pwc-archive/papers-with-abstracts huggingface dataset:
Neuro-symbolic model for cantilever beams damage detection
Authors: Darian Onchis, Gilbert-Rainer Gillich, Eduard Hogea, Cristian Tufisi
Date: 2023-05-04 00:00:00
Tasks: Deep Learning, model

In the last decade, damage detection approaches swiftly changed from advanced signal processing methods to machine learning and especially deep learning models, to accurately and non-intrusively estimate the state of the beam structures. But as the deep learning models reached their peak performances, also their limitations in applicability and vulnerabilities were observed. One of the most important reason for the lack of trustworthiness in operational conditions is the absence of intrinsic explainability of the deep learning system, due to the encoding of the knowledge in tensor values and without the inclusion of logical constraints. In this paper, we propose a neuro-symbolic model for the detection of damages in cantilever beams based on a novel cognitive architecture in which we join the processing power of convolutional networks with the interactive control offered by queries realized through the inclusion of real logic directly into the model. The hybrid discriminative model is introduced under the name Logic Convolutional Neural Regressor and it is tested on a dataset of values of the relative natural frequency shifts of cantilever beams derived from an original mathematical relation. While the obtained results preserve all the predictive capabilities of deep learning models, the usage of three distances as predicates for satisfiability, makes the system more trustworthy and scalable for practical applications. Extensive numerical and laboratory experiments were performed, and they all demonstrated the superiority of the hybrid approach, which can open a new path for solving the damage detection problem.
SI-LSTM: Speaker Hybrid Long-short Term Memory and Cross Modal Attention for Emotion Recognition in Conversation
Authors: Xingwei Liang, You Zou, Ruifeng Xu
Date: 2023-05-04 00:00:00
Tasks: Emotion Recognition, Emotion Recognition in Conversation, Opinion Mining, Time Series

Emotion Recognition in Conversation~(ERC) across modalities is of vital importance for a variety of applications, including intelligent healthcare, artificial intelligence for conversation, and opinion mining over chat history. The crux of ERC is to model both cross-modality and cross-time interactions throughout the conversation. Previous methods have made progress in learning the time series information of conversation while lacking the ability to trace down the different emotional states of each speaker in a conversation. In this paper, we propose a recurrent structure called Speaker Information Enhanced Long-Short Term Memory (SI-LSTM) for the ERC task, where the emotional states of the distinct speaker can be tracked in a sequential way to enhance the learning of the emotion in conversation. Further, to improve the learning of multimodal features in ERC, we utilize a cross-modal attention component to fuse the features between different modalities and model the interaction of the important information from different modalities. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed SI-LSTM against the state-of-the-art baseline methods in the ERC task on multimodal data.
Training Is Everything: Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, and Fair Training
Authors: Andrew W. Torrance, Bill Tomlinson
Date: 2023-05-04 00:00:00

To learn how to behave, the current revolutionary generation of AIs must be trained on vast quantities of published images, written works, and sounds, many of which fall within the core subject matter of copyright law. To some, the use of copyrighted works as training sets for AI is merely a transitory and non-consumptive use that does not materially interfere with owners' content or copyrights protecting it. Companies that use such content to train their AI engine often believe such usage should be considered "fair use" under United States law (sometimes known as "fair dealing" in other countries). By contrast, many copyright owners, as well as their supporters, consider the incorporation of copyrighted works into training sets for AI to constitute misappropriation of owners' intellectual property, and, thus, decidedly not fair use under the law. This debate is vital to the future trajectory of AI and its applications. In this article, we analyze the arguments in favor of, and against, viewing the use of copyrighted works in training sets for AI as fair use. We call this form of fair use "fair training". We identify both strong and spurious arguments on both sides of this debate. In addition, we attempt to take a broader perspective, weighing the societal costs (e.g., replacement of certain forms of human employment) and benefits (e.g., the possibility of novel AI-based approaches to global issues such as environmental disruption) of allowing AI to make easy use of copyrighted works as training sets to facilitate the development, improvement, adoption, and diffusion of AI. Finally, we suggest that the debate over AI and copyrighted works may be a tempest in a teapot when placed in the wider context of massive societal challenges such as poverty, equality, climate change, and loss of biodiversity, to which AI may be part of the solution.
Governance of the AI, by the AI, and for the AI
Authors: Andrew W. Torrance, Bill Tomlinson
Date: 2023-05-04 00:00:00

