Fair, Equitable, And Just: A Socio-Technical Approach To Online Safety,
2022
Clemson University
Fair, Equitable, And Just: A Socio-Technical Approach To Online Safety, Daricia Wilkinson
All Dissertations
Socio-technical systems have been revolutionary in reshaping how people maintain relationships, learn about new opportunities, engage in meaningful discourse, and even express grief and frustrations. At the same time, these systems have been central in the proliferation of harmful behaviors online as internet users are confronted with serious and pervasive threats at alarming rates. Although researchers and companies have attempted to develop tools to mitigate threats, the perception of dominant (often Western) frameworks as the standard for the implementation of safety mechanisms fails to account for imbalances, inequalities, and injustices in non-Western civilizations like the Caribbean. Therefore, in this dissertation …
Biometrics And An Ai Bill Of Rights,
2022
William & Mary Law School
Biometrics And An Ai Bill Of Rights, Margaret Hu
Faculty Publications
This Article contends that an informed discussion on an AI Bill of Rights requires grappling with biometric data collection and its integration into emerging AI systems. Biometric AI systems serve a wide range of governmental purposes, including policing, border security and immigration enforcement, and biometric cyberintelligence and biometric-enabled warfare. These systems are increasingly categorized as "high-risk" when deployed in ways that may impact fundamental constitutional rights and human rights. There is growing recognition that high-risk biometric AI systems, such as facial recognition identification, can pose unprecedented challenges to criminal procedure rights. This Article concludes that a failure to recognize these …
Towards Improving System Performance In Large Scale Multi-Agent Systems With Selfish Agents,
2022
Singapore Management University
Towards Improving System Performance In Large Scale Multi-Agent Systems With Selfish Agents, Rajiv Ranjan Kumar
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
Intelligent agents are becoming increasingly prevalent in a wide variety of domains including but not limited to transportation, safety and security. To better utilize the intelligence, there has been increasing focus on frameworks and methods for coordinating these intelligent agents. This thesis is specifically targeted at providing solution approaches for improving large scale multi-agent systems with selfish intelligent agents. In such systems, the performance of an agent depends on not just his/her own efforts, but also on other agent’s decisions. The complexity of interactions among multiple agents, coupled with the large scale nature of the problem domains and the uncertainties …
Computer-Aided Response-To-Intervention For Reading Comprehension Based On Recommender System,
2022
Chung Cheng University
Computer-Aided Response-To-Intervention For Reading Comprehension Based On Recommender System, Ming-Chi Liu, Wei-Yang Lin, Chia-Ling Tsai
Publications and Research
In 2019, New York State Education Department announced 54.6% of all students in grades 3 to 8 not meeting the standard of reading proficiency. Motivated by the need for a more efficient intervention model, we propose a recommender system to leverage the technology in machine learning to recommend suitable reading materials for effective intervention. The recommendation is based on the student's prior reading comprehension assessments and also assessments of other students at the same grade level using collaborative filtering. No other prior academic or demographic information of students is available. Two main challenges are lack of explicit ratings of reading …
Irrelevant Pixels Are Everywhere: Find And Exclude Them For More Efficient Computer Vision,
2022
Purdue University
Irrelevant Pixels Are Everywhere: Find And Exclude Them For More Efficient Computer Vision, Caleb Tung, Abhinav Goel, Xiao Hu, Nick Eliopoulos, Emmanuel Amobi, George K. Thiruvathukal, Vipin Chaudhary, Yung-Hisang Lu
Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Computer vision is often performed using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CNNs are compute-intensive and challenging to deploy on power-constrained systems such as mobile and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. CNNs are compute-intensive because they indiscriminately compute many features on all pixels of the input image. We observe that, given a computer vision task, images often contain pixels that are irrelevant to the task. For example, if the task is looking for cars, pixels in the sky are not very useful. Therefore, we propose that a CNN be modified to only operate on relevant pixels to save computation and energy. We propose a …
Traffic Behavior Recognition From Traffic Videos Under Occlusion Condition: A Kalman Filter Approach,
2022
Singapore Management University
Traffic Behavior Recognition From Traffic Videos Under Occlusion Condition: A Kalman Filter Approach, Junfeng Jiao, Huihai Wang
