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Risk-Aware Procurement Optimization In A Global Technology Supply Chain, Jonathan Chase, Jingfeng Yang, Hoong Chuin Lau Sep 2022

Risk-Aware Procurement Optimization In A Global Technology Supply Chain, Jonathan Chase, Jingfeng Yang, Hoong Chuin Lau

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Supply chain disruption, from ‘Black Swan’ events like the COVID-19 pandemic or the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to more ordinary issues such as labour disputes and adverse weather conditions, can result in delays, missed orders, and financial loss for companies that deliver products globally. Developing a risk-tolerant procurement strategy that anticipates the logistical problems incurred by disruption involves both accurate quantification of risk and cost-effective decision-making. We develop a supplier-focused risk evaluation metric that constrains a procurement optimization model for a global technology company. Our solution offers practical risk tolerance and cost-effectiveness, accounting for a range of constraints that realistically …


Analyzing The Impact Of Covid-19 Control Policies On Campus Occupancy And Mobility Via Wifi Sensing, Camellia Zakaria, Amee Trivedi, Emmanuel Cecchet, Michael Chee, Prashant Shenoy, Rajesh Krishna Balan Sep 2022

Analyzing The Impact Of Covid-19 Control Policies On Campus Occupancy And Mobility Via Wifi Sensing, Camellia Zakaria, Amee Trivedi, Emmanuel Cecchet, Michael Chee, Prashant Shenoy, Rajesh Krishna Balan

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Mobile sensing has played a key role in providing digital solutions to aid with COVID-19 containment policies, primarily to automate contact tracing and social distancing measures. As more and more countries reopen from lockdowns, there remains a pressing need to minimize crowd movements and interactions, particularly in enclosed spaces. Many COVID-19 technology solutions leverage positioning systems, generally using Bluetooth and GPS, and can theoretically be adapted to monitor safety compliance within dedicated environments. However, they may not be the ideal modalities for indoor positioning. This article conjectures that analyzing user occupancy and mobility via deployed WiFi infrastructure can help institutions …


Learning To Solve Multiple-Tsp With Time Window And Rejections Via Deep Reinforcement Learning, Rongkai Zhang, Cong Zhang, Zhiguang Cao, Wen Song, Puay Siew Tan, Jie Zhang, Bihan Wen, Justin Dauwels Sep 2022

Learning To Solve Multiple-Tsp With Time Window And Rejections Via Deep Reinforcement Learning, Rongkai Zhang, Cong Zhang, Zhiguang Cao, Wen Song, Puay Siew Tan, Jie Zhang, Bihan Wen, Justin Dauwels

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We propose a manager-worker framework (the implementation of our model is publically available at: https://github.com/zcaicaros/manager-worker-mtsptwr) based on deep reinforcement learning to tackle a hard yet nontrivial variant of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP), i.e. multiple-vehicle TSP with time window and rejections (mTSPTWR), where customers who cannot be served before the deadline are subject to rejections. Particularly, in the proposed framework, a manager agent learns to divide mTSPTWR into sub-routing tasks by assigning customers to each vehicle via a Graph Isomorphism Network (GIN) based policy network. A worker agent learns to solve sub-routing tasks by minimizing the cost in terms of both …


Learning Improvement Heuristics For Solving Routing Problems, Yaoxin Wu, Wen Song, Zhiguang Cao, Jie Zhang, Andrew Lim Sep 2022

Learning Improvement Heuristics For Solving Routing Problems, Yaoxin Wu, Wen Song, Zhiguang Cao, Jie Zhang, Andrew Lim

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Recent studies in using deep learning to solve routing problems focus on construction heuristics, the solutions of which are still far from optimality. Improvement heuristics have great potential to narrow this gap by iteratively refining a solution. However, classic improvement heuristics are all guided by hand-crafted rules which may limit their performance. In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning framework to learn the improvement heuristics for routing problems. We design a self-attention based deep architecture as the policy network to guide the selection of next solution. We apply our method to two important routing problems, i.e. travelling salesman …


Distance Based Image Classification: A Solution To Generative Classification’S Conundrum?, Wen-Yan Lin, Siying Liu, Bing Tian Dai, Hongdong Li Sep 2022

Distance Based Image Classification: A Solution To Generative Classification’S Conundrum?, Wen-Yan Lin, Siying Liu, Bing Tian Dai, Hongdong Li

