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Meta-Learning On Heterogeneous Information Networks For Cold-Start Recommendation, Yuanfu Lu, Yuan Fang, Chuan Shi Aug 2020

Meta-Learning On Heterogeneous Information Networks For Cold-Start Recommendation, Yuanfu Lu, Yuan Fang, Chuan Shi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Cold-start recommendation has been a challenging problem due to sparse user-item interactions for new users or items. Existing efforts have alleviated the cold-start issue to some extent, most of which approach the problem at the data level. Earlier methods often incorporate auxiliary data as user or item features, while more recent methods leverage heterogeneous information networks (HIN) to capture richer semantics via higher-order graph structures. On the other hand, recent meta-learning paradigm sheds light on addressing cold-start recommendation at the model level, given its ability to rapidly adapt to new tasks with scarce labeled data, or in the context of …


A Systematic Density-Based Clustering Method Using Anchor Points, Yizhang Wang, Di Wang, Wei Pang, Ah-Hwee Tan, You Zhou Aug 2020

A Systematic Density-Based Clustering Method Using Anchor Points, Yizhang Wang, Di Wang, Wei Pang, Ah-Hwee Tan, You Zhou

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Clustering is an important unsupervised learning method in machine learning and data mining. Many existing clustering methods may still face the challenge in self-identifying clusters with varying shapes, sizes and densities. To devise a more generic clustering method that considers all the aforementioned properties of the natural clusters, we propose a novel clustering algorithm named Anchor Points based Clustering (APC). The anchor points in APC are characterized by having a relatively large distance from data points with higher densities. We take anchor points as centers to obtain intermediate clusters, which can divide the whole dataset more appropriately so as to …


A Generalised Bound For The Wiener Attack On Rsa, Willy Susilo, Joseph Tonien, Guomin Yang Aug 2020

A Generalised Bound For The Wiener Attack On Rsa, Willy Susilo, Joseph Tonien, Guomin Yang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Since Wiener pointed out that the RSA can be broken if the private exponent d is relatively small compared to the modulus N, it has been a general belief that the Wiener attack works for d


Social Participation Performance Of Wheelchair Users Using Clustering And Geolocational Sensor's Data, Yukun Yin, Kar Way Tan Aug 2020

Social Participation Performance Of Wheelchair Users Using Clustering And Geolocational Sensor's Data, Yukun Yin, Kar Way Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

For wheelchair users, social participation and physical mobility play a significant part in determining their mental health and quality of life outcomes. However, little is known about how wheelchair users move about and engage in social interactions within their life-spaces. In this project, we investigate the social participation performance of the wheelchair users based on a combination of geolocational and lifestyle survey data collected over a period of three months. This paper adopts a multi-variate approach combining geolocational travel patterns and various factors such as independence, willingness and self-perception to provide multi-faceted analysis to their lifestyles. We provide profiles of …


Measuring Privacy Concerns With Government Surveillance And Right-To-Be-Forgotten In Nomological Net Of Trust And Willingness-To-Share, Gaurav Bansal, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah Aug 2020

Measuring Privacy Concerns With Government Surveillance And Right-To-Be-Forgotten In Nomological Net Of Trust And Willingness-To-Share, Gaurav Bansal, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In the post Snowden revelations era, concerns related to government surveillance and oversight have come to the forefront. The ability of the Internet to remember “everything” (or forget anything) also raises a privacy concern associated with the “right to be forgotten”. Hence, in this paper, we propose and examine privacy concerns by extending the Hong and Thong’s (2013) model with the addition of two dimensions: right to be forgotten as well as government surveillance and oversight. We tested two different measurement models using privacy concerns as a second-order and a third-order construct within a nomological net that includes trusting beliefs …


Interface Design Of Web-Based Educational Platforms For Young Students, Lurong He, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah Aug 2020

