According to the few recorded accounts Next we turn our attention to the research domain and of security failures "in the wild," ML systems can be broken take a snapshot of the current landscape of adversarial ML by naïve attackers that are not systematically exploiting the as portrayed in scientific papers ( IV). After surveying the vulnerabilities of ML, but rather are developing attacks by proceedings of the "Top-4" security conferences from 2019 guessing--either indiscriminately or by some coarse heuristic to 2021, we systematically analyze all 88 papers that consider [6], [7]. Red-team exercises on ML systems often take attacks against ML or corresponding defenses. Of these papers, advantage of security gaps that are agnostic to the existence 89% only evaluate algorithms based on neural networks, 63% of an ML model, and subsequent defensive recommendations focus on computer vision, and 80% perform their experiments are likewise more broad than, e.g., adversarial training [8], on "benchmarks". We discover several inconsistencies in the [9]. Additionally, the ML models deployed in productiongrade terminology adopted in reputable prior work. We also identify ML systems are often not directly observable (and are several positive trends, such as an increasing amount of papers sometimes even unreachable) by most attackers [10].

Rapid advancements in collection, processing, and dissemination of multi-platform molecular and genomics (multi-omics, in short) data has resulted in enormous opportunities to aggregate such data in order to understand, prevent, and treat diseases. This has catalyzed development of integrative methods that can collectively mine multiple types and scales of multi-omics data, in order to provide a more holistic view of human disease evolution and progression (Subramanian et al. 2020). Specifically, in the context of cancer, a disease driven predominantly by agglomerations of several molecular changes (Sun et al. 2021), the importance of synthesizing information from multi-platform omics and clinical sources to understand the cellular basis of the disease is even further underscored. Cellular oncological mechanisms, triggered at different molecular levels of the DNA RNA Protein path, can confer profound phenotypic advantages/disadvantages. While significant improvements have been made in multi-omics data integration methods to unveil such mechanisms, focused on both prognosis (Duan et al. 2021) and treatment (Finotello et al. 2020), the precise functions governing them need detailed and data-driven de-novo evaluations. Our work, in the same vein, aims at two different but inter-related scientific axes: (i) selection of biomarkers associated with cancer prognosis and clinical outcomes, and (ii) learning the mechanism of these biomarkers' effects upon such outcomes via integrating upstream molecular information - we provide some additional scientific context below. Classes of Integrative Omics Models First, we briefly discuss existing integrative omics approaches in order to contextualize the need for our framework. Broadly, most of the existing integrative statistical methods can be classified into two categories - horizontal (meta-analysis type) and vertical (multi-omics) integration procedures (Tseng et al. 2015).

It is of critical importance to be aware of the historical discrimination embedded in the data and to consider a fairness measure to reduce bias throughout the predictive modeling pipeline. Given various notions of fairness defined in the literature, investigating the correlation and interaction among metrics is vital for addressing unfairness. Practitioners and data scientists should be able to comprehend each metric and examine their impact on one another given the context, use case, and regulations. Exploring the combinatorial space of different metrics for such examination is burdensome. To alleviate the burden of selecting fairness notions for consideration, we propose a framework that estimates the correlation among fairness notions. Our framework consequently identifies a set of diverse and semantically distinct metrics as representative for a given context. We propose a Monte-Carlo sampling technique for computing the correlations between fairness metrics by indirect and efficient perturbation in the model space. Using the estimated correlations, we then find a subset of representative metrics. The paper proposes a generic method that can be generalized to any arbitrary set of fairness metrics. We showcase the validity of the proposal using comprehensive experiments on real-world benchmark datasets.

In multi-agent systems, norm enforcement is a mechanism for steering the behavior of individual agents in order to achieve desired system-level objectives. Due to the dynamics of multi-agent systems, however, it is hard to design norms that guarantee the achievement of the objectives in every operating context. Also, these objectives may change over time, thereby making previously defined norms ineffective. In this paper, we investigate the use of system execution data to automatically synthesise and revise conditional prohibitions with deadlines, a type of norms aimed at prohibiting agents from exhibiting certain patterns of behaviors. We propose DDNR (Data-Driven Norm Revision), a data-driven approach to norm revision that synthesises revised norms with respect to a data set of traces describing the behavior of the agents in the system. We evaluate DDNR using a state-of-the-art, off-the-shelf urban traffic simulator. The results show that DDNR synthesises revised norms that are significantly more accurate than the original norms in distinguishing adequate and inadequate behaviors for the achievement of the system-level objectives.

