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Uncertainty-Adjusted Inductive Matrix Completion With Graph Neural Networks, Petr Kasalicky, Antoine Ledent, Rodrigo Alves Sep 2023

Uncertainty-Adjusted Inductive Matrix Completion With Graph Neural Networks, Petr Kasalicky, Antoine Ledent, Rodrigo Alves

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We propose a robust recommender systems model which performs matrix completion and a ratings-wise uncertainty estimation jointly. Whilst the prediction module is purely based on an implicit low-rank assumption imposed via nuclear norm regularization, our loss function is augmented by an uncertainty estimation module which learns an anomaly score for each individual rating via a Graph Neural Network: data points deemed more anomalous by the GNN are downregulated in the loss function used to train the low-rank module. The whole model is trained in an end-to-end fashion, allowing the anomaly detection module to tap on the supervised information available in …

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Revisiting The Identification Of The Co-Evolution Of Production And Test Code, Weifeng Sun, Meng Yan, Zhongxin Liu, Xin Xia, Yan Lei, David Lo Sep 2023

Revisiting The Identification Of The Co-Evolution Of Production And Test Code, Weifeng Sun, Meng Yan, Zhongxin Liu, Xin Xia, Yan Lei, David Lo

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Many software processes advocate that the test code should co-evolve with the production code. Prior work usually studies such co-evolution based on production-test co-evolution samples mined from software repositories. A production-test co-evolution sample refers to a pair of a test code change and a production code change where the test code change triggers or is triggered by the production code change. The quality of the mined samples is critical to the reliability of research conclusions. Existing studies mined production-test co-evolution samples based on the following assumption: if a test class and its associated production class change together in one commit, …

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Autoconf: Automated Configuration Of Unsupervised Learning Systems Using Metamorphic Testing And Bayesian Optimization, Lwin Khin Shar, Goknil Arda, Erik Johannes Husom, Sagar Sen Sen, Naing Tun Yan, Kisub Kim Sep 2023

Autoconf: Automated Configuration Of Unsupervised Learning Systems Using Metamorphic Testing And Bayesian Optimization, Lwin Khin Shar, Goknil Arda, Erik Johannes Husom, Sagar Sen Sen, Naing Tun Yan, Kisub Kim

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Unsupervised learning systems using clustering have gained significant attention for numerous applications due to their unique ability to discover patterns and structures in large unlabeled datasets. However, their effectiveness highly depends on their configuration, which requires domain-specific expertise and often involves numerous manual trials. Specifically, selecting appropriate algorithms and hyperparameters adds to the com- plexity of the configuration process. In this paper, we propose, apply, and assess an automated approach (AutoConf) for config- uring unsupervised learning systems using clustering, leveraging metamorphic testing and Bayesian optimization. Metamorphic testing is utilized to verify the configurations of unsupervised learning systems by applying a …

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On Predicting Esg Ratings Using Dynamic Company Networks, Gary Ang, Zhiling Guo, Ee-Peng Lim Sep 2023

On Predicting Esg Ratings Using Dynamic Company Networks, Gary Ang, Zhiling Guo, Ee-Peng Lim

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Environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations play an increasingly important role due to the growing focus on sustainability globally. Entities, such as banks and investors, utilize ESG ratings of companies issued by specialized rating agencies to evaluate ESG risks of companies. The process of assigning ESG ratings by human analysts is however laborious and time intensive. Developing methods to predict ESG ratings could alleviate such challenges, allow ESG ratings to be generated in a more timely manner, cover more companies, and be more accessible. Most works study the effects of ESG ratings on target variables such as stock prices or …

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The Devil Is In The Tails: How Long-Tailed Code Distributions Impact Large Language Models, Xin Zhou, Kisub Kim, Bowen Xu, Jiakun Liu, Donggyun Han, David Lo Sep 2023

The Devil Is In The Tails: How Long-Tailed Code Distributions Impact Large Language Models, Xin Zhou, Kisub Kim, Bowen Xu, Jiakun Liu, Donggyun Han, David Lo