Interface Design Of Web-Based Educational Platforms For Young Students, Lurong He, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, almost all the school programs in the United States are closed. Most educational programs have moved online. Both teachers and students are facing challenges adapting to this new teaching and learning mode. This paper will focus on the interface design of webbased educational platforms for students and teachers from elementary and middle schools. The age of students from elementary and middle schools typically ranges from 5 to 13 years old. Their computer literacy level is still preliminary. So traditional online teaching platforms may not be appropriate for them. The design of learning systems …


Maia And Admonita: Mandatory Integrity Control Language And Dynamic Trust Framework For Arbitrary Structured Data, Wassnaa Al-Mawee Aug 2020

Maia And Admonita: Mandatory Integrity Control Language And Dynamic Trust Framework For Arbitrary Structured Data, Wassnaa Al-Mawee

Dissertations

The expansion of attacks against information systems of companies that operate nuclear power stations and other energy facilities in the United States and other countries, are noticeable with potential catastrophic real-world implications. Data integrity is a fundamental component of information security. It refers to the accuracy and the trustworthiness of data or resources. Data integrity within information systems becomes an important factor of security protection as the data becomes more integrated and crucial to decision-making. The security threats brought by human errors whether, malicious or unintentional, such as viruses, hacking, and many other cybersecurity threats, are dangerous and require mandatory …


A Fast Anderson-Chebyshev Acceleration For Nonlinear Optimization, Zhize Li, Jian Li Aug 2020

A Fast Anderson-Chebyshev Acceleration For Nonlinear Optimization, Zhize Li, Jian Li

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Anderson acceleration (or Anderson mixing) is an efficient acceleration method for fixed point iterations $x_{t+1}=G(x_t)$, e.g., gradient descent can be viewed as iteratively applying the operation $G(x) \triangleq x-\alpha\nabla f(x)$. It is known that Anderson acceleration is quite efficient in practice and can be viewed as an extension of Krylov subspace methods for nonlinear problems. In this paper, we show that Anderson acceleration with Chebyshev polynomial can achieve the optimal convergence rate $O(\sqrt{\kappa}\ln\frac{1}{\epsilon})$, which improves the previous result $O(\kappa\ln\frac{1}{\epsilon})$ provided by (Toth and Kelley, 2015) for quadratic functions. Moreover, we provide a convergence analysis for minimizing general nonlinear problems. Besides, …


Rethinking Pruning For Accelerating Deep Inference At The Edge, Dawei Gao, Xiaoxi He, Zimu Zhou, Yongxin Tong, Ke Xu, Lothar Thiele Aug 2020

Rethinking Pruning For Accelerating Deep Inference At The Edge, Dawei Gao, Xiaoxi He, Zimu Zhou, Yongxin Tong, Ke Xu, Lothar Thiele

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

There is a growing trend to deploy deep neural networks at the edge for high-accuracy, real-time data mining and user interaction. Applications such as speech recognition and language understanding often apply a deep neural network to encode an input sequence and then use a decoder to generate the output sequence. A promising technique to accelerate these applications on resource-constrained devices is network pruning, which compresses the size of the deep neural network without severe drop in inference accuracy. However, we observe that although existing network pruning algorithms prove effective to speed up the prior deep neural network, they lead to …


Adaptive Task Sampling For Meta-Learning, Chenghao Liu, Zhihao Wang, Doyen Sahoo, Yuan Fang, Kun Zhang, Steven C. H. Hoi Aug 2020

Adaptive Task Sampling For Meta-Learning, Chenghao Liu, Zhihao Wang, Doyen Sahoo, Yuan Fang, Kun Zhang, Steven C. H. Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Meta-learning methods have been extensively studied and applied in computer vision, especially for few-shot classification tasks. The key idea of meta-learning for few-shot classification is to mimic the few-shot situations faced at test time by randomly sampling classes in meta-training data to construct fewshot tasks for episodic training. While a rich line of work focuses solely on how to extract meta-knowledge across tasks, we exploit the complementary problem on how to generate informative tasks. We argue that the randomly sampled tasks could be sub-optimal and uninformative (e.g., the task of classifying “dog” from “laptop” is often trivial) to the meta-learner. …


Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections From Micro-Collections In Social Media, Alexander C. Nwala Aug 2020

Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections From Micro-Collections In Social Media, Alexander C. Nwala

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

In a Web plagued by disappearing resources, Web archive collections provide a valuable means of preserving Web resources important to the study of past events. These archived collections start with seed URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) hand-selected by curators. Curators produce high quality seeds by removing non-relevant URIs and adding URIs from credible and authoritative sources, but this ability comes at a cost: it is time consuming to collect these seeds. The result of this is a shortage of curators, a lack of Web archive collections for various important news events, and a need for an automatic system for generating seeds. …


Love A Restaurant? Swipe Right On Foodrecce, Hady W. Lauw, Smu Office Of Research Jul 2020

Love A Restaurant? Swipe Right On Foodrecce, Hady W. Lauw, Smu Office Of Research

Research@SMU Infographics

A bunch of your friends wants to meet for dinner, but nobody can agree on where and what to eat? FoodRecce can help! FoodRecce is an app, developed under the Preferred.AI initiative, that provides recommendations on restaurants based on users' locations and past preferences.


Specialization: Do Your Job Well Helping Students Who Are Considering A Career In Programming Know How To Invest Their Time., Scott Pulley Jul 2020

Specialization: Do Your Job Well Helping Students Who Are Considering A Career In Programming Know How To Invest Their Time., Scott Pulley

Marriott Student Review

The article examines the effects of specialization on the hiring process for undergraduates studying programming whether in information systems or computer science.


Novel Technique To Analyze The Effects Of Cognitive And Non-Cognitive Predictors On Students Course Withdrawal In College, Mohammed Ali Jul 2020

Novel Technique To Analyze The Effects Of Cognitive And Non-Cognitive Predictors On Students Course Withdrawal In College, Mohammed Ali

Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations

A novel technique was applied to a college student database to identify the cognitive and non-cognitive factors that predict college students’ course withdrawal behaviors. Predictors such as high school grade point average (HSGPA), standardized test scores (ACT–American College Test or SAT-Scholastic Aptitude Test), number of credit hours enrolled, and age were analyzed in this study. Data mining software algorithms were used to study information about undergraduate students at a west-south-central state university in the United States. The study results revealed that two factors, number of enrolled credit hours, and a student’s age have the most effect on collegiate course withdrawal …


Lulling Waters: A Poetry Reading For Real-Time Music Generation Through Emotion Mapping, Ashley Muniz, Toshihisa Tsuruoka Jul 2020

Lulling Waters: A Poetry Reading For Real-Time Music Generation Through Emotion Mapping, Ashley Muniz, Toshihisa Tsuruoka

Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2020

Through a poetic narrative, “Lulling Waters” tells the story of a whale overcoming the loss of his mother, who passed away from ingesting plastic, as he attempts to escape from the polluted oceanic world. The live performance of this poem utilizes a software system called Soundwriter, which was developed with the goal of enriching the oral storytelling experience through music. This video demonstrates how Soundwriter’s real-time hybrid system was able to analyze “Lulling Waters” through its lexical and auditory features. Emotionally salient words were given ratings based on arousal, valence, and dominance while the emotionally charged prosodic features of the …


Patterns Of Population Displacement During Mega-Fires In California Detected Using Facebook Disaster Maps, Shenyue Jia, Seung Hee Kim, Son V. Nghiem, Paul Doherty, Menas Kafatos Jul 2020

Patterns Of Population Displacement During Mega-Fires In California Detected Using Facebook Disaster Maps, Shenyue Jia, Seung Hee Kim, Son V. Nghiem, Paul Doherty, Menas Kafatos

