Stress has a great effect on people's lives that can not be understated. While it can be good, since it helps humans to adapt to new and different situations, it can also be harmful when not dealt with properly, leading to chronic stress. The objective of this paper is developing a stress monitoring solution, that can be used in real life, while being able to tackle this challenge in a positive way. The SMILE data set was provided to team Anxolotl, and all it was needed was to develop a robust model. We developed a supervised learning model for classification in Python, presenting the final result of 64.1% in accuracy and a f1-score of 54.96%. The resulting solution stood the robustness test, presenting low variation between runs, which was a major point for it's possible integration in the Anxolotl app in the future.

新闻和社交网络的事件分析对于广泛的社会研究和现实世界应用非常有用。最近，已经探索了事件图形的事件图形和它们的复杂关系，其中事件是连接到表示位置的其他顶点的顶点，人们的名称，日期和各种其他事件元数据。图表表示学习方法是有希望从事件图中提取潜在特征，以实现不同的分类算法。但是，现有方法无法满足事件图表的基本要求，例如（i）处理半监控图形嵌入以利用一些标记的事件，（ii）自动确定事件顶点和它们元数据顶点之间关系的重要性以及处理图形异质性的（iii）。本文介绍了GNEE（GAT神经事件嵌入品），这是一种与图形关注网络和图形正规化的方法。首先，提出了事件图规范化以确保所有图形顶点接收事件特征，从而减轻图形异质性缺点。其次，利用自我关注机制嵌入的半监控图形认为现有标记事件，并在表示学习过程期间了解事件图中关系中的关系。具有五个真实世界事件图和六个图形嵌入方法的实验结果的统计分析表明，我们的GNEE优于最先进的半监督图形嵌入方法。

对脑灰质细胞结构的有效表征具有定量敏感性对SOMA密度和体积的敏感性仍然是扩散MRI（DMRI）中的未解决的攻击。解决与细胞建筑特征的DMRI信号相关的问题呼吁通过少数生理相关参数和用于反相模型的算法来定义描述脑组织的数学模型。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一个新的前向模型，特别是一个新的方程式系统，需要几个相对稀疏的B-shell。然后，我们从贝叶斯分析中应用现代工具，称为无似然推论（LFI）来颠覆我们所提出的模型。与文献中的其他方法相比，我们的算法不仅产生了最能描述给定的观察数据点$ x_0 $的参数向量$ \ theta $的估计，而且还产生了全面的后分发$ p（\ theta | x_0）超过参数空间。这使得模型反演的描述能够更丰富地描述，提供估计参数的可信间隔的指示符以及模型可能呈现不确定性的参数区域的完整表征。我们近似使用深神经密度估计器的后部分布，称为标准化流，并使用来自前向模型的一组重复模拟来拟合它们。我们使用DMIPY验证我们的模拟方法，然后在两个公共可用数据集上应用整个管道。

推断基于实验观察的随机模型的参数是科学方法的核心。特别具有挑战性的设置是当模型强烈不确定时，即当不同的参数集产生相同的观察时。这在许多实际情况下出现，例如在推断无线电源的距离和功率时（是源关闭和弱或远远强，且强大且强大？）或估计电生理实验的放大器增益和底层脑活动。在这项工作中，我们通过利用由辅助观察集共享全局参数传达的附加信息来阐明这种不确定性的新方法。我们的方法基于对贝叶斯分层模型的标准化流程扩展了基于仿真的推断（SBI）的最新进展。我们通过模拟和实际EEG数据将其应用于可用于分析解决方案的激励示例，以便将其验证我们的提案，然后将其从计算神经科学逆变众所周知的非线性模型。

In the last years, the number of IoT devices deployed has suffered an undoubted explosion, reaching the scale of billions. However, some new cybersecurity issues have appeared together with this development. Some of these issues are the deployment of unauthorized devices, malicious code modification, malware deployment, or vulnerability exploitation. This fact has motivated the requirement for new device identification mechanisms based on behavior monitoring. Besides, these solutions have recently leveraged Machine and Deep Learning techniques due to the advances in this field and the increase in processing capabilities. In contrast, attackers do not stay stalled and have developed adversarial attacks focused on context modification and ML/DL evaluation evasion applied to IoT device identification solutions. This work explores the performance of hardware behavior-based individual device identification, how it is affected by possible context- and ML/DL-focused attacks, and how its resilience can be improved using defense techniques. In this sense, it proposes an LSTM-CNN architecture based on hardware performance behavior for individual device identification. Then, previous techniques have been compared with the proposed architecture using a hardware performance dataset collected from 45 Raspberry Pi devices running identical software. The LSTM-CNN improves previous solutions achieving a +0.96 average F1-Score and 0.8 minimum TPR for all devices. Afterward, context- and ML/DL-focused adversarial attacks were applied against the previous model to test its robustness. A temperature-based context attack was not able to disrupt the identification. However, some ML/DL state-of-the-art evasion attacks were successful. Finally, adversarial training and model distillation defense techniques are selected to improve the model resilience to evasion attacks, without degrading its performance.

