Reviewerly/exHarmony huggingface dataset:
Efficient Device Scheduling with Multi-Job Federated Learning

Recent years have witnessed a large amount of decentralized data in multiple (edge) devices of end-users, while the aggregation of the decentralized data remains difficult for machine learning jobs due to laws or regulations. Federated Learning (FL) emerges as an effective approach to handling decentralized data without sharing the sensitive raw data, while collaboratively training global machine learning models. The servers in FL need to select (and schedule) devices during the training process. However, the scheduling of devices for multiple jobs with FL remains a critical and open problem. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-job FL framework to enable the parallel training process of multiple jobs. The framework consists of a system model and two scheduling methods. In the system model, we propose a parallel training process of multiple jobs, and construct a cost model based on the training time and the data fairness of various devices during the training process of diverse jobs. We propose a reinforcement learning-based method and a Bayesian optimization-based method to schedule devices for multiple jobs while minimizing the cost. We conduct extensive experimentation with multiple jobs and datasets. The experimental results show that our proposed approaches significantly outperform baseline approaches in terms of training time (up to 8.67 times faster) and accuracy (up to 44.6% higher).
Mutual Adversarial Training: Learning Together is Better Than Going Alone

Recent studies have shown that robustness to adversarial attacks can be transferred across deep neural networks. In other words, we can make a weak model more robust with the help of a strong teacher model. In this paper, we ask if models can &#x201C;learn together&#x201D; and &#x201C;teach each other&#x201D; to achieve better robustness instead of learning from a static teacher.We study how interactions among models affect robustness via knowledge distillation. We propose mutual adversarial training (MAT), in which multiple models are trained together and share the knowledge of adversarial examples to achieve improved robustness. MAT allows robust models to explore a larger space of adversarial samples and find more robust feature spaces and decision boundaries. Through extensive experiments on the CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and mini-ImageNet datasets, we demonstrate that MAT can effectively improve model robustness and outperform state-of-the-art methods under white-box attacks. In addition, we show that MAT can also mitigate the robustness trade-off among different perturbation types. Specially, we train specialist models that learn to defend a specific perturbation type and a generalist model that learns to defend multiple perturbation types by learning from the specialists, which brings as much as 13.4% accuracy gain to AT baselines against the union of <i>l</i>&#x221E;, <i>l</i>2, and <i>l</i>1 attacks. Our results show the superiority of the proposed method and demonstrate that collaborative learning is an effective strategy for designing robust models.
Automated quantification of levels of breast terminal duct lobular (TDLU) involution using deep learning

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) offer the potential to generate comprehensive quantitative analysis of histologic features. Diagnostic reporting of benign breast disease (BBD) biopsies is usually limited to subjective assessment of the most severe lesion in a sample, while ignoring the vast majority of tissue features, including involution of background terminal duct lobular units (TDLUs), the structures from which breast cancers arise. Studies indicate that increased levels of age-related TDLU involution in BBD biopsies predict lower breast cancer risk, and therefore its assessment may have potential value in risk assessment and management. However, assessment of TDLU involution is time-consuming and difficult to standardize and quantitate. Accordingly, we developed a CNN to enable automated quantitative measurement of TDLU involution and tested its performance in 174 specimens selected from the pathology archives at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. The CNN was trained and tested on a subset of 33 biopsies, delineating important tissue types. Nine quantitative features were extracted from delineated TDLU regions. Our CNN reached an overall dice-score of 0.871 (±0.049) for tissue classes versus reference standard annotation. Consensus of four reviewers scoring 705 images for TDLU involution demonstrated substantial agreement with the CNN method (unweighted κappa = 0.747 ± 0.01). Quantitative involution measures showed anticipated associations with BBD histology, breast cancer risk, breast density, menopausal status, and breast cancer risk prediction scores (p < 0.05). Our work demonstrates the potential to improve risk prediction for women with BBD biopsies by applying CNN approaches to generate automated quantitative evaluation of TDLU involution.
A Novel Forgery Detection in Image Frames of the Videos Using Enhanced Convolutional Neural Network in Face Images

