Covid-19影响了世界各地，尽管对爆发的错误信息的传播速度比病毒更快。错误的信息通过在线社交网络（OSN）传播，通常会误导人们遵循正确的医疗实践。特别是，OSN机器人一直是传播虚假信息和发起网络宣传的主要来源。现有工作忽略了机器人的存在，这些机器人在传播中充当催化剂，并专注于“帖子中共享的文章”而不是帖子（文本）内容中的假新闻检测。大多数关于错误信息检测的工作都使用手动标记的数据集，这些数据集很难扩展以构建其预测模型。在这项研究中，我们通过在Twitter数据集上使用经过验证的事实检查的陈述来标记数据来克服这一数据稀缺性挑战。此外，我们将文本功能与用户级功能（例如关注者计数和朋友计数）和推文级功能（例如Tweet中的提及，主题标签和URL）结合起来，以充当检测错误信息的其他指标。此外，我们分析了推文中机器人的存在，并表明机器人随着时间的流逝改变了其行为，并且在错误信息中最活跃。我们收集了1022万个Covid-19相关推文，并使用我们的注释模型来构建一个广泛的原始地面真实数据集以进行分类。我们利用各种机器学习模型来准确检测错误信息，我们的最佳分类模型达到了精度（82％），召回（96％）和假阳性率（3.58％）。此外，我们的机器人分析表明，机器人约为错误信息推文的10％。我们的方法可以实质性地暴露于虚假信息，从而改善了通过社交媒体平台传播的信息的可信度。

作为网络防御的重要工具，欺骗正在迅速发展，并补充了现有的周边安全措施，以迅速检测出漏洞和数据盗窃。限制欺骗使用的因素之一是手工生成逼真的人工制品的成本。但是，机器学习的最新进展为可扩展的，自动化的现实欺骗创造了机会。本愿景论文描述了开发模型所涉及的机会和挑战，以模仿IT堆栈的许多共同元素以造成欺骗效应。

图形神经网络（GNNS）在许多图形挖掘任务中取得了巨大的成功，这些任务从消息传递策略中受益，该策略融合了局部结构和节点特征，从而为更好的图表表示学习。尽管GNN成功，并且与其他类型的深神经网络相似，但发现GNN容易受到图形结构和节点特征的不明显扰动。已经提出了许多对抗性攻击，以披露在不同的扰动策略下创建对抗性例子的GNN的脆弱性。但是，GNNS对成功后门攻击的脆弱性直到最近才显示。在本文中，我们披露了陷阱攻击，这是可转移的图形后门攻击。核心攻击原则是用基于扰动的触发器毒化训练数据集，这可以导致有效且可转移的后门攻击。图形的扰动触发是通过通过替代模型的基于梯度的得分矩阵在图形结构上执行扰动动作来生成的。与先前的作品相比，陷阱攻击在几种方面有所不同：i）利用替代图卷积网络（GCN）模型来生成基于黑盒的后门攻击的扰动触发器； ii）它产生了没有固定模式的样品特异性扰动触发器； iii）在使用锻造中毒训练数据集训练时，在GNN的背景下，攻击转移到了不同​​的GNN模型中。通过对四个现实世界数据集进行广泛的评估，我们证明了陷阱攻击使用四个现实世界数据集在四个不同流行的GNN中构建可转移的后门的有效性

安全风险评估和预测对于部署事物互联网（IOT）设备的组织至关重要。企业的绝对最低要求是验证IoT设备的安全风险，用于报告的国家漏洞数据库（NVD）中报告的漏洞。本文提出了基于关于它们的公开信息的IOT设备的新风险预测。我们的解决方案为所有尺寸的企业提供了一种简单且具有成本效益的解决方案，以预测部署新的IOT设备的安全风险。在过去的八年内对NVD记录进行了广泛的分析后，我们为易受攻击的物联网设备创建了一个唯一，系统和平衡的数据集，包括辅以公共资源可用功能和描述性功能的关键技术功能。然后，我们使用机器学习分类模型，例如渐变提升决策树（GBDT）在此数据集上，并在分类设备漏洞分数的严重性方面实现71％的预测准确性。

Chest X-ray (CXR) datasets hosted on Kaggle, though useful from a data science competition standpoint, have limited utility in clinical use because of their narrow focus on diagnosing one specific disease. In real-world clinical use, multiple diseases need to be considered since they can co-exist in the same patient. In this work, we demonstrate how federated learning (FL) can be used to make these toy CXR datasets from Kaggle clinically useful. Specifically, we train a single FL classification model (`global`) using two separate CXR datasets -- one annotated for presence of pneumonia and the other for presence of pneumothorax (two common and life-threatening conditions) -- capable of diagnosing both. We compare the performance of the global FL model with models trained separately on both datasets (`baseline`) for two different model architectures. On a standard, naive 3-layer CNN architecture, the global FL model achieved AUROC of 0.84 and 0.81 for pneumonia and pneumothorax, respectively, compared to 0.85 and 0.82, respectively, for both baseline models (p>0.05). Similarly, on a pretrained DenseNet121 architecture, the global FL model achieved AUROC of 0.88 and 0.91 for pneumonia and pneumothorax, respectively, compared to 0.89 and 0.91, respectively, for both baseline models (p>0.05). Our results suggest that FL can be used to create global `meta` models to make toy datasets from Kaggle clinically useful, a step forward towards bridging the gap from bench to bedside.

