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Hierarchical Bloom Filter Tree (Hbft): Scalable Geospatial Metadata Indexing For Bigdata Systems, Mrudula Patteparapu Jan 2025

Hierarchical Bloom Filter Tree (Hbft): Scalable Geospatial Metadata Indexing For Bigdata Systems, Mrudula Patteparapu

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Big Data infrastructure growth has produced overwhelming metadata volumes which create extensive problems for spatial indexing and both system scalability and database queries. Traditional solutions consisting of R-trees and conventional Bloom filters manage to provide either range query support or approximate membership testing, yet they face performance issues when used at large-scale metadata management. This research proposes Hierarchical Bloom Filter Tree (HBFT) as an improved framework that integrates hierarchical spatial partitioning with partitioned, scalable, cuckoo, and striped Bloom filter variants based on existing studies in hierarchical and probabilistic indexing. The complete evaluation process shows that HBFT outperforms PostGIS (an industry-standard …

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Identifying Red Sponges On Arms Plates By Preprocessing Images Using Histogram Equalization, Barry Ng Jan 2025

Identifying Red Sponges On Arms Plates By Preprocessing Images Using Histogram Equalization, Barry Ng

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Sponges play a vital role in marine ecosystems, being the only organisms capable of converting dissolved organic matter (DOM) into particulate organic matter (POM). They provide nutrients for coral reefs to thrive in oligotrophic waters. Autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS) are used to measure the biodiversity of coral reefs by simulating the complex cavities inside reef structures. Organisms settle on them and scientists can retrieve them after a period of time for analysis. Images are taken of ARMS plates after they are retrieved. Human analysis is unsuitable for the analysis of ARMS plates due to the huge number of images. …

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An Evidence-Based Approach To Predicting Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, Surya Teja Nalluri Jan 2025

An Evidence-Based Approach To Predicting Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, Surya Teja Nalluri

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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a complex disease with hidden clinical indicators, so a reliable diagnosis of PDAC requires high precision and sophisticated analysis. Traditional probabilistic methods often rely on making unwarranted assumptions or undesirable approximations about probabilistic estimates, limiting their ability to provide the precision needed for correct diagnosis and treatment planning. In contrast, Dempster–Shafer Theory offers a formal framework for integrating uncertain and potentially conflicting evidence. This makes it well-suited for analyzing incomplete and ambiguous data typically associated with PDAC. By employing an evidential reasoning (ER) model based on Dempster-Shafer Theory, this approach systematically combines and evaluates imperfect …

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Transformers In Time-Series Forecasting: Enhancing Robustness Via Dynamic Attention Mechanisms, Kush Patel Jan 2025

Transformers In Time-Series Forecasting: Enhancing Robustness Via Dynamic Attention Mechanisms, Kush Patel

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Transformer architectures have emerged as powerful tools for time series forecasting, excelling at capturing complex temporal dependencies across multivariate inputs. However, these models are highly susceptible to adversarial attacks such as the Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) and Basic Iterative Method (BIM), which can significantly degrade predictive performance through small, targeted perturbations. This work integrates dynamic attention mechanisms, adaptive masking modules that introduce controlled variability into attention pathways, into a transformer forecasting model to enhance robustness against such attacks. Using two distinct datasets, we compare the performance of a standard transformer and a dynamic attention-enhanced transformer under both clean and …

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On The Adversarial Robustness Of Quantized Neural Networks Against Common Adversaries In Time-Series Forecasting, Maanak Arora Jan 2025

On The Adversarial Robustness Of Quantized Neural Networks Against Common Adversaries In Time-Series Forecasting, Maanak Arora

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Real-world edge applications now use modern machine learning models which require both resource efficiency and robustness against adversarial threats. Deep neural networks which include time series forecasting models still face risks from adversarial perturbations while quantization techniques used for memory and compute efficiency create unpredictable robustness challenges. This project investigates the adversarial resistance of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models after applying post-training quantization at three different precision levels: 16-bit floating point (FP16), 8-bit integer (INT8) and custom 4-bit quantization. The Jena Climate dataset serves as our main benchmark for training a fullprecision LSTM model followed by multiple quantization strategies which …

