Recently, redactable blockchain has been proposed and leveraged in a wide range of real systems for its unique properties of decentralization, traceability, and transparency while ensuring controllable on-chain data r...
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Recently, redactable blockchain has been proposed and leveraged in a wide range of real systems for its unique properties of decentralization, traceability, and transparency while ensuring controllable on-chain data redaction. However, the development of redactable blockchain is now obstructed by three limitations, which are data privacy breaches, high communication overhead, and low searching efficiency, respectively. In this paper, we propose PriChain, the first efficient privacy-preserving fine-grained redactable blockchain in decentralized settings. PriChain provides data owners with rights to control who can read and redact on-chain data while maintaining downward compatibility, ensuring the one who can redact will be able to read. Specifically, inspired by the concept of multi-authority attribute-based encryption, we utilize the isomorphism of the access control tree, realizing fine-grained redaction mechanism, downward compatibility, and collusion resistance. With the newly designed structure, PriChain can realize O(n) communication and storage overhead compared to prior O(n2) schemes. Furthermore, we integrate multiple access trees into a tree-based dictionary, optimizing searching efficiency. Theoretical analysis proves that PriChain is secure against the chosen-plaintext attack and has competitive complexity. The experimental evaluations show that PriChain realizes 10× efficiency improvement of searching and 100× lower communication and storage overhead on average compared with existing schemes.
The virtual private cloud service currently lacks a real-time end-to-end consistency validation mechanism, which prevents tenants from receiving immediate feedback on their requests. Existing solutions consume excessi...
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The virtual private cloud service currently lacks a real-time end-to-end consistency validation mechanism, which prevents tenants from receiving immediate feedback on their requests. Existing solutions consume excessive communication and computational resources in such large-scale cloud environments, and suffer from poor timeliness. To address these issues, we propose a lightweight consistency validation mechanism that includes real-time incremental validation and periodic full-scale validation. The former leverages message layer aggregation to enable tenants to swiftly determine the success of their requests on hosts with minimal communication overhead. The latter utilizes lightweight validation checksums to compare the expected and actual states of hosts locally, while efficiently managing the checksums of various host entries using inverted indexing. This approach enables us to efficiently validate the complete local configurations within the limited memory of hosts. In summary, our proposed mechanism achieves closed-loop implementation for new requests and ensures their long-term effectiveness.
Language-guided fashion image editing is challenging,as fashion image editing is local and requires high precision,while natural language cannot provide precise visual information for *** this paper,we propose LucIE,a...
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Language-guided fashion image editing is challenging,as fashion image editing is local and requires high precision,while natural language cannot provide precise visual information for *** this paper,we propose LucIE,a novel unsupervised language-guided local image editing method for fashion *** adopts and modifies recent text-to-image synthesis network,DF-GAN,as its ***,the synthesis backbone often changes the global structure of the input image,making local image editing *** increase structural consistency between input and edited images,we propose Content-Preserving Fusion Module(CPFM).Different from existing fusion modules,CPFM prevents iterative refinement on visual feature maps and accumulates additive modifications on RGB *** achieves local image editing explicitly with language-guided image segmentation and maskguided image blending while only using image and text *** on the DeepFashion dataset shows that LucIE achieves state-of-the-art *** with previous methods,images generated by LucIE also exhibit fewer *** provide visualizations and perform ablation studies to validate LucIE and the *** also demonstrate and analyze limitations of LucIE,to provide a better understanding of LucIE.
Partial maximum satisfiability(PMS) is a significant generalization of Boolean satisfiability(SAT) and maximum satisfiability(MaxSAT), by introducing hard clauses and soft clauses. Compared with SAT and MaxSAT, the PM...
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Partial maximum satisfiability(PMS) is a significant generalization of Boolean satisfiability(SAT) and maximum satisfiability(MaxSAT), by introducing hard clauses and soft clauses. Compared with SAT and MaxSAT, the PMS problem has more real-world applications where both hard and soft constraints are involved. Local search is an effective incomplete method for solving PMS and is useful for important domains where good-quality solutions are desired within reasonable *** local search PMS solvers, the approach for initial assignment generation is crucial because its effectiveness significantly affects practical performance. In this study, we propose a novel initial assignment prediction approach, called InitPMS. When predicting an assignment for PMS, InitPMS considers the specific structure of PMS instances, i.e., distinguishing hard and soft clauses. Our experiments on extensive PMS instances from MaxSAT evaluations(MSEs) 2020 and 2021 show that InitPMS significantly boosts the performance of five state-of-the-art local search PMS solvers, demonstrating its generality. In addition,our results indicate that incorporating InitPMS could improve the performance of one of the best incomplete PMS solvers in MaxSAT Evaluation 2021, indicating that InitPMS might help advance the state of the art in PMS solving.
We study a novel replication mechanism to ensure service continuity against multiple simultaneous server failures. In this mechanism, each item represents a computing task and is replicated into ξ + 1 servers for som...