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Most classifiers rely on discriminative boundaries that separate instances of each class from everything else. We argue that discriminative boundaries are counter-intuitive as they define semantics by what-they-are-not; and should be replaced by generative classifiers which define semantics by what-they-are. Unfortunately, generative classifiers are significantly less accurate. This may be caused by the tendency of generative models to focus on easy to model semantic generative factors and ignore non-semantic factors that are important but difficult to model. We propose a new generative model in which semantic factors are accommodated by shell theory’s [25] hierarchical generative process and non-semantic factors by …


Secure Deterministic Wallet And Stealth Address: Key-Insulated And Privacy-Preserving Signature Scheme With Publicly Derived Public Key, Zhen Liu, Guomin Yang, Duncan S. Wong, Khoa Nguyen, Huaxiong Wang, Xiaorong Ke, Yining Liu Sep 2022

Secure Deterministic Wallet And Stealth Address: Key-Insulated And Privacy-Preserving Signature Scheme With Publicly Derived Public Key, Zhen Liu, Guomin Yang, Duncan S. Wong, Khoa Nguyen, Huaxiong Wang, Xiaorong Ke, Yining Liu

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Deterministic Wallet (DW) and Stealth Address (SA) mechanisms have been widely adopted in the cryptocurrency community, due to their virtues on functionality and privacy protection, which come from a key derivation mechanism that allows an arbitrary number of derived keys to be generated from a master key. However, these algorithms suffer a vulnerability that, when one derived key is compromised somehow, the damage is not limited to the leaked derived key only, but to the master key and in consequence all derived keys are compromised. In this article, we introduce and formalize a new signature variant, called Key-Insulated and Privacy-Preserving …


Destress: Computation-Optimal And Communication-Efficient Decentralized Nonconvex Finite-Sum Optimization, Boyue Li, Zhize Li, Yuejie Chi Aug 2022

Destress: Computation-Optimal And Communication-Efficient Decentralized Nonconvex Finite-Sum Optimization, Boyue Li, Zhize Li, Yuejie Chi

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Emerging applications in multiagent environments such as internet-of-things, networked sensing, autonomous systems, and federated learning, call for decentralized algorithms for finite-sum optimizations that are resource efficient in terms of both computation and communication. In this paper, we consider the prototypical setting where the agents work collaboratively to minimize the sum of local loss functions by only communicating with their neighbors over a predetermined network topology. We develop a new algorithm, called DEcentralized STochastic REcurSive gradient methodS (DESTRESS) for nonconvex finite-sum optimization, which matches the optimal incremental first-order oracle complexity of centralized algorithms for finding first-order stationary points, while maintaining communication …


Self-Adaptive Systems: A Systematic Literature Review Across Categories And Domains, Terence Wong, Markus Wagner, Christoph Treude Aug 2022

Self-Adaptive Systems: A Systematic Literature Review Across Categories And Domains, Terence Wong, Markus Wagner, Christoph Treude

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Context: Championed by IBM’s vision of autonomic computing paper in 2003, the autonomic computing research field has seen increased research activity over the last 20 years. Several conferences (SEAMS, SASO, ICAC) and workshops (SISSY) have been established and have contributed to the autonomic computing knowledge base in search of a new kind of system — a self-adaptive system (SAS). These systems are characterized by being context-aware and can act on that awareness. The actions carried out could be on the system or on the context (or environment). The underlying goal of a SAS is the sustained achievement of its goals …


Neural-Progressive Hedging: Enforcing Constraints In Reinforcement Learning With Stochastic Programming, Supriyo Ghosh, Laura Wynter, Shiau Hong Lim, Duc Thien Nguyen Aug 2022

Neural-Progressive Hedging: Enforcing Constraints In Reinforcement Learning With Stochastic Programming, Supriyo Ghosh, Laura Wynter, Shiau Hong Lim, Duc Thien Nguyen

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We propose a framework, called neural-progressive hedging (NP), that leverages stochastic programming during the online phase of executing a reinforcement learning (RL) policy. The goal is to ensure feasibility with respect to constraints and risk-based objectives such as conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) during the execution of the policy, using probabilistic models of the state transitions to guide policy adjustments. The framework is particularly amenable to the class of sequential resource allocation problems since feasibility with respect to typical resource constraints cannot be enforced in a scalable manner. The NP framework provides an alternative that adds modest overhead during the online phase. …


Legion: Massively Composing Rankers For Improved Bug Localization At Adobe, Darryl Jarman, Jeffrey Berry, Riley Smith, Ferdian Thung, David Lo Aug 2022

