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Are Simple Mechanisms Optimal When Agents Are Unsophisticated?, Jiangtao Li, Piotr Dworczak Jul 2021

Are Simple Mechanisms Optimal When Agents Are Unsophisticated?, Jiangtao Li, Piotr Dworczak

Research Collection School Of Economics

We study the design of mechanisms involving agents that have limited strategic sophistication. The literature has identified several notions of simple mechanisms in which agents can determine their optimal strategy even if they lack cognitive skills such as predicting other agents' strategies (strategy-proof mechanisms), contingent reasoning (obviously strategy-proof mechanisms), or foresight (strongly obviously strategy-proof mechanisms). We examine whether it is optimal for the mechanism designer who faces strategically unsophisticated agents to offer a mechanism from the corresponding class of simple mechanisms. We show that when the designer uses a mechanism that is not simple, while she loses the ability to …


A Coprocessor-Based Introspection Framework Via Intel Management Engine, Lei Zhou, Fengwei Zhang, Jidong Xiao, Kevin Leach, Westley Weimer, Xuhua Ding, Guojun Wang Jul 2021

A Coprocessor-Based Introspection Framework Via Intel Management Engine, Lei Zhou, Fengwei Zhang, Jidong Xiao, Kevin Leach, Westley Weimer, Xuhua Ding, Guojun Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

During the past decade, virtualization-based (e.g., virtual machine introspection) and hardware-assisted approaches (e.g., x86 SMM and ARM TrustZone) have been used to defend against low-level malware such as rootkits. However, these approaches either require a large Trusted Computing Base (TCB) or they must share CPU time with the operating system, disrupting normal execution. In this article, we propose an introspection framework called NIGHTHAWK that transparently checks system integrity and monitor the runtime state of target system. NIGHTHAWK leverages the Intel Management Engine (IME), a co-processor that runs in isolation from the main CPU. By using the IME, our approach has …


Tort Law, Kumaralingam Amirthalingam, Gary Kok Yew Chan Jul 2021

Tort Law, Kumaralingam Amirthalingam, Gary Kok Yew Chan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This review examines the ten most significant decisions in tort law for 2020. It was an interesting year for the range of significant decisions in tort law handed down by the courts on matters including limitation period, medical negligence, the scope of duty in negligence, breach of confidence, conspiracy, and defamation.


The Impact Of Temperature On Labor Quality: Umpire Accuracy In Major League Baseball, Eric Fesselmeyer Jul 2021

The Impact Of Temperature On Labor Quality: Umpire Accuracy In Major League Baseball, Eric Fesselmeyer

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Using data from Major League Baseball, I compute an objective measure of the home plate umpire's work quality-the accuracy of his ball and strike calls during a game-and measure how it varies with temperature. I find that an increase in game-time temperature from between 70 and 80 degrees F to above 95 degrees F decreases an umpire's accuracy by a little less than a percentage point, which is a 5.5% increase in the pitch-calling error rate when evaluated at the mean error rate of 13.3%. Restricting the sample to borderline pitches increases the magnitude of the hot-weather effect on accuracy …


Mediation Ethics: From Theory To Practice, Field, Rachael And Crowe, Jonathan. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020, Dorcas Quek Anderson Jul 2021

Mediation Ethics: From Theory To Practice, Field, Rachael And Crowe, Jonathan. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020, Dorcas Quek Anderson

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

For too long within the mediation field, there has been confusion on how the foundational principles of mediator neutrality, impartiality, and self-determination work together to bring about a fair outcome. There has been a corresponding lack of clarity on what the mediator does to ensure that these principles are collectively fulfilled through a consensual settlement. Astor (2007), who has written extensively on mediator neutrality, has described the mediator's role as maximizing party control. However, Astor also comments that making decisions aimed at maximizing party control is not simple and highly dependent on the context. The mediator has to intervene in …


Simulating Subject Communities In Case Law Citation Networks, Jerrold Tsin Howe Soh Jul 2021

Simulating Subject Communities In Case Law Citation Networks, Jerrold Tsin Howe Soh