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Transformer Integration, Fine-Tuning And Zero-Shot Learning For State Of Health Estimation In Li-Ion Batteries Using Large Language Models, Chinmay Nilesh Mahagaonkar Jan 2025

Transformer Integration, Fine-Tuning And Zero-Shot Learning For State Of Health Estimation In Li-Ion Batteries Using Large Language Models, Chinmay Nilesh Mahagaonkar

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In this thesis, we present a comparative analysis of the use of transformerbased and Large Language Model (LLM) models for State of Health (SoH) and Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction of lithium-ion batteries. With electric cars and renewable energy systems based on batteries at the forefront, the need to predict degradation accurately in order to enhance the performance and reduce maintenance costs has become imperative. Most traditional prediction methods lag the complex and non-linear characteristics of degradation in batteries, and hence the usage of sophisticated methods becomes a necessity. The research employs the CALCE dataset, which includes long-horizon cycling data …

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Medilightrag: A System For Medical Query Response Using Fine-Tuned Llms And Graph Based Retrieval, Rajiv Karthik Reddy Kodimala Jan 2025

Medilightrag: A System For Medical Query Response Using Fine-Tuned Llms And Graph Based Retrieval, Rajiv Karthik Reddy Kodimala

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The exponential increase in medical data has created a greater demand for precise and efficient information retrieval systems. Existing Large Language Models (LLMs) face domain-specific difficulties such as sophisticated medical jargon, situational comprehension, and the continual advancement of healthcare knowledge. To tackle these challenges, we present MediLightRAG, an innovative two-stage system which integrates parameter-efficient fine-tuning of Large Language models with LightRAG’s graph-based retrieval. The first stage focuses on enabling accurate resource-efficient model adaptation for the medical domain through QLoRA fine-tuning. In the second stage, LightRAG’s two-tiered retrieval architecture that combines graph-based indexing with dynamic knowledge retrieval is employed to enhance …

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Edurag: Improving Ai Teaching Assistants With Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Geethika Vadlamudi Jan 2025

Edurag: Improving Ai Teaching Assistants With Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Geethika Vadlamudi

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This paper is based on the emerging need for AI-driven teaching assistants to deliver personalized, effective, and responsive educational assistance. Earlier proposals for educational technology such as rule-based systems and adaptive learning platforms have been limited by the lack of flexibility, domain accuracy, and slow, non-interactive support. With the launch of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3, GPT-4, they have demonstrated that they can generate the kind of human-responsive text. When it comes to more substantive education matters, though, such models suffer from domain accuracy, in addition to whether accurate information can be imparted. And that is where the aspect …

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Moving Target Defense With Quantized Morphence: Defense Quantification Against Common Adversaries In Image And Time Series Problems, Rithika Dhamala Jan 2025

Moving Target Defense With Quantized Morphence: Defense Quantification Against Common Adversaries In Image And Time Series Problems, Rithika Dhamala

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In recent years, the vulnerability of deep learning models to adversarial attacks has emerged as a serious threat, particularly in domains where reliability and robustness are critical. This project builds upon the Morphence framework, a Moving Target Defense (MTD) strategy designed to counter adversarial threats by maintaining a dynamic pool of models and introducing randomness at inference time. While Morphence was originally developed for image classification tasks, this work not only reproduces the original architecture using MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets but also extends the core principles to an entirely new domain: time series forecasting. The project proposes a unified defense …

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Energy Considerations For Large Pre-Trained Neural Networks, Leo Mei Jan 2025

