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Achieving Causal Fairness In Machine Learning, Yongkai Wu May 2020

Achieving Causal Fairness In Machine Learning, Yongkai Wu

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Fairness is a social norm and a legal requirement in today's society. Many laws and regulations (e.g., the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974) have been established to prohibit discrimination and enforce fairness on several grounds, such as gender, age, sexual orientation, race, and religion, referred to as sensitive attributes. Nowadays machine learning algorithms are extensively applied to make important decisions in many real-world applications, e.g., employment, admission, and loans. Traditional machine learning algorithms aim to maximize predictive performance, e.g., accuracy. Consequently, certain groups may get unfairly treated when those algorithms are applied for decision-making. Therefore, it is an imperative …


Visualization Of Musical Instruments Through Midi Interface, John Jaminet May 2020

Visualization Of Musical Instruments Through Midi Interface, John Jaminet

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

We have created a Music Visualization system that controls an LED strip by parsing MIDI signals that are sent by a musical instrument. This is achieved through a program that parses the MIDI note signals into three-byte RGB signals which are then transferred over WIFI to four Arduino boards that control the LEDs. The system provides a musician the ability to add a dynamic light display that responds to the music in real-time. The system utilizes Windows Presentation Foundation because of its event handling and GUI capabilities. The board we are using is the Arduino MKR 1010 WIFI board as …


How User-Friendly Operating Systems And Interfaces Make Technology Harder For Everyone, Cameron Short May 2020

How User-Friendly Operating Systems And Interfaces Make Technology Harder For Everyone, Cameron Short

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

This thesis explores both deprecated and current Operating Systems to understand the changes of user interfaces. By comparing older and more flawed Operating Systems interfaces, I intend to demonstrate how user-friendliness has come to the forefront of OS design. However, by building more user-friendly interfaces, the functionality and power of the older designs, while often misused, has been lost. Systems design restricts user access to such functionality because it might damage the system. It is a sensible precaution for users unaware of the effects of certain actions. However, this thesis will argue that for trained and educated users of the …


On Privacy-Aware Escience Workflows, Khalid Belhajjame, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Vanilson Burégio, Edvan Soares, Mahmoud Barhamgi May 2020

On Privacy-Aware Escience Workflows, Khalid Belhajjame, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Vanilson Burégio, Edvan Soares, Mahmoud Barhamgi

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© 2020, Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature. Computing-intensive experiments in modern sciences have become increasingly data-driven illustrating perfectly the Big-Data era. These experiments are usually specified and enacted in the form of workflows that would need to manage (i.e., read, write, store, and retrieve) highly-sensitive data like persons’ medical records. We assume for this work that the operations that constitute a workflow are 1-to-1 operations, in the sense that for each input data record they produce a single data record. While there is an active research body on how to protect sensitive data by, for instance, anonymizing datasets, …


A Data-Analytics Approach For Risk Evaluation In Peer-To-Peer Lending Platforms, Feng He, Yuelei Li, Tiecheng Xu, Libo Yin, Wei Zhang, Xiaotao Zhang May 2020

A Data-Analytics Approach For Risk Evaluation In Peer-To-Peer Lending Platforms, Feng He, Yuelei Li, Tiecheng Xu, Libo Yin, Wei Zhang, Xiaotao Zhang

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

The goal of this article is to investigate the roles of individual behavior characteristics and Internet finance industry risk in the light of bank run theory for P2P. We know that risk evaluation is clearly important for peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms in China, as during the last two years, the industry has experienced thousands of platform crashes. Traditional approaches to evaluate enterprise risk are increasingly ineffective in this industry, due to the difficulty of assessing the real information. In addition, the Internet business model makes it possible to record new kinds of information. By applying a data-driven analytics method, we …


Non-Autoregressive Dialog State Tracking, Hung Le, Richard Socher, Steven C. H. Hoi May 2020