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Learning-based techniques, especially advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) for code, have gained considerable popularity in various software engineering (SE) tasks. However, most existing works focus on designing better learning-based models and pay less attention to the properties of datasets. Learning-based models, including popular LLMs for code, heavily rely on data, and the data's properties (e.g., data distribution) could significantly affect their behavior. We conducted an exploratory study on the distribution of SE data and found that such data usually follows a skewed distribution (i.e., long-tailed distribution) where a small number of classes have an extensive collection of samples, while a …

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Real: A Representative Error-Driven Approach For Active Learning, Cheng Chen, Yong Wang, Lizi Liao, Yueguo Chen, Xiaoyong Du Sep 2023

Real: A Representative Error-Driven Approach For Active Learning, Cheng Chen, Yong Wang, Lizi Liao, Yueguo Chen, Xiaoyong Du

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Given a limited labeling budget, active learning (al) aims to sample the most informative instances from an unlabeled pool to acquire labels for subsequent model training. To achieve this, al typically measures the informativeness of unlabeled instances based on uncertainty and diversity. However, it does not consider erroneous instances with their neighborhood error density, which have great potential to improve the model performance. To address this limitation, we propose Real, a novel approach to select data instances with Representative Errors for Active Learning. It identifies minority predictions as pseudo errors within a cluster and allocates an adaptive sampling budget for …

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Are We Ready To Embrace Generative Ai For Software Q&A?, Bowen Xu, Thanh-Dat Nguyen, Thanh Le-Cong, Thong Hoang, Jiakun Liu, Kisub Kim, Chen Gong, Changan Niu, Chenyu Wang, David Lo, David Lo Sep 2023

Are We Ready To Embrace Generative Ai For Software Q&A?, Bowen Xu, Thanh-Dat Nguyen, Thanh Le-Cong, Thong Hoang, Jiakun Liu, Kisub Kim, Chen Gong, Changan Niu, Chenyu Wang, David Lo, David Lo

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Stack Overflow, the world's largest software Q&A (SQA) website, is facing a significant traffic drop due to the emergence of generative AI techniques. ChatGPT is banned by Stack Overflow after only 6 days from its release. The main reason provided by the official Stack Overflow is that the answers generated by ChatGPT are of low quality. To verify this, we conduct a comparative evaluation of human-written and ChatGPT-generated answers. Our methodology employs both automatic comparison and a manual study. Our results suggest that human-written and ChatGPT-generated answers are semantically similar, however, human-written answers outperform ChatGPT-generated ones consistently across multiple aspects, …

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Fine-Grained In-Context Permission Classification For Android Apps Using Control-Flow Graph Embedding, Vikas Kumar Malviya, Naing Tun Yan, Chee Wei Leow, Ailys Xynyn Tee, Lwin Khin Shar, Lingxiao Jiang Sep 2023

Fine-Grained In-Context Permission Classification For Android Apps Using Control-Flow Graph Embedding, Vikas Kumar Malviya, Naing Tun Yan, Chee Wei Leow, Ailys Xynyn Tee, Lwin Khin Shar, Lingxiao Jiang

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Android is the most popular operating system for mobile devices nowadays. Permissions are a very important part of Android security architecture. Apps frequently need the users’ permission, but many of them only ask for it once—when the user uses the app for the first time—and then they keep and abuse the given permissions. Longing to enhance Android permission security and users’ private data protection is the driving factor behind our approach to explore fine-grained contextsensitive permission usage analysis and thereby identify misuses in Android apps. In this work, we propose an approach for classifying the fine-grained permission uses for each …

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Threshold Attribute-Based Credentials With Redactable Signature, Rui Shi, Huamin Feng, Yang Yang, Feng Yuan, Yingjiu Li, Hwee Hwa Pang, Robert H. Deng Sep 2023

Threshold Attribute-Based Credentials With Redactable Signature, Rui Shi, Huamin Feng, Yang Yang, Feng Yuan, Yingjiu Li, Hwee Hwa Pang, Robert H. Deng

