Deep automation provided by self-organizing network (SON) features and their emerging variants such as zero touch automation solutions is a key enabler for increasingly dense wireless networks and pervasive Internet of Things (IoT). To realize their objectives, most automation functionalities rely on the Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) reports. The MDT reports are used to generate inferences about network state and performance, thus dynamically change network parameters accordingly. However, the collection of MDT reports from commodity user devices, particularly low cost IoT devices, make them a vulnerable entry point to launch an adversarial attack on emerging deeply automated wireless networks. This adds a new dimension to the security threats in the IoT and cellular networks. Existing literature on IoT, SON, or zero touch automation does not address this important problem. In this paper, we investigate an impactful, first of its kind adversarial attack that can be launched by exploiting the malicious MDT reports from the compromised user equipment (UE). We highlight the detrimental repercussions of this attack on the performance of common network automation functions. We also propose a novel Malicious MDT Reports Identification framework (MRIF) as a countermeasure to detect and eliminate the malicious MDT reports using Machine Learning and verify it through a use-case. Thus, the defense mechanism can provide the resilience and robustness for zero touch automation SON engines against the adversarial MDT attacks

In the field of video analytics, particularly traffic surveillance, there is a growing need for efficient and effective methods for processing and understanding video data. Traditional full video decoding techniques can be computationally intensive and time-consuming, leading researchers to explore alternative approaches in the compressed domain. This study introduces a novel random perturbation-based compressed domain method for reconstructing images from High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) bitstreams, specifically designed for traffic surveillance applications. To the best of our knowledge, our method is the first to propose substituting random perturbations for residual values, creating a condensed representation of the original image while retaining information relevant to video understanding tasks, particularly focusing on vehicle detection and classification as key use cases. By not using residual data, our proposed method significantly reduces the data needed in the image reconstruction process, allowing for more efficient storage and transmission of information. This is particularly important when considering the vast amount of video data involved in surveillance applications. Applied to the public BIT-Vehicle dataset, we demonstrate a significant increase in the reconstruction speed compared to the traditional full decoding approach, with our proposed method being approximately 56% faster than the pixel domain method. Additionally, we achieve a detection accuracy of 99.9%, on par with the pixel domain method, and a classification accuracy of 96.84%, only 0.98% lower than the pixel domain method. Furthermore, we showcase the significant reduction in data size, leading to more efficient storage and transmission. Our research establishes the potential of compressed domain methods in traffic surveillance applications, where speed and data size are critical factors.

Label noise poses a serious threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). Employing robust loss functions which reconcile fitting ability with robustness is a simple but effective strategy to handle this problem. However, the widely-used static trade-off between these two factors contradicts the dynamics of DNNs learning with label noise, leading to inferior performance. Therefore, we propose a dynamics-aware loss (DAL) to solve this problem. Considering that DNNs tend to first learn beneficial patterns, then gradually overfit harmful label noise, DAL strengthens the fitting ability initially, then gradually improves robustness. Moreover, at the later stage, to further reduce the negative impact of label noise and combat underfitting simultaneously, we let DNNs put more emphasis on easy examples than hard ones and introduce a bootstrapping term. Both the detailed theoretical analyses and extensive experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our method. Our source code can be found in https://github.com/XiuchuanLi/DAL.

An Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a non-invasive exam that records the brain's electrical activity. This is used to help diagnose conditions such as different brain problems. EEG signals are taken for epilepsy detection, and with Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and machine learning classifier, they perform epilepsy detection. In Epilepsy seizure detection, machine learning classifiers and statistical features are mainly used. The hidden information in the EEG signal helps detect diseases affecting the brain. Sometimes it is complicated to identify the minimum changes in the EEG in the time and frequency domain's purpose. The DWT can give a suitable decomposition of the signals in different frequency bands and feature extraction. We use the tri-dimensionality reduction algorithm, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Independent Component Analysis (ICA), and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). Finally, features are selected by using a fusion rule and at the last step, three different classifiers, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Naive Bayes (NB), and K-Nearest-Neighbor (KNN) have been used individually for the classification. The proposed framework is tested on the Bonn dataset. The simulation results provide 100% accuracy for the LDA and NB combination outperforming accuracy with other classifiers combinations, including 89.17% for LDA and SVM, 80.42% for LDA and KNN, 89.92% for PCA and NB, 85.58% PCA and SVM, 80.42% PCA and KNN, 82.33% for ICA and NB, 90.42% for ICA and SVM, 90% for ICA and KNN. Also, the LDA and NB combination shows the sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, Precision, and Recall of 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, and 100%. The results prove the effectiveness of this model.