Legion: Massively Composing Rankers For Improved Bug Localization At Adobe, Darryl Jarman, Jeffrey Berry, Riley Smith, Ferdian Thung, David Lo

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Studies have estimated that, in industrial settings, developers spend between 30 and 90 percent of their time fixing bugs. As such, tools that assist in identifying the location of bugs provide value by reducing debugging costs. One such tool is BugLocator. This study initially aimed to determine if developers working on the Adobe Analytics product could use BugLocator. The initial results show that BugLocator achieves a similar accuracy on five of seven Adobe Analytics repositories and on open-source projects. However, these results do not meet the minimum applicability requirement deemed necessary by Adobe Analytics developers prior to possible adoption. Thus, …


Developing Gamification Research In Information Systems, De Liu, Richard Landers, Paul Lowry, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Radhika Santhanam Aug 2022

Developing Gamification Research In Information Systems, De Liu, Richard Landers, Paul Lowry, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Radhika Santhanam

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Gamification, an umbrella term for incorporating game design elements into non-game systems to make them more engaging and productive, is of interest to Information System (IS) communities, because it has wide applications, such as, gamification designs for workplace, learning and health apps, social media, online communities, and the gig economy. As a multidisciplinary research domain, gamification integrates elements of technology, human motivation, task design, human-computer-interface design, and algorithms/AI design, and is a fertile ground for IS researchers with a variety of different background. There are many challenges in conducting gamification research, including how to get started in this highly multidisciplinary …


Aligning Dual Disentangled User Representations From Ratings And Textual Content, Nhu Thuat Tran, Hady Wirawan Lauw Aug 2022

Aligning Dual Disentangled User Representations From Ratings And Textual Content, Nhu Thuat Tran, Hady Wirawan Lauw

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Classical recommendation methods typically render user representation as a single vector in latent space. Oftentimes, a user's interactions with items are influenced by several hidden factors. To better uncover these hidden factors, we seek disentangled representations. Existing disentanglement methods for recommendations are mainly concerned with user-item interactions alone. To further improve not only the effectiveness of recommendations but also the interpretability of the representations, we propose to learn a second set of disentangled user representations from textual content and to align the two sets of representations with one another. The purpose of this coupling is two-fold. For one benefit, we …


Artificial Intelligence In Financial Technology, Keng Siau, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Brenda L. Eschenbrenner, Langtao Chen Aug 2022

Artificial Intelligence In Financial Technology, Keng Siau, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Brenda L. Eschenbrenner, Langtao Chen

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AI applications in health care, communications, and arts have brought about rapid and dramatic advances in these fields. Nevertheless, the rapidly expanding potential of AI in the economy and society has raised a set of challenging issues. The fields of AI and financial technology are not spared. How can artificial intelligence (AI) be utilized in financial technology (fintech)? What will be the impact? What actionable objectives are needed to realize value from AI? This research uses a systematic qualitative research methodology, Value-Focused Thinking, to identify the actionable objectives for deriving value from AI in the fintech industry. The results of …


Individually Rational Collaborative Vehicle Routing Through Give-And-Take Exchanges, Tran Phong, Paul Tang, Hoong Chuin Lau Aug 2022

Individually Rational Collaborative Vehicle Routing Through Give-And-Take Exchanges, Tran Phong, Paul Tang, Hoong Chuin Lau

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In this paper, we are concerned with the automated exchange of orders between logistics companies in a marketplace platform to optimize total revenues. We introduce a novel multi-agent approach to this problem, focusing on the Collaborative Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) through the lens of individual rationality. Our proposed algorithm applies the principles of Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) to pairs of vehicles from different logistics companies, optimizing the overall routes while considering standard VRP constraints plus individual rationality constraints. By facilitating cooperation among competing logistics agents through a Give-and-Take approach, we show that it is possible to reduce travel distance and …


Finding Meta Winning Ticket To Train Your Maml, Dawei Gao, Yuexiang Xie, Zimu Zhou, Zhen Wang, Yaliang Li, Bolin. Ding Aug 2022

Finding Meta Winning Ticket To Train Your Maml, Dawei Gao, Yuexiang Xie, Zimu Zhou, Zhen Wang, Yaliang Li, Bolin. Ding