Over the past half century, there have been several false dawns during which the "arrival" of world-changing artificial intelligence (AI) has been heralded. Tempting fate, the authors believe the age of AI has, indeed, finally arrived. Powerful image generators, such as DALL-E2 and Midjourney have suddenly allowed anyone with access the ability easily to create rich and complex art. In a similar vein, text generators, such as GPT3.5 (including ChatGPT) and BLOOM, allow users to compose detailed written descriptions of many topics of interest. And, it is even possible now for a person without extensive expertise in writing software to use AI to generate code capable of myriad applications. While AI will continue to evolve and improve, probably at a rapid rate, the current state of AI is already ushering in profound changes to many different sectors of society. Every new technology challenges the ability of humanity to govern it wisely. However, governance is usually viewed as both possible and necessary due to the disruption new technology often poses to social structures, industries, the environment, and other important human concerns. In this article, we offer an analysis of a range of interactions between AI and governance, with the hope that wise decisions may be made that maximize benefits and minimize costs. The article addresses two main aspects of this relationship: the governance of AI by humanity, and the governance of humanity by AI. The approach we have taken is itself informed by AI, as this article was written collaboratively by the authors and ChatGPT.
Black-box Prompt Tuning with Subspace Learning
Authors: Yuanhang Zheng, Zhixing Tan, Peng Li, Yang Liu
Date: 2023-05-04 00:00:00
Tasks: Meta-Learning

Black-box prompt tuning employs derivative-free optimization algorithms to learn prompts within low-dimensional subspaces rather than back-propagating through the network of Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent studies reveal that black-box prompt tuning lacks versatility across tasks and LLMs, which we believe is related to the suboptimal choice of subspaces. In this paper, we introduce Black-box prompt tuning with Subspace Learning (BSL) to enhance the versatility of black-box prompt tuning. Based on the assumption that nearly optimal prompts for similar tasks reside in a common subspace, we propose identifying such subspaces through meta-learning on a collection of similar source tasks. Consequently, for a target task that shares similarities with the source tasks, we expect that optimizing within the identified subspace can yield a prompt that performs well on the target task. Experimental results confirm that our BSL framework consistently achieves competitive performance across various downstream tasks and LLMs.
Few-shot Domain-Adaptive Visually-fused Event Detection from Text
Authors: Farhad Moghimifar, Fatemeh Shiri, Van Nguyen, Reza Haffari, Yuan-Fang Li
Date: 2023-05-04 00:00:00
Tasks: Event Detection

Incorporating auxiliary modalities such as images into event detection models has attracted increasing interest over the last few years. The complexity of natural language in describing situations has motivated researchers to leverage the related visual context to improve event detection performance. However, current approaches in this area suffer from data scarcity, where a large amount of labelled text-image pairs are required for model training. Furthermore, limited access to the visual context at inference time negatively impacts the performance of such models, which makes them practically ineffective in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we present a novel domain-adaptive visually-fused event detection approach that can be trained on a few labelled image-text paired data points. Specifically, we introduce a visual imaginator method that synthesises images from text in the absence of visual context. Moreover, the imaginator can be customised to a specific domain. In doing so, our model can leverage the capabilities of pre-trained vision-language models and can be trained in a few-shot setting. This also allows for effective inference where only single-modality data (i.e. text) is available. The experimental evaluation on the benchmark M2E2 dataset shows that our model outperforms existing state-of-the-art models, by up to 11 points.
ChatGraph: Interpretable Text Classification by Converting ChatGPT Knowledge to Graphs
Authors: Yucheng Shi, Hehuan Ma, Wenliang Zhong, Qiaoyu Tan, Gengchen Mai, Xiang Li, Tianming Liu, Junzhou Huang
Date: 2023-05-03 00:00:00
Tasks: Classification, Decision Making, Language Modeling, Language Modelling, Large Language Model, text-classification, Text Classification

