Towards Enriching Responses With Crowd-Sourced Knowledge For Task-Oriented Dialogue,
2021
National University of Singapore
Towards Enriching Responses With Crowd-Sourced Knowledge For Task-Oriented Dialogue, Yingxu He, Lizi Liao, Zheng Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Task-oriented dialogue agents are built to assist users in completing various tasks. Generating appropriate responses for satisfactory task completion is the ultimate goal. Hence, as a convenient and straightforward way, metrics such as success rate, inform rate etc., have been widely leveraged to evaluate the generated responses. However, beyond task completion, there are several other factors that largely affect user satisfaction, which remain under-explored. In this work, we focus on analyzing different agent behavior patterns that lead to higher user satisfaction scores. Based on the findings, we design a neural response generation model EnRG. It naturally combines the power of …
Countering Attacker Data Manipulation In Security Games,
2021
Singapore Management University
Countering Attacker Data Manipulation In Security Games, Andrew R. Butler, Thanh H. Nguyen, Arunesh Sinha
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
. Defending against attackers with unknown behavior is an important area of research in security games. A well-established approach is to utilize historical attack data to create a behavioral model of the attacker. However, this presents a vulnerability: a clever attacker may change its own behavior during learning, leading to an inaccurate model and ineffective defender strategies. In this paper, we investigate how a wary defender can defend against such deceptive attacker. We provide four main contributions. First, we develop a new technique to estimate attacker true behavior despite data manipulation by the clever adversary. Second, we extend this technique …
Differentiated Learning For Multi-Modal Domain Adaptation,
2021
Singapore Management University
Differentiated Learning For Multi-Modal Domain Adaptation, Jianming Lv, Kaijie Liu, Shengfeng He
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Directly deploying a trained multi-modal classifier to a new environment usually leads to poor performance due to the well-known domain shift problem. Existing multi-modal domain adaptation methods treated each modality equally and optimize the sub-models of different modalities synchronously. However, as observed in this paper, the degrees of domain shift in different modalities are usually diverse. We propose a novel Differentiated Learning framework to make use of the diversity between multiple modalities for more effective domain adaptation. Specifically, we model the classifiers of different modalities as a group of teacher/student sub-models, and a novel Prototype based Reliability Measurement is presented …
From Contexts To Locality: Ultra-High Resolution Image Segmentation Via Locality-Aware Contextual Correlation,
2021
Singapore Management University
From Contexts To Locality: Ultra-High Resolution Image Segmentation Via Locality-Aware Contextual Correlation, Qi Li, Weixiang Yang, Wenxi Liu, Yuanlong Yu, Shengfeng He
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Ultra-high resolution image segmentation has raised increasing interests in recent years due to its realistic applications. In this paper, we innovate the widely used high-resolution image segmentation pipeline, in which an ultrahigh resolution image is partitioned into regular patches for local segmentation and then the local results are merged into a high-resolution semantic mask. In particular, we introduce a novel locality-aware contextual correlation based segmentation model to process local patches, where the relevance between local patch and its various contexts are jointly and complementarily utilized to handle the semantic regions with large variations. Additionally, we present a contextual semantics refinement …
Using Role Play To Develop An Empathetic Mindset In Executive Education,
2021
Singapore Management University
Using Role Play To Develop An Empathetic Mindset In Executive Education, Siu Loon Hoe, Tamsin Greulich-Smith
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The purpose of this article is to discuss the importance of a role play activity as part of an experiential instructional strategy to develop an empathetic mindset among professionals, managers, and executives (PMEs) attending an executive education program in change management. This article provides an approach and process for management educators and facilitators of executive education programs to introduce and teach role play for the busy executives to learn about empathy. Role play is a useful teaching method that helps adult learners understand the importance of seeing things from another person’s point of view especially within a short period of …
Direct Differentiable Augmentation Search,
2021
Singapore Management University
Direct Differentiable Augmentation Search, Aoming Liu, Zehao Huang, Zhiwu Huang, Huang, Naiyan Wang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Data augmentation has been an indispensable tool to improve the performance of deep neural networks, however the augmentation can hardly transfer among different tasks and datasets. Consequently, a recent trend is to adopt AutoML technique to learn proper augmentation policy without extensive hand-crafted tuning. In this paper, we propose an efficient differentiable search algorithm called Direct Differentiable Augmentation Search (DDAS). It exploits meta-learning with one-step gradient update and continuous relaxation to the expected training loss for efficient search. Our DDAS can achieve efficient augmentation search without relying on approximations such as Gumbel-Softmax or second order gradient approximation. To further reduce …