Non-Autoregressive Dialog State Tracking, Hung Le, Richard Socher, Steven C. H. Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Recent efforts in Dialogue State Tracking (DST) for task-oriented dialogues have progressed toward open-vocabulary or generation-based approaches where the models can generate slot value candidates from the dialogue history itself. These approaches have shown good performance gain, especially in complicated dialogue domains with dynamic slot values. However, they fall short in two aspects: (1) they do not allow models to explicitly learn signals across domains and slots to detect potential dependencies among (domain, slot) pairs; and (2) existing models follow auto-regressive approaches which incur high time cost when the dialogue evolves over multiple domains and multiple turns. In this paper, …


Cybersecurity Methods For Grid-Connected Power Electronics, Stephen Joe Moquin May 2020

Cybersecurity Methods For Grid-Connected Power Electronics, Stephen Joe Moquin

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The present work shows a secure-by-design process, defense-in-depth method, and security techniques for a secure distributed energy resource. The distributed energy resource is a cybersecure, solar inverter and battery energy storage system prototype, collectively called the Cybersecure Power Router. Consideration is given to the use of the Smart Green Power Node for a foundation of the present work. Metrics for controller security are investigated to evaluate firmware security techniques. The prototype's ability to mitigate, respond to, and recover from firmware integrity degradation is examined. The prototype shows many working security techniques within the context of a grid-connected, distributed energy resource. …


Predicting The Impact Of Weather On Rural Travel Times Using Now-Cast Weather Forecast Data, Manish Meshram May 2020

Predicting The Impact Of Weather On Rural Travel Times Using Now-Cast Weather Forecast Data, Manish Meshram

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In the states which record extreme weather conditions and high snow in winters, the travel time to drive between cities can get highly affected due to these bad weather conditions. The present solutions to tackle this problem are largely flow or time related and do not take weather conditions into account while making the predictions about travel time. Also these solutions can mostly be used for real time travel and not the future travel. In addition to that, the studies that have been done in this space are mostly for urban travel times but most parts of the interstate highways …


Chaff From The Wheat: Characterizing And Determining Valid Bug Reports, Yuanrui Fan, Xin Xia, David Lo, Ahmed E. Hassan May 2020

Chaff From The Wheat: Characterizing And Determining Valid Bug Reports, Yuanrui Fan, Xin Xia, David Lo, Ahmed E. Hassan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Developers use bug reports to triage and fix bugs. When triaging a bug report, developers must decide whether the bug report is valid (i.e., a real bug). A large amount of bug reports are submitted every day, with many of them end up being invalid reports. Manually determining valid bug report is a difficult and tedious task. Thus, an approach that can automatically analyze the validity of a bug report and determine whether a report is valid can help developers prioritize their triaging tasks and avoid wasting time and effort on invalid bug reports. In this study, motivated by the …


Robust Graph Learning From Noisy Data, Zhao Kang, Haiqi Pan, Steven C. H. Hoi, Zenglin Xu May 2020

Robust Graph Learning From Noisy Data, Zhao Kang, Haiqi Pan, Steven C. H. Hoi, Zenglin Xu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Learning graphs from data automatically have shown encouraging performance on clustering and semisupervised learning tasks. However, real data are often corrupted, which may cause the learned graph to be inexact or unreliable. In this paper, we propose a novel robust graph learning scheme to learn reliable graphs from the real-world noisy data by adaptively removing noise and errors in the raw data. We show that our proposed model can also be viewed as a robust version of manifold regularized robust principle component analysis (RPCA), where the quality of the graph plays a critical role. The proposed model is able to …


The Future Of Work Now: Cyber Threat Attribution At Fireeye, Thomas H. Davenport, Steven M. Miller May 2020

The Future Of Work Now: Cyber Threat Attribution At Fireeye, Thomas H. Davenport, Steven M. Miller

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

One of the most frequently-used phrases at business events these days is “the future of work.” It’s increasingly clear that artificial intelligence and other new technologies will bring substantial changes in work tasks and business processes. But while these changes are predicted for the future, they’re already present in many organizations for many different jobs. The job and incumbent described below is an example of this phenomenon. It’s a clear example of an existing job that’s been transformed by AI and related tools.