Different devices in the recent era generated a vast amount of digital video. Generally, it has been seen in recent years that people are forging the video to use it as proof of evidence in the court of justice. Many kinds of researches on forensic detection have been presented, and it provides less accuracy. This paper proposed a novel forgery detection technique in image frames of the videos using enhanced Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). In the initial stage, the input video is taken as of the dataset and then converts the videos into image frames. Next, perform pre-sampling using the Adaptive Rood Pattern Search (ARPS) algorithm intended for reducing the useless frames. In the next stage, perform preprocessing for enhancing the image frames. Then, face detection is done as of the image utilizing the Viola–Jones algorithm. Finally, the improved Crow Search Algorithm (ICSA) has been used to select the extorted features and inputted to the Enhanced Convolutional Neural Network (ECNN) classifier for detecting the forged image frames. The experimental outcome of the proposed system has achieved 97.21% accuracy compared to other existing methods.
VRFMS: Verifiable Ranked Fuzzy Multi-keyword Search over Encrypted Data

Searchable encryption(SE) allows users to efficiently retrieve data over encrypted cloud data, but most existing SE schemes only support exact keyword search, resulting in false results due to minor typos or format inconsistencies of queried keywords. The fuzzy keyword search can avoid this limitation, but still incurs low search accuracy and efficiency. Besides, most of fuzzy keyword search schemes do not consider malicious cloud servers which may execute a fraction of search operations or forge some results due to various interest incentives such as saving computation or storage resources. To solve these problems, we propose an efficient and Verifiable Ranked Fuzzy Multi-keyword Search scheme, called VRFMS. VRFMS uses locality-sensitive hashing and bloom filter to implement fuzzy keyword search, and employs Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency(TF-IDF) to sort the relevant results. Aiming to further improve the search accuracy, we design an improved bi-gram keyword transformation method. Furthermore, the homomorphic MAC technique and a random challenge technique are utilized to verify the correctness and completeness of returned results, respectively. Formal security analysis and empirical experiments demonstrate that VRFMS is secure and efficient in practical applications, respectively.
Research on Data Routing Strategy of Deduplication in Cloud Environment

The application of data deduplication technology reduces the demand for data storage and improves resource utilization. Compared with limited storage capacity and computing capacity of a single node, cluster data deduplication technology has great advantages. However, the cluster data duplication technology also brings new issues on deduplication rate reduction and load balancing of storage nodes. The application of data routing strategy can well balance the problem of deduplication rate and load balancing. Therefore, this paper proposes a data routing strategy based on distributed Bloom Filter. 1)Superchunk is used as the basic unit of data routing to improve system throughput. According to Broder’s theorem, k leastsized fingerprints are selected as the Superchunk features and send to the storage node. The optimal node is selected as the routing node by matching the BloomFilter, and the storage capacity of the node and maintained in the memory of the storage node. 2) Design and implement system prototypes. The specific parameters of all kinds of routing strategies are obtained through experiments, and the routing strategies proposed in this paper are tested. The theoretical analysis and experimental results prove the feasibility of the strategies proposed by this paper. Compared with the other routing strategies, our method improved 3% of the deduplication rate, reduces the communication query overhead by more than 36% and improves the load balancing degree of the storage system.
Cryptanalysis of an Image Encryption Algorithm Based on Random Walk and Hyperchaotic Systems

Recently, an image encryption algorithm based on random walk and hyperchaotic systems has been proposed. The main idea of the original paper is to scramble the plain image by means of random walk matrix and then to append diffusion. In this paper, the encryption method with security holes is analyzed by chosen plaintext attack. In addition, this paper improves the original encryption algorithm. The experimental and simulation results show that the improved algorithm has the advantages of the original and can improve the ability to resist attack.
Safe-Nav: learning to prevent PointGoal navigation failure in unknown environments

Abstract Training robots to safely navigate (Safe-Nav) in uncertain complex environments using the RGB-D sensor is quite challenging as it involves the performance of different tasks such as obstacle avoidance, optimal path planning, and control. Traditional navigation approaches cannot generate suitable paths which guarantee enough visible features. Recent learning-based methods are still not mature enough due to their proneness to collisions and prohibitive computational cost. This paper focuses on generating safe trajectories to the desired goal while avoiding collisions and tracking failure in unknown complex environments. We present Safe-Nav, a hierarchical framework composed of the visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) module, the global planner module and the local planner module. The visual SLAM module generates the navigation map and the robot pose. The global planner module plans a local waypoint on the real-time navigation map. In the local planner module, a deep-reinforcement-learning-based (DRL-based) policy is presented for taking safe actions towards local waypoints. Our DRL-based policy can learn different navigation skills (e.g., avoiding collisions and avoiding tracking failure) through specialized modes without any supervisory signals when the PointGoal-navigation-specied reward is provided. We have demonstrated the performance of our proposed Safe-Nav in the Habitat simulation environment. Our approach outperforms the recent learning-based method and conventional navigation approach with relative improvements of over 205% (0.55 vs. 0.18) and 139% (0.55 vs. 0.23) in the success rate, respectively.
AM-UNet: automated mini 3D end-to-end U-net based network for brain claustrum segmentation