Prediction Of Synthetic Lethal Interactions In Human Cancers Using Multi-View Graph Auto-Encoder,
2021
Singapore Management University
Prediction Of Synthetic Lethal Interactions In Human Cancers Using Multi-View Graph Auto-Encoder, Zhifeng Hao, Di Wu, Yuan Fang, Min Wu, Ruichu Cai, Xiaoli Li
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Synthetic lethality (SL) is a very important concept for the development of targeted anticancer drugs. However, experimental methods for SL detection often suffer from various issues like high cost and low consistency across cell lines. Hence, computational methods for predicting novel SLs have recently emerged as complements for wet-lab experiments. In addition, SL data can be represented as a graph where nodes are genes and edges are the SL interactions. It is thus motivated to design advanced graph-based machine learning algorithms for SL prediction. In this paper, we propose a novel SL prediction method using Multi-view Graph Auto-Encoder (SLMGAE). We …
A Large-Scale Benchmark For Food Image Segmentation,
2021
Singapore Management University
A Large-Scale Benchmark For Food Image Segmentation, Xiongwei Wu, Xin Fu, Ying Liu, Ee-Peng Lim, Steven C. H. Hoi, Qianru Sun
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Food image segmentation is a critical and indispensible task for developing health-related applications such as estimating food calories and nutrients. Existing food image segmentation models are underperforming due to two reasons: (1) there is a lack of high quality food image datasets with fine-grained ingredient labels and pixel-wise location masks—the existing datasets either carry coarse ingredient labels or are small in size; and (2) the complex appearance of food makes it difficult to localize and recognize ingredients in food images, e.g., the ingredients may overlap one another in the same image, and the identical ingredient may appear distinctly in different …
(2021 Revision) Chapter 2: Essential Aspects Of Physical Design And Implementation Of Relational Databases,
2021
CUNY New York City College of Technology
(2021 Revision) Chapter 2: Essential Aspects Of Physical Design And Implementation Of Relational Databases, Tatiana Malyuta, Ashwin Satyanarayana
Open Educational Resources
No abstract provided.
(2021 Revision) Chapter 1: Essential Aspects Of Physical Design And Implementation Of Relational Databases,
2021
CUNY New York City College of Technology
(2021 Revision) Chapter 1: Essential Aspects Of Physical Design And Implementation Of Relational Databases, Tatiana Malyuta, Ashwin Satyanarayana
Open Educational Resources
No abstract provided.
(2021 Revision) Chapter 3: Essential Aspects Of Physical Design And Implementation Of Relational Databases,
2021
CUNY New York City College of Technology
(2021 Revision) Chapter 3: Essential Aspects Of Physical Design And Implementation Of Relational Databases, Tatiana Malyuta, Ashwin Satyanarayana
Open Educational Resources
No abstract provided.
(2021 Revision) Chapter 5: Essential Aspects Of Physical Design And Implementation Of Relational Databases,
2021
Tatyana#09
(2021 Revision) Chapter 5: Essential Aspects Of Physical Design And Implementation Of Relational Databases, Tatiana Malyuta, Ashwin Satyanarayana
Open Educational Resources
No abstract provided.
From Continuity To Editability: Inverting Gans With Consecutive Images,
2021
Singapore Management University
From Continuity To Editability: Inverting Gans With Consecutive Images, Yangyang Xu, Yong Du, Wenpeng Xiao, Xuemiao Xu, Shengfeng He
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Existing GAN inversion methods are stuck in a paradox that the inverted codes can either achieve high-fidelity reconstruction, or retain the editing capability. Having only one of them clearly cannot realize real image editing. In this paper, we resolve this paradox by introducing consecutive images (e.g., video frames or the same person with different poses) into the inversion process. The rationale behind our solution is that the continuity of consecutive images leads to inherent editable directions. This inborn property is used for two unique purposes: 1) regularizing the joint inversion process, such that each of the inverted codes is semantically …
Missing Data Imputation For Solar Yield Prediction Using Temporal Multi-Modal Variational Auto-Encoder,
2021
Singapore Management University
Missing Data Imputation For Solar Yield Prediction Using Temporal Multi-Modal Variational Auto-Encoder, Meng Shen, Huaizheng Zhang, Yixin Cao, Fan Yang, Yonggang Wen
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The accurate and robust prediction of short-term solar power generation is significant for the management of modern smart grids, where solar power has become a major energy source due to its green and economical nature. However, the solar yield prediction can be difficult to conduct in the real world where hardware and network issues can make the sensors unreachable. Such data missing problem is so prevalent that it degrades the performance of deployed prediction models and even fails the model execution. In this paper, we propose a novel temporal multi-modal variational auto-encoder (TMMVAE) model, to enhance the robustness of short-term …
Privacy-Preserving Voluntary-Tallying Leader Election For Internet Of Things,
2021
Singapore Management University
