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Over the past few decades, the hydrology community has witnessed notable advancements in streamflow prediction, particularly with the introduction of cutting-edge machine-learning algorithms. Recurrent neural networks, especially Long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Sinan Rasiya Koya , Tirthankar Roy

We consider the diffusion of two alternatives in social networks using a game-theoretic approach. Each individual plays a coordination game with its neighbors repeatedly and decides which to adopt. As products are used in conjunction with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Vincent Leon , S. Rasoul Etesami , Rakesh Nagi

Learning permutations is fundamental to sorting, ranking, and matching, but existing differentiable methods based on entropy-regularized Sinkhorn produce a single softened solution and collapse under ambiguity. We present PermFlow, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yimeng Min , Carla P. Gomes

The rapidly growing demand for high-quality data in Large Language Models (LLMs) has intensified the need for scalable, reliable, and semantically rich data preparation pipelines. However, current practices remain dominated by ad-hoc…

Rumor propagation modeling is critical for understanding and mitigating misinformation. Existing approaches combining rule-based regular agents with LLM-driven core agents provide a promising paradigm for large-scale rumor simulation.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yijun Liu , Wu Liu , Xiaoyan Gu , Hantao Yao , Weiping Wang , Jiebo Luo , Yongdong Zhang

Social media platforms have become key channels for spreading and tracking rumors due to their widespread accessibility and ease of information sharing. Rumors can continuously emerge across diverse domains and topics, often with the intent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mohadeseh Sheikhqoraei , Zainabolhoda Heshmati , Zeinab Rajabi , Leila Rabiei

In this work, we study the consensus problem in which legitimate agents send their values over an undirected communication network in the presence of an unknown subset of malicious or faulty agents. In contrast to former works, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Orhan Eren Akgün , Sarper Aydın , Stephanie Gil , Angelia Nedić

We consider the problem of estimating the latent structure of a social network based on the observed information diffusion events, or cascades, where the observations for a given cascade consist of only the timestamps of infection for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-27 Ming Yu , Varun Gupta , Mladen Kolar

In this paper, we introduce a robust transfer regression method designed to handle corrupted labels in target data, under the scenarios that the corruption affects a substantial portion of the labels and the locations of these corruptions…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-25 Sheng Pan

Transferring appearance to 3D assets using different representations of the appearance object - such as images or text - has garnered interest due to its wide range of applications in industries like gaming, augmented reality, and digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sayan Deb Sarkar , Sinisa Stekovic , Vincent Lepetit , Iro Armeni

Reinforcement learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for aligning diffusion and flow-matching models with human preferences, yet practitioners face fragmented codebases, model-specific implementations, and engineering complexity. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bowen Ping , Chengyou Jia , Minnan Luo , Hangwei Qian , Ivor Tsang

Diffusion-based watermarking methods embed verifiable marks by manipulating the initial noise or the reverse diffusion trajectory. However, these methods share a critical assumption: verification can succeed only if the diffusion trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Rui Bao , Zheng Gao , Xiaoyu Li , Xiaoyan Feng , Yang Song , Jiaojiao Jiang

Flow-based text-to-image models follow deterministic trajectories, making it costly to explore diverse modes under limited sampling budgets. Existing approaches to improving diversity often rely on retraining or degrade image fidelity. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jingxuan Wu , Zhenglin Wan , Xingrui Yu , Yuzhe Yang , Bo An , Ivor Tsang , Yang You

In this paper, we analyze several recent schemes for watermarking network flows that are based on splitting the flow into timing intervals. We show that this approach creates time-dependent correlations that enable an attack that combines…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Negar Kiyavash , Amir Houmansadr , Nikita Borisov

We consider the problem of identifying rumor sources in a network, in which rumor spreading obeys a time-slotted susceptible-infected model. Unlike existing approaches, our proposed algorithm identifies as sources those nodes, which when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-02 Jiachun Pan , Wenyi Zhang

Multi-agent trajectory prediction, as a critical task in modeling complex interactions of objects in dynamic systems, has attracted significant research attention in recent years. Despite the promising advances, existing studies all follow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Tangwen Qian , Yile Chen , Gao Cong , Yongjun Xu , Fei Wang

Severe class imbalance is common in real-world tabular learning, where rare but important minority classes are essential for reliable prediction. Existing generative oversampling methods such as GANs, VAEs, and diffusion models can improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Md. Tawfique Ihsan , Md. Rakibul Hasan Rafi , Ahmed Shoyeb Raihan , Imtiaz Ahmed , Abdullahil Azeem

Probability models have been proposed in the literature to account for "intelligent" behavior in many contexts. In this paper, probability propagation is applied to model agent's motion in potentially complex scenarios that include goals…

Knowledge transfer among multiple networks using their outputs or intermediate activations have evolved through extensive manual design from a simple teacher-student approach (knowledge distillation) to a bidirectional cohort one (deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Soma Minami , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Label propagation has proven to be a fast method for detecting communities in complex networks. Recent work has also improved the accuracy and stability of the basic algorithm, however, a general approach is still an open issue. We propose…

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