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

The Facebook Disaster Maps (FBDM) work presented here is the first time this platform has been used to provide analysis-ready population change products derived from crowdsourced data targeting disaster relief practices. We evaluate the representativeness of FBDM data using the Mann-Kendall test and emerging hot and cold spots in an anomaly analysis to reveal the trend, magnitude, and agglommeration of population displacement during the Mendocino Complex and Woolsey fires in California, USA. Our results show that the distribution of FBDM pre-crisis users fits well with the total population from different sources. Due to usage habits, the elder population is underrepresented …


Deep Learning For Real-World Object Detection, Xiongwei Wu Jul 2020

Deep Learning For Real-World Object Detection, Xiongwei Wu

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Despite achieving significant progresses, most existing detectors are designed to detect objects in academic contexts but consider little in real-world scenarios. In real-world applications, the scale variance of objects can be significantly higher than objects in academic contexts; In addition, existing methods are designed for achieving localization with relatively low precision, however more precise localization is demanded in real-world scenarios; Existing methods are optimized with huge amount of annotated data, but in certain real-world scenarios, only a few samples are available. In this dissertation, we aim to explore novel techniques to address these research challenges to make object detection algorithms …


Keen2act: Activity Recommendation In Online Social Collaborative Platforms, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Thong Hoang, Richard J. Oentaryo, David Lo Jul 2020

Keen2act: Activity Recommendation In Online Social Collaborative Platforms, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Thong Hoang, Richard J. Oentaryo, David Lo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Social collaborative platforms such as GitHub and Stack Overflow have been increasingly used to improve work productivity via collaborative efforts. To improve user experiences in these platforms, it is desirable to have a recommender system that can suggest not only items (e.g., a GitHub repository) to a user, but also activities to be performed on the suggested items (e.g., forking a repository). To this end, we propose a new approach dubbed Keen2Act, which decomposes the recommendation problem into two stages: the Keen and Act steps. The Keen step identifies, for a given user, a (sub)set of items in which he/she …


Geoprune: Efficiently Matching Trips In Ride-Sharing Through Geometric Properties, Yixin Xu, Jianzhong Qi, Renata Borovica-Gajic Jul 2020

Geoprune: Efficiently Matching Trips In Ride-Sharing Through Geometric Properties, Yixin Xu, Jianzhong Qi, Renata Borovica-Gajic

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

On-demand ride-sharing is rapidly growing. Matching trip requests to vehicles efficiently is critical for the service quality of ride-sharing. To match trip requests with vehicles, a prune-And-select scheme is commonly used. The pruning stage identifies feasible vehicles that can satisfy the trip constraints (e.g., trip time). The selection stage selects the optimal one(s) from the feasible vehicles. The pruning stage is crucial to lowering the complexity of the selection stage and to achieve efficient matching. We propose an effective and efficient pruning algorithm called GeoPrune. GeoPrune represents the time constraints of trip requests using circles and ellipses, which can be …


Deep Learning Of Facial Embeddings And Facial Landmark Points For The Detection Of Academic Emotions, Hua Leong Fwa Jul 2020

Deep Learning Of Facial Embeddings And Facial Landmark Points For The Detection Of Academic Emotions, Hua Leong Fwa

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Automatic emotion recognition is an actively researched area as emotion plays a pivotal role in effective human communications. Equipping a computer to understand and respond to human emotions has potential applications in many fields including education, medicine, transport and hospitality. In a classroom or online learning context, the basic emotions do not occur frequently and do not influence the learning process itself. The academic emotions such as engagement, frustration, confusion and boredom are the ones which are pivotal to sustaining the motivation of learners. In this study, we evaluated the use of deep learning on FaceNet embeddings and facial landmark …


Recent Advances In Deep Learning For Object Detection, Xiongwei Wu, Doyen Sahoo, Steven C. H. Hoi Jul 2020