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

We propose and evaluate generative models for case law citation networks that account for legal authority, subject relevance, and time decay. Since Common Law systems rely heavily on citations to precedent, case law citation networks present a special type of citation graph which existing models do not adequately reproduce. We describe a general framework for simulating node and edge generation processes in such networks, including a procedure for simulating case subjects, and experiment with four methods of modelling subject relevance: using subject similarity as linear features, as fitness coefficients, constraining the citable graph by subject, and computing subject-sensitive PageRank scores. …


Integrated Framework For Developing Instructional Videos For Foundational Computing Courses, Kyong Jin Shim, Gottipati Swapna, Yi Meng Lau Jul 2021

Integrated Framework For Developing Instructional Videos For Foundational Computing Courses, Kyong Jin Shim, Gottipati Swapna, Yi Meng Lau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Instructional videos are widely used in higher education due to their effectiveness and flexibility of personalized learning features. Computing courses usually focuses on programming, user interface design, server connectivity, data storage, and architecture, among others. The design of instructional videos varies in not only the course content but also the style of content creation. We propose an integrated framework, Computing Videos Design Framework (CVDF), for designing and developing instructional videos for computing courses. CVDF combines the cognitive skills from Bloom’s taxonomy, video design principles, and course learning outcomes for designing different types of instructional videos. We apply the framework to …


Paying Attention To Video Object Pattern Understanding, Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen, Xiankai Lu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Haibin Ling Jul 2021

Paying Attention To Video Object Pattern Understanding, Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen, Xiankai Lu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Haibin Ling

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper conducts a systematic study on the role of visual attention in video object pattern understanding. By elaborately annotating three popular video segmentation datasets (DAVIS) with dynamic eye-tracking data in the unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) setting. For the first time, we quantitatively verified the high consistency of visual attention behavior among human observers, and found strong correlation between human attention and explicit primary object judgments during dynamic, task-driven viewing. Such novel observations provide an in-depth insight of the underlying rationale behind video object pattens. Inspired by these findings, we decouple UVOS into two sub-tasks: UVOS-driven Dynamic Visual Attention …


Mmconv: An Environment For Multimodal Conversational Search Across Multiple Domains, Lizi Liao, Le Hong Long, Zheng Zhang, Minlie Huang, Tat-Seng Chua Jul 2021

Mmconv: An Environment For Multimodal Conversational Search Across Multiple Domains, Lizi Liao, Le Hong Long, Zheng Zhang, Minlie Huang, Tat-Seng Chua

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Although conversational search has become a hot topic in both dialogue research and IR community, the real breakthrough has been limited by the scale and quality of datasets available. To address this fundamental obstacle, we introduce the Multimodal Multi-domain Conversational dataset (MMConv), a fully annotated collection of human-to-human role-playing dialogues spanning over multiple domains and tasks. The contribution is two-fold. First, beyond the task-oriented multimodal dialogues among user and agent pairs, dialogues are fully annotated with dialogue belief states and dialogue acts. More importantly, we create a relatively comprehensive environment for conducting multimodal conversational search with real user settings, structured …


Deep Transfer Bug Localization, Xuan Huo, Ferdian Thung, Ming Li, David Lo, Shu-Ting Shi Jul 2021

Deep Transfer Bug Localization, Xuan Huo, Ferdian Thung, Ming Li, David Lo, Shu-Ting Shi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Many projects often receive more bug reports than what they can handle. To help debug and close bug reports, a number of bug localization techniques have been proposed. These techniques analyze a bug report and return a ranked list of potentially buggy source code files. Recent development on bug localization has resulted in the construction of effective supervised approaches that use historical data of manually localized bugs to boost performance. Unfortunately, as highlighted by Zimmermann et al., sufficient bug data is often unavailable for many projects and companies. This raises the need for cross-project bug localization -- the use of …


Make It Easy: An Effective End-To-End Entity Alignment Framework, Congcong Ge, Xiaoze Liu, Lu Chen Chen, Baihua Zheng, Yunjun Gao Jul 2021

