In this task, you are given a part of an article. Your task is to generate headline (title) for this text. Preferred headlines are under fifteen words.

Input: Consider Input: We study truthful mechanisms for matching and related problems in a partial information<lb>setting, where the agents’ true utilities are hidden, and the algorithm only has access to ordi-<lb>nal preference information. Our model is motivated by the fact that in many settings, agents<lb>cannot express the numerical values of their utility for different outcomes, but are still able<lb>to rank the outcomes in their order of preference. Specifically, we study problems where the<lb>ground truth exists in the form of a weighted graph of agent utilities, but the algorithm can<lb>only elicit the agents’ private information in the form of a preference ordering for each agent<lb>induced by the underlying weights. Against this backdrop, we design truthful algorithms to<lb>approximate the true optimum solution with respect to the hidden weights. Our techniques<lb>yield universally truthful algorithms for a number of graph problems: a 1.76-approximation<lb>algorithm for Max-Weight Matching, 2-approximation algorithm for Max k-matching, a 6-<lb>approximation algorithm for Densest k-subgraph, and a 2-approximation algorithm for Max<lb>Traveling Salesman as long as the hidden weights constitute a metric. We also provide im-<lb>proved approximation algorithms for such problems when the agents are not able to lie about<lb>their preferences. Our results are the first non-trivial truthful approximation algorithms for<lb>these problems, and indicate that in many situations, we can design robust algorithms even<lb>when the agents may lie and only provide ordinal information instead of precise utilities.

Output: Truthful Mechanisms for Matching and Clustering in an Ordinal World


Input: Consider Input: Feature squeezing is a recently-introduced framework for mitigating and detecting adversarial examples. In previous work, we showed that it is effective against several earlier methods for generating adversarial examples. In this short note, we report on recent results showing that simple feature squeezing techniques also make deep learning models significantly more robust against the Carlini/Wagner attacks, which are the best known adversarial methods discovered to date.

Output: Feature Squeezing Mitigates and Detects Carlini/Wagner Adversarial Examples


Input: Consider Input: The present study introduces a method for improving the classification performance of imbalanced multiclass data streams from wireless body worn sensors. Data imbalance is an inherent problem in activity recognition caused by the irregular time distribution of activities, which are sequential and dependent on previous movements. We use conditional random fields (CRF), a graphical model for structured classification, to take advantage of dependencies between activities in a sequence. However, CRFs do not consider the negative effects of class imbalance during training. We propose a class-wise dynamically weighted CRF (dWCRF) where weights are automatically determined during training by maximizing the expected overall F-score. Our results based on three case studies from a healthcare application using a batteryless body worn sensor, demonstrate that our method, in general, improves overall and minority class F-score when compared to other CRF based classifiers and achieves similar or better overall and class-wise performance when compared to SVM based classifiers under conditions of limited training data. We also confirm the performance of our approach using an additional battery powered body worn sensor dataset, achieving similar results in cases of high class imbalance.


Output: Learning from Imbalanced Multiclass Sequential Data Streams Using Dynamically Weighted Conditional Random Fields