在过去的几年中，卷积神经网络（CNN）在各种现实世界的网络安全应用程序（例如网络和多媒体安全）中表现出了有希望的性能。但是，CNN结构的潜在脆弱性构成了主要的安全问题，因此不适合用于以安全为导向的应用程序，包括此类计算机网络。保护这些体系结构免受对抗性攻击，需要使用挑战性攻击的安全体系结构。在这项研究中，我们提出了一种基于合奏分类器的新型体系结构，该结构将1级分类（称为1C）的增强安全性与在没有攻击的情况下的传统2级分类（称为2C）的高性能结合在一起。我们的体系结构称为1.5级（Spritz-1.5c）分类器，并使用最终密度分类器，一个2C分类器（即CNNS）和两个并行1C分类器（即自动编码器）构造。在我们的实验中，我们通过在各种情况下考虑八次可能的对抗性攻击来评估我们提出的架构的鲁棒性。我们分别对2C和Spritz-1.5c体系结构进行了这些攻击。我们研究的实验结果表明，I-FGSM攻击对2C分类器的攻击成功率（ASR）是N-Baiot数据集训练的2C分类器的0.9900。相反，Spritz-1.5C分类器的ASR为0.0000。

在过去的几十年中，人工智能的兴起使我们有能力解决日常生活中最具挑战性的问题，例如癌症的预测和自主航行。但是，如果不保护对抗性攻击，这些应用程序可能不会可靠。此外，最近的作品表明，某些对抗性示例可以在不同的模型中转移。因此，至关重要的是避免通过抵抗对抗性操纵的强大模型进行这种可传递性。在本文中，我们提出了一种基于特征随机化的方法，该方法抵抗了八次针对测试阶段深度学习模型的对抗性攻击。我们的新方法包括改变目标网络分类器中的训练策略并选择随机特征样本。我们认为攻击者具有有限的知识和半知识条件，以进行最普遍的对抗性攻击。我们使用包括现实和合成攻击的众所周知的UNSW-NB15数据集评估了方法的鲁棒性。之后，我们证明我们的策略优于现有的最新方法，例如最强大的攻击，包括针对特定的对抗性攻击进行微调网络模型。最后，我们的实验结果表明，我们的方法可以确保目标网络并抵抗对抗性攻击的转移性超过60％。

Real-world robotic grasping can be done robustly if a complete 3D Point Cloud Data (PCD) of an object is available. However, in practice, PCDs are often incomplete when objects are viewed from few and sparse viewpoints before the grasping action, leading to the generation of wrong or inaccurate grasp poses. We propose a novel grasping strategy, named 3DSGrasp, that predicts the missing geometry from the partial PCD to produce reliable grasp poses. Our proposed PCD completion network is a Transformer-based encoder-decoder network with an Offset-Attention layer. Our network is inherently invariant to the object pose and point's permutation, which generates PCDs that are geometrically consistent and completed properly. Experiments on a wide range of partial PCD show that 3DSGrasp outperforms the best state-of-the-art method on PCD completion tasks and largely improves the grasping success rate in real-world scenarios. The code and dataset will be made available upon acceptance.

Research on automated essay scoring has become increasing important because it serves as a method for evaluating students' written-responses at scale. Scalable methods for scoring written responses are needed as students migrate to online learning environments resulting in the need to evaluate large numbers of written-response assessments. The purpose of this study is to describe and evaluate three active learning methods than can be used to minimize the number of essays that must be scored by human raters while still providing the data needed to train a modern automated essay scoring system. The three active learning methods are the uncertainty-based, the topological-based, and the hybrid method. These three methods were used to select essays included as part of the Automated Student Assessment Prize competition that were then classified using a scoring model that was training with the bidirectional encoder representations from transformer language model. All three active learning methods produced strong results, with the topological-based method producing the most efficient classification. Growth rate accuracy was also evaluated. The active learning methods produced different levels of efficiency under different sample size allocations but, overall, all three methods were highly efficient and produced classifications that were similar to one another.

In this research, we are about to present an agentbased model of human muscle which can be used in analysis of human movement. As the model is designed based on the physiological structure of the muscle, The simulation calculations would be natural, and also, It can be possible to analyze human movement using reverse engineering methods. The model is also a suitable choice to be used in modern prostheses, because the calculation of the model is less than other machine learning models such as artificial neural network algorithms and It makes our algorithm battery-friendly. We will also devise a method that can calculate the intensity of human muscle during gait cycle using a reverse engineering solution. The algorithm called Boots is different from some optimization methods, so It would be able to compute the activities of both agonist and antagonist muscles in a joint. As a consequence, By having an agent-based model of human muscle and Boots algorithm, We would be capable to develop software that can calculate the nervous stimulation of human's lower body muscle based on the angular displacement during gait cycle without using painful methods like electromyography. By developing the application as open-source software, We are hopeful to help researchers and physicians who are studying in medical and biomechanical fields.