How does Twitter use artificial intelligence and machine learning? Twitter uses large-scale machine learning and AI for sentiment analysis, bot analysis and detection of fake accounts, image classification and more. From Amazon to Instagram, Sephora, Microsoft, and Twitter, AI will shape the future of speech in America and beyond. The big question is not if they use it, but how it is being used, and what impact will this have on consumer privacy in the future. For the past fifteen years, I have been a national commentator on the politics of big tech and social media platforms. Social Media content decisions have become highly political, and artificial intelligence has proliferated this process at scale. But somewhere along the way, the public was left in the dark on just how large of a role machine learning plays in large-scale content operations in Silicon Valley. While the national conversation on free speech focuses on high-profile executives of tech companies and how content ...

Content moderation is the process of screening and monitoring user-generated content online. It plays a crucial role in stopping content resulting from unacceptable behaviors such as hate speech, harassment, violence against specific groups, terrorism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, or misogyny, to mention some few, in Online Social Platforms. These platforms make use of a plethora of tools to detect and manage malicious information; however, malicious actors also improve their skills, developing strategies to surpass these barriers and continuing to spread misleading information. Twisting and camouflaging keywords are among the most used techniques to evade platform content moderation systems. In response to this recent ongoing issue, this paper presents an innovative approach to address this linguistic trend in social networks through the simulation of different content evasion techniques and a multilingual Transformer model for content evasion detection. In this way, we share with the rest of the scientific community a multilingual public tool, named "pyleetspeak" to generate/simulate in a customizable way the phenomenon of content evasion through automatic word camouflage and a multilingual Named-Entity Recognition (NER) Transformer-based model tuned for its recognition and detection. The multilingual NER model is evaluated in different textual scenarios, detecting different types and mixtures of camouflage techniques, achieving an overall weighted F1 score of 0.8795. This article contributes significantly to countering malicious information by developing multilingual tools to simulate and detect new methods of evasion of content on social networks, making the fight against information disorders more effective.

Identifying cybersecurity discussions in open forums at scale is a topic of great interest for the purpose of mitigating and understanding modern cyber threats [1-3]. The challenge is that these discussions are typically quite noisy (i.e., they contain community known synonyms or acronyms or slang) and it is difficult to get labelled data in order to train resilient NLP (natural language processing) topic classifiers. Additionally, it is important that a tool that detects cybersecurity discussions in internet text sources is scalable and offers low errors rates (in particular, both low false negative rates and low false positive rates). In order to address the challenges of finding relevant cybersecurity labelled data, we use a technique that gathers posts or articles from different internet sources that have user defined topic labels. We then collect and label the training text as being cybersecurity related or not based on the subset of labels that the text source offers.

Inspired by the recent success of deep learning in multiscale information encoding, we introduce a variational autoencoder (VAE) based semi-supervised method for detection of faulty traffic data, which is cast as a classification problem. Continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is applied to the time series of traffic volume data to obtain rich features embodied in time-frequency representation, followed by a twin of VAE models to separately encode normal data and faulty data. The resulting multiscale dual encodings are concatenated and fed to an attention-based classifier, consisting of a self-attention module and a multilayer perceptron. For comparison, the proposed architecture is evaluated against five different encoding schemes, including (1) VAE with only normal data encoding, (2) VAE with only faulty data encoding, (3) VAE with both normal and faulty data encodings, but without attention module in the classifier, (4) siamese encoding, and (5) cross-vision transformer (CViT) encoding. The first four encoding schemes adopted the same convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture while the fifth encoding scheme follows the transformer architecture of CViT. Our experiments show that the proposed architecture with the dual encoding scheme, coupled with attention module, outperforms other encoding schemes and results in classification accuracy of 96.4%, precision of 95.5%, and recall of 97.7%.

Sometimes it is important to know the accuracy of a classifier on unlabeled data. The labels may be delayed, as in consumer purchasing predictions, or obtaining the labels is cost prohibitive. The labels may not exist, as for some medical conditions, for which the true gold standard diagnostic test(a 100% sensitive and 100% specific classifier) would require subjects be euthanized and autopsied to obtain labels. Epidemiologists and biostatisticians have developed statistical methods for assessing the sensitivity (Se) and specificity (Sp) of diagnostic tests when gold standard comparison tests are unavailable. In data science terms, the diagnostic test assessment data are unlabeled. In this article, I describe how to modify those diagnostic test statistical methods to estimate confusion matrices and accuracy statistics for binary classifiers.

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