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 Saunders, Jade


Optimizing Product Provenance Verification using Data Valuation Methods

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Determining and Determining and verifying product provenance remains a critical verifying product provenance is a challenge in global supply chains, challenge in global supply chains, particularly as geopolitical conflicts as geopolitics and the lure of "don't ask, don't tell" with respect to and shifting borders create new incentives for misrepresentation the ecological and social cost creates incentives for misrepresentation of commodities, such as hiding the origin of illegally harvested of commodities, such as hiding the origin of illegally harvested timber or agriculture grown on illegally cleared land. Stable Isotope timber or agriculture grown on illegally cleared land. Ratio Analysis (SIRA), combined with Gaussian process regressionbased Product identification and provenance verification of traded natural isoscapes, has emerged as a powerful tool for geographic resources have emerged as promising research areas, with origin verification. However, the effectiveness of these models is often various combinations of methods used based on the specific natural constrained by data scarcity and suboptimal dataset selection. In resource sector and the level of granularity of species identification this work, we introduce a novel data valuation framework designed and origin-provenance determination. For example, for wood and to enhance the selection and utilization of training data for machine forest products, determining species identification and geographic learning models applied in SIRA. By prioritizing high-informative harvest provenance requires utilizing multiple testing methods and samples, our approach improves model robustness and predictive tools [5, 8, 20].


Chasing the Timber Trail: Machine Learning to Reveal Harvest Location Misrepresentation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Illegal logging poses a significant threat to global biodiversity, climate stability, and depresses international prices for legal wood harvesting and responsible forest products trade, affecting livelihoods and communities across the globe. Stable isotope ratio analysis (SIRA) is rapidly becoming an important tool for determining the harvest location of traded, organic, products. The spatial pattern in stable isotope ratio values depends on factors such as atmospheric and environmental conditions and can thus be used for geographic origin identification. We present here the results of a deployed machine learning pipeline where we leverage both isotope values and atmospheric variables to determine timber harvest location. Additionally, the pipeline incorporates uncertainty estimation to facilitate the interpretation of harvest location determination for analysts. We present our experiments on a collection of oak (Quercus spp.) tree samples from its global range. Our pipeline outperforms comparable state-of-the-art models determining geographic harvest origin of commercially traded wood products, and has been used by European enforcement agencies to identify harvest location misrepresentation. We also identify opportunities for further advancement of our framework and how it can be generalized to help identify the origin of falsely labeled organic products throughout the supply chain.