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Despite the fact that cyberattacks are constantly growing in complexity, the research community still lacks effective tools to easily monitor and understand them. In particular, there is a need for techniques that are able to not only track…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Yun Shen , Gianluca Stringhini

Across various domains, the growing advocacy for open science and open-source machine learning has made an increasing number of models publicly available. These models allow practitioners to integrate them into their own contexts, reducing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-31 Rui Duan

Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed clients, yet vanilla FL exposes client updates to the central server. Secure-aggregation schemes protect privacy against an honest-but-curious server, but existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Haaris Mehmood , Giorgos Tatsis , Dimitrios Alexopoulos , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Jie Xu , Anastasios Drosou , Mete Ozay

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful technique for enhancing the quality of responses in Question-Answering (QA) tasks. However, existing approaches often struggle with retrieving contextually relevant information,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tianyi Yang , Nashrah Haque , Vaishnave Jonnalagadda , Yuya Jeremy Ong , Zhehui Chen , Yanzhao Wu , Lei Yu , Divyesh Jadav , Wenqi Wei

There are unique challenges to developing item recommender systems for e-commerce platforms like eBay due to sparse data and diverse user interests. While rich user-item interactions are important, eBay's data sparsity exceeds other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yi Sun , Yuri M. Brovman

Document retrieval systems have experienced a revitalized interest with the advent of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). RAG architecture offers a lower hallucination rate than LLM-only applications. However, the accuracy of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Kavsar Huseynova , Jafar Isbarov

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) have grown increasingly complex and concealed, posing formidable challenges to existing Intrusion Detection Systems in identifying and mitigating these attacks. Recent studies have incorporated graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Wenhan Jiang , Tingting Chai , Hongri Liu , Kai Wang , Hongke Zhang

Traditional security detection methods face three key challenges: inadequate data collection that misses critical security events, resource-intensive monitoring systems, and poor detection algorithms with high false positive rates. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Limin Wang , Lei Bu , Muzimiao Zhang , Shihong Cang , Kai Ye

Medical image understanding requires meticulous examination of fine visual details, with particular regions requiring additional attention. While radiologists build such expertise over years of experience, it is challenging for AI models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ying Jin , Zhuoran Zhou , Haoquan Fang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

The promising performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in text classification, has attracted researchers to use them for fraud review detection. However, the lack of trusted labeled data has limited the performance of the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Saeedreza Shehnepoor , Roberto Togneri , Wei Liu , Mohammed Bennamoun

Recent studies emphasize the crucial role of data augmentation in enhancing the performance of object detection models. However,existing methodologies often struggle to effectively harmonize dataset diversity with semantic coordination.To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Sen Nie , Zhuo Wang , Xinxin Wang , Kun He

Manual identification of visual bugs in video games is a resource-intensive and costly process, often demanding specialized domain knowledge. While supervised visual bug detection models offer a promising solution, their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Faliu Yi , Sherif Abdelfattah , Wei Huang , Adrian Brown

Despite advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, their effectiveness is often hindered by a lack of integration with entity relationships and community structures, limiting their ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Rong-Ching Chang , Jiawei Zhang

Existing deepfake detection techniques struggle to keep-up with the ever-evolving novel, unseen forgeries methods. This limitation stems from their reliance on statistical artifacts learned during training, which are often tied to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Guangyu Shen , Zhihua Li , Xiang Xu , Tianchen Zhao , Zheng Zhang , Dongsheng An , Zhuowen Tu , Yifan Xing , Qin Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have brought superb performance to various applications utilizing graph structural data, such as social analysis and fraud detection. The graph links, e.g., social relationships and transaction history, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Ruyi Ding , Shijin Duan , Xiaolin Xu , Yunsi Fei

Camouflaged object detection (COD), which aims to identify the objects that conceal themselves into the surroundings, has recently drawn increasing research efforts in the field of computer vision. In practice, the success of deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Geng Chen , Xinrui Chen , Bo Dong , Mingchen Zhuge , Yongxiong Wang , Hongbo Bi , Jian Chen , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Online scams across email, short message services, and social media increasingly challenge everyday risk assessment, particularly as generative AI enables more fluent and context-aware deception. Although transformer-based detectors achieve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Heajun An , Connor Ng , Sandesh Sharma Dulal , Junghwan Kim , Jin-Hee Cho

Community detection is a discovery tool used by network scientists to analyze the structure of real-world networks. It seeks to identify natural divisions that may exist in the input networks that partition the vertices into coherent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Neda Zarayeneh , Ananth Kalyanaraman

The automatic detection of frauds in banking transactions has been recently studied as a way to help the analysts finding fraudulent operations. Due to the availability of a human feedback, this task has been studied in the framework of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Christelle Marfaing , Alexandre Garcia

Federated learning (FL) systems are susceptible to attacks from malicious actors who might attempt to corrupt the training model through various poisoning attacks. FL also poses new challenges in addressing group bias, such as ensuring fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Viktor Valadi , Xinchi Qiu , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Nicholas D. Lane , Mina Alibeigi