Energy Considerations For Large Pre-Trained Neural Networks, Leo Mei

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In recent years, neural network models have achieved phenomenal performance due to the increasing parameters and complexity of model architectures. However, these advancements come with high environmental costs as they require massive computational resources and consume substantial amounts of electricity, leading to high carbon emissions. Previous studies have demonstrated that substantial redundancies exist in large pre-trained models, and reducing these redundancies through compression would not compromise model performance. While these studies focused on retaining comparable model performance, the direct impact of compression on energy consumption when training models appears to have received little attention. By quantifying the energy usage associated …

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Photoproof: A Mobile Application For Verifying The Authenticity Of Images, Pruthviraj Urankar Jan 2025

Photoproof: A Mobile Application For Verifying The Authenticity Of Images, Pruthviraj Urankar

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The easy access to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as deepfakes and generative adversarial networks (GANs), has facilitated the creation of highly realistic artificial images, thereby undermining the authenticity of photos in today’s digital age. Misinformation and manipulation are key dangers to digital content due to this advancement. Therefore, the need for reliable methods of photo verification and authentication has become increasingly important. This report presents a decentralized iOS app that uses blockchain to ensure photo authenticity. The app leverages Ethereum smart contracts and cryptographic hashing to securely log image metadata. When a user takes a photo, the app hashes …

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Optimizing Analytics Storage Strategies For Search Engines And Wiki Platforms, Sujith Kakarlapudi Jan 2025

Optimizing Analytics Storage Strategies For Search Engines And Wiki Platforms, Sujith Kakarlapudi

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Modern search engines and wiki platforms generate vast quantities of user inter-
/="/">action data such as page views, edits, clicks, and session events. This data must be stored and aggregated efficiently to enable scalable analytics and responsive querying. Yioop, an open-source search engine framework, serves as our primary case study, processing millions of such events to power its indexing and recommendation features. This report explores a shift from the conventional database storage based model to a log based model, in order to improve scalability and write efficiency. A size-limited, append-only logging facility was provided to log analytics events: the …

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Image-To-Text Transcription: Analyzing And Describing Visual Content, Zixiao Fan Jan 2025

Image-To-Text Transcription: Analyzing And Describing Visual Content, Zixiao Fan

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Image captioning, which provides a textual understanding of visual content, is the fundamental support for the advancement of Human-A.I. Interaction technology. In the hope of exploring the application of such technology, this project focuses on two specific goals. One is to directly explore the application of the image informationretrieving abilities, and the other is to dive into the specifics of the pipeline and components of image captioning models. As a result, this project presents a working app that exploits the text retrieval functionalities to enable image storage with functions like tagging and transcription. It also supports search functionality with a …

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Galora: A Lightweight Graph-Aware Llm Framework For Node Classification On Text-Attributed Graphs, Mayur Choudhary Jan 2025

Galora: A Lightweight Graph-Aware Llm Framework For Node Classification On Text-Attributed Graphs, Mayur Choudhary

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With the exponential rise of language models (LMs) and their potential to understand semantic relationships, large LMs are being used across a wide range of applications. Text-attributed graphs (TAGs) are one notable example where LLMs can be combined with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to enhance node classification results. TAGs associate textual content with each node and are commonly seen in various domains such as social networks, citation graphs, recommendation systems, etc. Effectively modeling TAGs would enable deeper insights into different aspects of the graph and improve decision-making in relevant domains. We present GaLoRA, a parameter-efficient framework to integrate structural information …

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Physiotrack: A Gamified Physiotherapy System, Pranavi Chaturvedula Jan 2025

Physiotrack: A Gamified Physiotherapy System, Pranavi Chaturvedula

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Traditional physiotherapy methods tend to be non-interactive and provide little to no personalized instruction, even though physiotherapy is critical to stroke recovery. This thesis explores a fully adaptive, sensor-based, feedback architecture intended for stroke patients which remotely supervises movement and personalizes exercises enabled by multimodal sensors. The system uses filtering and windowed segmentation of accelerometer and skeletal data to compute features like jerk, speed, and joint movement angular range. A game engine applies accelerometer and skeletal features together with optimized, lightweight ML models to drive adaptive feedback, scoring, and difficulty adjustment. The architecture supports responsive continuous sensor streaming within the …

