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Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have led to their widespread adoption for the purposes of generating high quality synthetic imagery. While capable of generating photo-realistic images, these models often produce…

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In many pattern recognition problems, a single feature vector is not sufficient to describe an object. In multiple instance learning (MIL), objects are represented by sets (\emph{bags}) of feature vectors (\emph{instances}). This requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Veronika Cheplygina , David M. J. Tax

Instance-level human parsing towards real-world human analysis scenarios is still under-explored due to the absence of sufficient data resources and technical difficulty in parsing multiple instances in a single pass. Several related works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Ke Gong , Xiaodan Liang , Yicheng Li , Yimin Chen , Ming Yang , Liang Lin

Instance-level object segmentation is an important yet under-explored task. The few existing studies are almost all based on region proposal methods to extract candidate segments and then utilize object classification to produce final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Xiaodan Liang , Yunchao Wei , Xiaohui Shen , Jianchao Yang , Liang Lin , Shuicheng Yan

Suppose we have a memory storing $0$s and $1$s and we want to estimate the frequency of $1$s by sampling. We want to do this I/O-efficiently, exploiting that each read gives a block of $B$ bits at unit cost; not just one bit. If the input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Shyam Narayanan , Václav Rozhoň , Jakub Tětek , Mikkel Thorup

The Dantzig selector is a widely used and effective method for variable selection in ultra-high-dimensional data. Feature splitting is an efficient processing technique that involves dividing these ultra-high-dimensional variable datasets…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-04 Xiaofei Wu , Yue Chao , Rongmei Liang , Shi Tang , Zhiming Zhang

In this paper, we present a general scheme for building reproducible and extensible datasets for website phishing detection. The aim is to (1) enable comparison of systems using different features, (2) overtake the short-lived nature of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Abdelhakim Hannousse , Salima Yahiouche

Distributed model fitting refers to the process of fitting a mathematical or statistical model to the data using distributed computing resources, such that computing tasks are divided among multiple interconnected computers or nodes, often…

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Mixed-integer optimisation problems can be computationally challenging. Here, we introduce and analyse two efficient algorithms with a specific sequential design that are aimed at dealing with sampled problems within this class. At each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Roland Bouffanais

We investigate the use of possibly the simplest scheme for the parallelisation of the standard particle filter, that consists in splitting the computational budget into $M$ fully independent particle filters with $N$ particles each, and…

Computation · Statistics 2015-10-12 Dan Crisan , Joaquin Miguez , Gonzalo Rios

Optimizing the parallel training of large models requires exploring intra-operator parallelism plans for a computation graph that typically contains tens of thousands of primitive operators. While the optimization of parallel data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Weifang Hu , Xuanhua Shi , Yunkai Zhang , Chang Wu , Xuan Peng , Jiaqi Zhai , Hai Jin , Xuehai Qian , Jingling Xue , Yongluan Zhou

Chance constrained program is computationally intractable due to the existence of chance constraints, which are randomly disturbed and should be satisfied with a probability. This paper proposes a two-layer randomized algorithm to address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Xun Shen , Jiancang Zhuang , Xingguo Zhang

In multiple domains such as malware detection, automated driving systems, or fraud detection, classification algorithms are susceptible to being attacked by malicious agents willing to perturb the value of instance covariates to pursue…

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In this paper, we propose an extension to an existing algorithm (instance-MIR) which tackles the multiple instance regression (MIR) problem, also known as distribution regression. The MIR setting arises when the data is a collection of…

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The use of multi-threading and file prioritization methods has accelerated the speed at which ransomware encrypts files. To minimize file loss during the ransomware attack, detecting file modifications at the earliest execution stage is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Mohan Anand Putrevu , Hrushikesh Chunduri , Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu , Sandeep K Shukla

Network and system security are incredibly critical issues now. Due to the rapid proliferation of malware, traditional analysis methods struggle with enormous samples. In this paper, we propose four easy-to-extract and small-scale features,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Zhenshuo Chen , Eoin Brophy , Tomas Ward

Current algorithms for large-scale industrial optimization problems typically face a trade-off: they either require exponential time to reach optimal solutions, or employ problem-specific heuristics. To overcome these limitations, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Matteo Vandelli , Francesco Ferrari , Daniele Dragoni

Malicious software (malware) classification offers a unique challenge for continual learning (CL) regimes due to the volume of new samples received on a daily basis and the evolution of malware to exploit new vulnerabilities. On a typical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Mohammad Saidur Rahman , Scott E. Coull , Matthew Wright

Instance segmentation is an important task for biomedical and biological image analysis. Due to the complicated background components, the high variability of object appearances, numerous overlapping objects, and ambiguous object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Dongnan Liu , Donghao Zhang , Yang Song , Heng Huang , Weidong Cai

Of late, weakly supervised object detection is with great importance in object recognition. Based on deep learning, weakly supervised detectors have achieved many promising results. However, compared with fully supervised detection, it is…

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