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Threshold attribute-based credentials are suitable for decentralized systems such as blockchains as such systems generally assume that authenticity, confidentiality, and availability can still be guaranteed in the presence of a threshold number of dishonest or faulty nodes. Coconut (NDSS'19) was the first selective disclosure attribute-based credentials scheme supporting threshold issuance. However, it does not support threshold tracing of user identities and threshold revocation of user credentials, which is desired for internal governance such as identity management, data auditing, and accountability. The communication and computation complexities of Coconut for verifying credentials are linear in the number of each user's attributes and …

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Endwatch: A Practical Method For Detecting Non-Termination In Real-World Software, Yao Zhang, Xiaofei Xie, Yi Li, Sen Chen, Cen Zhang, Xiaohong Li Sep 2023

Endwatch: A Practical Method For Detecting Non-Termination In Real-World Software, Yao Zhang, Xiaofei Xie, Yi Li, Sen Chen, Cen Zhang, Xiaohong Li

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Detecting non-termination is crucial for ensuring program correctness and security, such as preventing denial-of-service attacks. While termination analysis has been studied for many years, existing methods have limited scalability and are only effective on small programs. To address this issue, we propose a practical termination checking technique, called EndWatch, for detecting non-termination through testing. Specifically, we introduce two methods to generate non-termination oracles based on checking state revisits, i.e., if the program returns to a previously visited state at the same program location, it does not terminate. The non-termination oracles can be incorporated into testing tools (e.g., AFL used in …

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Rosas: Deep Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection With Contamination-Resilient Continuous Supervision, Hongzuo Xu, Yijie Wang, Guansong Pang, Songlei Jian, Ning Liu, Yongjun Wang Sep 2023

Rosas: Deep Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection With Contamination-Resilient Continuous Supervision, Hongzuo Xu, Yijie Wang, Guansong Pang, Songlei Jian, Ning Liu, Yongjun Wang

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Semi-supervised anomaly detection methods leverage a few anomaly examples to yield drastically improved performance compared to unsupervised models. However, they still suffer from two limitations: 1) unlabeled anomalies (i.e., anomaly contamination) may mislead the learning process when all the unlabeled data are employed as inliers for model training; 2) only discrete supervision information (such as binary or ordinal data labels) is exploited, which leads to suboptimal learning of anomaly scores that essentially take on a continuous distribution. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel semi-supervised anomaly detection method, which devises contamination-resilient continuous supervisory signals. Specifically, we propose a mass interpolation method …

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Hercules: Boosting The Performance Of Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning, Guowen Xu, Xingshuo Han, Shengmin Xu, Tianwei Zhang, Hongwei Li, Xinyi Huang, Robert H. Deng Sep 2023

Hercules: Boosting The Performance Of Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning, Guowen Xu, Xingshuo Han, Shengmin Xu, Tianwei Zhang, Hongwei Li, Xinyi Huang, Robert H. Deng

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In this paper, we address the problem of privacy-preserving federated neural network training with N users. We present Hercules, an efficient and high-precision training framework that can tolerate collusion of up to N−1 users. Hercules follows the POSEIDON framework proposed by Sav et al. (NDSS’21), but makes a qualitative leap in performance with the following contributions: (i) we design a novel parallel homomorphic computation method for matrix operations, which enables fast Single Instruction and Multiple Data (SIMD) operations over ciphertexts. For the multiplication of two h×h dimensional matrices, our method reduces the computation complexity from O(h3) to O(h) . This …

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Arduinoprog: Towards Automating Arduino Programming, Imam Nur Bani Yusuf, Diyanah Binte Abdul Jamal, Lingxiao Jiang Sep 2023

Arduinoprog: Towards Automating Arduino Programming, Imam Nur Bani Yusuf, Diyanah Binte Abdul Jamal, Lingxiao Jiang

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Writing code for Arduino poses unique challenges. A developer 1) needs hardware-specific knowledge about the interface configuration between the Arduino controller and the I/Ohardware, 2) identifies a suitable driver library for the I/O hardware, and 3) follows certain usage patterns of the driver library in order to use them properly. In this work, based on a study of real-world user queries posted in the Arduino forum, we propose ArduinoProg to address such challenges. ArduinoProg consists of three components, i.e., Library Retriever, Configuration Classifier, and Pattern Generator. Given a query, Library Retriever retrieves library names relevant to the I/O hardware identified …