Recent Advances In Deep Learning For Object Detection, Xiongwei Wu, Doyen Sahoo, Steven C. H. Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Object detection is a fundamental visual recognition problem in computer vision and has been widely studied in the past decades. Visual object detection aims to find objects of certain target classes with precise localization in a given image and assign each object instance a corresponding class label. Due to the tremendous successes of deep learning based image classification, object detection techniques using deep learning have been actively studied in recent years. In this paper, we give a comprehensive survey of recent advances in visual object detection with deep learning. By reviewing a large body of recent related work in literature, …


Expertise Style Transfer: A New Task Towards Better Communication Between Experts And Laymen, Yixin Cao, Ruihao Shui, Liangming Pan, Min-Yen Kan, Zhiyuan Lu, Tat-Seng Chua Jul 2020

Expertise Style Transfer: A New Task Towards Better Communication Between Experts And Laymen, Yixin Cao, Ruihao Shui, Liangming Pan, Min-Yen Kan, Zhiyuan Lu, Tat-Seng Chua

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The curse of knowledge can impede communication between experts and laymen. We propose a new task of expertise style transfer and contribute a manually annotated dataset with the goal of alleviating such cognitive biases. Solving this task not only simplifies the professional language, but also improves the accuracy and expertise level of laymen descriptions using simple words. This is a challenging task, unaddressed in previous work, as it requires the models to have expert intelligence in order to modify text with a deep understanding of domain knowledge and structures. We establish the benchmark performance of five state-of-the-art models for style …


Improving Event Detection Via Open-Domain Event Trigger Knowledge, Meihan Tong, Bin Xu, Shuai Wang, Yixin Cao, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Jun Xie Jul 2020

Improving Event Detection Via Open-Domain Event Trigger Knowledge, Meihan Tong, Bin Xu, Shuai Wang, Yixin Cao, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Jun Xie

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Event Detection (ED) is a fundamental task in automatically structuring texts. Due to the small scale of training data, previous methods perform poorly on unseen/sparsely labeled trigger words and are prone to overfitting densely labeled trigger words. To address the issue, we propose a novel Enrichment Knowledge Distillation (EKD) model to leverage external open-domain trigger knowledge to reduce the in-built biases to frequent trigger words in annotations. Experiments on benchmark ACE2005 show that our model outperforms nine strong baselines, is especially effective for unseen/sparsely labeled trigger words. The source code is released on https://github.com/shuaiwa16/ekd.git.


Tree-Augmented Cross-Modal Encoding For Complex-Query Video Retrieval, Xun Yang, Jianfeng Dong, Yixin Cao, Xun Wang, Meng Wang, Tat-Seng Chua Jul 2020

Tree-Augmented Cross-Modal Encoding For Complex-Query Video Retrieval, Xun Yang, Jianfeng Dong, Yixin Cao, Xun Wang, Meng Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The rapid growth of user-generated videos on the Internet has intensified the need for text-based video retrieval systems. Traditional methods mainly favor the concept-based paradigm on retrieval with simple queries, which are usually ineffective for complex queries that carry far more complex semantics. Recently, embedding-based paradigm has emerged as a popular approach. It aims to map the queries and videos into a shared embedding space where semantically-similar texts and videos are much closer to each other. Despite its simplicity, it forgoes the exploitation of the syntactic structure of text queries, making it suboptimal to model the complex queries. To facilitate …


Big Data, Spatial Optimization, And Planning, Kai Cao, Wenwen Li, Richard Church Jul 2020

Big Data, Spatial Optimization, And Planning, Kai Cao, Wenwen Li, Richard Church

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Spatial optimization represents a set of powerful spatial analysis techniques that can be used to identify optimal solution(s) and even generate a large number of competitive alternatives. The formulation of such problems involves maximizing or minimizing one or more objectives while satisfying a number of constraints. Solution techniques range from exact models solved with such approaches as linear programming and integer programming, or heuristic algorithms, i.e. Tabu Search, Simulated Annealing, and Genetic Algorithms. Spatial optimization techniques have been utilized in numerous planning applications, such as location-allocation modeling/site selection, land use planning, school districting, regionalization, routing, and urban design. These methods …