ChatGPT, as a recently launched large language model (LLM), has shown superior performance in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, two major limitations hinder its potential applications: (1) the inflexibility of finetuning on downstream tasks and (2) the lack of interpretability in the decision-making process. To tackle these limitations, we propose a novel framework that leverages the power of ChatGPT for specific tasks, such as text classification, while improving its interpretability. The proposed framework conducts a knowledge graph extraction task to extract refined and structural knowledge from the raw data using ChatGPT. The rich knowledge is then converted into a graph, which is further used to train an interpretable linear classifier to make predictions. To evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed method, we conduct experiments on four datasets. The result shows that our method can significantly improve the performance compared to directly utilizing ChatGPT for text classification tasks. And our method provides a more transparent decision-making process compared with previous text classification methods.
New Adversarial Image Detection Based on Sentiment Analysis
Authors: Yulong Wang, Tianxiang Li, Shenghong Li, Xin Yuan, Wei Ni
Date: 2023-05-03 00:00:00
Tasks: Adversarial Attack, GPU, Sentiment Analysis

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, while adversarial attack models, e.g., DeepFool, are on the rise and outrunning adversarial example detection techniques. This paper presents a new adversarial example detector that outperforms state-of-the-art detectors in identifying the latest adversarial attacks on image datasets. Specifically, we propose to use sentiment analysis for adversarial example detection, qualified by the progressively manifesting impact of an adversarial perturbation on the hidden-layer feature maps of a DNN under attack. Accordingly, we design a modularized embedding layer with the minimum learnable parameters to embed the hidden-layer feature maps into word vectors and assemble sentences ready for sentiment analysis. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the new detector consistently surpasses the state-of-the-art detection algorithms in detecting the latest attacks launched against ResNet and Inception neutral networks on the CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and SVHN datasets. The detector only has about 2 million parameters, and takes shorter than 4.6 milliseconds to detect an adversarial example generated by the latest attack models using a Tesla K80 GPU card.
Towards Invertible Semantic-Preserving Embeddings of Logical Formulae
Authors: Gaia Saveri, Luca Bortolussi
Date: 2023-05-03 00:00:00

Logic is the main formal language to perform automated reasoning, and it is further a human-interpretable language, at least for small formulae. Learning and optimising logic requirements and rules has always been an important problem in Artificial Intelligence. State of the art Machine Learning (ML) approaches are mostly based on gradient descent optimisation in continuous spaces, while learning logic is framed in the discrete syntactic space of formulae. Using continuous optimisation to learn logic properties is a challenging problem, requiring to embed formulae in a continuous space in a meaningful way, i.e. preserving the semantics. Current methods are able to construct effective semantic-preserving embeddings via kernel methods (for linear temporal logic), but the map they define is not invertible. In this work we address this problem, learning how to invert such an embedding leveraging deep architectures based on the Graph Variational Autoencoder framework. We propose a novel model specifically designed for this setting, justifying our design choices through an extensive experimental evaluation. Reported results in the context of propositional logic are promising, and several challenges regarding learning invertible embeddings of formulae are highlighted and addressed.
Training Natural Language Processing Models on Encrypted Text for Enhanced Privacy
Authors: Davut Emre Tasar, Ceren Ocal Tasar
Date: 2023-05-03 00:00:00