Recent advances in deep learning (DL) have provided promising solutions to medical image segmentation. Among existing segmentation approaches, the U-Net-based methods have been used widely. However, very few U-Net-based studies have been conducted on automatic segmentation of the human brain claustrum (CL). The CL segmentation is challenging due to its thin, sheet-like structure, heterogeneity of its image modalities and formats, imperfect labels, and data imbalance. We propose an automatic optimized U-Net-based 3D segmentation model, called AM-UNet, designed as an end-to-end process of the pre and post-process techniques and a U-Net model for CL segmentation. It is a lightweight and scalable solution which has achieved the state-of-the-art accuracy for automatic CL segmentation on 3D magnetic resonance images (MRI). On the T1/T2 combined MRI CL dataset, AM-UNet has obtained excellent results, including Dice, Intersection over Union (IoU), and Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) scores of 82%, 70%, and 90%, respectively. We have conducted the comparative evaluation of AM-UNet with other pre-existing models for segmentation on the MRI CL dataset. As a result, medical experts confirmed the superiority of the proposed AM-UNet model for automatic CL segmentation. The source code and model of the AM-UNet project is publicly available on GitHub: https://github.com/AhmedAlbishri/AM-UNET.
Explainable and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence [Guest Editorial]

In the era of the Internet of Things and Big Data, data scientists are required to extract valuable knowledge from the given data. They first analyze, cure and pre-process data. Then, they apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to automatically extract knowledge from data. Actually, AI is identified as a strategic technology and it is already part of our everyday life. The European Commission states that “EU must therefore ensure that AI is developed and applied in an appropriate framework which promotes innovation and respects the Union’s values and fundamental rights as well as ethical principles such as accountability and transparency”. It emphasizes the importance of eXplainable AI (XAI in short), in order to develop an AI coherent with European values: “to further strengthen trust, people also need to understand how the technology works, hence the importance of research into the explainability of AI systems”. Moreover, in addition to the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new European regulation on AI is in progress and it remarks once again the need to push for a human-centric responsible, explainable and trustworthy AI that empowers citizens to make more informed and thus better decisions. In addition, as remarked in the XAI challenge stated by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), “even though current AI systems offer many benefits in many applications, their effectiveness is limited by a lack of explanation ability when interacting with humans”. Accordingly, humankind requires a new generation of XAI systems. They are expected to naturally interact with humans, thus providing comprehensible explanations of decisions automatically made.
GRT: Gurmukhi to Roman Transliteration System using Character Mapping and Handcrafted Rules

In the last two decades, the transliteration system has got significant research attention. It is observed that Punjabi to English transliteration for all type of part-of-speech words is comparably less studied. Currently, some research work in this area is carried out but only for proper nouns and some technical terms. So, there is need to focus on all type of words. The Gurmukhi to Roman transliteration (GRT) system is the first proposed system for transliteration of all kind of part-of-speech words. This system uses the handcrafted-rules and character mapping (CM) approach for transliteration between languages involved. The CM is done for Gurmukhi script with its equivalent to Roman script. It transliterates text written in Punjabi language into English language. It is tested on 65,130 Punjabi words and achieved accuracy of 99.27%, which is better than other state-of-art system results. The developed system can be used in social media text normalization, translation, sentiment analysis of multilingual text, text summarization of multilingual text, etc.
The use of information granules to detect anomalies in spatial behavior of animals

Nowadays, in the era of automation of ecological measurements, more and more often we are dealing with large data sets in which various unexpected anomalies may occur. Their detection is often crucial for a proper assessment of ecological trends and processes. Therefore, methods allowing for identification of anomalous data are especially important for a deep understanding of ecological phenomena and their relationships in practical domains. In this study, we present an innovative application of information granules to the in-depth study of spatial behavior of the European bison (Bison bonasus), based on GPS data. As evidenced by a series of numerical experiments, this granular computing-based approach allows to detect both anomalies and regularities in the atypical behavior of the European bison, a species important for local ecosystems. The transformation of the original data space into a new semantic multidimensional space, defining the degree of membership in the anomaly class represented by new descriptors allows for more unambiguous analysis of non-standard animal behavior.
Sustainable response system building against insider-led cyber frauds in banking sector: a machine learning approach