Make It Easy: An Effective End-To-End Entity Alignment Framework, Congcong Ge, Xiaoze Liu, Lu Chen Chen, Baihua Zheng, Yunjun Gao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Entity alignment (EA) is a prerequisite for enlarging the coverage of a unified knowledge graph. Previous EA approaches either restrain the performance due to inadequate information utilization or need labor-intensive pre-processing to get external or reliable information to perform the EA task. This paper proposes EASY, an effective end-to-end EA framework, which is able to (i) remove the labor-intensive pre-processing by fully discovering the name information provided by the entities themselves; and (ii) jointly fuse the features captured by the names of entities and the structural information of the graph to improve the EA results. Specifically, EASY first introduces NEAP, …


Technological Opportunities For Sensing Of The Health Effects Of Weather And Climate Change: A State-Of-The-Art-Review, V. Anderson, A. C. W. Leung, H. Mehdipoor, B. Janicke, D. Milosevic, A. Oliveira, S. Manavvi, P. Kabano, Yuliya Dzyuban, Et Al Jun 2021

Technological Opportunities For Sensing Of The Health Effects Of Weather And Climate Change: A State-Of-The-Art-Review, V. Anderson, A. C. W. Leung, H. Mehdipoor, B. Janicke, D. Milosevic, A. Oliveira, S. Manavvi, P. Kabano, Yuliya Dzyuban, Et Al

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Sensing and measuring meteorological and physiological parameters of humans, animals, and plants are necessary to understand the complex interactions that occur between atmospheric processes and the health of the living organisms. Advanced sensing technologies have provided both meteorological and biological data across increasingly vast spatial, spectral, temporal, and thematic scales. Information and communication technologies have reduced barriers to data dissemination, enabling the circulation of information across different jurisdictions and disciplines. Due to the advancement and rapid dissemination of these technologies, a review of the opportunities for sensing the health effects of weather and climate change is necessary. This paper provides …


Is Commercial Real Estate Overpriced?, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh Jun 2021

Is Commercial Real Estate Overpriced?, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Perspectives@SMU

Valuations are sky-high but realised cashflow growth is sluggish. Much of the dichotomy could be attributed to the increased diversity of the commercial real estate ecosystem


Analytics For Hospital Resource Planning: Two Case Studies, Jingui Xie, Weifen Zhuang, Marcus Ang, Mabel C. Chou, Li Luo, David D. Yao Jun 2021

Analytics For Hospital Resource Planning: Two Case Studies, Jingui Xie, Weifen Zhuang, Marcus Ang, Mabel C. Chou, Li Luo, David D. Yao

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Using real data and process flows from two large hospitals (in Singapore and in Chengdu, China) as cases, we illustrate how to apply certain modeling and optimization techniques, along with simulation as a validation tool, to hospital resource planning problems. We demonstrate how these simple analytical tools can help achieve significant improvements in both patient service and resource utilization, and without the need to increase the overall level of existing capacities. Two resource planning problems are studied in detail, one concerns the re-balancing of bed capacities among various wards, and the other addresses the allocation of medical diagnostic resource among …


Hedge Funds And Their Prime Broker Analysts, Sung Gon Chung, Manoj Kulchania, Melvyn Teo Jun 2021

Hedge Funds And Their Prime Broker Analysts, Sung Gon Chung, Manoj Kulchania, Melvyn Teo

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Are sell-side analysts reluctant to go against the investment views of their hedge funds when these hedge funds are their prime brokerage clients? We show that prime broker analysts tend to upgrade stocks recently bought by their clients. For stocks with upgraded recommendations, post-announcement cumulative abnormal returns are significantly lower for those purchased by the prime brokerage clients. Our results are stronger with high-dollar-turnover clients who generate more trading commissions. We also find that a hedge fund with a large bet on a stock has a stronger incentive to pressure the fund’s prime brokers to issue a favorable recommendation on …


Divide And Conquer: A Hygienic, Efficient, And Reliable Assembly-Line For Housekeeping, Xiao Alison Chen, Rowan Wang, Jianghua Zhang Jun 2021

Divide And Conquer: A Hygienic, Efficient, And Reliable Assembly-Line For Housekeeping, Xiao Alison Chen, Rowan Wang, Jianghua Zhang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Problem definition: This work focuses on the hotel housekeeping process. In a field study, a possible channel of disease transmission between consecutive guests in hotel rooms is revealed. In order to prevent the transmission, an innovative assembly-line housekeeping method is developed. Academic/practical relevance: The transmission of infectious diseases during hotel stays (e.g., by touching unclean towels or bed linens) has been reported globally. Under the current COVID-19 pandemic, having contact with saliva or mucus left by an infected person could cause infection. The standard housekeeping process used by the majority of hotels leaves a channel for new towels and bed …


