Research has demonstrated the positive influence of Undergraduate Research Experience (URE) programs in science, Technology, engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) on students' educational journey and their developme...
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Research has demonstrated the positive influence of Undergraduate Research Experience (URE) programs in science, Technology, engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) on students' educational journey and their developme...
Research has demonstrated the positive influence of Undergraduate Research Experience (URE) programs in science, Technology, engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) on students' educational journey and their development as scientists, ultimately aiding them in making informed career choices. However, traditionally, URE programs have primarily targeted junior and senior students who already possess disciplinary knowledge and exhibit a strong inclination to persist in STEM fields. This study aims to examine the effects of involving freshmen in the Industry-Research Inclusion in STEM Education (I-RISE) program, specifically in the disciplines of electricalengineering (EE) and computerscience (CS), on student retention. The I-RISE program integrated research opportunities for undergraduate students with mentorship activities, facilitating the acquisition of relevant skills in applied computing and engineering techniques, research methodologies, and the attainment of internships. Analyzing the retention rates of three distinct cohorts of I-RISE participants over a span of three years revealed significantly higher retention rates compared to students who did not partake in the I-RISE program.
Matrix minimization techniques that employ the nuclear norm have gained recognition for their applicability in tasks like image inpainting, clustering, classification, and reconstruction. However, they come with inher...
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Matrix minimization techniques that employ the nuclear norm have gained recognition for their applicability in tasks like image inpainting, clustering, classification, and reconstruction. However, they come with inherent biases and computational burdens, especially when used to relax the rank function, making them less effective and efficient in real-world scenarios. To address these challenges, our research focuses on generalized nonconvex rank regularization problems in robust matrix completion, low-rank representation, and robust matrix regression. We introduce innovative approaches for effective and efficient low-rank matrix learning, grounded in generalized nonconvex rank relaxations inspired by various substitutes for the ?0-norm relaxed functions. These relaxations allow us to more accurately capture low-rank structures. Our optimization strategy employs a nonconvex and multi-variable alternating direction method of multipliers, backed by rigorous theoretical analysis for complexity and *** algorithm iteratively updates blocks of variables, ensuring efficient convergence. Additionally, we incorporate the randomized singular value decomposition technique and/or other acceleration strategies to enhance the computational efficiency of our approach, particularly for large-scale constrained minimization problems. In conclusion, our experimental results across a variety of image vision-related application tasks unequivocally demonstrate the superiority of our proposed methodologies in terms of both efficacy and efficiency when compared to most other related learning methods.
Advancements in neuromorphic computing have given an impetus to the development of systems with adaptive behavior,dynamic responses,and energy efficiency *** charge-based or emerging memory technologies such as memris...
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Advancements in neuromorphic computing have given an impetus to the development of systems with adaptive behavior,dynamic responses,and energy efficiency *** charge-based or emerging memory technologies such as memristors have been developed to emulate synaptic plasticity,replicating the key functionality of neurons—integrating diverse presynaptic inputs to fire electrical impulses—has remained *** this study,we developed reconfigurable metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors(MOSCaps)based on hafnium diselenide(HfSe2).The proposed devices exhibit(1)optoelectronic synaptic features and perform separate stimulus-associated learning,indicating considerable adaptive neuron emulation,(2)dual light-enabled charge-trapping and memcapacitive behavior within the same MOSCap device,whose threshold voltage and capacitance vary based on the light intensity across the visible spectrum,(3)memcapacitor volatility tuning based on the biasing conditions,enabling the transition from volatile light sensing to non-volatile optical data *** reconfigurability and multifunctionality of MOSCap were used to integrate the device into a leaky integrate-and-fire neuron model within a spiking neural network to dynamically adjust firing patterns based on light stimuli and detect exoplanets through variations in light intensity.
Over-the-air computation(AirComp)enables federated learning(FL)to rapidly aggregate local models at the central server using waveform superposition property of wireless *** this paper,a robust transmission scheme for ...
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Over-the-air computation(AirComp)enables federated learning(FL)to rapidly aggregate local models at the central server using waveform superposition property of wireless *** this paper,a robust transmission scheme for an AirCompbased FL system with imperfect channel state information(CSI)is *** model CSI uncertainty,an expectation-based error model is *** main objective is to maximize the number of selected devices that meet mean-squared error(MSE)requirements for model broadcast and model *** problem is formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem and is solved in two ***,the priority order of devices is determined by a sparsity-inducing ***,a feasibility detection scheme is used to select the maximum number of devices to guarantee that the MSE requirements are *** alternating optimization(AO)scheme is used to transform the resulting nonconvex problem into two convex *** results illustrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed scheme.
The authors consider the property of detectability of discrete event systems in the presence of sensor attacks in the context of *** authors model the system using an automaton and study the general notion of detectab...
