In this paper, we present a teaching material designed as part of a research project aiming to investigate approaches to teaching lower secondary school students technology-critical aspects of AI, specifically machine...
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In this paper, we present a teaching material designed as part of a research project aiming to investigate approaches to teaching lower secondary school students technology-critical aspects of AI, specifically machine learning. The approach is scenario-based, meaning that students act in real-life roles, in this case in a fictional company that develops apps. The material has been tested in four classes in 2024, and analysis of the results is still ongoing. As part of our research, we examine whether and how a scenario-based approach contributes to understanding machine learning and its' use in the real world. Preliminary analysis suggests that participating students perceive the approach differently.
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.
Witness encryption(WE) is a novel type of cryptographic primitive that enables a message to be encrypted via an NP instance. Anyone who possesses a solution to this instance(i.e., a witness) can then recover the messa...
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Witness encryption(WE) is a novel type of cryptographic primitive that enables a message to be encrypted via an NP instance. Anyone who possesses a solution to this instance(i.e., a witness) can then recover the message from the *** introduce a variant of WE that allows ciphertext updates, referred to as ciphertext updateable WE(CUWE). With CUWE,a user can encrypt a message using an instance x and a tag t, and those who possess a valid witness w for x and match the access policy defined by tag t can decrypt the message. Furthermore, CUWE allows for the use of an update token to change the tag t of ciphertext to a different tag. This feature enables fine-grained access control, even after the ciphertext has been created, thereby significantly increasing the usefulness of the WE scheme. We demonstrate that such a WE framework with an updatable ciphertext scheme can be constructed using our puncturable instance-based deterministic encryption(PIDE) and indistinguishability obfuscation(iO). We also propose an instantiation of PIDE utilizing puncturable pseudorandom functions(PRFs) that provide(selectively) indistinguishable security. Finally, we expand our CUWE to ciphertext-updatable functional WE(CUFWE), which offers enhanced data access control.
Cross-platform binary code similarity detection aims at detecting whether two or more pieces of binary code are similar or not. Existing approaches that combine control flow graphs(CFGs)-based function representation ...
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Cross-platform binary code similarity detection aims at detecting whether two or more pieces of binary code are similar or not. Existing approaches that combine control flow graphs(CFGs)-based function representation and graph convolutional network(GCN)-based similarity analysis are the best-performing ones. Due to a large amount of convolutional computation and the loss of structural information, the use of convolution networks will inevitably bring problems such as high overhead and sometimes inaccuracy. To address these issues, we propose a fast cross-platform binary code similarity detection framework that takes advantage of natural language processing(NLP)and inductive graph neural network(GNN) for basic blocks embedding and function representation respectively by simulating extracting structural features and temporal features. GNN's node-centric and small batch is a suitable training way for large CFGs, it can greatly reduce computational overhead. Various NLP basic block embedding models and GNNs are evaluated. Experimental results show that the scheme with long short term memory(LSTM)for basic blocks embedding and inductive learning-based Graph SAGE(GAE) for function representation outperforms the state-of-the-art works. In our framework, we can take only 45% overhead. Improve efficiency significantly with a small performance trade-off.
Therapeutic peptides contribute significantly to human health and have the potential for personalized medicine. The prediction for the therapeutic peptides is beneficial and emerging for the discovery of drugs. Althou...
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Therapeutic peptides contribute significantly to human health and have the potential for personalized medicine. The prediction for the therapeutic peptides is beneficial and emerging for the discovery of drugs. Although several computational approaches have emerged to discern the functions of therapeutic peptides, predicting multi-functional therapeutic peptide types is challenging. In this research, a novel approach termed TPpred-SC has been introduced. This method leverages a pretrained protein language model alongside multi-label supervised contrastive learning to predict multi-functional therapeutic *** framework incorporates sequential semantic information directly from large-scale protein sequences in TAPE. Then, TPpred-SC exploits multi-label supervised contrastive learning to enhance the representation of peptide sequences for imbalanced multi-label therapeutic peptide prediction. The experimental findings demonstrate that TPpred-SC achieves superior performance compared to existing related methods. To serve our work more efficiently, the web server of TPpred-SC can be accessed at http://***/TPpred-SC.