With the increasing use of cloud-based services for training and deploying machine learning models, data privacy has become a major concern. This is particularly important for natural language processing (NLP) models, which often process sensitive information such as personal communications and confidential documents. In this study, we propose a method for training NLP models on encrypted text data to mitigate data privacy concerns while maintaining similar performance to models trained on non-encrypted data. We demonstrate our method using two different architectures, namely Doc2Vec+XGBoost and Doc2Vec+LSTM, and evaluate the models on the 20 Newsgroups dataset. Our results indicate that both encrypted and non-encrypted models achieve comparable performance, suggesting that our encryption method is effective in preserving data privacy without sacrificing model accuracy. In order to replicate our experiments, we have provided a Colab notebook at the following address: https://t.ly/lR-TP
Parameter-Efficient Cross-lingual Transfer of Vision and Language Models via Translation-based Alignment
Authors: Zhen Zhang, Jialu Wang, Xin Eric Wang
Date: 2023-05-02 00:00:00
Tasks: Cross-Lingual Transfer, Few-Shot Learning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, Transfer Learning

Pre-trained vision and language models such as CLIP have witnessed remarkable success in connecting images and texts with a primary focus on English texts. Despite recent efforts to extend CLIP to support other languages, disparities in performance among different languages have been observed due to uneven resource availability. Additionally, current cross-lingual transfer methods of those pre-trained models would consume excessive resources for a large number of languages. Therefore, we propose a new parameter-efficient cross-lingual transfer learning framework that utilizes a translation-based alignment method to mitigate multilingual disparities and explores parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods for parameter-efficient cross-lingual transfer. Extensive experiments on XTD and Multi30K datasets, covering 11 languages under zero-shot, few-shot, and full-dataset learning scenarios, show that our framework significantly reduces the multilingual disparities among languages and improves cross-lingual transfer results, especially in low-resource scenarios, while only keeping and fine-tuning an extremely small number of parameters compared to the full model (e.g., Our framework only requires 0.16\% additional parameters of a full-model for each language in the few-shot learning scenario). The codes are available at \url{https://github.com/eric-ai-lab/PECTVLM}. The codes are available at \url{https://github.com/eric-ai-lab/PECTVLM}.
POET: A Self-learning Framework for PROFINET Industrial Operations Behaviour
Authors: Ankush Meshram, Markus Karch, Christian Haas, Jürgen Beyerer
Date: 2023-04-29 00:00:00
Tasks: Anomaly Detection, Intrusion Detection, Network Intrusion Detection, Self-Learning, valid

Since 2010, multiple cyber incidents on industrial infrastructure, such as Stuxnet and CrashOverride, have exposed the vulnerability of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) to cyber threats. The industrial systems are commissioned for longer duration amounting to decades, often resulting in non-compliance to technological advancements in industrial cybersecurity mechanisms. The unavailability of network infrastructure information makes designing the security policies or configuring the cybersecurity countermeasures such as Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) challenging. An empirical solution is to self-learn the network infrastructure information of an industrial system from its monitored network traffic to make the network transparent for downstream analyses tasks such as anomaly detection. In this work, a Python-based industrial communication paradigm-aware framework, named PROFINET Operations Enumeration and Tracking (POET), that enumerates different industrial operations executed in a deterministic order of a PROFINET-based industrial system is reported. The operation-driving industrial network protocol frames are dissected for enumeration of the operations. For the requirements of capturing the transitions between industrial operations triggered by the communication events, the Finite State Machines (FSM) are modelled to enumerate the PROFINET operations of the device, connection and system. POET extracts the network information from network traffic to instantiate appropriate FSM models (Device, Connection or System) and track the industrial operations. It successfully detects and reports the anomalies triggered by a network attack in a miniaturized PROFINET-based industrial system, executed through valid network protocol exchanges and resulting in invalid PROFINET operation transition for the device.
Otter: A Multi-Modal Model with In-Context Instruction Tuning
Authors: Bo Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Liangyu Chen, Jinghao Wang, Jingkang Yang, Ziwei Liu
Date: 2023-05-05 00:00:00
Tasks: GPU, In-Context Learning, Instruction Following, Visual Question Answering, Visual Question Answering (VQA), Visual Reasoning

