健康监测应用程序越来越依赖机器学习技术来学习日常环境中的最终用户生理和行为模式。考虑到可穿戴设备在监视人体参数中的重要作用，可以利用在设备学习中为行为和生理模式构建个性化模型，并同时为用户提供数据隐私。但是，大多数这些可穿戴设备的资源限制都阻止了对它们进行在线学习的能力。为了解决这个问题，需要从算法的角度重新考虑机器学习模型，以适合在可穿戴设备上运行。高维计算（HDC）为资源受限设备提供了非常适合的设备学习解决方案，并为隐私保护个性化提供了支持。我们的基于HDC的方法具有灵活性，高效率，弹性和性能，同时可以实现设备个性化和隐私保护。我们使用三个案例研究评估方法的功效，并表明我们的系统将培训的能源效率提高了高达$ 45.8 \ times $，与最先进的深神经网络（DNN）算法相比准确性。

可靠性的关键问题是电路设计师的巨大关注之一。驱动力是晶体管老化，取决于操作电压和工作负载。在设计时，很难估算在终生期间保持衰老效果的近距离护罩。这是因为铸造厂不共享其基于物理的校准模型，该模型由高度机密的技术和材料参数组成。但是，对降解的不受监控但必要的高估相当于绩效下降，这是可以预防的。此外，这些基于物理学的模型在计算方面非常复杂。在设计时间为数百万个单个晶体管建模的成本显然是过高的。我们提出了经过培训的机器学习模型的革命前景，以复制基于物理的模型，以免披露机密参数。出于设计优化的目的，电路设计人员可以完全访问这种有效的解决方法。我们证明了模型通过对一个电路的数据进行训练并将其成功应用于基准电路的能力。平均相对误差高达1.7％，速度高达20倍。电路设计师有史以来首次可以易于使用高精度老化模型，这对于有效的设计至关重要。这项工作是跨越铸造厂和电路设计师之间宽阔鸿沟的方向的一个有希望的步骤。

强化学习（RL）为解决各种复杂的决策任务提供了新的机会。但是，现代的RL算法，例如，深Q学习是基于深层神经网络，在Edge设备上运行时的计算成本很高。在本文中，我们提出了QHD，一种高度增强的学习，它模仿了大脑特性，以实现健壮和实时学习。 QHD依靠轻巧的大脑启发模型来学习未知环境中的最佳政策。我们首先建立一个新颖的数学基础和编码模块，该模块将状态行动空间映射到高维空间中。因此，我们开发了一个高维回归模型，以近似Q值函数。 QHD驱动的代理通过比较每个可能动作的Q值来做出决定。我们评估了不同的RL培训批量和本地记忆能力对QHD学习质量的影响。我们的QHD也能够以微小的本地记忆能力在线学习，这与培训批量大小一样小。 QHD通过进一步降低记忆容量和批处理大小来提供实时学习。这使得QHD适用于在边缘环境中高效的增强学习，这对于支持在线和实时学习至关重要。我们的解决方案还支持少量的重播批量大小，与DQN相比，该批量的速度为12.3倍，同时确保质量损失最小。我们的评估显示了实时学习的QHD能力，比最先进的Deep RL算法提供了34.6倍的速度和更高的学习质量。

Code generation from text requires understanding the user's intent from a natural language description (NLD) and generating an executable program code snippet that satisfies this intent. While recent pretrained language models (PLMs) demonstrate remarkable performance for this task, these models fail when the given NLD is ambiguous due to the lack of enough specifications for generating a high-quality code snippet. In this work, we introduce a novel and more realistic setup for this task. We hypothesize that ambiguities in the specifications of an NLD are resolved by asking clarification questions (CQs). Therefore, we collect and introduce a new dataset named CodeClarQA containing NLD-Code pairs with created CQAs. We evaluate the performance of PLMs for code generation on our dataset. The empirical results support our hypothesis that clarifications result in more precise generated code, as shown by an improvement of 17.52 in BLEU, 12.72 in CodeBLEU, and 7.7\% in the exact match. Alongside this, our task and dataset introduce new challenges to the community, including when and what CQs should be asked.

In data-driven systems, data exploration is imperative for making real-time decisions. However, big data is stored in massive databases that are difficult to retrieve. Approximate Query Processing (AQP) is a technique for providing approximate answers to aggregate queries based on a summary of the data (synopsis) that closely replicates the behavior of the actual data, which can be useful where an approximate answer to the queries would be acceptable in a fraction of the real execution time. In this paper, we discuss the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for generating tabular data that can be employed in AQP for synopsis construction. We first discuss the challenges associated with constructing synopses in relational databases and then introduce solutions to those challenges. Following that, we organized statistical metrics to evaluate the quality of the generated synopses. We conclude that tabular data complexity makes it difficult for algorithms to understand relational database semantics during training, and improved versions of tabular GANs are capable of constructing synopses to revolutionize data-driven decision-making systems.