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Optimization Of Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Using An Island Genetic Algorithm For Makespan Minimization, Sahil Salim Jan 2025

Optimization Of Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Using An Island Genetic Algorithm For Makespan Minimization, Sahil Salim

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The Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that involves the sequencing of n jobs across m machines in the same order to minimize the total makespan value. This project proposes a Heterogeneous Island Genetic Algorithm framework (HIGA). Each island represents a group of solutions that evolve in parallel using different initialization heuristics, crossover and mutation operators, and adaptive parameters. A dynamic, stagnation-based migration strategy is proposed to maintain targeted communication between the islands. The proposed HIGA approach was compared against the basic Standard Genetic Algorithm (SGA) and a more advanced Niche-based Genetic Algorithm (NEH-NGA) on …

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Extraction Of A Knowledge Graph Of Biomedical Relationships, Brian Tran Jan 2025

Extraction Of A Knowledge Graph Of Biomedical Relationships, Brian Tran

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Rapid release in biomedical literature poses a challenge in linking information. This thesis aims to extract data from expanding datasets to identify and form meaningful relationships between biomedical entities. Large language models (LLMs) enable us to learn at a rapid pace. Creation of LLms from scratch are impractical. This thesis aims to collect a small dataset, containing biomedical papers, and use it to train large language models (LLMs) to extract entities from the text and learn the relationships between these entities. The experiment will be divided into two stages and utilize EU-ADR and ChemProt dataset. Starting with named entity recognition …

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Domain-Specific Graph Rag Pipelines: Optimized Approaches For Building Efficient Personal Knowledge Repositories, Omkar Yadav Jan 2025

Domain-Specific Graph Rag Pipelines: Optimized Approaches For Building Efficient Personal Knowledge Repositories, Omkar Yadav

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Managing personal data, including notes, calendar events, to-do lists, and other personal information, has become increasingly complex and challenging. In response to this issue, I propose a framework using RAG that enables a large language model (LLM) to efficiently query this data without requiring training on the personal data itself. Conventional retrieval systems, including those leveraging vector-based retrievalaugmented generation (RAG), are effective at handling basic queries but struggle to deliver coherent global abstractions, integrate diverse knowledge sources, and account for temporal nuances. This research explores domain-specific Graph based RAG frameworks that incorporate a knowledge graph to better model relationships, thereby …

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Enhancing Recommender Systems Using Graph Neural Networks, Long Short-Term Memory And Textual Embeddings, Tianxiang Chen Jan 2025

Enhancing Recommender Systems Using Graph Neural Networks, Long Short-Term Memory And Textual Embeddings, Tianxiang Chen

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Recommender systems surround us. They shape what we watch, how we buy, and even what our future might look like next. The Amazon Review Dataset and Movielens, those two datasets will help this project explore how to improve recommender systems through the user’s preferences. Two methods were combined: sequence-based models and graph-based models. Sequence models, such as LSTMs and Transformers, look at the order of user actions to find patterns by their sequence. On the other hand, Graphbased models focus on relationships between users, items, and their attributes. Textual embeddings added depth and context. Both methods offer something special, according …

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Multimodal Deception Detection Via Audio-Text Fusion With Deep Learning And Asr, Xiangyi Li Jan 2025

Multimodal Deception Detection Via Audio-Text Fusion With Deep Learning And Asr, Xiangyi Li

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Emotion detection plays a crucial role in human-computer interaction, enabling machines to recognize and respond appropriately to human emotional states. This project explores a two-stage approach to emotion detection using multimodal data, first predicting dimensional values (Arousal, Valence, Dominance) from textual and audio inputs, then mapping these representations to discrete emotion categories. We compare this approach with direct categorical classification using transformer-based language models like BERT, RoBERTa, and DeBERTa for text processing, alongside various audio feature extraction methods, including MFCCs and spectrograms. Using the IEMOCAP dataset, we evaluate both approaches across text-only, audio-only, and multimodal configurations. Our findings reveal that …