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The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) states that a randomly initialized dense network contains sub-networks that can be trained in isolation to the performance of the dense network. In this paper, to achieve rapid learning with less computational cost, we explore LTH in the context of meta learning. First, we experimentally show that there are sparse sub-networks, known as meta winning tickets, which can be meta-trained to few-shot classification accuracy to the original backbone. The application of LTH in meta learning enables the adaptation of meta-trained networks on various IoT devices with fewer computation. However, the status quo to identify winning …


Multimodal Private Signatures, Khoa Nguyen, Fuchun Guo, Willy Susilo, Guomin Yang Aug 2022

Multimodal Private Signatures, Khoa Nguyen, Fuchun Guo, Willy Susilo, Guomin Yang

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We introduce Multimodal Private Signature (MPS) - an anonymous signature system that offers a novel accountability feature: it allows a designated opening authority to learn some partial information op about the signer’s identity id, and nothing beyond. Such partial information can flexibly be defined as op = id (as in group signatures), or as op = 0 (like in ring signatures), or more generally, as op = Gj (id), where Gj (·) is a certain disclosing function. Importantly, the value of op is known in advance by the signer, and hence, the latter can decide whether she/he wants to disclose …


Self-Checking Deep Neural Networks For Anomalies And Adversaries In Deployment, Yan Xiao, Ivan Beschastnikh, Yun Lin, Rajdeep Singh Hundal, Xiaofei Xie, David S. Rosenblum, Jin Song Dong Aug 2022

Self-Checking Deep Neural Networks For Anomalies And Adversaries In Deployment, Yan Xiao, Ivan Beschastnikh, Yun Lin, Rajdeep Singh Hundal, Xiaofei Xie, David S. Rosenblum, Jin Song Dong

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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely adopted, yet DNN models are surprisingly unreliable, which raises significant concerns about their use in critical domains. In this work, we propose that runtime DNN mistakes can be quickly detected and properly dealt with in deployment, especially in settings like self-driving vehicles. Just as software engineering (SE) community has developed effective mechanisms and techniques to monitor and check programmed components, our previous work, SelfChecker, is designed to monitor and correct DNN predictions given unintended abnormal test data. SelfChecker triggers an alarm if the decisions given by the internal layer features of the model …


Investigating Toxicity Changes Of Cross-Community Redditors From 2 Billion Posts And Comments, Hind Almerekhi, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen Aug 2022

Investigating Toxicity Changes Of Cross-Community Redditors From 2 Billion Posts And Comments, Hind Almerekhi, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen

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This research investigates changes in online behavior of users who publish in multiple communities on Reddit by measuring their toxicity at two levels. With the aid of crowdsourcing, we built a labeled dataset of 10,083 Reddit comments, then used the dataset to train and fine-tune a Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) neural network model. The model predicted the toxicity levels of 87,376,912 posts from 577,835 users and 2,205,581,786 comments from 890,913 users on Reddit over 16 years, from 2005 to 2020. This study utilized the toxicity levels of user content to identify toxicity changes by the user within the …


Simple And Optimal Stochastic Gradient Methods For Nonsmooth Nonconvex Optimization, Zhize Li, Jian Li Aug 2022

Simple And Optimal Stochastic Gradient Methods For Nonsmooth Nonconvex Optimization, Zhize Li, Jian Li

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We propose and analyze several stochastic gradient algorithms for finding stationary points or local minimum in nonconvex, possibly with nonsmooth regularizer, finite-sum and online optimization problems. First, we propose a simple proximal stochastic gradient algorithm based on variance reduction called ProxSVRG+. We provide a clean and tight analysis of ProxSVRG+, which shows that it outperforms the deterministic proximal gradient descent (ProxGD) for a wide range of minibatch sizes, hence solves an open problem proposed in Reddi et al. (2016b). Also, ProxSVRG+ uses much less proximal oracle calls than ProxSVRG (Reddi et al., 2016b) and extends to the online setting by …


Systems And Methods For Contrastive Learning With Self-Labeling Refinement, Pan Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Steven Hoi Aug 2022

Systems And Methods For Contrastive Learning With Self-Labeling Refinement, Pan Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Steven Hoi

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Embodiments described herein provide a contrastive learning mechanism with self - labeling refinement , which iteratively employs the network and data themselves to generate more accurate and informative soft labels for contrastive learning . Specifically , the contrastive learning framework includes a self - labeling refinery module to explicitly generate accurate labels , and a momentum mix - up module to increase similarity between a query and its positive , which in turn implicitly improves label accuracy.