Do Animated Line Graphs Increase Risk Inferences?, Junghan Kim, Arun Lakshmanan Jun 2021

Do Animated Line Graphs Increase Risk Inferences?, Junghan Kim, Arun Lakshmanan

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This article shows that animated display of time-varying data (e.g., stock or commodity prices) enhances risk judgments. We outline a process whereby animated display enhances the visual salience of transitions in a trajectory (i.e., successive changes in data values), which leads to transitions being utilized more to form cognitive inferences about risk. In turn, this leads to inflated risk judgments. The studies reported in this article provide converging evidence via eye tracking (Study 1), serial mediation analyses (Studies 2 and 3), and experimental manipulations of transition salience (graph type; Study 3) and utilization of transitions (global trend; Study 4 and …


Cache-Efficient Fork-Processing Patterns On Large Graphs, Shengliang Lu, Shixuan Sun, Johns Paul, Yuchen Li, Bingsheng He Jun 2021

Cache-Efficient Fork-Processing Patterns On Large Graphs, Shengliang Lu, Shixuan Sun, Johns Paul, Yuchen Li, Bingsheng He

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

As large graph processing emerges, we observe a costly fork-processing pattern (FPP) that is common in many graph algorithms. The unique feature of the FPP is that it launches many independent queries from different source vertices on the same graph. For example, an algorithm in analyzing the network community profile can execute Personalized PageRanks that start from tens of thousands of source vertices at the same time. We study the efficiency of handling FPPs in state-of-the-art graph processing systems on multi-core architectures, including Ligra, Gemini, and GraphIt. We find that those systems suffer from severe cache miss penalty because of …


Self-Adaptive Graph Traversal On Gpus, Mo Sha, Yuchen Li, Kian-Lee Tan Jun 2021

Self-Adaptive Graph Traversal On Gpus, Mo Sha, Yuchen Li, Kian-Lee Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

GPU’s massive computing power offers unprecedented opportunities to enable large graph analysis. Existing studies proposed various preprocessing approaches that convert the input graphs into dedicated structures for GPU-based optimizations. However, these dedicated approaches incur significant preprocessing costs as well as weak programmability to build general graph applications. In this paper, we introduce SAGE, a self-adaptive graph traversal on GPUs, which is free from preprocessing and operates on ubiquitous graph representations directly. We propose Tiled Partitioning and Resident Tile Stealing to fully exploit the computing power of GPUs in a runtime and self-adaptive manner. We also propose Sampling-based Reordering to further …


On M-Impact Regions And Standing Top-K Influence Problems, Bo Tang, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Mingji Han Jun 2021

On M-Impact Regions And Standing Top-K Influence Problems, Bo Tang, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Mingji Han

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, we study the ��-impact region problem (mIR). In a context where users look for available products with top-�� queries, mIR identifies the part of the product space that attracts the most user attention. Specifically, mIR determines the kind of attribute values that lead a (new or existing) product to the top-�� result for at least a fraction of the user population. mIR has several applications, ranging from effective marketing to product improvement. Importantly, it also leads to (exact and efficient) solutions for standing top-�� impact problems, which were previously solved heuristically only, or whose current solutions face …


Minimum Coresets For Maxima Representation Of Multidimensional Data, Yanhao Wang, Michael Mathioudakis, Yuchen Li, Kian-Lee Tan Jun 2021

Minimum Coresets For Maxima Representation Of Multidimensional Data, Yanhao Wang, Michael Mathioudakis, Yuchen Li, Kian-Lee Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Coresets are succinct summaries of large datasets such that, for a given problem, the solution obtained from a coreset is provably competitive with the solution obtained from the full dataset. As such, coreset-based data summarization techniques have been successfully applied to various problems, e.g., geometric optimization, clustering, and approximate query processing, for scaling them up to massive data. In this paper, we study coresets for the maxima representation of multidimensional data: Given a set �� of points in R �� , where �� is a small constant, and an error parameter �� ∈ (0, 1), a subset �� ⊆ �� …