Hawkes processes have recently risen to the forefront of tools when it comes to modeling and generating sequential events data. Multidimensional Hawkes processes model both the self and cross-excitation between different types of events and have been applied successfully in various domain such as finance, epidemiology and personalized recommendations, among others. In this work we present an adaptation of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for learning multidimensional Hawkes processes. Experimental results show that our approach has better or on par accuracy in terms of parameter estimation than other first order methods, while enjoying a significantly faster runtime.

Graph neural networks have shown to learn effective node representations, enabling node-, link-, and graph-level inference. Conventional graph networks assume static relations between nodes, while relations between entities in a video often evolve over time, with nodes entering and exiting dynamically. In such temporally-dynamic graphs, a core problem is inferring the future state of spatio-temporal edges, which can constitute multiple types of relations. To address this problem, we propose MTD-GNN, a graph network for predicting temporally-dynamic edges for multiple types of relations. We propose a factorized spatio-temporal graph attention layer to learn dynamic node representations and present a multi-task edge prediction loss that models multiple relations simultaneously. The proposed architecture operates on top of scene graphs that we obtain from videos through object detection and spatio-temporal linking. Experimental evaluations on ActionGenome and CLEVRER show that modeling multiple relations in our temporally-dynamic graph network can be mutually beneficial, outperforming existing static and spatio-temporal graph neural networks, as well as state-of-the-art predicate classification methods.

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) is the problem of finding a subsequence among a set of strings that has two properties of being common to all and is the longest. The LCS has applications in computational biology and text editing, among many others. Due to the NP-hardness of the general longest common subsequence, numerous heuristic algorithms and solvers have been proposed to give the best possible solution for different sets of strings. None of them has the best performance for all types of sets. In addition, there is no method to specify the type of a given set of strings. Besides that, the available hyper-heuristic is not efficient and fast enough to solve this problem in real-world applications. This paper proposes a novel hyper-heuristic to solve the longest common subsequence problem using a novel criterion to classify a set of strings based on their similarity. To do this, we offer a general stochastic framework to identify the type of a given set of strings. Following that, we introduce the set similarity dichotomizer ($S^2D$) algorithm based on the framework that divides the type of sets into two. This algorithm is introduced for the first time in this paper and opens a new way to go beyond the current LCS solvers. Then, we present a novel hyper-heuristic that exploits the $S^2D$ and one of the internal properties of the set to choose the best matching heuristic among a set of heuristics. We compare the results on benchmark datasets with the best heuristics and hyper-heuristics. The results show a higher performance of our proposed hyper-heuristic in both quality of solutions and run time factors.

Recent work reported the label alignment property in a supervised learning setting: the vector of all labels in the dataset is mostly in the span of the top few singular vectors of the data matrix. Inspired by this observation, we derive a regularization method for unsupervised domain adaptation. Instead of regularizing representation learning as done by popular domain adaptation methods, we regularize the classifier so that the target domain predictions can to some extent ``align" with the top singular vectors of the unsupervised data matrix from the target domain. In a linear regression setting, we theoretically justify the label alignment property and characterize the optimality of the solution of our regularization by bounding its distance to the optimal solution. We conduct experiments to show that our method can work well on the label shift problems, where classic domain adaptation methods are known to fail. We also report mild improvement over domain adaptation baselines on a set of commonly seen MNIST-USPS domain adaptation tasks and on cross-lingual sentiment analysis tasks.

Continuous behavioural authentication methods add a unique layer of security by allowing individuals to verify their unique identity when accessing a device. Maintaining session authenticity is now feasible by monitoring users' behaviour while interacting with a mobile or Internet of Things (IoT) device, making credential theft and session hijacking ineffective. Such a technique is made possible by integrating the power of artificial intelligence and Machine Learning (ML). Most of the literature focuses on training machine learning for the user by transmitting their data to an external server, subject to private user data exposure to threats. In this paper, we propose a novel Federated Learning (FL) approach that protects the anonymity of user data and maintains the security of his data. We present a warmup approach that provides a significant accuracy increase. In addition, we leverage the transfer learning technique based on feature extraction to boost the models' performance. Our extensive experiments based on four datasets: MNIST, FEMNIST, CIFAR-10 and UMDAA-02-FD, show a significant increase in user authentication accuracy while maintaining user privacy and data security.