Research Collection College of Integrative Studies
Real-time traffic data at intersections is significant for development of adaptive traffic light control systems. Sensors such as infrared radiation and GPS are not capable of providing detailed traffic information. Compared with these sensors, surveillance cameras have the potential to provide real scenes for traffic analysis. In this research, a You Only Look Once (YOLO)-based algorithm is employed to detect and track vehicles from traffic videos, and a predefined road mask is used to determine traffic flow and turning events in different roads. A Kalman filter is used to estimate and predict vehicle speed and location under the condition of …
Identifying Legal And Ethical Values In Ai,
2022
Singapore Management University
Identifying Legal And Ethical Values In Ai, Keng Siau, Fiona Nah, Chunyan Ding, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) applications in health care, education, finance, mining, communications, and arts have brought about rapid and dramatic advances in these fields (Hyder et al., 2019). The rapidly expanding potential of AI in the economy and society has raised a set of legal and ethical issues (Wang and Siau, 2019; Siau and Wang, 2020). In-depth research into the ethical and legal aspects of AI to enable policymakers to introduce effective legislation and regulate AI development and applications is needed. This research uses a systematic qualitative research methodology, Value-Focused Thinking (VFT) (Keeney, 1996; Sheng et al., 2007), to identify the …
A Recommendation System Approach To Tune A Qubo Solver,
2022
Singapore Management University
A Recommendation System Approach To Tune A Qubo Solver, Siong Thye Goh, Jianyuan Bo, Matthieu Parizy, Hoong Chuin Lau
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
There are two major challenges to solving constrained optimization problems using a QuadraticUnconstrained Binary Optimization or QUBO solver (QS). First, we need to tune both the underlyingproblem parameters and the algorithm parameters. Second, the solution returned from a QSmight not be feasible. While it is common to use automated tuners such as SMAC and Hyperopt totune the algorithm parameters, the initial search ranges input for the auto tuner affect the performanceof the QS. In this paper, we propose a framework that resembles the Algorithm Selection(AS) framework to tune algorithm parameters for an annealing-based QS. To cope with constraints,we focus on …
Are You Really Muted?: A Privacy Analysis Of Mute Buttons In Video Conferencing Apps,
2022
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Are You Really Muted?: A Privacy Analysis Of Mute Buttons In Video Conferencing Apps, Yucheng Yang, Jack West, George K. Thiruvathukal, Neil Klingensmith, Kassem Fawaz
Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works
In the post-pandemic era, video conferencing apps (VCAs) have converted previously private spaces — bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens — into semi-public extensions of the office. And for the most part, users have accepted these apps in their personal space, without much thought about the permission models that govern the use of their personal data during meetings. While access to a device’s video camera is carefully controlled, little has been done to ensure the same level of privacy for accessing the microphone. In this work, we ask the question: what happens to the microphone data when a user clicks the …
Using Constraint Programming And Graph Representation Learning For Generating Interpretable Cloud Security Policies,
2022
Singapore Management University
Using Constraint Programming And Graph Representation Learning For Generating Interpretable Cloud Security Policies, Mikhail Kazdagli, Mohit Tiwari, Akshat Kumar
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Modern software systems rely on mining insights from business sensitive data stored in public clouds. A data breach usually incurs signifcant (monetary) loss for a commercial organization. Conceptually, cloud security heavily relies on Identity Access Management (IAM) policies that IT admins need to properly confgure and periodically update. Security negligence and human errors often lead to misconfguring IAM policies which may open a backdoor for attackers. To address these challenges, frst, we develop a novel framework that encodes generating optimal IAM policies using constraint programming (CP). We identify reducing dormant permissions of cloud users as an optimality criterion, which intuitively …
Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm Based On Rbf Network For Solving The Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem,
2022
Singapore Management University
Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm Based On Rbf Network For Solving The Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem, Yunyun Niu, Jie Shao, Jianhua Xiao, Wen Song, Zhiguang Cao