A Fully Distributed Hierarchical Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme, Ali Mohammad, Javad Mohajeri, Ximeng Liu, Ximeng Liu May 2020

A Fully Distributed Hierarchical Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme, Ali Mohammad, Javad Mohajeri, Ximeng Liu, Ximeng Liu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

With the development of cloud computing, many enterprises have been interested in outsourcing their data to cloud servers to decrease IT costs and rise capabilities of provided services. To afford confidentiality and fine-grained data access control, attribute-based encryption (ABE) was proposed and used in several cloud storage systems. However, scalability and flexibility in key delegation and user revocation mechanisms are primary issues in ABE systems. In this paper, we introduce the concept of a fully distributed revocable ciphertext-policy hierarchical ABE (FDR-CP-HABE) and design the first FDR-CP-HABE scheme. Our scheme offers a high level of flexibility and scalability in the key …


A Matheuristic Algorithm For Solving The Vehicle Routing Problem With Cross-Docking, Aldy Gunawan, Audrey Tedja Widjaja, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Vincent F. Yu May 2020

A Matheuristic Algorithm For Solving The Vehicle Routing Problem With Cross-Docking, Aldy Gunawan, Audrey Tedja Widjaja, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Vincent F. Yu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper studies the integration of the vehicle routing problem with cross-docking, namely VRPCD. The aim is to find a set of routes to deliver single products from a set of suppliers to a set of customers through a cross-dock facility, such that the operational and transportation costs are minimized, without violating the vehicle capacity and time horizon constraints. A two-phase matheuristic approach that uses the routes of the local optima of an adaptive large neighborhood search (ALNS) as columns in a set-partitioning formulation of the VRPCD is designed. This matheuristic outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms in solving a subset of …


Route Choice Behaviour And Travel Information In A Congested Network: Static And Dynamic Recursive Models, Giselle De Moraes Ramos, Tien Mai, Winnie Daamen, Emma Frejinger May 2020

Route Choice Behaviour And Travel Information In A Congested Network: Static And Dynamic Recursive Models, Giselle De Moraes Ramos, Tien Mai, Winnie Daamen, Emma Frejinger

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Travel information has the potential to influence travellers choices, in order to steer travellers to less congested routes and alleviate congestion. This paper investigates, on the one hand, how travel information affects route choice behaviour, and on the other hand, the impact of the travel time representation on the interpretation of parameter estimates and prediction accuracy. To this end, we estimate recursive models using data from an innovative data collection effort consisting of route choice observation data from GPS trackers, travel diaries and link travel times on the overall network. Though such combined data sets exist, these have not yet …


Platform Pricing With Strategic Buyers: The Impact Of Future Production Cost, Mei Lin, Xiajun Amy Pan, Quan Zheng May 2020

Platform Pricing With Strategic Buyers: The Impact Of Future Production Cost, Mei Lin, Xiajun Amy Pan, Quan Zheng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Two-sided platforms are often coupled with exclusive hardware products that connect two sides of users, the consumers of the hardware product (i.e., buyers) and the application developers (i.e., sellers). The hardware product in the platform business model introduces three important issues that are not yet well understood in the literature of platform pricing: potentially downward-trending production cost, product quality improvements, and consumers' strategic behaviors. Using analytical modeling, our study explicitly factors in these issues in analyzing a monopoly platform owner's two-sided pricing problem. The platform sequentially introduces and prices quality-improving hardware products, for which the costliness of quality may decrease. …


Automated Identification Of Libraries From Vulnerability Data, Chen Yang, Andrew Santosa, Asankhaya Sharma, David Lo May 2020

Automated Identification Of Libraries From Vulnerability Data, Chen Yang, Andrew Santosa, Asankhaya Sharma, David Lo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) has gained traction in recent years with a number of commercial offerings from various companies. SCA involves vulnerability curation process where a group of security researchers, using various data sources, populate a database of open-source library vulnerabilities, which is used by a scanner to inform the end users of vulnerable libraries used by their applications. One of the data sources used is the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). The key challenge faced by the security researchers here is in figuring out which libraries are related to each of the reported vulnerability in NVD. In this article, we …


A Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Cnn Feature Extraction Framework For Mobile Sensing, Kai Huang, Ximeng Liu, Shaojing Fu, Deke Guo, Ming Xu May 2020

A Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Cnn Feature Extraction Framework For Mobile Sensing, Kai Huang, Ximeng Liu, Shaojing Fu, Deke Guo, Ming Xu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The proliferation of various mobile devices equipped with cameras results in an exponential growth of the amount of images. Recent advances in the deep learning with convolutional neural networks (CNN) have made CNN feature extraction become an effective way to process these images. However, it is still a challenging task to deploy the CNN model on the mobile sensors, which are typically resource-constrained in terms of the storage space, the computing capacity, and the battery life. Although cloud computing has become a popular solution, data security and response latency are always the key issues. Therefore, in this paper, we propose …


Beyond Physical Entrainment: Competitive And Cooperative Mental Stances During Identical Joint-Action Tasks Differently Affect Inter-Subjective Neural Synchrony And Judgments Of Agency, Philip S. Cho, Nicolas Escoffier, Yinan Mao, Christopher Green, Richard C. Davis May 2020

Beyond Physical Entrainment: Competitive And Cooperative Mental Stances During Identical Joint-Action Tasks Differently Affect Inter-Subjective Neural Synchrony And Judgments Of Agency, Philip S. Cho, Nicolas Escoffier, Yinan Mao, Christopher Green, Richard C. Davis

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Little work has examined how mental stance alone, apart from physical entrainment, affects between-participant neural synchrony during joint social interaction. We report the first findings on how cooperative and competitive mental stances, even during identical visuomotor joint-action tasks, result in distinct neural oscillatory signatures in low beta and theta band between-participant phase synchrony. Two participants jointly controlled a cursor and were instructed to either compete or cooperate to move it to one of three targets. The visuomotor output was identical for both the compete and cooperate conditions because participants were privately given the same target for experimental trials. Cooperation enhanced …


A 2020 Perspective On "Client Risk Informedness In Brokered Cloud Services: An Experimental Pricing Study", Di Shang, Robert J. Kauffman May 2020

A 2020 Perspective On "Client Risk Informedness In Brokered Cloud Services: An Experimental Pricing Study", Di Shang, Robert J. Kauffman

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Cloud computing and the cloud services market have advanced in the past ten years. Cloud services now include most information technology (IT) services from fundamental computing services to more cutting- edge artificial intelligence (AI) services. Accordingly, opportunities have emerged for research on the design of new market features to improve the cloud services market to benefit providers and users. Based on our observation of the recent development of cloud services, in this short research commentary, we share our agenda for future studies of this important sector of IT services.


“Trust Me, I Have A Ph.D.”: A Propensity Score Analysis On The Halo Effect Of Disclosing One's Offline Social Status In Online Communities, Kunwoo Park, Haewoon Kwak, Hyunho Song, Meeyoung. Cha May 2020

“Trust Me, I Have A Ph.D.”: A Propensity Score Analysis On The Halo Effect Of Disclosing One's Offline Social Status In Online Communities, Kunwoo Park, Haewoon Kwak, Hyunho Song, Meeyoung. Cha

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Online communities adopt various reputation schemes to measure content quality. This study analyzes the effect of a new reputation scheme that exposes one's offline social status, such as an education degree, within an online community. We study two Reddit communities that adopted this scheme, whereby posts include tags identifying education status referred to as flairs, and we examine how the “transferred” social status affects the interactions among the users. We computed propensity scores to test whether flairs give ad-hoc authority to the adopters while minimizing the effects of confounding variables such as topics of content. The results show that exposing …


Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning With Integrated Discovery Of Salient Subgoals, Shubham Pateria, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan May 2020

