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While high altitude platform stations (HAPS) have been primarily explored as network infrastructure for communication services, their advantageous characteristics also make them promising candidates for augmenting GNSS localization. This…
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Many scientific and technological problems are related to optimization. Among them, black-box optimization in high-dimensional space is particularly challenging. Recent neural network-based black-box optimization studies have shown…
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) achieved relevant advances in the field of generative algorithms, presenting high-quality results mainly in the context of images. However, GANs are hard to train, and several aspects of the model…
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In this paper, we compare the three most popular algorithms for hyperparameter optimization (Grid Search, Random Search, and Genetic Algorithm) and attempt to use them for neural architecture search (NAS). We use these algorithms for…
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The growing privacy concerns and the communication costs associated with transmitting raw data have resulted in techniques like federated learning, where the machine learning models are trained at the edge nodes, and the parameter updates…
While the 5th generation (5G) of mobile networks has landed in the commercial area, the research community is exploring new functionalities for 6th generation (6G) networks, for example non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) via space/air nodes…
Generative adversarial networks (GAN) present state-of-the-art results in the generation of samples following the distribution of the input dataset. However, GANs are difficult to train, and several aspects of the model should be previously…
Natural evolution strategies are a class of approximate-gradient black-box optimizers that have been successfully used for continuous parameter spaces. In this paper, we derive NES algorithms for discrete parameter spaces and demonstrate…
Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites are leveraged to support new position, navigation, and timing (PNT) service alternatives to GNSS. These alternatives require accurate propagation of satellite position and velocity with a realistic…
Low-altitude Gaussian splatting (LAGS) facilitates 3D scene reconstruction by aggregating aerial images from distributed drones. However, as LAGS prioritizes maximizing reconstruction quality over communication throughput, existing…