Truth discovery is an effective tool to unearth truthful answers in crowdsourced question answering systems. Incentive mechanisms are necessary in such systems to stimulate worker participation. However, most of exist...
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(数字)9781728164120
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(纸本)9781728164137
Truth discovery is an effective tool to unearth truthful answers in crowdsourced question answering systems. Incentive mechanisms are necessary in such systems to stimulate worker participation. However, most of existing incentive mechanisms only consider compensating workers' resource cost, while the cost incurred by potential privacy leakage has been rarely incorporated. More importantly, to the best of our knowledge, how to provide personalized payments for workers with different privacy demands remains uninvestigated thus far. In this paper, we propose a contract-based personalized privacy-preserving incentive mechanism for truth discovery in crowdsourced question answering systems, named PINTION, which provides personalized payments for workers with different privacy demands as a compensation for privacy cost, while ensuring accurate truth discovery. The basic idea is that each worker chooses to sign a contract with the platform, which specifies a privacy-preserving level (PPL) and a payment, and then submits perturbed answers with that PPL in return for that payment. Specifically, we respectively design a set of optimal contracts under both complete and incomplete information models, which could maximize the truth discovery accuracy, while satisfying the budget feasibility, individual rationality and incentive compatibility properties. Experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets validate the feasibility and effectiveness of PINTION.
As deep learning technologies continue to permeate various sectors, optimization algorithms have become increasingly crucial in neural network training. This paper introduces two adaptive momentum algorithms based on ...
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As deep learning technologies continue to permeate various sectors, optimization algorithms have become increasingly crucial in neural network training. This paper introduces two adaptive momentum algorithms based on Grünwald–Letnikov and Caputo fractional-order differences—Fractional Order Adagrad (FAdagrad) and Fractional Order Adam (FAdam)—to update parameters more flexibly by adjusting momentum information. Commencing from the definitions of fractional derivatives, we propose integrating fractional-order differences with gradient algorithms in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These adaptive momentum algorithms, leveraging Grünwald–Letnikov and Caputo fractional-order differences, offer enhanced flexibility, thereby accelerating convergence. Our nonlinear parameter tuning method for CNNs demonstrates superior performance compared to traditional integer-order momentum algorithms and the standard Adam algorithm. Experimental results on the BraTS2021 dataset and CIFAR-100 dataset reveal that the proposed fractional-order optimization algorithms significantly outperform their integer-order counterparts in model optimization. They not only expedite convergence but also improve the accuracy of image recognition and segmentation.
To solve the problem of Bayesian network (BN) parameter estimation accuracy under small dataset conditions, this paper proposes a parameter Varying Balancing Transfer Learning algorithm (VBTL) based on varying weight ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728158556
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(纸本)9781728158563
To solve the problem of Bayesian network (BN) parameter estimation accuracy under small dataset conditions, this paper proposes a parameter Varying Balancing Transfer Learning algorithm (VBTL) based on varying weight transfer learning. Firstly, the MAP method and the MLE method are used to learn the initial parameters of the target domain and the parameters of each source domain. Then, the source weight factors of the source domain are obtained according to the different data source contributions. Based on the sample statistic the data size threshold values, the balance coefficients for the target initial parameters and the source domain parameters are calculated to obtain the final target parameters. The experimental results show that under the condition of the small data set, the learning accuracy of VBTL algorithm is better than MLE algorithm, MAP algorithm or classical transfer learning algorithm (LoLP). Under the condition of sufficient data set, the learning accuracy of VBTL algorithm approaches the classical MLE algorithm, and the correctness of the algorithm is verified. Moreover, we demonstrate the successful application to real-world bearing fault diagnosis case studies. Compared with the LoLP algorithm, the VBTL algorithm achieves about 10% enhancement for the average diagnosis precision.
BACKGROUND: Continuous Test-Driven Development (CTDD) is, proposed by the authors, enhancement of the well-established Test-Driven Development (TDD) agile software development and design practice. CTDD combines TDD wi...