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning With Integrated Discovery Of Salient Subgoals, Shubham Pateria, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) is a promising approach to solve more complex tasks which may be challenging for the traditional reinforcement learning. HRL achieves this by decomposing a task into shorter-horizon subgoals which are simpler to achieve. Autonomous discovery of such subgoals is an important part of HRL. Recently, end-to-end HRL methods have been used to reduce the overhead from offline subgoal discovery by seeking the useful subgoals while simultaneously learning optimal policies in a hierarchy. However, these methods may still suffer from slow learning when the search space used by a high level policy to find the subgoals is …


Starhopper: A Touch Interface For Remote Object-Centric Drone Navigation, Jiannan Li, Ravin Balakrishnan, Tovi Grossman May 2020

Starhopper: A Touch Interface For Remote Object-Centric Drone Navigation, Jiannan Li, Ravin Balakrishnan, Tovi Grossman

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Camera drones, a rapidly emerging technology, offer people the ability to remotely inspect an environment with a high degree of mobility and agility. However, manual remote piloting of a drone is prone to errors. In contrast, autopilot systems can require a significant degree of environmental knowledge and are not necessarily designed to support flexible visual inspections. Inspired by camera manipulation techniques in interactive graphics, we designed StarHopper, a novel touch screen interface for efficient object-centric camera drone navigation, in which a user directly specifies the navigation of a drone camera relative to a specified object of interest. The system relies …


Learning Discriminative Neural Sentiment Units For Semi-Supervised Target-Level Sentiment Classification, Jingjing Zhao, Yao Yang, Guansong Pang, Lei Lv, Hong Shang, Zhongqian Sun, Wei Yang May 2020

Learning Discriminative Neural Sentiment Units For Semi-Supervised Target-Level Sentiment Classification, Jingjing Zhao, Yao Yang, Guansong Pang, Lei Lv, Hong Shang, Zhongqian Sun, Wei Yang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Target-level sentiment classification aims at assigning sentiment polarities to opinion targets in a sentence, for which it is significantly more challenging to obtain large-scale labeled data than sentence/document-level sentiment classification due to the intricate contexts and relations of the target words. To address this challenge, we propose a novel semi-supervised approach to learn sentiment-aware representations from easily accessible unlabeled data specifically for the finegrained sentiment learning. This is very different from current popular semi-supervised solutions that use the unlabeled data via pretraining to generate generic representations for various types of downstream tasks. Particularly, we show for the first time that …


Typestate-Guided Fuzzer For Discovering Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities, Haijun Wang, Xiaofei Xie, Yi Li, Cheng Wen, Yuekang Li, Yang Liu, Shengchao Qin, Hongxu Chen, Yulei Sui May 2020

Typestate-Guided Fuzzer For Discovering Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities, Haijun Wang, Xiaofei Xie, Yi Li, Cheng Wen, Yuekang Li, Yang Liu, Shengchao Qin, Hongxu Chen, Yulei Sui

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Existing coverage-based fuzzers usually use the individual control flow graph (CFG) edge coverage to guide the fuzzing process, which has shown great potential in finding vulnerabilities. However, CFG edge coverage is not effective in discovering vulnerabilities such as use-after-free (UaF). This is because, to trigger UaF vulnerabilities, one needs not only to cover individual edges, but also to traverse some (long) sequence of edges in a particular order, which is challenging for existing fuzzers. To this end, we propose to model UaF vulnerabilities as typestate properties, and develop a typestate-guided fuzzer, named UAFL, for discovering vulnerabilities violating typestate properties. Given …


Enhancing Cellular Communications For Uavs Via Intelligent Reflective Surface, Dong Ma, Ming Ding, Mahbub Hassan May 2020

Enhancing Cellular Communications For Uavs Via Intelligent Reflective Surface, Dong Ma, Ming Ding, Mahbub Hassan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) capable of reconfiguring their electromagnetic absorption and reflection properties in real-time are offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance wireless communication experience in challenging environments. In this paper, we analyze the potential of IRS in enhancing cellular communications for UAVs, which currently suffers from poor signal strength due to the down-tilt of base station antennas optimized to serve ground users. We consider deployment of IRS on building walls, which can be remotely configured by cellular base stations to coherently direct the reflected radio waves towards specific UAVs in order to increase their received signal strengths. Using the recently …