Lattice-Based Remote User Authentication From Reusable Fuzzy Signature, Yangguang Tian, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng, Binanda Sengupta, Guomin Yang Jun 2021

Lattice-Based Remote User Authentication From Reusable Fuzzy Signature, Yangguang Tian, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng, Binanda Sengupta, Guomin Yang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, we introduce a new construction of reusable fuzzy signature based remote user authentication that is secure against quantum computers. We investigate the reusability of fuzzy signature, and we prove that the fuzzy signature schemes provide biometrics reusability (aka. reusable fuzzy signature). We define formal security models for the proposed construction, and we prove that it achieves user authenticity and user privacy. The proposed construction ensures: 1) a user’s biometrics can be securely reused in remote user authentication; 2) a third party having access to the communication channel between a user and the authentication server cannot identify the …


Secure Repackage-Proofing Framework For Android Apps Using Collatz Conjecture, Haoyu Ma, Shijia Li, Debin Gao, Chunfu Jia Jun 2021

Secure Repackage-Proofing Framework For Android Apps Using Collatz Conjecture, Haoyu Ma, Shijia Li, Debin Gao, Chunfu Jia

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

App repackaging has been raising serious concerns about the health of the Android ecosystem, and repackage-proofing is an important mitigation against threat of such attacks. However, existing app repackage-proofing schemes were only evaluated against trivial adversaries simulated using analyzers for other purposes (e.g., disclosing privacy leakage vulnerabilities), hence were shown “effective” mainly because their key programming features were not even supported by those toolkits. Furthermore, existing works have also neglected dynamic adversaries capable of manipulating victim apps at runtime, making them vulnerable against such stronger opponents. In this paper, we propose a novel repackage-proofing framework, which deploys distributed detection and …


Knowledge And Anxiety About Covid-19 In The State Of Qatar, And The Middle East And North Africa Region—A Cross Sectional Study, Sathyanarayanan Doraiswamy, Sohaila Cheema, Maisonneuve Patrick, Amit Abraham, Ingmar Weber, Jisun An, Albert B. Lowenfels, Ravinder Mamtani Jun 2021

Knowledge And Anxiety About Covid-19 In The State Of Qatar, And The Middle East And North Africa Region—A Cross Sectional Study, Sathyanarayanan Doraiswamy, Sohaila Cheema, Maisonneuve Patrick, Amit Abraham, Ingmar Weber, Jisun An, Albert B. Lowenfels, Ravinder Mamtani

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

While the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic wreaked havoc across the globe, we have witnessed substantial mis- and disinformation regarding various aspects of the disease. We conducted a cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire for the general public (recruited via social media) and healthcare workers (recruited via email) from the State of Qatar, and the Middle East and North Africa region to understand the knowledge of and anxiety levels around COVID-19 (April–June 2020) during the early stage of the pandemic. The final dataset used for the analysis comprised of 1658 questionnaires (53.0% of 3129 received questionnaires; 1337 [80.6%] from the …


Grand-Vision: An Intelligent System For Optimized Deployment Scheduling Of Law Enforcement Agents, Jonathan Chase, Tran Phong, Kang Long, Tony Le, Hoong Chuin Lau Jun 2021

Grand-Vision: An Intelligent System For Optimized Deployment Scheduling Of Law Enforcement Agents, Jonathan Chase, Tran Phong, Kang Long, Tony Le, Hoong Chuin Lau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Law enforcement agencies in dense urban environments, faced with a wide range of incidents to handle and limited manpower, are turning to data-driven AI to inform their policing strategy. In this paper we present a patrol scheduling system called GRAND-VISION: Ground Response Allocation and Deployment - Visualization, Simulation, and Optimization. The system employs deep learning to generate incident sets that are used to train a patrol schedule that can accommodate varying manpower, break times, manual pre-allocations, and a variety of spatio-temporal demand features. The complexity of the scenario results in a system with real world applicability, which we demonstrate through …


