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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Yazhou Ren , Xiaofan Que , Dezhong Yao , Zenglin Xu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) can enhance the computing capability of mobile devices, and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can provide high data rates. Combining these two technologies can effectively benefit the network with spectrum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Fang Fang , Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Chao Shen , Mugen Peng , George K. Karagiannidis

Mobile sensing has become a promising paradigm for mobile users to obtain information by task crowdsourcing. However, due to the social preferences of mobile users, the quality of sensing reports may be impacted by the underlying social…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Ju Ren , Yaoxue Zhang , Kuan Zhang , Xuemin , Shen

When a number of similar tasks have to be learned simultaneously, multi-task learning (MTL) models can attain significantly higher accuracy than single-task learning (STL) models. However, the advantage of MTL depends on various factors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Afiya Ayman , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Aron Laszka

This research is concerned with the effectiveness of auctions-based task assignment and management in centralized, participatory Mobile Crowdsensing (MCS) systems. During auctions, sensing tasks are matched with participants based on bids…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Maggie E. Gendy , Ahmad Al-Kabbany , Ehab F. Badran

Leveraging massive numbers of sensors in user equipment as well as opportunistic human mobility, mobile crowd sensing (MCS) has emerged as a powerful paradigm, where prolonging battery life of constrained devices and motivating human…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Xiaoyang Li , Changsheng You , Sergey Andreev , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

In Multi-Task Learning (MTL), it is a common practice to train multi-task networks by optimizing an objective function, which is a weighted average of the task-specific objective functions. Although the computational advantages of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Lucas Pascal , Pietro Michiardi , Xavier Bost , Benoit Huet , Maria A. Zuluaga

We propose a multitask approach for crowd counting and person localization in a unified framework. As the detection and localization tasks are well-correlated and can be jointly tackled, our model benefits from a multitask solution by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Mohsen Zand , Haleh Damirchi , Andrew Farley , Mahdiyar Molahasani , Michael Greenspan , Ali Etemad

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve the performance of a primary task by jointly learning with related auxiliary tasks. Traditional MTL methods select tasks randomly during training. However, both previous studies and our results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Xiangheng He , Junjie Chen , Björn W. Schuller

Shared training approaches, such as multi-task learning (MTL) and gradient-based meta-learning, are widely used in various machine learning applications, but they often suffer from negative transfer, leading to performance degradation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Anshul Thakur , Yichen Huang , Soheila Molaei , Yujiang Wang , David A. Clifton

In Wireless sensor networks data aggregation with hundreds and thousands of sensor nodes is very complex task. Recently, mobile agents have been proposed for efficient data dissemination in sensor networks. In the traditional client/server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-16 Yashpal Singh , Kamal Deep , S Niranjan

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has been intensively explored recently due to its flexible and pervasive sensing ability. Although many incentive mechanisms have been built to attract extensive user participation, Most of these mechanisms focus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Jiajun Sun

Multi-task learning has gained popularity due to the advantages it provides with respect to resource usage and performance. Nonetheless, the joint optimization of parameters with respect to multiple tasks remains an active research topic.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Lucas Pascal , Pietro Michiardi , Xavier Bost , Benoit Huet , Maria A. Zuluaga

Designing effective incentive mechanisms in mobile crowdsensing (MCS) networks is crucial for engaging distributed mobile users (workers) to contribute heterogeneous data for various applications (tasks). In this paper, we propose a novel…

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The recent proliferation of increasingly capable mobile devices has given rise to mobile crowd sensing (MCS) systems that outsource the collection of sensory data to a crowd of participating workers that carry various mobile devices. Aware…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Haiming Jin , Lu Su , Klara Nahrstedt

We consider the problem of intelligent and efficient task allocation mechanism in large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC), which can reduce delay and energy consumption in a parallel and distributed optimization. In this paper, we study the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xiaoxiong Zhong , Xinghan Wang , Yuanyuan Yang , Yang Qin , Xiaoke Ma , Tingting Yang

Mobile crowdsensing allows data collection at a scale and pace that was once impossible. One of the biggest challenges in mobile crowdsensing is that participants may exhibit malicious or unreliable behavior. Therefore, it becomes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Francesco Restuccia , Pierluca Ferraro , Timothy S. Sanders , Simone Silvestri , Sajal K. Das , Giuseppe Lo Re

The integration of mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) technologies has recently emerged as an effective solution for extending battery life and increasing the computing power of wireless devices. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yuegui Chen , Suzhi Bi , Xian Li , Xiaohui Lin , Hui Wang

Driven by the rapid growth of Internet of Things applications, tremendous data need to be collected by sensors and uploaded to the servers for further process. As a promising solution, mobile crowd sensing enables controllable sensing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ziqin Zhou , Xiaoyang Li , Changsheng You , Kaibing Huang , Yi Gong

Beyond data collection, future mobile crowdsensing (MCS) in complex applications must satisfy diverse requirements, including reliable task completion, budget and quality constraints, and fluctuating worker availability. Besides raw-data…

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