In recent years, diffusion models have achieved tremendous success in the field of image generation, becoming the stateof-the-art technology for AI-based image processing applications. Despite the numerous benefits brought by recent advances in diffusion models, there are also concerns about their potential misuse, specifically in terms of privacy breaches and intellectual property infringement. In particular, some of their unique characteristics open up new attack surfaces when considering the real-world deployment of such models. With a thorough investigation of the attack vectors, we develop a systematic analysis of membership inference attacks on diffusion models and propose novel attack methods tailored to each attack scenario specifically relevant to diffusion models. Our approach exploits easily obtainable quantities and is highly effective, achieving near-perfect attack performance (>0.9 AUCROC) in realistic scenarios. Our extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, highlighting the importance of considering privacy and intellectual property risks when using diffusion models in image generation tasks.

Global medium-range weather forecasting is critical to decision-making across many social and economic domains. Traditional numerical weather prediction uses increased compute resources to improve forecast accuracy, but cannot directly use historical weather data to improve the underlying model. We introduce a machine learning-based method called "GraphCast", which can be trained directly from reanalysis data. It predicts hundreds of weather variables, over 10 days at 0.25 degree resolution globally, in under one minute. We show that GraphCast significantly outperforms the most accurate operational deterministic systems on 90% of 1380 verification targets, and its forecasts support better severe event prediction, including tropical cyclones, atmospheric rivers, and extreme temperatures. GraphCast is a key advance in accurate and efficient weather forecasting, and helps realize the promise of machine learning for modeling complex dynamical systems.

We consider the problem of estimating the false-/ true-positive-rate (FPR/TPR) for a binary classification model when there are incorrect labels (label noise) in the validation set. Our motivating application is fraud prevention where accurate estimates of FPR are critical to preserving the experience for good customers, and where label noise is highly asymmetric. Existing methods seek to minimize the total error in the cleaning process - to avoid cleaning examples that are not noise, and to ensure cleaning of examples that are. This is an important measure of accuracy but insufficient to guarantee good estimates of the true FPR or TPR for a model, and we show that using the model to directly clean its own validation data leads to underestimates even if total error is low. This indicates a need for researchers to pursue methods that not only reduce total error but also seek to de-correlate cleaning error with model scores.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neurosurgical procedure successfully used to treat conditions such as Parkinson's disease. Electrostimulation, carried out by implanting electrodes into an identified focus in the brain, makes it possible to reduce the symptoms of the disease significantly. In this paper, a method for analyzing recordings of neuronal activity acquired during DBS neurosurgery using deep learning is presented. We tested using a convolutional neural network (CNN) for this purpose. Based on the time window, the classifier assesses whether neuronal activity (spike) is present. The maximum accuracy value for the classifier was 98.98%, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) was 0.9898. The method made it possible to obtain a classification without using data preprocessing.

Ultrasonic welding machines play a critical role in the lithium battery industry, facilitating the bonding of batteries with conductors. Ensuring high-quality welding is vital, making tool condition monitoring systems essential for early-stage quality control. However, existing monitoring methods face challenges in cost, downtime, and adaptability. In this paper, we present WeldMon, an affordable ultrasonic welding machine condition monitoring system that utilizes a custom data acquisition system and a data analysis pipeline designed for real-time analysis. Our classification algorithm combines auto-generated features and hand-crafted features, achieving superior cross-validation accuracy (95.8% on average over all testing tasks) compared to the state-of-the-art method (92.5%) in condition classification tasks. Our data augmentation approach alleviates the concept drift problem, enhancing tool condition classification accuracy by 8.3%. All algorithms run locally, requiring only 385 milliseconds to process data for each welding cycle. We deploy WeldMon and a commercial system on an actual ultrasonic welding machine, performing a comprehensive comparison. Our findings highlight the potential for developing cost-effective, high-performance, and reliable tool condition monitoring systems.

Accurately predicting hospital length-of-stay at the time a patient is admitted to hospital may help guide clinical decision making and resource allocation. In this study we aim to build a decision support system that predicts hospital length-of-stay for patients admitted to general internal medicine from the emergency department. We conduct an exploratory data analysis and employ feature selection methods to identify the attributes that result in the best predictive performance. We also develop a discrete-event simulation model to assess the performances of the prediction models in a practical setting. Our results show that the recommendation performances of the proposed approaches are generally acceptable and do not benefit from the feature selection. Further, the results indicate that hospital length-of-stay could be predicted with reasonable accuracy (e.g., AUC value for classifying short and long stay patients is 0.69) using patient admission demographics, laboratory test results, diagnostic imaging, vital signs and clinical documentation.