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Lean Manufacturing Approach To Increase Packaging Efficiency, Lina Gozali, Irsandy Kurniawan, Aldo Salim, Iveline Anne Marie, Benny Tjahjono, Yun Chia Liang, Aldy Gunawan, Nnovia Hardjo Sie, Yuliani Suseno Aug 2023

Lean Manufacturing Approach To Increase Packaging Efficiency, Lina Gozali, Irsandy Kurniawan, Aldo Salim, Iveline Anne Marie, Benny Tjahjono, Yun Chia Liang, Aldy Gunawan, Nnovia Hardjo Sie, Yuliani Suseno

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The company upon which this paper is based engages in flexible packaging production, especially pharmaceutical products with guaranteed quality, trusted by consumers. Its production process includes printing, laminating, and assembling processes. Production activities are done manually and automatically using machines, so various types of waste are often found in these processes, making the level of plant efficiency nonoptimal. This study aims to identify wastes occurring in the production process, especially the production of pollycelonium with three colour variants as the highest demand product, by applying lean manufacturing concepts. The Current Value Stream Mapping (CVSM) used to map the production process …

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Knowledge Representation For Conceptual, Motivational, And Affective Processes In Natural Language Communication, Seng Beng Ho, Zhaoxia Wang, Boon-Kiat Quek, Erik Cambria Aug 2023

Knowledge Representation For Conceptual, Motivational, And Affective Processes In Natural Language Communication, Seng Beng Ho, Zhaoxia Wang, Boon-Kiat Quek, Erik Cambria

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Natural language communication is an intricate and complex process. The speaker usually begins with an intention and motivation of what is to be communicated, and what outcomes are expected from the communication, while taking into consideration the listener’s mental model to concoct an appropriate sentence. Likewise, the listener has to interpret the speaker’s message, and respond accordingly, also with the speaker’s mental model in mind. Doing this successfully entails the appropriate representation of the conceptual, motivational, and affective processes that underlie language generation and understanding. Whereas big-data approaches in language processing (such as chatbots and machine translation) have performed well, …

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Decoding The Underlying Meaning Of Multimodal Hateful Memes, Ming Shan Hee, Wen Haw Chong, Roy Ka-Wei Lee Aug 2023

Decoding The Underlying Meaning Of Multimodal Hateful Memes, Ming Shan Hee, Wen Haw Chong, Roy Ka-Wei Lee

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Recent studies have proposed models that yielded promising performance for the hateful meme classification task. Nevertheless, these proposed models do not generate interpretable explanations that uncover the underlying meaning and support the classification output. A major reason for the lack of explainable hateful meme methods is the absence of a hateful meme dataset that contains ground truth explanations for benchmarking or training. Intuitively, having such explanations can educate and assist content moderators in interpreting and removing flagged hateful memes. This paper address this research gap by introducing Hateful meme with Reasons Dataset (HatReD), which is a new multimodal hateful meme …

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Decompiling X86 Deep Neural Network Executables, Zhibo Liu, Yuanyuan Yuan, Shuai Wang, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma Aug 2023

Decompiling X86 Deep Neural Network Executables, Zhibo Liu, Yuanyuan Yuan, Shuai Wang, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma

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Due to their widespread use on heterogeneous hardware devices, deep learning (DL) models are compiled into executables by DL compilers to fully leverage low-level hardware primitives. This approach allows DL computations to be undertaken at low cost across a variety of computing platforms, including CPUs, GPUs, and various hardware accelerators. We present BTD (Bin to DNN), a decompiler for deep neural network (DNN) executables. BTD takes DNN executables and outputs full model specifications, including types of DNN operators, network topology, dimensions, and parameters that are (nearly) identical to those of the input models. BTD delivers a practical framework to process …

