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We study a distributed learning problem in which learning agents are embedded in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). There is a fixed and arbitrary distribution over feature/label pairs, and each agent or vertex in the graph is able to directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth , Emily Ryu

Graph deep learning models, such as graph convolutional networks (GCN) achieve remarkable performance for tasks on graph data. Similar to other types of deep models, graph deep learning models often suffer from adversarial attacks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Huijun Wu , Chen Wang , Yuriy Tyshetskiy , Andrew Docherty , Kai Lu , Liming Zhu

Graphs are expressive abstractions representing more effectively relationships in data and enabling data science tasks. They are also a widely adopted paradigm in causal inference focusing on causal directed acyclic graphs. Causal DAGs…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Amedeo Pachera , Mattia Palmiotto , Angela Bonifati , Andrea Mauri

Distributed Denial of Service attacks represent an active cybersecurity research problem. Recent research shifted from static rule-based defenses towards AI-based detection and mitigation. This comprehensive survey covers several key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Alexandru Apostu , Silviu Gheorghe , Andrei Hîji , Nicolae Cleju , Andrei Pătraşcu , Cristian Rusu , Radu Ionescu , Paul Irofti

In many situations, it would be useful to know not just the best phylogenetic tree for a given data set, but the collection of high-quality trees. This goal is typically addressed using Bayesian techniques, however, current Bayesian methods…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-27 Will Dumm , Mary Barker , William Howard-Snyder , William S. DeWitt , Frederick A. Matsen

Causal structures for observational survival data provide crucial information regarding the relationships between covariates and time-to-event. We derive motivation from the information theoretic source coding argument, and show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Ansh Kumar Sharma , Rahul Kukreja , Ranjitha Prasad , Shilpa Rao

To represent the causal relationships between variables, a directed acyclic graph (DAG) is widely utilized in many areas, such as social sciences, epidemics, and genetics. Many causal structure learning approaches are developed to learn the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-14 Jianian Wang , Rui Song

Attack graphs (AGs) are graphical tools to analyze the security of computer networks. By connecting the exploitation of individual vulnerabilities, AGs expose possible multi-step attacks against target networks, allowing system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ming Li , John Hale

The power grid is a critical infrastructure that plays a vital role in modern society. Its availability is of utmost importance, as a loss can endanger human lives. However, with the increasing digitalization of the power grid, it also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Ömer Sen , Bozhidar Ivanov , Martin Henze , Andreas Ulbig

We propose a method to identify nonlinear acyclic networks in continuous time when the dynamics are located on the edges and all the nodes are excited. We show that it is necessary and sufficient to measure all the sinks to identify any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Ramachandran Anantharaman , Renato Vizuete , Julien M. Hendrickx , Alexandre Mauroy

A directed acyclic graph (DAG) can represent a two-dimensional string or picture. We propose recognizing picture languages using DAG automata by encoding 2D inputs into DAGs. An encoding can be input-agnostic (based on input size only) or…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yvo Ad Meeres , František Mráz

In response to the rapidly evolving nature of adversarial attacks against visual classifiers, numerous defenses have been proposed to generalize against as many known attacks as possible. However, designing a defense method that generalizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Qian Wang , Hefei Ling , Yingwei Li , Qihao Liu , Ruoxi Jia , Ning Yu

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks exhaust victim's bandwidth or services. Traditional architecture of Internet is vulnerable to DDoS attacks and an ongoing cycle of attack & defense is observed. In this paper, different types and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Muhammad Aamir , Mustafa Ali Zaidi

A growing number of applications like probabilistic machine learning, sparse linear algebra, robotic navigation, etc., exhibit irregular data flow computation that can be modeled with directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). The irregularity arises…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Nimish Shah , Wannes Meert , Marian Verhelst

We propose a self-stabilizing algorithm to construct a minimal weakly $\mathcal{ST}$-reachable directed acyclic graph (DAG), which is suited for routing messages on wireless networks. Given an arbitrary, simple, connected, and undirected…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Junya Nakamura , Masahiro Shibata , Yuichi Sudo , Yonghwan Kim

The challenge of WAD (web attack detection) is growing as hackers continuously refine their methods to evade traditional detection. Deep learning models excel in handling complex unknown attacks due to their strong generalization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Lijia Shi , Shihao Dong

Estimating a directed acyclic graph (DAG) from observational data represents a canonical learning problem and has generated a lot of interest in recent years. Research has focused mostly on the following two cases: when no information…

Applications · Statistics 2019-02-15 Syed Rahman , Kshitij Khare , George Michailidis , Carlos Martinez , Juan Carulla

We establish a new framework for statistical estimation of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) when data are generated from a linear, possibly non-Gaussian structural equation model. Our framework consists of two parts: (1) inferring the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-11-15 Po-Ling Loh , Peter Bühlmann

The treewidth of control flow graphs arising from structured programs is known to be at most six. However, as a control flow graph is inherently directed, it makes sense to consider a measure of width for digraphs instead. We use the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Therese Biedl , Sebastian Fischmeister , Neeraj Kumar

Understanding human motion behaviour is a critical task for several possible applications like self-driving cars or social robots, and in general for all those settings where an autonomous agent has to navigate inside a human-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Alessio Monti , Alessia Bertugli , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara