.
problem Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in sensitive data while protecting privacy.
method A general meta-algorithm for CATE estimation with differential privacy guarantees, using sample splitting and parallel composition.
result The meta-algorithm maintains accuracy even with differential privacy, showing that most accuracy loss is due to variance increase.
In this paper, we consider signal detection algorithms in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) decode-forward (DF) relay channel with one source, one relay, and one destination. The existing suboptimal near maximum likelihood (NML) detector and the NML with two-level pair-wise error probability (NMLw2PEP) detector a…
Novel unsupervised MIG detectors improve signal detection in cluttered environments.
problem Signal detection in nonhomogeneous clutter environments.
method Developed novel discriminative MIG detectors using HPD matrices and geometric measures.
result Improved signal detection performance compared to conventional methods.
Unified detector calibration and simulation using MLE from generative models.
problem Combining detector calibration and simulation using traditional methods.
method Maximum likelihood estimation from conditional generative models.
result Prior-independent and non-Gaussian resolutions possible.
This paper proposes a generic classification system designed to detect security threats based on the behavior of malware samples. The system relies on statistical features computed from proxy log fields to train detectors using a database of malware samples. The behavior detectors serve as basic reusable building block…
Detect anomalies in complex networks using topological subspace detectors.
problem Detect anomalies in complex networks defined by simplicial complexes.
method Formulate a hypothesis testing framework using Neyman-Pearson matched topological subspace detectors.
result Effective detection of anomalies in foreign currency exchange networks and other real-world data.
Continuous dropout mimics brain neuron firing rates to prevent feature detector co-adaptation.
problem Preventing overfitting in deep neural networks.
method Extending binary dropout to continuous dropout, inspired by brain neuron firing rates.
result Continuous dropout improves test performance by preventing feature detector co-adaptation.
DALC customizes LSTM models for detectors in large-scale traffic networks.
problem Fine-grained traffic prediction for large-scale transportation networks.
method Formulated as a finite Markov decision process, introduced ALC algorithm for automatic customization, and developed DALC for distributed customization.
result DALC provides higher prediction accuracy than Apache Spark MLlib approaches.
Spectrum sensing is of critical importance in any cognitive radio system. When the primary user's signal has uncertain parameters, the likelihood ratio test, which is the theoretically optimal detector, generally has no closed-form expression. As a result, spectrum sensing under parameter uncertainty remains an open qu…
CoVAE improves VAEs by reducing training steps and improving quality.
problem Two-stage training overhead and increased sampling times.
method Consistency training of VAEs with progressive latent representations and time-dependent β parameter.
result CoVAE generates high-quality samples in one or few steps.
DistPre predicts traffic speeds efficiently for large networks.
problem Fine-grained, accurate speed prediction for large-scale transportation networks.
method Customizes LSTM models on a cluster, sharing trained models between detectors.
result Efficient and accurate fine-grained traffic-speed prediction.
An adversarial detector identifies anomalous sequences in sequential data.
problem Detecting anomalous sequences in one-class settings with limited data.
method Solves a minimax problem to find an optimal detector against the worst-case sequences from a generator, using marked point process model.
result Demonstrated good performance on simulations and real credit card fraud datasets.
A new OOD detector using an overlap index improves accuracy without high computational costs.
problem Effective OOD detection for machine learning models in open-world scenarios.
method Proposes an overlap index-based confidence score function for OOD detection.
result The proposed method achieves competitive accuracy with lower computational costs compared to state-of-the-art detectors.
Variational autoencoder is a powerful deep generative model with variational inference. The practice of modeling latent variables in the VAE's original formulation as normal distributions with a diagonal covariance matrix limits the flexibility to match the true posterior distribution. We propose a new transformation, …
New method uses SHapley Additive Explanations to identify anomaly detectors with complementary behaviors.
problem Challenges in unsupervised anomaly detection due to diverse data distributions and lack of labels.
method Characterize anomaly detectors using SHapley Additive Explanations to measure feature importance and similarity.
result Detectors with similar explanations produce correlated anomaly scores, while those with divergent explanations are complementary.
Study complex-valued VAEs for radar OOD detection.
problem Detecting out-of-distribution signals in complex radar environments.
method Proposed and compared several detection metrics for CVAE.
result CVAE-MSE and latent-based scores outperform ANMF-Tyler.
This paper tackles deferral learning with multiple experts, providing strong theoretical guarantees.
problem Optimizing input assignment to experts balancing accuracy and computational cost.
method Introducing new surrogate loss functions and efficient algorithms with strong theoretical learning guarantees.
result Realizable H-consistency, H-consistency bounds, and Bayes-consistency for deferral learning. A novel UNet detector detects sheep in UAV imagery.
problem Detecting small objects (sheep) in UAV imagery.
method Developed a novel dataset, used various object detectors, and evaluated their performance.
result UNet detector with weighted Hausdorff distance is best for sheep detection.
Paper studies autoencoder-based anomaly detectors' robustness to adversarial poisoning attacks.
problem Adversarial poisoning attacks on online-trained autoencoder-based anomaly detectors in ICSs.
method Proposes two algorithms for generating poison samples and evaluates them on synthetic and real-world ICS data.
result Autoencoder detectors are resilient to poisoning in the face of all relevant attacks in the SWaT dataset.
Machine learning and deep learning in particular has advanced tremendously on perceptual tasks in recent years. However, it remains vulnerable against adversarial perturbations of the input that have been crafted specifically to fool the system while being quasi-imperceptible to a human. In this work, we propose to aug…
Deep learning speeds up gravitational wave analysis.
problem Computational challenge in analyzing gravitational wave data.
method Trained a neural-network to model posterior probability distributions over 15-dimensional system parameters.
result Generated accurate posterior samples at high speed.
It is widely believed that the backpropagation algorithm is essential for learning good feature detectors in early layers of artificial neural networks, so that these detectors are useful for the task performed by the higher layers of that neural network. At the same time, the traditional form of backpropagation is bio…
AutoIDS uses auto-encoders to detect network intrusions efficiently.
problem Detecting network intrusions with high accuracy and efficiency.
method Semi-supervised machine learning with cascading encoder-decoder neural networks.
result AutoIDS achieves 90.17% accuracy on NSL-KDD dataset, superior to other methods.
DSDE improves OoD detection by estimating model library proportions.
problem Uncertainty quantification and balanced error rates in model selection for OoD detection.
method Inverted sequential p-value strategies, change-point detection, automatic hyperparameter selection.
result DSDE reduces FPR from 11.07% to 3.31% on CIFAR10.
With the proliferation of social media, fashion inspired from celebrities, reputed designers as well as fashion influencers has shortened the cycle of fashion design and manufacturing. However, with the explosion of fashion related content and large number of user generated fashion photos, it is an arduous task for fas…
Reviews spams are prevalent in e-commerce to manipulate product ranking and customers decisions maliciously. While spams generated based on simple spamming strategy can be detected effectively, hardened spammers can evade regular detectors via more advanced spamming strategies. Previous work gave more attention to evas…
In this era of big data, databases are growing rapidly in terms of the number of records. Fast automatic detection of anomalous records in these massive databases is a challenging task. Traditional distance based anomaly detectors are not applicable in these massive datasets. Recently, a simple but extremely fast anoma…
Method explains anomaly detection by generating normal modifications.
problem Complexity of deep learning methods in anomaly detection.
method Generates multiple alternative modifications for anomalies.
result High-quality semantic explanations provided for anomaly detection.