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Numgpt: Improving Numeracy Ability Of Generative Pre-Trained Models, Zhihua Jin, Xin Jiang, Xiangbo Wang, Qun Liu, Yong Wang, Xiaozhe Ren, Huamin Qu Aug 2023

Numgpt: Improving Numeracy Ability Of Generative Pre-Trained Models, Zhihua Jin, Xin Jiang, Xiangbo Wang, Qun Liu, Yong Wang, Xiaozhe Ren, Huamin Qu

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Existing generative pre-trained language models (e.g., GPT) focus on modeling the language structure and semantics of general texts. However, those models do not consider the numerical properties of numbers and cannot perform robustly on numerical reasoning tasks (e.g., math word problems and measurement estimation). In this paper, we propose NumGPT, a generative pre-trained model that explicitly models the numerical properties of numbers in texts. Specifically, it leverages a prototype-based numeral embedding to encode the mantissa of the number and an individual embedding to encode the exponent of the number. A numeral-aware loss function is designed to integrate numerals into the …

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Evolve Path Tracer: Early Detection Of Malicious Addresses In Cryptocurrency, Ling Cheng, Feida Zhu, Yong Wang, Ruicheng Liang, Huiwen Liu Aug 2023

Evolve Path Tracer: Early Detection Of Malicious Addresses In Cryptocurrency, Ling Cheng, Feida Zhu, Yong Wang, Ruicheng Liang, Huiwen Liu

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With the boom of cryptocurrency and its concomitant financial risk concerns, detecting fraudulent behaviors and associated malicious addresses has been drawing significant research effort. Most existing studies, however, rely on the full history features or full-fledged address transaction networks, both of which are unavailable in the problem of early malicious address detection and therefore failing them for the task. To detect fraudulent behaviors of malicious addresses in the early stage, we present Evolve Path Tracer, which consists of Evolve Path Encoder LSTM, Evolve Path Graph GCN, and Hierarchical Survival Predictor. Specifically, in addition to the general address features, we propose …

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Proxy Hunting: Understanding And Characterizing Proxy-Based Upgradeable Smart Contracts In Blockchains, William E Iii Bodell, Sajad Meisami, Yue Duan Aug 2023

Proxy Hunting: Understanding And Characterizing Proxy-Based Upgradeable Smart Contracts In Blockchains, William E Iii Bodell, Sajad Meisami, Yue Duan

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Upgradeable smart contracts (USCs) have become a key trend in smart contract development, bringing flexibility to otherwise immutable code. However, they also introduce security concerns. On the one hand, they require extensive security knowledge to implement in a secure fashion. On the other hand, they provide new strategic weapons for malicious activities. Thus, it is crucial to fully understand them, especially their security implications in the real-world. To this end, we conduct a large-scale study to systematically reveal the status quo of USCs in the wild. To achieve our goal, we develop a complete USC taxonomy to comprehensively characterize the …

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Transferable Curricula Through Difficulty Conditioned Generators, Sidney Tio, Pradeep Varakantham Aug 2023

Transferable Curricula Through Difficulty Conditioned Generators, Sidney Tio, Pradeep Varakantham

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Advancements in reinforcement learning (RL) have demonstrated superhuman performance in complex tasks such as Starcraft, Go, Chess etc. However, knowledge transfer from Artificial "Experts" to humans remain a significant challenge. A promising avenue for such transfer would be the use of curricula. Recent methods in curricula generation focuses on training RL agents efficiently, yet such methods rely on surrogate measures to track student progress, and are not suited for training robots in the real world (or more ambitiously humans). In this paper, we introduce a method named Parameterized Environment Response Model (PERM) that shows promising results in training RL agents …

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Ai For Connectivism Learning: Undergraduate Students’ Experiences Of Chatgpt In Advanced Programming Courses, Swapna Gottipati, Kyong Jin Shim, Venky Shankararaman Aug 2023

Ai For Connectivism Learning: Undergraduate Students’ Experiences Of Chatgpt In Advanced Programming Courses, Swapna Gottipati, Kyong Jin Shim, Venky Shankararaman

