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With the rapid development of web technology, more and more software applications have become web-based in the past decades. To ensure software quality and user experience, various techniques have been proposed to automatically test web…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Siyi Wang , Sinan Wang , Yujia Fan , Xiaolei Li , Yepang Liu

In recent years, the widespread use of social media has led to an increase in the generation of toxic and offensive content on online platforms. In response, social media platforms have worked on developing automatic detection methods and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Tharindu Ranasinghe , Diptanu Sarkar , Marcos Zampieri , Alexander Ororbia

We present a novel dataset aimed at advancing danger analysis and assessment by addressing the challenge of quantifying danger in video content and identifying how human-like a Large Language Model (LLM) evaluator is for the same. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Pranav Gupta , Advith Krishnan , Naman Nanda , Ananth Eswar , Deeksha Agarwal , Pratham Gohil , Pratyush Goel

This paper employs deep learning in detecting the traffic accident from social media data. First, we thoroughly investigate the 1-year over 3 million tweet contents in two metropolitan areas: Northern Virginia and New York City. Our results…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Zhenhua Zhang , Qing Heb , Jing Gao , Ming Ni

Autonomous driving systems remain critically vulnerable to the long-tail of rare, out-of-distribution semantic anomalies. While VLMs have emerged as promising tools for perception, their application in anomaly detection remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Roberto Brusnicki , David Pop , Yuan Gao , Mattia Piccinini , Johannes Betz

Social media platforms have become primary arenas for climate communication, generating millions of images and posts that - if systematically analysed - can reveal which communication strategies mobilise public concern and which fall flat.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Katharina Prasse , Steffen Jung , Isaac Bravo , Stefanie Walter , Patrick Knab , Christian Bartelt , Margret Keuper

The goal of sexism detection is to mitigate negative online content targeting certain gender groups of people. However, the limited availability of labeled sexism-related datasets makes it problematic to identify online sexism for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Aiqi Jiang , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Online Social Networks have revolutionized how we consume and share information, but they have also led to a proliferation of content not always reliable and accurate. One particular type of social accounts is known to promote unreputable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Edoardo Di Paolo , Marinella Petrocchi , Angelo Spognardi

Predicting video viewership is a top priority for content creators and video-sharing sites. Content creators live on such predictions to maximize influences and minimize budgets. Video-sharing sites rely on this prediction to promote…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Jiaheng Xie , Xiao Liu

Water is a critical resource that must be managed efficiently. However, a substantial amount of water is lost each year due to leaks in Water Distribution Networks (WDNs). This underscores the need for reliable and effective leak detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Daniele Ugo Leonzio , Paolo Bestagini , Marco Marcon , Stefano Tubaro

As a major source for information on virtually any topic, Wikipedia serves an important role in public dissemination and consumption of knowledge. As a result, it presents tremendous potential for people to promulgate their own points of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Sanmay Das , Allen Lavoie , Malik Magdon-Ismail

Large Language Model (LLM)-based Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have substantially extended the boundaries of visual understanding capabilities. However, their high computational demands hinder deployment on resource-constrained edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Haotong Qin , Cheng Hu , Michele Magno

Predicting temporal progress from visual trajectories is important for intelligent robots that can learn, adapt, and improve. However, learning such progress estimator, or temporal value function, across different tasks and domains requires…

In robot scientific laboratories, visual anomaly detection is important for the timely identification and resolution of potential faults or deviations. It has become a key factor in ensuring the stability and safety of experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shiwei Lin , Chenxu Wang , Xiaozhen Ding , Yi Wang , Boyuan Du , Lei Song , Chenggang Wang , Huaping Liu

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are pivotal information for proactive cybersecurity measures, including service patching, security hardening, and more. However, CVEs typically offer low-level, product-oriented descriptions of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Ehsan Aghaei , Ehab Al-Shaer , Waseem Shadid , Xi Niu

A simple dynamical model of collective edit activity of Wikipedia articles and their content evolution is introduced. Based on the recent empirical findings, each editor in the model is characterized by an ability to make content edit,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-25 Takashi Shimada , Fumiko Ogushi , Janos Torok , Janos Kertesz , Kimmo Kaski

Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have facilitated the spread of misinformation, necessitating automated detection systems. This systematic review evaluates 36 studies that apply machine learning (ML) and deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yunchong Liu , Xiaorui Shen , Yeyubei Zhang , Zhongyan Wang , Yexin Tian , Jianglai Dai , Yuchen Cao

Predicting pedestrian behavior is the key to ensure safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles. While deep learning methods have been promising by learning from annotated video frame sequences, they often fail to fully grasp the dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Jia Huang , Peng Jiang , Alvika Gautam , Srikanth Saripalli

The WSDM Cup 2017 was a data mining challenge held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM). It addressed key challenges of knowledge bases today: quality assurance and entity search. For…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Martin Potthast , Stefan Heindorf , Hannah Bast

This study addressed the complex task of sentiment analysis on a dataset of 119,988 original tweets from Weibo using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), offering a new approach to Natural Language Processing (NLP). The data, sourced from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Yufei Xie , Rodolfo C. Raga