Thanks to its ubiquity,using radio frequency (RF) signals for sensing has found widespread *** traditional integrated sensing and communication systems,such as joint radar-communication systems,common sensing tasks in...
Thanks to its ubiquity,using radio frequency (RF) signals for sensing has found widespread *** traditional integrated sensing and communication systems,such as joint radar-communication systems,common sensing tasks include target localization and ***,increasingly intelligent systems,such as smart agriculture,lowaltitude economy,and smart healthcare,have demanded more comprehensive and continuous information sensing capabilities to support higher-level *** sensing has the potential to offer both spatial and temporal continuity,meeting the multi-dimensional sensing needs of these intelligent ***,numerous advanced systems have been proposed,expanding the application scope of RF sensing to be more pervasive,including discrete state ubiquitous sensing tasks (such as material identification [1]),and continuous state ubiquitous sensing tasks (such as health monitoring [2]).With the advent of the 6G era,it is anticipated that the sensing potential of RF systems will be further unleashed.
Visible and infrared image fusion(VIF)aims to combine information from visible and infrared images into a single fused *** VIF methods usually employ a color space transformation to keep the hue and saturation from th...
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Visible and infrared image fusion(VIF)aims to combine information from visible and infrared images into a single fused *** VIF methods usually employ a color space transformation to keep the hue and saturation from the original visible ***,for fast VIF methods,this operation accounts for the majority of the calculation and is the bottleneck preventing faster *** this paper,we propose a fast fusion method,FCDFusion,with little color *** preserves color information without color space transformations,by directly operating in RGB color *** incorporates gamma correction at little extra cost,allowing color and contrast to be rapidly *** regard the fusion process as a scaling operation on 3D color vectors,greatly simplifying the calculations.A theoretical analysis and experiments show that our method can achieve satisfactory results in only 7 FLOPs per *** to state-of-theart fast,color-preserving methods using HSV color space,our method provides higher contrast at only half of the computational *** further propose a new metric,color deviation,to measure the ability of a VIF method to preserve *** is specifically designed for VIF tasks with color visible-light images,and overcomes deficiencies of existing VIF metrics used for this *** code is available at https://***/HeasonLee/FCDFusion.
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.
Edge closeness and betweenness centralities are widely used path-based metrics for characterizing the importance of edges in *** general graphs,edge closeness centrality indicates the importance of edges by the shorte...
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Edge closeness and betweenness centralities are widely used path-based metrics for characterizing the importance of edges in *** general graphs,edge closeness centrality indicates the importance of edges by the shortest distances from the edge to all the other *** betweenness centrality ranks which edges are significant based on the fraction of all-pairs shortest paths that pass through the ***,extensive research efforts go into centrality computation over general graphs that omit time ***,numerous real-world networks are modeled as temporal graphs,where the nodes are related to each other at different time *** temporal property is important and should not be neglected because it guides the flow of information in the *** state of affairs motivates the paper’s study of edge centrality computation methods on temporal *** introduce the concepts of the label,and label dominance relation,and then propose multi-thread parallel labeling-based methods on OpenMP to efficiently compute edge closeness and betweenness centralities *** types of optimal temporal *** edge closeness centrality computation,a time segmentation strategy and two observations are presented to aggregate some related temporal edges for uniform *** edge betweenness centrality computation,to improve efficiency,temporal edge dependency formulas,a labeling-based forward-backward scanning strategy,and a compression-based optimization method are further proposed to iteratively accumulate centrality *** experiments using 13 real temporal graphs are conducted to provide detailed insights into the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed *** with state-ofthe-art methods,labeling-based methods are capable of up to two orders of magnitude speedup.
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