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We study a novel replication mechanism to ensure service continuity against multiple simultaneous server failures. In this mechanism, each item represents a computing task and is replicated into ξ + 1 servers for some integer ξ ≥ 1, with workloads specified by the amount of required resources. If one or more servers fail, the affected workloads can be redirected to other servers that host replicas associated with the same item, such that the service is not interrupted by the failure of up to ξ servers. This requires that any feasible assignment algorithm must reserve some capacity in each server to accommodate the workload redirected from potential failed servers without overloading, and determining the optimal method for reserving capacity becomes a key issue. Unlike existing algorithms that assume that no two servers share replicas of more than one item, we first formulate capacity reservation for a general arbitrary scenario. Due to the combinatorial nature of this problem, finding the optimal solution is difficult. To this end, we propose a Generalized and Simple Calculating Reserved Capacity(GSCRC) algorithm, with a time complexity only related to the number of items packed in the server. In conjunction with GSCRC, we propose a robust replica packing algorithm with capacity optimization(RobustPack), which aims to minimize the number of servers hosting replicas and tolerate multiple server failures. Through theoretical analysis and experimental evaluations, we show that the RobustPack algorithm can achieve better performance.
Message authentication is fundamental for securing modern automotive networks. Our work focuses on integrating buffering in existing authentication protocols to sustain the presence of malicious or corrupt messages, a...
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Predicting the metastatic direction of primary breast cancer (BC), thus assisting physicians in precise treatment, strict follow-up, and effectively improving the prognosis. The clinical data of 293,946 patients with ...
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Researchers have recently achieved significant advances in deep learning techniques, which in turn has substantially advanced other research disciplines, such as natural language processing, image processing, speech r...
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Researchers have recently achieved significant advances in deep learning techniques, which in turn has substantially advanced other research disciplines, such as natural language processing, image processing, speech recognition, and software engineering. Various deep learning techniques have been successfully employed to facilitate software engineering tasks, including code generation, software refactoring, and fault localization. Many studies have also been presented in top conferences and journals, demonstrating the applications of deep learning techniques in resolving various software engineering tasks. However,although several surveys have provided overall pictures of the application of deep learning techniques in software engineering,they focus more on learning techniques, that is, what kind of deep learning techniques are employed and how deep models are trained or fine-tuned for software engineering tasks. We still lack surveys explaining the advances of subareas in software engineering driven by deep learning techniques, as well as challenges and opportunities in each subarea. To this end, in this study, we present the first task-oriented survey on deep learning-based software engineering. It covers twelve major software engineering subareas significantly impacted by deep learning techniques. Such subareas spread out through the whole lifecycle of software development and maintenance, including requirements engineering, software development, testing, maintenance, and developer collaboration. As we believe that deep learning may provide an opportunity to revolutionize the whole discipline of software engineering, providing one survey covering as many subareas as possible in software engineering can help future research push forward the frontier of deep learning-based software engineering more systematically. For each of the selected subareas,we highlight the major advances achieved by applying deep learning techniques with pointers to the available datasets i
The combination of knowledge and skill sets from robotics and Artificial Intelligence has proven as a powerful catalyst for students’ learning experiences, when applying available resources and knowledge acquire...
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The combination of knowledge and skill sets from robotics and Artificial Intelligence has proven as a powerful catalyst for students’ learning experiences, when applying available resources and knowledge acquired through vocational training. Within the Department of IT at an Austrian vocational high school, our students actively engage in projects that combine robotics and AI. Our diploma theses extend beyond mere classroom theory, allowing interested students to apply their knowledge in authentic, real-world scenarios in the form of thesis projects which span different engineering and IT disciplines. Our goal is to emphasize hands-on experiences and encourage our students to design, construct and program robots, even with the addition of AI technology, such as image recognition and classification trained for specific tasks. Through this practical immersion, our students gain a deeper understanding of robotics and AI, disciplines that are at the forefront of today’s technological innovation. We worked with two groups of students on interdisciplinary projects bridging the gap between robotics and AI and based on our students’ feedback found an increase in motivation to learn not only about the fields themselves, but also about related fields, from mathematical theory to better understand the intricate workings of AI algorithms to electronics and working with microcontrollers. Personal interviews with involved students have also pointed toward an increased motivation through the intense cooperation between the team members as well as the teachers responsible for supporting the project teams through their thesis projects. Projects connecting robotics and AI empower students to become adaptable, creative problem-solvers which is a crucial foundation for success in the twenty-first century. By fostering collaboration and critical thinking, while enhancing students’ technical skills and equipping them with the adaptability and creativity they require, this educational app
Significant progress has been made in brain-computer science and technology through applying spiking neural networks(SNNs) [1]. More recently,due to its potential of processing complex spatio-temporal information,SNNs...
Significant progress has been made in brain-computer science and technology through applying spiking neural networks(SNNs) [1]. More recently,due to its potential of processing complex spatio-temporal information,SNNs have been successfully applied in many fields, such as action recognition [2].
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