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The authors consider the property of detectability of discrete event systems in the presence of sensor attacks in the context of *** authors model the system using an automaton and study the general notion of detectability where a given set of state pairs needs to be(eventually or periodically)distinguished in any estimate of the state of the *** authors adopt the ALTER sensor attack model from previous work and formulate four notions of CA-detectability in the context of this attack model based on the following attributes:strong or weak;eventual or *** authors present verification methods for strong CA-detectability and weak *** authors present definitions of strong and weak periodic CA-detectability that are based on the construction of a verifier automaton called the augmented *** development also resulted in relaxing assumptions in prior results on D-detectability,which is a special case of CA-detectability.
This study investigates a safe reinforcement learning algorithm for grid-forming(GFM)inverter based frequency *** guarantee the stability of the inverter-based resource(IBR)system under the learned control policy,a mo...
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This study investigates a safe reinforcement learning algorithm for grid-forming(GFM)inverter based frequency *** guarantee the stability of the inverter-based resource(IBR)system under the learned control policy,a modelbased reinforcement learning(MBRL)algorithm is combined with Lyapunov approach,which determines the safe region of states and *** obtain near optimal control policy,the control performance is safely improved by approximate dynamic programming(ADP)using data sampled from the region of attraction(ROA).Moreover,to enhance the control robustness against parameter uncertainty in the inverter,a Gaussian process(GP)model is adopted by the proposed algorithm to effectively learn system dynamics from *** simulations validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
Backdoor attacks pose great threats to deep neural network models. All existing backdoor attacks are designed for unstructured data(image, voice, and text), but not structured tabular data, which has wide real-world a...
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Backdoor attacks pose great threats to deep neural network models. All existing backdoor attacks are designed for unstructured data(image, voice, and text), but not structured tabular data, which has wide real-world applications, e.g., recommendation systems, fraud detection, and click-through rate prediction. To bridge this research gap, we make the first attempt to design a backdoor attack framework, named BAD-FM, for tabular data prediction models. Unlike images or voice samples composed of homogeneous pixels or signals with continuous values, tabular data samples contain well-defined heterogeneous fields that are usually sparse and discrete. Tabular data prediction models do not solely rely on deep networks but combine shallow components(e.g., factorization machine, FM) with deep components to capture sophisticated feature interactions among fields. To tailor the backdoor attack framework to tabular data models, we carefully design field selection and trigger formation algorithms to intensify the influence of the trigger on the backdoored model. We evaluate BAD-FM with extensive experiments on four datasets, i.e.,HUAWEI, Criteo, Avazu, and KDD. The results show that BAD-FM can achieve an attack success rate as high as 100%at a poisoning ratio of 0.001%, outperforming baselines adapted from existing backdoor attacks against unstructured data models. As tabular data prediction models are widely adopted in finance and commerce, our work may raise alarms on the potential risks of these models and spur future research on defenses.
Anomaly detection(AD) has been extensively studied and applied across various scenarios in recent years. However, gaps remain between the current performance and the desired recognition accuracy required for practical...
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Anomaly detection(AD) has been extensively studied and applied across various scenarios in recent years. However, gaps remain between the current performance and the desired recognition accuracy required for practical *** paper analyzes two fundamental failure cases in the baseline AD model and identifies key reasons that limit the recognition accuracy of existing approaches. Specifically, by Case-1, we found that the main reason detrimental to current AD methods is that the inputs to the recovery model contain a large number of detailed features to be recovered, which leads to the normal/abnormal area has not/has been recovered into its original state. By Case-2, we surprisingly found that the abnormal area that cannot be recognized in image-level representations can be easily recognized in the feature-level representation. Based on the above observations, we propose a novel recover-then-discriminate(ReDi) framework for *** takes a self-generated feature map(e.g., histogram of oriented gradients) and a selected prompted image as explicit input information to address the identified in Case-1. Additionally, a feature-level discriminative network is introduced to amplify abnormal differences between the recovered and input representations. Extensive experiments on two widely used yet challenging AD datasets demonstrate that ReDi achieves state-of-the-art recognition accuracy.
In this paper, we study stealthy cyber-attacks on actuators of cyber-physical systems(CPS), namely zero dynamics and controllable attacks. In particular, under certain assumptions, we investigate and propose condition...
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In this paper, we study stealthy cyber-attacks on actuators of cyber-physical systems(CPS), namely zero dynamics and controllable attacks. In particular, under certain assumptions, we investigate and propose conditions under which one can execute zero dynamics and controllable attacks in the CPS. The above conditions are derived based on the Markov parameters of the CPS and elements of the system observability matrix. Consequently, in addition to outlining the number of required actuators to be attacked, these conditions provide one with the minimum system knowledge needed to perform zero dynamics and controllable cyber-attacks. As a countermeasure against the above stealthy cyber-attacks, we develop a dynamic coding scheme that increases the minimum number of the CPS required actuators to carry out zero dynamics and controllable cyber-attacks to its maximum possible value. It is shown that if at least one secure input channel exists, the proposed dynamic coding scheme can prevent adversaries from executing the zero dynamics and controllable attacks even if they have complete knowledge of the coding system. Finally, two illustrative numerical case studies are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and capabilities of our derived conditions and proposed methodologies.
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