Posit: Simultaneously Tagging Natural And Programming Languages, Profir-Petru Pârțachi, Santanu Dash, Christoph Treude, Earl T. Barr May 2020

Posit: Simultaneously Tagging Natural And Programming Languages, Profir-Petru Pârțachi, Santanu Dash, Christoph Treude, Earl T. Barr

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Software developers use a mix of source code and natural language text to communicate with each other: Stack Overflow and Developer mailing lists abound with this mixed text. Tagging this mixed text is essential for making progress on two seminal software engineering problems — traceability, and reuse via precise extraction of code snippets from mixed text. In this paper, we borrow code-switching techniques from Natural Language Processing and adapt them to apply to mixed text to solve two problems: language identification and token tagging. Our technique, POSIT, simultaneously provides abstract syntax tree tags for source code tokens, part-of-speech tags for …


Learning Expensive Coordination: An Event-Based Deep Rl Approach, Runsheng Yu, Xinrun Wang, Rundong Wang, Youzhi Zhang, Bo An, Zhen Yu Shi, Hanjiang Lai May 2020

Learning Expensive Coordination: An Event-Based Deep Rl Approach, Runsheng Yu, Xinrun Wang, Rundong Wang, Youzhi Zhang, Bo An, Zhen Yu Shi, Hanjiang Lai

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Existing works in deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) mainly focus on coordinating cooperative agents to complete certain tasks jointly. However, in many cases of the real world, agents are self-interested such as employees in a company and clubs in a league. Therefore, the leader, i.e., the manager of the company or the league, needs to provide bonuses to followers for efficient coordination, which we call expensive coordination. The main difficulties of expensive coordination are that i) the leader has to consider the long-term effect and predict the followers’ behaviors when assigning bonuses, and ii) the complex interactions between followers make …


Values Of Artificial Intelligence In Marketing, Yingrui Xi, Keng Siau May 2020

Values Of Artificial Intelligence In Marketing, Yingrui Xi, Keng Siau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is causing radical changes in marketing and emerging as a competent assistant supporting all areas of the marketing field. The influences and impacts AI has created in various marketing segments have aroused much interest among marketing professionals and academic scholars. Comprehensive and systematic studies on the values of AI in marketing, however, are still lacking and the existing literature fragmented. This research provides a comprehensive review of the existing literature in the relevant fields as well as a series of systematic interviews using the Value-Focused Thinking approach to understand the values of AI in marketing. This research …


Hierarchical Multiagent Reinforcement Learning For Maritime Traffic Management, Arambam James Singh, Akshat Kumar, Hoong Chuin Lau May 2020

Hierarchical Multiagent Reinforcement Learning For Maritime Traffic Management, Arambam James Singh, Akshat Kumar, Hoong Chuin Lau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Increasing global maritime traffic coupled with rapid digitization and automation in shipping mandate developing next generation maritime traffic management systems to mitigate congestion, increase safety of navigation, and avoid collisions in busy and geographically constrained ports (such as Singapore's). To achieve these objectives, we model the maritime traffic as a large multiagent system with individual vessels as agents, and VTS (Vessel Traffic Service) authority as a regulatory agent. We develop a hierarchical reinforcement learning approach where vessels first select a high level action based on the underlying traffic flow, and then select the low level action that determines their future …


A Framework For Vector-Weighted Deep Neural Networks, Carter Chiu May 2020

A Framework For Vector-Weighted Deep Neural Networks, Carter Chiu

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The vast majority of advances in deep neural network research operate on the basis of a real-valued weight space. Recent work in alternative spaces have challenged and complemented this idea; for instance, the use of complex- or binary-valued weights have yielded promising and fascinating results. We propose a framework for a novel weight space consisting of vector values which we christen VectorNet. We first develop the theoretical foundations of our proposed approach, including formalizing the requisite theory for forward and backpropagating values in a vector-weighted layer. We also introduce the concept of expansion and aggregation functions for conversion between real …