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- In order to develop machine learning and deep learning models that take into account the guidelines and principles of trustworthy AI, a novel information theoretic approach is introduced in this article. A unified approach to privacy-preserving interpretable and transferable learning is considered for studying and optimizing the trade-offs between the privacy, interpretability, and transferability aspects of trustworthy AI. A variational membership-mapping Bayesian model is used for the analytical approximation of the defined information theoretic measures for privacy leakage, interpretability, and transferability. The approach consists of approximating the information theoretic measures by maximizing a lower-bound using variational optimization. The approach is demonstrated through numerous experiments on benchmark datasets and a real-world biomedical application concerned with the detection of mental stress in individuals using heart rate variability analysis.
- In the past few years, object detection has attracted a lot of attention in the context of human–robot collaboration and Industry 5.0 due to enormous quality improvements in deep learning technologies. In many applications, object detection models have to be able to quickly adapt to a changing environment, i.e., to learn new objects. A crucial but challenging prerequisite for this is the automatic generation of new training data which currently still limits the broad application of object detection methods in industrial manufacturing. In this work, we discuss how to adapt state-of-the-art object detection methods for the task of automatic bounding box annotation in a use case where the background is homogeneous and the object’s label is provided by a human. We compare an adapted version of Faster R-CNN and the Scaled-YOLOv4-p5 architecture and show that both can be trained to distinguish unknown objects from a complex but homogeneous background using only a small amount of training data. In contrast to most other state-of-the-art methods for bounding box labeling, our proposed method neither requires human verification, a predefined set of classes, nor a very large manually annotated dataset. Our method outperforms the state-of-the-art, transformer-based object discovery method LOST on our simple fruits dataset by large margins.
- In the last decade, industry’s demand for deep learning (DL) has increased due to its high performance in complex scenarios. Due to the DL method’s complexity, experts and non-experts rely on blackbox software packages such as Tensorflow and Pytorch. The frameworks are constantly improving, and new versions are released frequently. As a natural process in software development, the released versions contain improvements/changes in the methods and their implementation. Moreover, versions may be bug-polluted, leading to the model performance decreasing or stopping the model from working. The aforementioned changes in implementation can lead to variance in obtained results. This work investigates the effect of implementation changes in different major releases of these frameworks on the model performance. We perform our study using a variety of standard datasets. Our study shows that users should consider that changing the framework version can affect the model performance. Moreover, they should consider the possibility of a bug-polluted version before starting to debug source code that had an excellent performance before a version change. This also shows the importance of using virtual environments, such as Docker, when delivering a software product to clients.
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- Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2023 Workshops, page 67--78. Cham, Springer Nature Switzerland, (2023)
- Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, page 227--242. Cham, Springer Nature Switzerland, (2024)
- Journal of Computer Languages, (2024)
- Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, page 214–219. New York, NY, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, (Aug 11, 2021)
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- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, (2024)
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- Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, page 1–2. New York, NY, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, (Aug 27, 2023)
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- Information Sciences, (2024)
- Journal of Systems and Software, (2023)
- Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume A, ACM, (August 2023)
- Journal of Mathematical Biology, 80 (5): 1459--1495 (Apr 1, 2020)
- Procedia Computer Science, (2023)4th International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing.
- Algorithms, 16 (9): 450 (September 2023)
- ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, 3 (3): 1--17 (June 2022)
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 31 (8): 2617-2631 (August 2023)
- IEEE Access, (2023)
- Proceedings of the 15th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, ACM, (February 2021)
- 2018 Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM), page 148-155. (September 2018)
