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Amongst others, the adoption of Rectified Linear Units (ReLUs) is regarded as one of the ingredients of the success of deep learning. ReLU activation has been shown to mitigate the vanishing gradient issue, to encourage sparsity in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-14 Nicola Picchiotti , Marco Gori

In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output communication system with multiple antennas at both the base station (BS) and the user. We plan to maximize the achievable rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yaqiong Zhao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Xinquan Ye , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

We introduce a novel system setup where a backscatter device operates in the presence of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). In particular, we study the bistatic backscatter communication (BackCom) system assisted by an IRS. The phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Xiaolun Jia , Jun Zhao , Xiangyun Zhou , Dusit Niyato

In this paper, we propose an reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) enhanced spectrum sensing system, in which the primary transmitter is equipped with single antenna, the secondary transmitter is equipped with multiple antennas, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jungang Ge , Ying-Chang Liang

Identity-conditioned diffusion models enable high-quality and identity-consistent face generation, but they also raise severe privacy concerns, as models may continue to synthesize individuals despite their right to be forgotten. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jose Edgar Hernandez Cancino Estrada , Mauro Díaz Lupone , Žiga Emeršič , Vitomir Štruc , Peter Peer , Darian Tomašević

Computer-use agents face a fundamental limitation. They rely exclusively on primitive GUI actions (click, type, scroll), creating brittle execution chains prone to cascading failures. While API-driven agents harness rich capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuhao Yang , Zhen Yang , Zi-Yi Dou , Anh Nguyen , Keen You , Omar Attia , Andrew Szot , Michael Feng , Ram Ramrakhya , Alexander Toshev , Chao Huang , Yinfei Yang , Zhe Gan

We investigate the benefits of integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) elements to passively relay information sampled by Internet of Things devices (IoTDs) to the base station (BS). In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Moataz Samir , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine , Ali Ghrayeb

Universal Information Extraction (UIE) is an area of interest due to the challenges posed by varying targets, heterogeneous structures, and demand-specific schemas. However, previous works have only achieved limited success by unifying a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Chengyuan Liu , Fubang Zhao , Yangyang Kang , Jingyuan Zhang , Xiang Zhou , Changlong Sun , Kun Kuang , Fei Wu

Recurrent neural networks with various types of hidden units have been used to solve a diverse range of problems involving sequence data. Two of the most recent proposals, gated recurrent units (GRU) and minimal gated units (MGU), have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Joel Heck , Fathi M. Salem

This study delves into the effectiveness of various learning methods in improving Transformer models, focusing particularly on the Gated Residual Network Transformer (GRN-Transformer) in the context of pediatric intensive care units (PICU)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Thanh-Dung Le , Clara Macabiau , Kévin Albert , Symeon Chatzinotas , Philippe Jouvet , Rita Noumeir

Despite the success of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) in language reasoning, its application to autoregressive Text-to-Image (T2I) generation is often constrained by the limited availability of human preference data. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yihang Chen , Yuanhao Ban , Yunqi Hong , Cho-Jui Hsieh

The key advantage of successive relaying (SR) networks is their ability to mimic the full-duplex (FD) operation with half-duplex (HD) relays. However, the main challenge that comes with such schemes is the associated inter-relay…

An information-theoretic framework known as integrated information theory (IIT) has been introduced recently for the study of the emergence of consciousness in the brain [D. Balduzzi and G. Tononi, PLoS Comput. Biol. 4, e1000091 (2008)].…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-07-11 Andre Nathan , Valmir C. Barbosa

Indexed modulation (IM) is an evolving technique that has become popular due to its ability of parallel data communication over distinct combinations of transmission entities. In this article, we first provide a comprehensive survey of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Rohit Singh , Aryan Kaushik , Wonjae Shin , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mesut Toka , Marco Di Renzo

The integration of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) holds substantial promise for revolutionizing 6G wireless networks, offering unprecedented capabilities for real-time control over communication environments. However, determining…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Kevin Weinberger , Simon Tewes , Aydin Sezgin

The Rectified Power Unit (RePU) activation function, a differentiable generalization of the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU), has shown promise in constructing neural networks due to its smoothness properties. However, deep RePU networks often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Taeyoung Kim , Myungjoo Kang

For an RF-powered cognitive radio network with ambient backscattering capability, while the primary channel is busy, the RF-powered secondary user (RSU) can either backscatter the primary signal to transmit its own data or harvest energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang

This paper proposes to leverage intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) backscatter to realize radio-frequency-chain-free uplink-transmissions (RFCF-UT). In this communication paradigm, IRS works as an information carrier, whose elements are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Sai Xu , Yanan Du , Jiliang Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang , Jie Zhang

As AI systems become increasingly autonomous, aligning their decision-making to human preferences is essential. In domains like autonomous driving or robotics, it is impossible to write down the reward function representing these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ondrej Bajgar , Sid William Gould , Rohan Narayan Langford Mitta , Jonathon Liu , Oliver Newcombe , Jack Golden

Current AI interaction models treat the prompt as the primary object of exchange, omitting a critical layer: the user's latent source intent, the goal state preceding and motivating the prompt. Here we introduce Intent Signal Theory (IST),…

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