Cybercriminals are moving towards zero-day attacks affecting resource-constrained devices such as single-board computers (SBC). Assuming that perfect security is unrealistic, Moving Target Defense (MTD) is a promising approach to mitigate attacks by dynamically altering target attack surfaces. Still, selecting suitable MTD techniques for zero-day attacks is an open challenge. Reinforcement Learning (RL) could be an effective approach to optimize the MTD selection through trial and error, but the literature fails when i) evaluating the performance of RL and MTD solutions in real-world scenarios, ii) studying whether behavioral fingerprinting is suitable for representing SBC's states, and iii) calculating the consumption of resources in SBC. To improve these limitations, the work at hand proposes an online RL-based framework to learn the correct MTD mechanisms mitigating heterogeneous zero-day attacks in SBC. The framework considers behavioral fingerprinting to represent SBCs' states and RL to learn MTD techniques that mitigate each malicious state. It has been deployed on a real IoT crowdsensing scenario with a Raspberry Pi acting as a spectrum sensor. More in detail, the Raspberry Pi has been infected with different samples of command and control malware, rootkits, and ransomware to later select between four existing MTD techniques. A set of experiments demonstrated the suitability of the framework to learn proper MTD techniques mitigating all attacks (except a harmfulness rootkit) while consuming <1 MB of storage and utilizing <55% CPU and <80% RAM.

Model estimates obtained from traditional subspace identification methods may be subject to significant variance. This elevated variance is aggravated in the cases of large models or of a limited sample size. Common solutions to reduce the effect of variance are regularized estimators, shrinkage estimators and Bayesian estimation. In the current work we investigate the latter two solutions, which have not yet been applied to subspace identification. Our experimental results show that our proposed estimators may reduce the estimation risk up to $40\%$ of that of traditional subspace methods.

The task of reconstructing 3D human motion has wideranging applications. The gold standard Motion capture (MoCap) systems are accurate but inaccessible to the general public due to their cost, hardware and space constraints. In contrast, monocular human mesh recovery (HMR) methods are much more accessible than MoCap as they take single-view videos as inputs. Replacing the multi-view Mo- Cap systems with a monocular HMR method would break the current barriers to collecting accurate 3D motion thus making exciting applications like motion analysis and motiondriven animation accessible to the general public. However, performance of existing HMR methods degrade when the video contains challenging and dynamic motion that is not in existing MoCap datasets used for training. This reduces its appeal as dynamic motion is frequently the target in 3D motion recovery in the aforementioned applications. Our study aims to bridge the gap between monocular HMR and multi-view MoCap systems by leveraging information shared across multiple video instances of the same action. We introduce the Neural Motion (NeMo) field. It is optimized to represent the underlying 3D motions across a set of videos of the same action. Empirically, we show that NeMo can recover 3D motion in sports using videos from the Penn Action dataset, where NeMo outperforms existing HMR methods in terms of 2D keypoint detection. To further validate NeMo using 3D metrics, we collected a small MoCap dataset mimicking actions in Penn Action,and show that NeMo achieves better 3D reconstruction compared to various baselines.

The field of Automatic Music Generation has seen significant progress thanks to the advent of Deep Learning. However, most of these results have been produced by unconditional models, which lack the ability to interact with their users, not allowing them to guide the generative process in meaningful and practical ways. Moreover, synthesizing music that remains coherent across longer timescales while still capturing the local aspects that make it sound ``realistic'' or ``human-like'' is still challenging. This is due to the large computational requirements needed to work with long sequences of data, and also to limitations imposed by the training schemes that are often employed. In this paper, we propose a generative model of symbolic music conditioned by data retrieved from human sentiment. The model is a Transformer-GAN trained with labels that correspond to different configurations of the valence and arousal dimensions that quantitatively represent human affective states. We try to tackle both of the problems above by employing an efficient linear version of Attention and using a Discriminator both as a tool to improve the overall quality of the generated music and its ability to follow the conditioning signals.

Reinforcement Learning is a powerful tool to model decision-making processes. However, it relies on an exploration-exploitation trade-off that remains an open challenge for many tasks. In this work, we study neighboring state-based, model-free exploration led by the intuition that, for an early-stage agent, considering actions derived from a bounded region of nearby states may lead to better actions when exploring. We propose two algorithms that choose exploratory actions based on a survey of nearby states, and find that one of our methods, ${\rho}$-explore, consistently outperforms the Double DQN baseline in an discrete environment by 49\% in terms of Eval Reward Return.