Labor Market Mobility And Expectation Management: Evidence From Enforceability Of Noncompete Provisions, Michael Tang, Rencheng Wang, Yi Zhou Jun 2021

Labor Market Mobility And Expectation Management: Evidence From Enforceability Of Noncompete Provisions, Michael Tang, Rencheng Wang, Yi Zhou

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

This study examines how managers' use of expectation management is affected by their labor market mobility, which we measure by the enforceability of noncompete provisions in their employment contracts. Exploiting quasinatural experiments, our difference-in-differences analyses provide new causal insights to the growing literature on how managers' career concerns affect their disclosure choices. Consistent with a less mobile labor market imposing more pressure on managers to achieve earnings expectations, we predict and find that managers in US states that tightened enforcement of noncompete provisions are more likely to manage analyst expectations downward. We also find that downward expectation management is used …


Adaptive Aggregation Networks For Class-Incremental Learning, Yaoyao Liu, Bernt Schiele, Qianru Sun Jun 2021

Adaptive Aggregation Networks For Class-Incremental Learning, Yaoyao Liu, Bernt Schiele, Qianru Sun

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to learn a classification model with the number of classes increasing phase-by-phase. An inherent problem in CIL is the stability-plasticity dilemma between the learning of old and new classes, i.e., high-plasticity models easily forget old classes, but high-stability models are weak to learn new classes. We alleviate this issue by proposing a novel network architecture called Adaptive Aggregation Networks (AANets) in which we explicitly build two types of residual blocks at each residual level (taking ResNet as the baseline architecture): a stable block and a plastic block. We aggregate the output feature maps from these two …


Gpu-Accelerated Graph Label Propagation For Real-Time Fraud Detection, Chang Ye, Yuchen Li, Bingsheng He, Zhao Li, Jianling Sun Jun 2021

Gpu-Accelerated Graph Label Propagation For Real-Time Fraud Detection, Chang Ye, Yuchen Li, Bingsheng He, Zhao Li, Jianling Sun

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Fraud detection is a pressing challenge for most financial and commercial platforms. In this paper, we study the processing pipeline of fraud detection in a large e-commerce platform of TaoBao. Graph label propagation (LP) is a core component in this pipeline to detect suspicious clusters from the user-interaction graph. Furthermore, the run-time of the LP component occupies 75% overhead of TaoBao’s automated detection pipeline. To enable real-time fraud detection, we propose a GPU-based framework, called GLP, to support large-scale LP workloads in enterprises. We have identified two key challenges when integrating GPU acceleration into TaoBao’s data processing pipeline: (1) programmability …


A Large Scale Study Of Long-Time Contributor Prediction For Github Projects, Lingfeng Bao, Xin Xia, David Lo, Gail C. Murphy Jun 2021

A Large Scale Study Of Long-Time Contributor Prediction For Github Projects, Lingfeng Bao, Xin Xia, David Lo, Gail C. Murphy

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The continuous contributions made by long time contributors (LTCs) are a key factor enabling open source software (OSS) projects to be successful and survival. We study Github as it has a large number of OSS projects and millions of contributors, which enables the study of the transition from newcomers to LTCs. In this paper, we investigate whether we can effectively predict newcomers in OSS projects to be LTCs based on their activity data that is collected from Github. We collect Github data from GHTorrent, a mirror of Github data. We select the most popular 917 projects, which contain 75,046 contributors. …


Counterfactual Zero-Shot And Open-Set Visual Recognition, Zhongqi Yue, Tan Wang, Qianru Sun, Xian-Sheng Hua, Hanwang Zhang Jun 2021

Counterfactual Zero-Shot And Open-Set Visual Recognition, Zhongqi Yue, Tan Wang, Qianru Sun, Xian-Sheng Hua, Hanwang Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We present a novel counterfactual framework for both Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) and Open-Set Recognition (OSR), whose common challenge is generalizing to the unseen-classes by only training on the seen-classes. Our idea stems from the observation that the generated samples for unseen-classes are often out of the true distribution, which causes severe recognition rate imbalance between the seen-class (high) and unseen-class (low). We show that the key reason is that the generation is not Counterfactual Faithful, and thus we propose a faithful one, whose generation is from the sample-specific counterfactual question: What would the sample look like, if we set its …