Hybrid Stochastic-Deterministic Minibatch Proximal Gradient: Less-Than-Single-Pass Optimization With Nearly Optimal Generalization, Pan Zhou, Xiaotong Yuan Jul 2020

Hybrid Stochastic-Deterministic Minibatch Proximal Gradient: Less-Than-Single-Pass Optimization With Nearly Optimal Generalization, Pan Zhou, Xiaotong Yuan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Stochastic variance-reduced gradient (SVRG) algorithms have been shown to work favorably in solving large-scale learning problems. Despite the remarkable success, the stochastic gradient complexity of SVRG-type algorithms usually scales linearly with data size and thus could still be expensive for huge data. To address this deficiency, we propose a hybrid stochastic-deterministic minibatch proximal gradient (HSDMPG) algorithm for strongly-convex problems that enjoys provably improved data-size-independent complexity guarantees.


Answer Ranking For Product-Related Questions Via Multiple Semantic Relations Modeling, Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Wai Lam Jul 2020

Answer Ranking For Product-Related Questions Via Multiple Semantic Relations Modeling, Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Wai Lam

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Many E-commerce sites now offer product-specific question answering platforms for users to communicate with each other by posting and answering questions during online shopping. However, the multiple answers provided by ordinary users usually vary diversely in their qualities and thus need to be appropriately ranked for each question to improve user satisfaction. It can be observed that product reviews usually provide useful information for a given question, and thus can assist the ranking process. In this paper, we investigate the answer ranking problem for product-related questions, with the relevant reviews treated as auxiliary information that can be exploited for facilitating …


Bridging Hierarchical And Sequential Context Modeling For Question-Driven Extractive Answer Summarization, Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Yaliang Li, Min Yang, Wai Lam, Ying Shen Jul 2020

Bridging Hierarchical And Sequential Context Modeling For Question-Driven Extractive Answer Summarization, Yang Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Yaliang Li, Min Yang, Wai Lam, Ying Shen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Non-factoid question answering (QA) is one of the most extensive yet challenging application and research areas of retrieval-based question answering. In particular, answers to non-factoid questions can often be too lengthy and redundant to comprehend, which leads to the great demand on answer sumamrization in non-factoid QA. However, the multi-level interactions between QA pairs and the interrelation among different answer sentences are usually modeled separately on current answer summarization studies. In this paper, we propose a unified model to bridge hierarchical and sequential context modeling for question-driven extractive answer summarization. Specifically, we design a hierarchical compare-aggregate method to integrate the …


Covid-19 Calls For Remote Reskilling And Retraining, C. Zou, W. Zhao, Keng Siau Jul 2020

Covid-19 Calls For Remote Reskilling And Retraining, C. Zou, W. Zhao, Keng Siau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Cui Zou, Wangchuchu Zhao, and Keng Siau respond directly to COVID-19 by framing the skills and training necessary to survive crises. The authors focus on the importance of helping organizations prepare beyond the current pandemic by teaching everyone how to use the technology tools -- and exploit the processes -- around remote working.


A Review On Eye-Tracking Metrics For Sleepiness, Debasis Roy, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah Jul 2020

A Review On Eye-Tracking Metrics For Sleepiness, Debasis Roy, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Sleepiness that can arise from sleep deprivation can increase human errors in task performance and create workplace hazards and accidents. Hence, it is critical to detect sleepiness to minimize hazards and human errors. This paper provides a review of the literature on eye tracking metrics that can be used to detect sleepiness. These metrics include blink duration, blink frequency, saccade latency, saccade peak velocity, saccade accuracy, smooth pursuit velocity gain, fixation rate, pupil size, and latency to pupil constriction.