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Large Language Model Powered Etl Pipeline Development A Project Report, Aditya Chandras Jan 2025

Large Language Model Powered Etl Pipeline Development A Project Report, Aditya Chandras

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This projects discusses the use of Large language model to simplify and automate Extract, Transform, Loading (ETL) development. Data engineering tasks oUen need technical experDse, thereby challenging non-experts and even industry professionals for such Dme intensive operaDons. The project tackles these challenges by employing quanDzaDon of a base Lllama-2-7b-Chat model using QLora technique. The lowered precision of the base model allow further execuDon on a limited hardware resource. The project further performs Supervised fine-tuning trainer (SFT) to perform fine-tuning, specializing the model for generaDng script for ETL tasks. The fine-tuned model is evaluated through a series of micro and comprehensive …

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Optimizing Integrated Access And Backhaul Topology Using Monte Carlo Tree Search, Srimanth Reddy Ummenthala Jan 2025

Optimizing Integrated Access And Backhaul Topology Using Monte Carlo Tree Search, Srimanth Reddy Ummenthala

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Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) plays a central role in enabling scalability and high-throughput in wireless networks, especially in areas where wired backhaul is not feasible. Optimizing the topology of IAB networks is a complex task, involving trade-offs between path loss, node capacity, and link quality. To address this, this project investigates a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)-based approach to improve overall network performance by maximizing the capacity of network, considering Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) on wireless links. MCTS provides a guided search mechanism to construct topologies efficiently under the constraints and is evaluated against baseline topologies. Experimental results show that …

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Dynamic Pricing For Revenue Maximization In 5g Networks With Elastic Network Slicing And Reinforcement Learning, Naisheel Shah Jan 2025

Dynamic Pricing For Revenue Maximization In 5g Networks With Elastic Network Slicing And Reinforcement Learning, Naisheel Shah

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Network slicing is a concept that enables a diverse array of network applications with lots of unique service requirements. For the scope of this research, we delve into elastic network slicing, which has a potential benefit for both the providers and users through cost-effective resource utilization. Dynamic pricing of these slice resources is a method for operators to realize the balance of different types of network slices by implicitly communicating the current network state to slice users. We have designed a custom pricing scheme using Deep Reinforcement Learning for elastic network slices that maximizes the revenue of slice providers while …

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Link Failure Localization In Hierarchical, Multidomain Optical Networks, Martin Mihailov Bojinov Jan 2025

Link Failure Localization In Hierarchical, Multidomain Optical Networks, Martin Mihailov Bojinov

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Optical networks transport data encoded on light signals over optical fiber cables. Individual optical networks are managed by domain administrators, such as service providers, vendors, or regional bodies. Multidomain optical networking explores the possibility of enabling seamless data transmission across domain boundaries. In this project, we explore how we can perform network monitoring in a hierarchical multidomain optical network while preserving domain security and autonomy. This is done by allocating dedicated monitoring trails across various broker abstractions of our network topologies. We propose three heuristic functions that expedite trail selection. Of the three heuristics, our least monitored algorithm performs the …

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Performance Comparison Of Machine Learning Across Metal, Cuda, And Neuromorphic Frameworks, Ryan Saini Jan 2025

Performance Comparison Of Machine Learning Across Metal, Cuda, And Neuromorphic Frameworks, Ryan Saini

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Machine learning’s computational demands necessitate optimal performance and utilization. This research compares Apple Silicon M3 Pro with MPS, NVIDIA RTX 3070 GPU with CUDA, and neuromorphic computing for machine learning methods. We provide a cross-platform and cross-architecture performance analysis of machine learning methods to identify optimal configurations for training and inference scenarios. On traditional neural networks, Apple Silicon with MPS delivers superior energy efficiency at the cost of longer processing times for training and inference. NVIDIA with CUDA offers faster computation in training and inference at higher energy costs. Convolutional spiking neural networks perform competitively on event-based data, particularly on …

