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Crowdsourcing has attracted much attention for its convenience to collect labels from non-expert workers instead of experts. However, due to the high level of noise from the non-experts, an aggregation model that learns the true label by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Hanlu Wu , Tengfei Ma , Lingfei Wu , Shouling Ji

Road network is a critical infrastructure powering many applications including transportation, mobility and logistics in real life. To leverage the input of a road network across these different applications, it is necessary to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Liang Zhang , Cheng Long

Learning hierarchical structures in sequential data -- from simple algorithmic patterns to natural language -- in a reliable, generalizable way remains a challenging problem for neural language models. Past work has shown that recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Brian DuSell , David Chiang

We present a neural semi-supervised learning model termed Self-Pretraining. Our model is inspired by the classic self-training algorithm. However, as opposed to self-training, Self-Pretraining is threshold-free, it can potentially update…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Payam Karisani , Negin Karisani

Safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving require robust 3D environment perception algorithms capable of handling diverse and ambiguous surroundings. The predictive performance of classification models is heavily influenced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Mariella Dreissig , Simon Ruehle , Florian Piewak , Joschka Boedecker

Network embedding (or graph embedding) has been widely used in many real-world applications. However, existing methods mainly focus on networks with single-typed nodes/edges and cannot scale well to handle large networks. Many real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yukuo Cen , Xu Zou , Jianwei Zhang , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou , Jie Tang

In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical framework for robot navigation in dynamic environments with heterogeneous constraints. Our approach leverages a graph neural network trained via reinforcement learning (RL) to efficiently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Huajian Liu , Yixuan Feng , Wei Dong , Kunpeng Fan , Chao Wang , Yongzhuo Gao

The widespread use of GPS-enabled devices generates voluminous and continuous amounts of traffic data but analyzing such data for interpretable and actionable insights poses challenges. A hierarchical clustering of the trips has many uses…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Chia-Tung Kuo , Ian Davidson

Perimeter control maintains high traffic efficiency within protected regions by controlling transfer flows among regions to ensure that their traffic densities are below critical values. Existing approaches can be categorized as either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Xiaocan Li , Ray Coden Mercurius , Ayal Taitler , Xiaoyu Wang , Mohammad Noaeen , Scott Sanner , Baher Abdulhai

Deep neural networks are susceptible to label noise. Existing methods to improve robustness, such as meta-learning and regularization, usually require significant change to the network architecture or careful tuning of the optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Li Chen , Ningyuan Huang , Cong Mu , Hayden S. Helm , Kate Lytvynets , Weiwei Yang , Carey E. Priebe

Machine learning models differ in terms of accuracy, computational/memory complexity, training time, and adaptability among other characteristics. For example, neural networks (NNs) are well-known for their high accuracy due to the quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Mahdi Nazemi , Amirhossein Esmaili , Arash Fayyazi , Massoud Pedram

The traffic assignment problem is one of the significant components of traffic flow analysis for which various solution approaches have been proposed. However, deploying these approaches for large-scale networks poses significant…

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Heterogeneous graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance on node classification tasks in a semi-supervised learning setting. However, as in the simpler homogeneous GNN case, message-passing-based heterogeneous GNNs may struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Hongjoon Ahn , Yongyi Yang , Quan Gan , Taesup Moon , David Wipf

The recent past has seen an increasing interest in Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs), since many real-world graphs are heterogeneous in nature, from citation graphs to email graphs. However, existing methods ignore a tree…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mingyu Guan , Jack W. Stokes , Qinlong Luo , Fuchen Liu , Purvanshi Mehta , Elnaz Nouri , Taesoo Kim

The pre-training and fine-tuning methods have gained widespread attention in the field of heterogeneous graph neural networks due to their ability to leverage large amounts of unlabeled data during the pre-training phase, allowing the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Pengfei Jiao , Jialong Ni , Di Jin , Xuan Guo , Huan Liu , Hongjiang Chen , Yanxian Bi

Pre-training is prevalent in deep learning for vision and text data, leveraging knowledge from other datasets to enhance downstream tasks. However, for tabular data, the inherent heterogeneity in attribute and label spaces across datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Han-Jia Ye , Qi-Le Zhou , Huai-Hong Yin , De-Chuan Zhan , Wei-Lun Chao

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have powerful capability to embed rich structural and semantic information of a heterogeneous graph into node representations. Existing HGNNs inherit many mechanisms from graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Xiaocheng Yang , Mingyu Yan , Shirui Pan , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Inspired by the success of Transformer-based models in natural language processing, this paper investigates their potential as foundation models for network traffic analysis. We propose a unified pre-training and fine-tuning pipeline for…

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Supervised machine learning techniques rely on labeled data to achieve high task performance, but this requires the labels to capture some meaningful differences in the underlying data structure. For training network intrusion detection…

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