Purpose This paper aims to focus on the different types of insider-led cyber frauds that gained mainstream attention in recent large-scale fraud events involving prominent Indian banking institutions. In addition to identifying and classifying cyber fraud, the study maps them on a severity scale for optimal mitigation planning. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used for identification and classification is an analysis of a detailed literature review, a focus group discussion with risk and vigilance officers and cyber cell experts, as well as secondary data of cyber fraud losses. Through machine learning-based random forest, the authors predicted the future of insider-led cyber frauds in the Indian banking business and prioritized and predicted the same. The projected future reveals the dominance of a few specific cyber frauds, which will make it easier to develop a fraud mitigation model based on a victim-centric approach. Findings The paper concludes with a conceptual framework that can be used to ensure a sustainable cyber fraud mitigation ecosystem within the scope of the study. By using the findings of this research, policymakers and fraud investigators will be able to create a more robust environment for banks through timely detection of cyber fraud and prevent it appropriately before it happens. Research limitations/implications The study focuses on fraud, risk and mitigation from a victim-centric perspective and does not address it from the fraudster’s perspective. Data availability was a challenge. Banks are recommended to compile data that can be used for analysis both by themselves and other policymakers. Practical implications The structured, sustainable cyber fraud mitigation suggested in the study will provide an agile, quick, proactive, stakeholder-specific plan that helps to safeguard banks, employees, regulatory authorities, customers and the economy. It saves resources, cost and time for bank authorities and policymakers. The mitigation measures will also help improve the reputational status of the Indian banking business and prolong the banks’ sustenance. Originality/value The innovative cyber fraud mitigation approach contributes to the sustainability of a bank’s ecosystem quickly, proactively and effectively.
Chaotic elliptic map for speech encryption

Using a new key management system and Jacobian elliptic map, a new speech encryption scheme has been developed for secure speech communication data. Jacobian elliptic map-based speech encryption has been developed as a novel method to improve the existing speech encryption methods' drawbacks, such as poor quality in decrypted signals, residual intelligibility, high computational complexity, and low-key space. Using the Jacobian elliptic map as a key management solution, a new cryptosystem was created. The proposed scheme's performance is evaluated using spectrogram analysis, histogram analysis, key space analysis, correlation analysis, key sensitivity analysis and randomness test analysis. Using the results, we can conclude that the proposed speech encryption scheme provides a better security system with robust decryption quality.
Simplification of literary and scientific texts to improve reading fluency and comprehension in beginning readers of French

Abstract Reading comprehension and fluency are crucial for successful academic learning and achievement. Yet, a rather large percentage of children still have enormous difficulties in understanding a written text at the end of primary school. In this context, the aim of our study was to investigate whether text simplification, a process of reducing text complexity while keeping its meaning unchanged, can improve reading fluency and comprehension for children learning to read. Furthermore, we were interested in finding out whether some readers would benefit more than others from text simplification as a function of their cognitive and language profile. To address these issues, we developed an iBook application for iPads, which allowed us to present normal and simplified versions of informative and narrative texts to 165 children in grade 2. Reading fluency was measured for each sentence, and text comprehension was measured for each text using multiple-choice questions. The results showed that both reading fluency and reading comprehension were significantly better for simplified than for normal texts. Results showed that poor readers and children with weaker cognitive skills (nonverbal intelligence, memory) benefitted to a greater extent from simplification than good readers and children with somewhat stronger cognitive skills.
Emotion Detection based on Column Comments in Material of Online Learning using Artificial Intelligence

many universities use online learning as media learning that each material of media which includes videos, textual content, or audio may be given remarks from college students. The lecture desires to recognize approximately the feelings of college students which include happy, disappointed, or unhappy when they accessed the media and instructors get an assessment of pleasant from their media. This study constructed a utility cellular for the detection of emotion from column remarks in the media online. The mobile application makes use of synthetic intelligence to type textual content from remarks and to decide the emotion of college students. The mobile application on a cellular device. The set of rules with inside the utility is k-Nearest Neighbour for the textual content mining feature in this study. The information of trying out these studies is commenting on YouTube channels and online studying which include SIPEJAR The result of trying it out is that the common accuracy is 0,697, the value of recall is 0.5595, and the common precision is 0, 4421 and the accuracy for the utility of this mobile app is 70% for detection emotion-primarily based totally on a column of remark in the media online.