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.
Software defect prediction plays a critical role in software development and quality assurance processes. Effective defect prediction enables testers to accurately prioritize testing efforts and enhance defect detecti...
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Software defect prediction plays a critical role in software development and quality assurance processes. Effective defect prediction enables testers to accurately prioritize testing efforts and enhance defect detection efficiency. Additionally, this technology provides developers with a means to quickly identify errors, thereby improving software robustness and overall quality. However, current research in software defect prediction often faces challenges, such as relying on a single data source or failing to adequately account for the characteristics of multiple coexisting data sources. This approach may overlook the differences and potential value of various data sources, affecting the accuracy and generalization performance of prediction results. To address this issue, this study proposes a multivariate heterogeneous hybrid deep learning algorithm for defect prediction (DP-MHHDL). Initially, Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), Code Dependency Network (CDN), and code static quality metrics are extracted from source code files and used as inputs to ensure data diversity. Subsequently, for the three types of heterogeneous data, the study employs a graph convolutional network optimization model based on adjacency and spatial topologies, a Convolutional Neural Network-Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (CNN-BiLSTM) hybrid neural network model, and a TabNet model to extract data features. These features are then concatenated and processed through a fully connected neural network for defect prediction. Finally, the proposed framework is evaluated using ten promise defect repository projects, and performance is assessed with three metrics: F1, Area under the curve (AUC), and Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC). The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms existing methods, offering a novel solution for software defect prediction.
Images obtained from hyperspectral sensors provide information about the target area that extends beyond the visible portions of the electromagnetic ***,due to sensor limitations and imperfections during the image acq...
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Images obtained from hyperspectral sensors provide information about the target area that extends beyond the visible portions of the electromagnetic ***,due to sensor limitations and imperfections during the image acquisition and transmission phases,noise is introduced into the acquired image,which can have a negative impact on downstream analyses such as classification,target tracking,and spectral *** in hyperspectral images(HSI)is modelled as a combination from several sources,including Gaussian/impulse noise,stripes,and *** HSI restoration method for such a mixed noise model is ***,a joint optimisation framework is proposed for recovering hyperspectral data corrupted by mixed Gaussian-impulse noise by estimating both the clean data as well as the sparse/impulse noise ***,a hyper-Laplacian prior is used along both the spatial and spectral dimensions to express sparsity in clean image ***,to model the sparse nature of impulse noise,anℓ_(1)−norm over the impulse noise gradient is *** the proposed methodology employs two distinct priors,the authors refer to it as the hyperspectral dual prior(HySpDualP)*** the best of authors'knowledge,this joint optimisation framework is the first attempt in this *** handle the non-smooth and nonconvex nature of the generalℓ_(p)−norm-based regularisation term,a generalised shrinkage/thresholding(GST)solver is ***,an efficient split-Bregman approach is used to solve the resulting optimisation *** results on synthetic data and real HSI datacube obtained from hyperspectral sensors demonstrate that the authors’proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods,both visually and in terms of various image quality assessment metrics.
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.
We consider the online convex optimization (OCO) problem with quadratic and linear switching cost when at time t only gradient information for functions fτ, τ 16(Lµ+5) for the quadratic switching cost, and also...
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We consider the online convex optimization (OCO) problem with quadratic and linear switching cost when at time t only gradient information for functions fτ, τ 16(Lµ+5) for the quadratic switching cost, and also show the bound to be order-wise tight in terms of L, µ. In addition, we show that the competitive ratio of any online algorithm is at least max{Ω(L), Ω(pLµ )} when the switching cost is quadratic. For the linear switching cost, the competitive ratio of the OMGD algorithm is shown to depend on both the path length and the squared path length of the problem instance, in addition to L, µ, and is shown to be order-wise, the best competitive ratio any online algorithm can achieve. Copyright is held by author/owner(s).
Multiarmed bandit(MAB) models are widely used for sequential decision-making in uncertain environments, such as resource allocation in computer communication systems.A critical challenge in interactive multiagent syst...
Multiarmed bandit(MAB) models are widely used for sequential decision-making in uncertain environments, such as resource allocation in computer communication systems.A critical challenge in interactive multiagent systems with bandit feedback is to explore and understand the equilibrium state to ensure stable and tractable system performance.
Thyroid nodules,a common disorder in the endocrine system,require accurate segmentation in ultrasound images for effective diagnosis and ***,achieving precise segmentation remains a challenge due to various factors,in...
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Thyroid nodules,a common disorder in the endocrine system,require accurate segmentation in ultrasound images for effective diagnosis and ***,achieving precise segmentation remains a challenge due to various factors,including scattering noise,low contrast,and limited resolution in ultrasound *** existing segmentation models have made progress,they still suffer from several limitations,such as high error rates,low generalizability,overfitting,limited feature learning capability,*** address these challenges,this paper proposes a Multi-level Relation Transformer-based U-Net(MLRT-UNet)to improve thyroid nodule *** MLRTUNet leverages a novel Relation Transformer,which processes images at multiple scales,overcoming the limitations of traditional encoding *** transformer integrates both local and global features effectively through selfattention and cross-attention units,capturing intricate relationships within the *** approach also introduces a Co-operative Transformer Fusion(CTF)module to combine multi-scale features from different encoding layers,enhancing the model’s ability to capture complex patterns in the ***,the Relation Transformer block enhances long-distance dependencies during the decoding process,improving segmentation *** results showthat the MLRT-UNet achieves high segmentation accuracy,reaching 98.2% on the Digital Database Thyroid Image(DDT)dataset,97.8% on the Thyroid Nodule 3493(TG3K)dataset,and 98.2% on the Thyroid Nodule3K(TN3K)*** findings demonstrate that the proposed method significantly enhances the accuracy of thyroid nodule segmentation,addressing the limitations of existing models.
People-centric activity recognition is one of the most critical technologies in a wide range of real-world applications,including intelligent transportation systems, healthcare services, and brain-computer interfaces....
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People-centric activity recognition is one of the most critical technologies in a wide range of real-world applications,including intelligent transportation systems, healthcare services, and brain-computer interfaces. Large-scale data collection and annotation make the application of machine learning algorithms prohibitively expensive when adapting to new tasks. One way of circumventing this limitation is to train the model in a semi-supervised learning manner that utilizes a percentage of unlabeled data to reduce the labeling burden in prediction tasks. Despite their appeal, these models often assume that labeled and unlabeled data come from similar distributions, which leads to the domain shift problem caused by the presence of distribution gaps. To address these limitations, we propose herein a novel method for people-centric activity recognition,called domain generalization with semi-supervised learning(DGSSL), that effectively enhances the representation learning and domain alignment capabilities of a model. We first design a new autoregressive discriminator for adversarial training between unlabeled and labeled source domains, extracting domain-specific features to reduce the distribution gaps. Second, we introduce two reconstruction tasks to capture the task-specific features to avoid losing information related to representation learning while maintaining task-specific consistency. Finally, benefiting from the collaborative optimization of these two tasks, the model can accurately predict both the domain and category labels of the source domains for the classification task. We conduct extensive experiments on three real-world sensing datasets. The experimental results show that DGSSL surpasses the three state-of-the-art methods with better performance and generalization.
In the realm of deep learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have emerged as a topic of significant interest for their potential to enhance model performance and enable effective data augmentation. This paper...
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