Submodularity And Local Search Approaches For Maximum Capture Problems Under Generalized Extreme Value Models, Tien Thanh Dam, Thuy Anh Ta, Tien Mai Aug 2022

Submodularity And Local Search Approaches For Maximum Capture Problems Under Generalized Extreme Value Models, Tien Thanh Dam, Thuy Anh Ta, Tien Mai

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We study the maximum capture problem in facility location under random utility models, i.e., the problem of seeking to locate new facilities in a competitive market such that the captured user demand is maximized, assuming that each customer chooses among all available facilities according to a random utility maximization model. We employ the generalized extreme value (GEV) family of discrete choice models and show that the objective function in this context is monotonic and submodular. This finding implies that a simple greedy heuristic can always guarantee a (1−1/e) approximation solution. We further develop a new algorithm combining a greedy heuristic, …


Joint Chance-Constrained Staffing Optimization In Multi-Skill Call Centers, Tien Thanh Dam, Thuy Anh Ta, Tien Mai Aug 2022

Joint Chance-Constrained Staffing Optimization In Multi-Skill Call Centers, Tien Thanh Dam, Thuy Anh Ta, Tien Mai

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This paper concerns the staffing optimization problem in multi-skill call centers. The objective is to find a minimal cost staffing solution while meeting a target level for the quality of service (QoS) to customers. We consider a staffing problem in which joint chance constraints are imposed on the QoS of the day. Our joint chance-constrained formulation is more rational capturing the correlation between different call types, as compared to separate chance-constrained versions considered in previous studies. We show that, in general, the probability functions in the joint-chance constraints display S-shaped curves, and the optimal solutions should belong to the concave …


Extract Human Mobility Patterns Powered By City Semantic Diagram, Zhangqing Shan, Weiwei Shan, Baihua Zheng Aug 2022

Extract Human Mobility Patterns Powered By City Semantic Diagram, Zhangqing Shan, Weiwei Shan, Baihua Zheng

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With widespread deployment of GPS devices, massive spatiotemporal trajectories became more accessible. This booming trend paved the solid data ground for researchers to discover the regularities or patterns of human mobility. However, there are still three challenges in semantic pattern extraction including semantic absence, semantic bias and semantic complexity. In this paper, we invent and apply a novel data structure namely City Semantic Diagram to overcome above three challenges. First, our approach resolves semantic absence by exactly identifying semantic behaviours from raw trajectories. Second, the delicate design of semantic purification helps us to detect semantic complexity from human mobility. Third, …


Andea: Anomaly And Novelty Detection, Explanation, And Accommodation, Guansong Pang, Jundong Li, Anton Van Den Hengel, Longbin Cao, Thomas G. Dietterich Aug 2022

Andea: Anomaly And Novelty Detection, Explanation, And Accommodation, Guansong Pang, Jundong Li, Anton Van Den Hengel, Longbin Cao, Thomas G. Dietterich

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The detection of, explanation of, and accommodation to anomalies and novelties are active research areas in multiple communities, including data mining, machine learning, and computer vision. They are applied in various guises including anomaly detection, out-of-distribution example detection, adversarial example recognition and detection, curiosity-driven reinforcement learning, and open-set recognition and adaptation, all of which are of great interest to the SIGKDD community. The techniques developed have been applied in a wide range of domains including fraud detection and anti-money laundering in fintech, early disease detection, intrusion detection in large-scale computer networks and data centers, defending AI systems from adversarial attacks, …


Sound And Complete Certificates For Quantitative Termination Analysis Of Probabilistic Programs, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Tobias Meggendorfer, Dorde Zikelic Aug 2022

Sound And Complete Certificates For Quantitative Termination Analysis Of Probabilistic Programs, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Tobias Meggendorfer, Dorde Zikelic

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We consider the quantitative problem of obtaining lower-bounds on the probability of termination of a given non-deterministic probabilistic program. Specifically, given a non-termination threshold p∈[0,1], we aim for certificates proving that the program terminates with probability at least 1−p. The basic idea of our approach is to find a terminating stochastic invariant, i.e. a subset SI of program states such that (i) the probability of the program ever leaving SI is no more than p, and (ii) almost-surely, the program either leaves SI or terminates.While stochastic invariants are already well-known, we provide the first proof that the idea above is …


Efficient Resource Allocation With Fairness Constraints In Restless Multi-Armed Bandits, Dexun Li, Pradeep Varakantham Aug 2022

Efficient Resource Allocation With Fairness Constraints In Restless Multi-Armed Bandits, Dexun Li, Pradeep Varakantham