基于Web的网络钓鱼占数据泄露的90％以上，大多数Web浏览器和安全供应商都依靠机器学习（ML）模型作为缓解。尽管如此，还显示出在抗钓鱼聚合物（例如网络和Virustotal）上定期发布的链接可轻松绕过现有的探测器。先前的艺术表明，随着光突变的自动网站克隆正在吸引攻击者。这在当前文献中的暴露量有限，并导致基于ML的优势对策。这里的工作进行了第一项经验研究，该研究在广泛的循环中汇编和评估了各种最先进的克隆技术。我们收集了13,394个样品，发现了8,566个确认的网络钓鱼页面，使用7种不同的克隆机制针对4个流行网站。这些样品在受控平台中以防止意外访问的预防措施进行了删除的恶意代码复制。然后，我们将站点报告给Virustotal和其他平台，并定期对结果进行7天的调查，以确定每种克隆技术的功效。结果表明，没有安全供应商检测到我们的克隆，证明了对更有效的检测器的迫切需求。最后，我们提出了4项建议，以帮助网络开发人员和基于ML的防御能力减轻克隆攻击的风险。

Existing integrity verification approaches for deep models are designed for private verification (i.e., assuming the service provider is honest, with white-box access to model parameters). However, private verification approaches do not allow model users to verify the model at run-time. Instead, they must trust the service provider, who may tamper with the verification results. In contrast, a public verification approach that considers the possibility of dishonest service providers can benefit a wider range of users. In this paper, we propose PublicCheck, a practical public integrity verification solution for services of run-time deep models. PublicCheck considers dishonest service providers, and overcomes public verification challenges of being lightweight, providing anti-counterfeiting protection, and having fingerprinting samples that appear smooth. To capture and fingerprint the inherent prediction behaviors of a run-time model, PublicCheck generates smoothly transformed and augmented encysted samples that are enclosed around the model's decision boundary while ensuring that the verification queries are indistinguishable from normal queries. PublicCheck is also applicable when knowledge of the target model is limited (e.g., with no knowledge of gradients or model parameters). A thorough evaluation of PublicCheck demonstrates the strong capability for model integrity breach detection (100% detection accuracy with less than 10 black-box API queries) against various model integrity attacks and model compression attacks. PublicCheck also demonstrates the smooth appearance, feasibility, and efficiency of generating a plethora of encysted samples for fingerprinting.

Designing experiments often requires balancing between learning about the true treatment effects and earning from allocating more samples to the superior treatment. While optimal algorithms for the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem (MABP) provide allocation policies that optimally balance learning and earning, they tend to be computationally expensive. The Gittins Index (GI) is a solution to the MABP that can simultaneously attain optimality and computationally efficiency goals, and it has been recently used in experiments with Bernoulli and Gaussian rewards. For the first time, we present a modification of the GI rule that can be used in experiments with exponentially-distributed rewards. We report its performance in simulated 2- armed and 3-armed experiments. Compared to traditional non-adaptive designs, our novel GI modified design shows operating characteristics comparable in learning (e.g. statistical power) but substantially better in earning (e.g. direct benefits). This illustrates the potential that designs using a GI approach to allocate participants have to improve participant benefits, increase efficiencies, and reduce experimental costs in adaptive multi-armed experiments with exponential rewards.

Quadruped robots are currently used in industrial robotics as mechanical aid to automate several routine tasks. However, presently, the usage of such a robot in a domestic setting is still very much a part of the research. This paper discusses the understanding and virtual simulation of such a robot capable of detecting and understanding human emotions, generating its gait, and responding via sounds and expression on a screen. To this end, we use a combination of reinforcement learning and software engineering concepts to simulate a quadruped robot that can understand emotions, navigate through various terrains and detect sound sources, and respond to emotions using audio-visual feedback. This paper aims to establish the framework of simulating a quadruped robot that is emotionally intelligent and can primarily respond to audio-visual stimuli using motor or audio response. The emotion detection from the speech was not as performant as ERANNs or Zeta Policy learning, still managing an accuracy of 63.5%. The video emotion detection system produced results that are almost at par with the state of the art, with an accuracy of 99.66%. Due to its "on-policy" learning process, the PPO algorithm was extremely rapid to learn, allowing the simulated dog to demonstrate a remarkably seamless gait across the different cadences and variations. This enabled the quadruped robot to respond to generated stimuli, allowing us to conclude that it functions as predicted and satisfies the aim of this work.

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.