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Advanced programming skills are required for computing courses on merging topics, and students often struggle to develop these skills to solve complex problems. To address this challenge, faculty members provide additional lectures, practice sessions, and educational technology tools. This paper discusses the challenges faced by computer science students in developing advanced programming skills and explores the use of AI chatbots, specifically ChatGPT, as a support tool for learning. We study the engagement and effectiveness of ChatGPT in helping students learn advanced programming skills using two engagement learning frameworks (CIE and MELT) for evaluation. The study involves designing a computing lab …

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Crowdfl: Privacy-Preserving Mobile Crowdsensing System Via Federated Learning, Bowen Zhao, Ximeng Liu, Wei-Neng Chen, Robert H. Deng Aug 2023

Crowdfl: Privacy-Preserving Mobile Crowdsensing System Via Federated Learning, Bowen Zhao, Ximeng Liu, Wei-Neng Chen, Robert H. Deng

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As an emerging sensing data collection paradigm, mobile crowdsensing (MCS) enjoys good scalability and low deployment cost but raises privacy concerns. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving MCS system called CROWDFL by seamlessly integrating federated learning (FL) into MCS. At a high level, in order to protect participants' privacy and fully explore participants' computing power, participants in CROWDFL locally process sensing data via FL paradigm and only upload encrypted training models to the server. To this end, we design a secure aggregation algorithm (SecAgg) through the threshold Paillier cryptosystem to aggregate training models in an encrypted form. Also, to …

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Fintech Data Infrastructure For Esg Disclosure Compliance, Randall E. Duran, Peter Tierney Aug 2023

Fintech Data Infrastructure For Esg Disclosure Compliance, Randall E. Duran, Peter Tierney

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Regulations related to the disclosure of environmental, governance, and social (ESG) factors are evolving rapidly and are a major concern for financial compliance worldwide. Information technology has the potential to reduce the effort and cost of ESG disclosure compliance. However, comprehensive and accurate ESG data are necessary for disclosures. Currently, the availability and quality of underlying data for ESG disclosures vary widely and are often deficient. The process involved with obtaining ESG data is also often inefficient and prone to error. This paper compares the models used and the evolution of Fintech data infrastructure developed to support financial services with …

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Context-Aware Event Forecasting Via Graph Disentanglement, Yunshan Ma, Chenchen Ye, Zijian Wu, Xiang Wang, Yixin Cao, Tat-Seng Chua Aug 2023

Context-Aware Event Forecasting Via Graph Disentanglement, Yunshan Ma, Chenchen Ye, Zijian Wu, Xiang Wang, Yixin Cao, Tat-Seng Chua

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Event forecasting has been a demanding and challenging task throughout the entire human history. It plays a pivotal role in crisis alarming and disaster prevention in various aspects of the whole society. The task of event forecasting aims to model the relational and temporal patterns based on historical events and makes forecasting to what will happen in the future. Most existing studies on event forecasting formulate it as a problem of link prediction on temporal event graphs. However, such pure structured formulation suffers from two main limitations: 1) most events fall into general and high-level types in the event ontology, …

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Sparsity Brings Vulnerabilities: Exploring New Metrics In Backdoor Attacks, Jianwen Tian, Kefan Qiu, Debin Gao, Zhi Wang, Xiaohui Kuang, Gang Zhao Aug 2023

Sparsity Brings Vulnerabilities: Exploring New Metrics In Backdoor Attacks, Jianwen Tian, Kefan Qiu, Debin Gao, Zhi Wang, Xiaohui Kuang, Gang Zhao

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Nowadays, using AI-based detectors to keep pace with the fast iterating of malware has attracted a great attention. However, most AI-based malware detectors use features with vast sparse subspaces to characterize applications, which brings significant vulnerabilities to the model. To exploit this sparsityrelated vulnerability, we propose a clean-label backdoor attack consisting of a dissimilarity metric-based candidate selection and a variation ratio-based trigger construction. The proposed backdoor is verified on different datasets, including a Windows PE dataset, an Android dataset with numerical and boolean feature values, and a PDF dataset. The experimental results show that the attack can slash the accuracy …