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Solving the multi-objective vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand (MO-VRPSD) is challenging due to its non-deterministic property and conflicting objectives. Most multi -objective evolutionary algorithm dealing with this problem update current population without any guidance from previous searching experience. In this paper, a multi -objective evolutionary algorithm based on artificial neural networks is proposed to tackle the MO-VRPSD. Particularly, during the evolutionary process, a radial basis function net-work (RBFN) is exploited to learn the potential knowledge of individuals, generate hypoth-esis and instantiate hypothesis. The RBFN evaluates individuals with different scores and generates new individuals with higher quality while taking into …
An Empirical Study On Data Distribution-Aware Test Selection For Deep Learning Enhancement,
2022
Singapore Management University
An Empirical Study On Data Distribution-Aware Test Selection For Deep Learning Enhancement, Qiang Hu, Yuejun Guo, Maxime Cordy, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma, Mike Papadakis, Yves Le Traon
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Similar to traditional software that is constantly under evolution, deep neural networks need to evolve upon the rapid growth of test data for continuous enhancement (e.g., adapting to distribution shift in a new environment for deployment). However, it is labor intensive to manually label all of the collected test data. Test selection solves this problem by strategically choosing a small set to label. Via retraining with the selected set, deep neural networks will achieve competitive accuracy. Unfortunately, existing selection metrics involve three main limitations: (1) using different retraining processes, (2) ignoring data distribution shifts, and (3) being insufficiently evaluated. To …
Ai-Enabled Adaptive Learning Using Automated Topic Alignment And Doubt Detection,
2022
Singapore Management University
Ai-Enabled Adaptive Learning Using Automated Topic Alignment And Doubt Detection, Kar Way Tan, Siaw Ling Lo, Eng Lieh Ouh, Wei Leng Neo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Implementing adaptive learning is often a challenging task at higher learning institutions where the students come from diverse backgrounds and disciplines. In this work, we collected informal learning journals from learners. Using the journals, we trained two machine learning models, an automated topic alignment and a doubt detection model to identify areas of adjustment required for teaching and students who require additional attention. The models form the baseline for a quiz recommender tool to dynamically generate personalized quizzes for each learner as practices to reinforce learning. Our pilot deployment of our AI-enabled Adaptive Learning System showed that our approach delivers …
Review Of Some Existing Qml Frameworks And Novel Hybrid Classical-Quantum Neural Networks Realising Binary Classification For The Noisy Datasets,
2022
Singapore Management University
Review Of Some Existing Qml Frameworks And Novel Hybrid Classical-Quantum Neural Networks Realising Binary Classification For The Noisy Datasets, N. Schetakis, D. Aghamalyan, Paul Robert Griffin, M. Boguslavsky
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
One of the most promising areas of research to obtain practical advantage is Quantum Machine Learning which was born as a result of cross-fertilisation of ideas between Quantum Computing and Classical Machine Learning. In this paper, we apply Quantum Machine Learning (QML) frameworks to improve binary classification models for noisy datasets which are prevalent in financial datasets. The metric we use for assessing the performance of our quantum classifiers is the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve AUC-ROC. By combining such approaches as hybrid-neural networks, parametric circuits, and data re-uploading we create QML inspired architectures and utilise them for …
Structured And Natural Responses Co-Generation For Conversational Search,
2022
National University of Singapore
Structured And Natural Responses Co-Generation For Conversational Search, Chenchen Ye, Lizi Liao, Fuli Feng, Wei Ji, Tat-Seng Chua
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Generating fluent and informative natural responses while maintaining representative internal states for search optimization is critical for conversational search systems. Existing approaches either 1) predict structured dialog acts first and then generate natural response; or 2) map conversation context to natural responses directly in an end-to-end manner. Both kinds of approaches have shortcomings. The former suffers from error accumulation while the semantic associations between structured acts and natural responses are confined in single direction. The latter emphasizes generating natural responses but fails to predict structured acts. Therefore, we propose a neural co-generation model that generates the two concurrently. The key …