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant universal capabilities as few/zero-shot learners in various tasks due to their pre-training on vast amounts of text data, as exemplified by GPT-3, which boosted to InstrctGPT and ChatGPT, effectively following natural language instructions to accomplish real-world tasks. In this paper, we propose to introduce instruction tuning into multi-modal models, motivated by the Flamingo model's upstream interleaved format pretraining dataset. We adopt a similar approach to construct our MultI-Modal In-Context Instruction Tuning (MIMIC-IT) dataset. We then introduce Otter, a multi-modal model based on OpenFlamingo (open-sourced version of DeepMind's Flamingo), trained on MIMIC-IT and showcasing improved instruction-following ability and in-context learning. We also optimize OpenFlamingo's implementation for researchers, democratizing the required training resources from 1$\times$ A100 GPU to 4$\times$ RTX-3090 GPUs, and integrate both OpenFlamingo and Otter into Huggingface Transformers for more researchers to incorporate the models into their customized training and inference pipelines.
3D Small Object Detection with Dynamic Spatial Pruning
Authors: Xiuwei Xu, Zhihao Sun, Ziwei Wang, Hongmin Liu, Jie zhou, Jiwen Lu
Date: 2023-05-05 00:00:00
Tasks: 3D Object Detection, Decoder, GPU, Object, object-detection, Object Detection, Small Object Detection

In this paper, we propose an efficient feature pruning strategy for 3D small object detection. Conventional 3D object detection methods struggle on small objects due to the weak geometric information from a small number of points. Although increasing the spatial resolution of feature representations can improve the detection performance on small objects, the additional computational overhead is unaffordable. With in-depth study, we observe the growth of computation mainly comes from the upsampling operation in the decoder of 3D detector. Motivated by this, we present a multi-level 3D detector named DSPDet3D which benefits from high spatial resolution to achieves high accuracy on small object detection, while reducing redundant computation by only focusing on small object areas. Specifically, we theoretically derive a dynamic spatial pruning (DSP) strategy to prune the redundant spatial representation of 3D scene in a cascade manner according to the distribution of objects. Then we design DSP module following this strategy and construct DSPDet3D with this efficient module. On ScanNet and TO-SCENE dataset, our method achieves leading performance on small object detection. Moreover, DSPDet3D trained with only ScanNet rooms can generalize well to scenes in larger scale. It takes less than 2s to directly process a whole building consisting of more than 4500k points while detecting out almost all objects, ranging from cups to beds, on a single RTX 3090 GPU. Project page: https://xuxw98.github.io/DSPDet3D/.
Avatar Fingerprinting for Authorized Use of Synthetic Talking-Head Videos
Authors: Ekta Prashnani, Koki Nagano, Shalini De Mello, David Luebke, Orazio Gallo
Date: 2023-05-05 00:00:00

Modern avatar generators allow anyone to synthesize photorealistic real-time talking avatars, ushering in a new era of avatar-based human communication, such as with immersive AR/VR interactions or videoconferencing with limited bandwidths. Their safe adoption, however, requires a mechanism to verify if the rendered avatar is trustworthy: does it use the appearance of an individual without their consent? We term this task avatar fingerprinting. To tackle it, we first introduce a large-scale dataset of real and synthetic videos of people interacting on a video call, where the synthetic videos are generated using the facial appearance of one person and the expressions of another. We verify the identity driving the expressions in a synthetic video, by learning motion signatures that are independent of the facial appearance shown. Our solution, the first in this space, achieves an average AUC of 0.85. Critical to its practical use, it also generalizes to new generators never seen in training (average AUC of 0.83). The proposed dataset and other resources can be found at: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nxp/avatar-fingerprinting/.