Based on WHO statistics, many individuals are suffering from visual problems, and their number is increasing yearly. One of the most critical needs they have is the ability to navigate safely, which is why researchers are trying to create and improve various navigation systems. This paper provides a navigation concept based on the visual slam and Yolo concepts using monocular cameras. Using the ORB-SLAM algorithm, our concept creates a map from a predefined route that a blind person most uses. Since visually impaired people are curious about their environment and, of course, to guide them properly, obstacle detection has been added to the system. As mentioned earlier, safe navigation is vital for visually impaired people, so our concept has a path-following part. This part consists of three steps: obstacle distance estimation, path deviation detection, and next-step prediction, done by monocular cameras.

Recently, many attempts have been made to construct a transformer base U-shaped architecture, and new methods have been proposed that outperformed CNN-based rivals. However, serious problems such as blockiness and cropped edges in predicted masks remain because of transformers' patch partitioning operations. In this work, we propose a new U-shaped architecture for medical image segmentation with the help of the newly introduced focal modulation mechanism. The proposed architecture has asymmetric depths for the encoder and decoder. Due to the ability of the focal module to aggregate local and global features, our model could simultaneously benefit the wide receptive field of transformers and local viewing of CNNs. This helps the proposed method balance the local and global feature usage to outperform one of the most powerful transformer-based U-shaped models called Swin-UNet. We achieved a 1.68% higher DICE score and a 0.89 better HD metric on the Synapse dataset. Also, with extremely limited data, we had a 4.25% higher DICE score on the NeoPolyp dataset. Our implementations are available at: https://github.com/givkashi/Focal-UNet

To achieve autonomy in a priori unknown real-world scenarios, agents should be able to: i) act from high-dimensional sensory observations (e.g., images), ii) learn from past experience to adapt and improve, and iii) be capable of long horizon planning. Classical planning algorithms (e.g. PRM, RRT) are proficient at handling long-horizon planning. Deep learning based methods in turn can provide the necessary representations to address the others, by modeling statistical contingencies between observations. In this direction, we introduce a general-purpose planning algorithm called PALMER that combines classical sampling-based planning algorithms with learning-based perceptual representations. For training these perceptual representations, we combine Q-learning with contrastive representation learning to create a latent space where the distance between the embeddings of two states captures how easily an optimal policy can traverse between them. For planning with these perceptual representations, we re-purpose classical sampling-based planning algorithms to retrieve previously observed trajectory segments from a replay buffer and restitch them into approximately optimal paths that connect any given pair of start and goal states. This creates a tight feedback loop between representation learning, memory, reinforcement learning, and sampling-based planning. The end result is an experiential framework for long-horizon planning that is significantly more robust and sample efficient compared to existing methods.

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is a long-standing topic in natural language processing (NLP). The MRC task aims to answer a question based on the given context. Recently studies focus on multi-hop MRC which is a more challenging extension of MRC, which to answer a question some disjoint pieces of information across the context are required. Due to the complexity and importance of multi-hop MRC, a large number of studies have been focused on this topic in recent years, therefore, it is necessary and worth reviewing the related literature. This study aims to investigate recent advances in the multi-hop MRC approaches based on 31 studies from 2018 to 2022. In this regard, first, the multi-hop MRC problem definition will be introduced, then 31 models will be reviewed in detail with a strong focus on their multi-hop aspects. They also will be categorized based on their main techniques. Finally, a fine-grain comprehensive comparison of the models and techniques will be presented.

Multi-hop Machine reading comprehension is a challenging task with aim of answering a question based on disjoint pieces of information across the different passages. The evaluation metrics and datasets are a vital part of multi-hop MRC because it is not possible to train and evaluate models without them, also, the proposed challenges by datasets often are an important motivation for improving the existing models. Due to increasing attention to this field, it is necessary and worth reviewing them in detail. This study aims to present a comprehensive survey on recent advances in multi-hop MRC evaluation metrics and datasets. In this regard, first, the multi-hop MRC problem definition will be presented, then the evaluation metrics based on their multi-hop aspect will be investigated. Also, 15 multi-hop datasets have been reviewed in detail from 2017 to 2022, and a comprehensive analysis has been prepared at the end. Finally, open issues in this field have been discussed.