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Suicidal Ideation Detection On Reddit Using Llm-Annotated Data And Graph Neural Networks, Ikbal Singh Gurdev Singh Dhanjal Jan 2025

Suicidal Ideation Detection On Reddit Using Llm-Annotated Data And Graph Neural Networks, Ikbal Singh Gurdev Singh Dhanjal

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Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among people aged 15-29. More than 720, 000 people commit suicide every year. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw an increase in people seeking out mental health support on anonymous forums like Reddit. These anonymous forums allow people to express their suicidal ideation without judgment and give them a support structure that not everyone has. The aim of this project is to detect suicidal ideation using Reddit. In this work, we propose SIRGEL (Suicidal Ideation on Reddit using Graph Embeddings and LLMs), a dual-pipeline approach that combines large language model (LLM)- based …

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Malware Opcode Embedding And Quality Assessment Of Generative Sample Embeddings, Atishay Jain Jan 2025

Malware Opcode Embedding And Quality Assessment Of Generative Sample Embeddings, Atishay Jain

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Malware is software used to damage and disrupt computer systems with the intent to cause damage to the victim. Malware detection and classification into malware families is a crucial problem for cybersecurity researchers. One of the major bottlenecks in improving these systems is the shortage of good quality labeled malware data, especially for malware families with scarce samples. Researchers have utilized generative models to generate malware data to address this issue. Malware embeddings encode patterns within a malware file, which can be used to detect and classify malware. Recently, encouraging results have been obtained in generating malware embeddings using generative …

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Transforming Chatbot Text: A Sequence-To-Sequence Approach To Human-Like Text Generation, Natesh Reddy Jan 2025

Transforming Chatbot Text: A Sequence-To-Sequence Approach To Human-Like Text Generation, Natesh Reddy

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With the advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, the boundary between text written by a human and that created by AI has become blurred. This poses a threat to systems designed to detect AI-generated content. In this work, we adopt a novel strategy to adversarially transform GPT-generated text using sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models, to make the text more human-like. We concentrate on improving GPT-generated sentences by including significant linguistic, structural, and semantic components that are typical of human-authored text. The goal is to then use this transformed data to train a more robust detection model. Our experiments show …

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Human Vs. Llm: Interpreting Emotion From Neutral Faces In Contextually Charged Backgrounds, Sai Mounika Peteti Jan 2025

Human Vs. Llm: Interpreting Emotion From Neutral Faces In Contextually Charged Backgrounds, Sai Mounika Peteti

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In this study, we investigate the intersection of cultural context, visual perception, and implicit bias in interpreting neutral human expressions. Specifically, we explore how emotionally charged backgrounds can shape viewers interpretations of neutral facial expressions. Using an experimental setup, participants are shown neutral human portraits paired with varying background types ranging from emotionally neutral or pleasant to evocative scenes. Participants are tasked with selecting which background best matches the emotional state of the person depicted in the portraits. Eye-tracking data is collected to analyze visual attention patterns and cognitive processing. In parallel, we also evaluate how large language models (LLMs) …

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Clustering Organ Cell Types, Venkata Satya Swathi Mattaparthi Jan 2025

Clustering Organ Cell Types, Venkata Satya Swathi Mattaparthi

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The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) created a reference map of all human cells. My project uses the Tabula Sapiens dataset, developed under HCA and based on single-cell RNA sequencing data, to explore cell type and tissue diversity. I performed experiments using the Elbow method and a formula based on dataset observations to determine the number of clusters, then applied k-means clustering on two representative subsets of the All Cells dataset. Clusters were selected for analysis using Shannon’s Diversity Index and Pielou’s Evenness. A novel algorithm based on the cell differentiation tree was used to validate the biological coherence of the …

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