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Single-View View Synthesis With Self-Rectified Pseudo-Stereo, Yang Zhou, Hanjie Wu, Wenxi Liu, Zheng Xiong, Jing Qin, Shengfeng He Aug 2023

Single-View View Synthesis With Self-Rectified Pseudo-Stereo, Yang Zhou, Hanjie Wu, Wenxi Liu, Zheng Xiong, Jing Qin, Shengfeng He

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Synthesizing novel views from a single view image is a highly ill-posed problem. We discover an effective solution to reduce the learning ambiguity by expanding the single-view view synthesis problem to a multi-view setting. Specifically, we leverage the reliable and explicit stereo prior to generate a pseudo-stereo viewpoint, which serves as an auxiliary input to construct the 3D space. In this way, the challenging novel view synthesis process is decoupled into two simpler problems of stereo synthesis and 3D reconstruction. In order to synthesize a structurally correct and detail-preserved stereo image, we propose a self-rectified stereo synthesis to amend erroneous …

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Multi-Granularity Detector For Vulnerability Fixes, Truong Giang Nguyen, Cong, Thanh Le, Hong Jin Kang, Ratnadira Widyasari, Chengran Yang, Zhipeng Zhao, Bowen Xu, Jiayuan Zhou, Xin Xia, Ahmed E. Hassan, David Lo, David Lo Aug 2023

Multi-Granularity Detector For Vulnerability Fixes, Truong Giang Nguyen, Cong, Thanh Le, Hong Jin Kang, Ratnadira Widyasari, Chengran Yang, Zhipeng Zhao, Bowen Xu, Jiayuan Zhou, Xin Xia, Ahmed E. Hassan, David Lo, David Lo

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With the increasing reliance on Open Source Software, users are exposed to third-party library vulnerabilities. Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools have been created to alert users of such vulnerabilities. SCA requires the identification of vulnerability-fixing commits. Prior works have proposed methods that can automatically identify such vulnerability-fixing commits. However, identifying such commits is highly challenging, as only a very small minority of commits are vulnerability fixing. Moreover, code changes can be noisy and difficult to analyze. We observe that noise can occur at different levels of detail, making it challenging to detect vulnerability fixes accurately. To address these challenges and …

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Mastering Stock Markets With Efficient Mixture Of Diversified Trading Experts, Shuo Sun, Xinrun Wang, Wanqi Xue, Xiaoxuan Lou, Bo An Aug 2023

Mastering Stock Markets With Efficient Mixture Of Diversified Trading Experts, Shuo Sun, Xinrun Wang, Wanqi Xue, Xiaoxuan Lou, Bo An

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Quantitative stock investment is a fundamental financial task that highly relies on accurate prediction of market status and profitable investment decision making. Despite recent advances in deep learning (DL) have shown stellar performance on capturing trading opportunities in the stochastic stock market, the performance of existing DL methods is unstable with sensitivity to network initialization and hyperparameter selection. One major limitation of existing works is that investment decisions are made based on one individual neural network predictor with high uncertainty, which is inconsistent with the workflow in real-world trading firms. To tackle this limitation, we propose AlphaMix, a novel three-stage …

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The Impact Of A Continuous Integration Service On The Delivery Time Of Merged Pull Requests, João Helis Bernardo, Daniel Alencar Da Costa, Uirá Kulesza, Christoph Treude Jul 2023

The Impact Of A Continuous Integration Service On The Delivery Time Of Merged Pull Requests, João Helis Bernardo, Daniel Alencar Da Costa, Uirá Kulesza, Christoph Treude

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Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice that builds and tests software frequently (e.g., at every push). One main motivator to adopt CI is the potential to deliver software functionalities more quickly than not using CI. However, there is little empirical evidence to support that CI helps projects deliver software functionalities more quickly. Through the analysis of 162,653 pull requests (PRs) of 87 GitHub projects, we empirically study whether adopting a CI service (TRAVISCI) can quicken the time to deliver merged PRs. We complement our quantitative study by analyzing 450 survey responses from participants of 73 software projects. Our …

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