Privacy-Preserving Voluntary-Tallying Leader Election For Internet Of Things, Tong Wu, Guomin Yang, Liehuang Zhu, Yulin Wu
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The Internet of Things (IoT) is commonly deployed with devices of limited power and computation capability. A centralized IoT architecture provides a simplified management for IoT system but brings redundancy by the unnecessary data traffic with a data center. A decentralized IoT reduces the cost on data traffic and is resilient to the single-point-of failure. The blockchain technique has attracted a large amount of research, which is redeemed as a perspective of decentralized IoT system infrastructure. It also brings new privacy challenges for that the blockchain is a public ledger of all digital events executed and shared among all participants. …
Multi-Modal Recommender Systems: Hands-On Exploration,
2021
Singapore Management University
Multi-Modal Recommender Systems: Hands-On Exploration, Quoc Tuan Truong, Aghiles Salah, Hady W. Lauw
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Recommender systems typically learn from user-item preference data such as ratings and clicks. This information is sparse in nature, i.e., observed user-item preferences often represent less than 5% of possible interactions. One promising direction to alleviate data sparsity is to leverage auxiliary information that may encode additional clues on how users consume items. Examples of such data (referred to as modalities) are social networks, item’s descriptive text, product images. The objective of this tutorial is to offer a comprehensive review of recent advances to represent, transform and incorporate the different modalities into recommendation models. Moreover, through practical hands-on sessions, we …
Multi-Modal Recommender Systems: Hands-On Exploration,
2021
Singapore Management University
Multi-Modal Recommender Systems: Hands-On Exploration, Quoc Tuan Truong, Aghiles Salah, Hady Wirawan Lauw
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Recommender systems typically learn from user-item preference data such as ratings and clicks. This information is sparse in nature, i.e., observed user-item preferences often represent less than 5% of possible interactions. One promising direction to alleviate data sparsity is to leverage auxiliary information that may encode additional clues on how users consume items. Examples of such data (referred to as modalities) are social networks, item’s descriptive text, product images. The objective of this tutorial is to offer a comprehensive review of recent advances to represent, transform and incorporate the different modalities into recommendation models. Moreover, through practical hands-on sessions, we …
Target-Guided Emotion-Aware Chat Machine,
2021
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Target-Guided Emotion-Aware Chat Machine, Wei Wei, Jiayi Liu, Xianling Mao, Guibing Guo, Feida Zhu, Pan Zhou, Yuchong Hu, Shanshan Feng
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The consistency of a response to a given post at the semantic level and emotional level is essential for a dialogue system to deliver humanlike interactions. However, this challenge is not well addressed in the literature, since most of the approaches neglect the emotional information conveyed by a post while generating responses. This article addresses this problem and proposes a unified end-to-end neural architecture, which is capable of simultaneously encoding the semantics and the emotions in a post and leveraging target information to generate more intelligent responses with appropriately expressed emotions. Extensive experiments on real-world data demonstrate that the proposed …
Token Shift Transformer For Video Classification,
2021
Singapore Management University
Token Shift Transformer For Video Classification, Zhang Hao, Yanbin. Hao, Chong-Wah Ngo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Transformer achieves remarkable successes in understanding 1 and 2-dimensional signals (e.g., NLP and Image Content Understanding). As a potential alternative to convolutional neural networks, it shares merits of strong interpretability, high discriminative power on hyper-scale data, and flexibility in processing varying length inputs. However, its encoders naturally contain computational intensive operations such as pair-wise self-attention, incurring heavy computational burden when being applied on the complex 3-dimensional video signals. This paper presents Token Shift Module (i.e., TokShift), a novel, zero-parameter, zero-FLOPs operator, for modeling temporal relations within each transformer encoder. Specifically, the TokShift barely temporally shifts partial [Class] token features back-and-forth …
Visilence: An Interactive Visualization Tool For Error Resilience Analysis,
2021
Kent State University
Visilence: An Interactive Visualization Tool For Error Resilience Analysis, Shaolun Ruan, Yong Wang, Qiang Guan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Soft errors have become one of the major concerns for HPC applications, as those errors can result in seriously corrupted outcomes, such as silent data corruptions (SDCs). Prior studies on error resilience have studied the robustness of HPC applications. However, it is still difficult for program developers to identify potential vulnerability to soft errors. In this paper, we present Visilence, a novel visualization tool to visually analyze error vulnerability based on the control-flow graph generated from HPC applications. Visilence efficiently visualizes the affected program states under injected errors and presents the visual analysis of the most vulnerable parts of an …