Multi-Level Cross-View Contrastive Learning For Knowledge-Aware Recommender System,
2022
Singapore Management University
Multi-Level Cross-View Contrastive Learning For Knowledge-Aware Recommender System, Ding Zou, Wei Wei, Xian-Ling Mao, Ziyang Wang, Minghui Qiu, Feida Zhu, Xin Cao
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Knowledge graph (KG) plays an increasingly important role in recommender systems. Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) based model has gradually become the theme of knowledge-aware recommendation (KGR). However, there is a natural deficiency for GNN-based KGR models, that is, the sparse supervised signal problem, which may make their actual performance drop to some extent. Inspired by the recent success of contrastive learning in mining supervised signals from data itself, in this paper, we focus on exploring the contrastive learning in KG-aware recommendation and propose a novel multi-level cross-view contrastive learning mechanism, named MCCLK. Different from traditional contrastive learning methods which …
What Makes The Story Forward?: Inferring Commonsense Explanations As Prompts For Future Event Generation,
2022
Singapore Management University
What Makes The Story Forward?: Inferring Commonsense Explanations As Prompts For Future Event Generation, Li Lin, Yixin Cao, Lifu Huang, Shu Ang Li, Xuming Hu, Lijie Wen, Jianmin Wang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Prediction over event sequences is critical for many real-world applications in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Future Event Generation (FEG) is a challenging task in event sequence prediction because it requires not only fluent text generation but also commonsense reasoning to maintain the logical coherence of the entire event story. In this paper, we propose a novel explainable FEG framework, Coep. It highlights and integrates two types of event knowledge, sequential knowledge of direct event-event relations and inferential knowledge that reflects the intermediate character psychology between events, such as intents, causes, reactions, which intrinsically pushes the story forward. To …
A3gan: Attribute-Aware Anonymization Networks For Face De-Identification,
2022
Singapore Management University
A3gan: Attribute-Aware Anonymization Networks For Face De-Identification, Liming Zhai, Qing Guo, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma, Yi Estelle Wang, Yang Liu
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Face de-identification (De-ID) removes face identity information in face images to avoid personal privacy leakage. Existing face De-ID breaks the raw identity by cutting out the face regions and recovering the corrupted regions via deep generators, which inevitably affect the generation quality and cannot control generation results according to subsequent intelligent tasks (e.g., facial expression recognition). In this work, for the first attempt, we think the face De-ID from the perspective of attribute editing and propose an attribute-aware anonymization network (A3GAN) by formulating face De-ID as a joint task of semantic suppression and controllable attribute injection. Intuitively, the semantic suppression …
Towards Aligning Slides And Video Snippets: Mitigating Sequence And Content Mismatches,
2022
Singapore Management University
Towards Aligning Slides And Video Snippets: Mitigating Sequence And Content Mismatches, Ziyuan Liu, Hady W. Lauw
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Slides are important form of teaching materials used in various courses at academic institutions. Due to their compactness, slides on their own may not stand as complete reference materials. To aid students’ understanding, it would be useful to supplement slides with other materials such as online videos. Given a deck of slides and a related video, we seek to align each slide in the deck to a relevant video snippet, if any. While this problem could be formulated as aligning two time series (each involving a sequence of text contents), we anticipate challenges in generating matches arising from differences in …
Dynamic Topic Models For Temporal Document Networks,
2022
Singapore Management University
Dynamic Topic Models For Temporal Document Networks, Ce Zhang, Hady Wirawan Lauw
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Dynamic topic models explore the time evolution of topics in temporally accumulative corpora. While existing topic models focus on the dynamics of individual documents, we propose two neural topic models aimed at learning unified topic distributions that incorporate both document dynamics and network structure. For the first model, by adding a time dimension, we propose Time-Aware Optimal Transport, which measures the probability of a link between two differently timestamped documents using their semantic distance. Since the gradually evolving topological structure of network may also influence the establishment of a new link, for the second model, we further design a Temporal …