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Restless Multi-Armed Bandits (RMAB) is an apt model to represent decision-making problems in public health interventions (e.g., tuberculosis, maternal, and child care), anti-poaching planning, sensor monitoring, personalized recommendations and many more. Existing research in RMAB has contributed mechanisms and theoretical results to a wide variety of settings, where the focus is on maximizing expected value. In this paper, we are interested in ensuring that RMAB decision making is also fair to different arms while maximizing expected value. In the context of public health settings, this would ensure that different people and/or communities are fairly represented while making public health intervention …


Resumable Zero-Knowledge For Circuits From Symmetric Key Primitives, Handong Zhang, Puwen Wei, Haiyang Xue, Yi Deng, Jinsong Li, Wei Wang, Guoxiao Liu Aug 2022

Resumable Zero-Knowledge For Circuits From Symmetric Key Primitives, Handong Zhang, Puwen Wei, Haiyang Xue, Yi Deng, Jinsong Li, Wei Wang, Guoxiao Liu

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Consider the scenario that the prover and the verifier perform the zero-knowledge (ZK) proof protocol for the same statement multiple times sequentially, where each proof is modeled as a session. We focus on the problem of how to resume a ZK proof efficiently in such scenario. We introduce a new primitive called resumable honest verifier zero-knowledge proof of knowledge (resumable HVZKPoK) and propose a general construction of the resumable HVZKPoK for circuits based on the “MPC-in-the-head" paradigm, where the complexity of the resumed session is less than that of the original ZK proofs. To ensure the knowledge soundness for the …


Efficient Resource Allocation With Fairness Constraints In Restless Multi-Armed Bandits, Dexun Li, Pradeep Varakantham Aug 2022

Efficient Resource Allocation With Fairness Constraints In Restless Multi-Armed Bandits, Dexun Li, Pradeep Varakantham

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Restless Multi-Armed Bandits (RMAB) is an apt model to represent decision-making problems in public health interventions (e.g., tuberculosis, maternal, and child care), anti-poaching planning, sensor monitoring, personalized recommendations and many more. Existing research in RMAB has contributed mechanisms and theoretical results to a wide variety of settings, where the focus is on maximizing expected value. In this paper, we are interested in ensuring that RMAB decision making is also fair to different arms while maximizing expected value. In the context of public health settings, this would ensure that different people and/or communities are fairly represented while making public health intervention …


Trajectory Optimization For Safe Navigation In Maritime Traffic Using Historical Data, Chaithanya Basrur, Arambam James Singh, Arunesh Sinha, Akshat Kumar, T. K. Satish Kumar Aug 2022

Trajectory Optimization For Safe Navigation In Maritime Traffic Using Historical Data, Chaithanya Basrur, Arambam James Singh, Arunesh Sinha, Akshat Kumar, T. K. Satish Kumar

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Increasing maritime trade often results in congestion in busy ports, thereby necessitating planning methods to avoid close quarter risky situations among vessels. Rapid digitization and automation of port operations and vessel navigation provide unique opportunities for significantly improving navigation safety. Our key contributions are as follows. First, given a set of future candidate trajectories for vessels in a traffic hotspot zone, we develop a multiagent trajectory optimization method to choose trajectories that result in the best overall close quarter risk reduction. Our novel MILP-based optimization method is more than an order-of-magnitude faster than a standard MILP for this problem, and …


Interpreting Trajectories From Multiple Views: A Hierarchical Self-Attention Network For Estimating The Time Of Arrival, Zebin Chen, Xiaolin Xiao, Yue-Jiao Gong, Jun Fang, Nan Ma, Hua Chai, Zhiguang Cao Aug 2022

Interpreting Trajectories From Multiple Views: A Hierarchical Self-Attention Network For Estimating The Time Of Arrival, Zebin Chen, Xiaolin Xiao, Yue-Jiao Gong, Jun Fang, Nan Ma, Hua Chai, Zhiguang Cao

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Estimating the time of arrival is a crucial task in intelligent transportation systems. Although considerable efforts have been made to solve this problem, most of them decompose a trajectory into several segments and then compute the travel time by integrating the attributes from all segments. The segment view, though being able to depict the local traffic conditions straightforwardly, is insufficient to embody the intrinsic structure of trajectories on the road network. To overcome the limitation, this study proposes multi-view trajectory representation that comprehensively interprets a trajectory from the segment-, link-, and intersection-views. To fulfill the purpose, we design a hierarchical …