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BACKGROUND: Continuous Test-Driven Development (CTDD) is, proposed by the authors, enhancement of the well-established Test-Driven Development (TDD) agile software development and design practice. CTDD combines TDD with continuous testing (CT) that essentially perform background testing. The idea is to eliminate the need to execute tests manually by a TDD-inspired developer. OBJECTIVE: The objective is to compare the efficiency of CTDD vs TDD measured by the red-to-green time (RTG time), i.e., time from the moment when the project is rendered not compiling or any of the tests is failing, up until the moment when the project compiles and all the tests are passing. We consider the RTG time to be a possible measurement of efficiency because the shorter the RTG time, the quicker the developer is advancing to the next phase of the TDD cycle. METHOD: We perform single case and small-n experiments in industrial settings presenting how our idea of Agile Experimentation materialise in practice. We analyse professional developers in a real-world software development project employing ***. We extend the contribution presented in our earlier paper by: 1) performing additional experimental evaluation of CTDD and thus collecting additional empirical evidence, 2) giving an extended, detailed example how to use and analyse both a single case and small-n experimental designs to evaluate a new practice (CTDD) in industrial settings taking into account natural constraints one may observe (e.g., a limited number of developers available for research purposes) and presenting how to reach more reliable conclusions using effect size measures, especially PEM and PAND which are more appropriate when data are not normally distributed or there is a large variation between or within phases. RESULTS: We observed reduced variance and trimmed means of the RTG time in CTDD in comparison to TDD. Various effect size measures (including ES, d-index, PEM, and PAND) indicate small, albeit non-
The paper proposes a practical method for a significant dimensionality reduction of Volterra kernels, defining a discrete nonlinear model of a signal by Volterra series of higher order. In system identification of Vol...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728174471
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728174488
The paper proposes a practical method for a significant dimensionality reduction of Volterra kernels, defining a discrete nonlinear model of a signal by Volterra series of higher order. In system identification of Volterra series, the Volterra kernels and nonlinear inputs of the system can be described by super-symmetrical tensors. The reduction of their dimensionality is obtained by a tensor decomposition technique called Higher Order Singular Value Decomposition (HOSVD). The main contribution of the paper is a cascade learning algorithm for the system identification based on residuals of least squares minimization. Numerical examples for Volterra system of order four are used to illustrate the approach.
Most of the Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) algorithms currently use pre-trained models as their feature extractors, which are usually trained on the ImageNet data set by using deep neural networks. The richness of the featu...
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We study the control problem for polynomial continuous-time dynamical systems. We consider polynomial Lyapunov functions and controllers, both parameterised in Bernstein form. Specifically, we present necessary and su...
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We study the control problem for polynomial continuous-time dynamical systems. We consider polynomial Lyapunov functions and controllers, both parameterised in Bernstein form. Specifically, we present necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of polynomial controllers and Lyapunov functions of some maximum degree, providing at the same time explicit upper bounds on the degree of the involved Bernstein polynomials. The formulated conditions are a set of algebraic inequalities, in the space of Bernstein coefficients.
Most of the Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) algorithms currently use pre-trained models as their feature extractors, which are usually trained on ImageNet by using deep neural networks. The richness of the feature informatio...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728165509
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728165516
Most of the Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) algorithms currently use pre-trained models as their feature extractors, which are usually trained on ImageNet by using deep neural networks. The richness of the feature information embedded in the pre-trained models can help the ZSL model extract more useful features from its limited training data. However, sometimes the difference between the training data of the current ZSL task and the ImageNet is too large, which may cause the use of pre-trained models has no obvious help or even negative impact on the model performance. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a biologically inspired feature enhancement framework for ZSL. Specifically, we design a dual-channel learning framework that uses auxiliary data sets to enhance the feature extractor of the ZSL model and propose a novel method to guide the selection of the auxiliary data sets based on the knowledge of biological taxonomy. Extensive experimental results show that our proposed method can effectively improve the generalization ability of the ZSL model and achieve state-of-the-art results on three benchmark ZSL tasks. We also explained the experimental phenomena through the way of feature visualization.
State-of-the-art scene text detection techniques predict quadrilateral boxes that are prone to localization errors while dealing with straight or curved text lines of different orientations and lengths in scenes. This...
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