scholarly journals Evolution Strategies and Threshold Selection

2005 ◽  
pp. 104-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bartz-Beielstein
Keyword(s):  
Evolution Strategies ◽  
Threshold Selection

scholarly journals Threshold selection in univariate extreme value analysis

Extremes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Fee Schneider ◽  
Andrea Krajina ◽  
Tatyana Krivobokova
Keyword(s):  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Extreme Value ◽  
Hill Estimator ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
Extreme Value Analysis ◽  
Threshold Selection ◽  
Value Analysis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Asymptotic Mean Squared Error ◽  
The Hill

AbstractThreshold selection plays a key role in various aspects of statistical inference of rare events. In this work, two new threshold selection methods are introduced. The first approach measures the fit of the exponential approximation above a threshold and achieves good performance in small samples. The second method smoothly estimates the asymptotic mean squared error of the Hill estimator and performs consistently well over a wide range of processes. Both methods are analyzed theoretically, compared to existing procedures in an extensive simulation study and applied to a dataset of financial losses, where the underlying extreme value index is assumed to vary over time.

scholarly journals Evolution-Strategies-Driven Optimization on Secure and Reconfigurable Interconnection PUF Networks

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 537
Author(s):  
Hongxiang Gu ◽  
Miodrag Potkonjak
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Evolution Strategies ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Network Configuration ◽  
System Complexity ◽  
Physical Unclonable Functions ◽  
Output Stability ◽  
Output Mapping ◽  
Weight Design

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are known for their unclonability and light-weight design. However, several known issues with state-of-the-art PUF designs exist including vulnerability against machine learning attacks, low output randomness, and low reliability. To address these problems, we present a reconfigurable interconnected PUF network (IPN) design that significantly strengthens the security and unclonability of strong PUFs. While the IPN structure itself significantly increases the system complexity and nonlinearity, the reconfiguration mechanism remaps the input–output mapping before an attacker could collect sufficient challenge-response pairs (CRPs). We also propose using an evolution strategies (ES) algorithm to efficiently search for a network configuration that is capable of producing random and stable responses. The experimental results show that applying state-of-the-art machine learning attacks result in less than 53.19% accuracy for single-bit output prediction on a reconfigurable IPN with random configurations. We also show that, when applying configurations explored by our proposed ES method instead of random configurations, the output randomness is significantly improved by 220.8% and output stability by at least 22.62% in different variations of IPN.

scholarly journals On a Minimum Distance Procedure for Threshold Selection in Tail Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-102
Author(s):  
Holger Drees ◽  
Sidney I. Resnick ◽  
Tiandong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Distance ◽  
Threshold Selection ◽  
Tail Analysis

scholarly journals Fully Automated Segmentation of Lung Parenchyma Using Break and Repair Strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Pramod Kumar ◽  
Mrityunjaya V. Latte
Keyword(s):  
Active Contour ◽  
Lung Parenchyma ◽  
Threshold Selection ◽  
Chain Code ◽  
Repair Strategy ◽  
Automated Method ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Segmentation Accuracy ◽  
Pulmonary Parenchyma ◽  
Optimal Threshold Selection

Abstract The traditional segmentation methods available for pulmonary parenchyma are not accurate because most of the methods exclude nodules or tumors adhering to the lung pleural wall as fat. In this paper, several techniques are exhaustively used in different phases, including two-dimensional (2D) optimal threshold selection and 2D reconstruction for lung parenchyma segmentation. Then, lung parenchyma boundaries are repaired using improved chain code and Bresenham pixel interconnection. The proposed method of segmentation and repairing is fully automated. Here, 21 thoracic computer tomography slices having juxtapleural nodules and 115 lung parenchyma scans are used to verify the robustness and accuracy of the proposed method. Results are compared with the most cited active contour methods. Empirical results show that the proposed fully automated method for segmenting lung parenchyma is more accurate. The proposed method is 100% sensitive to the inclusion of nodules/tumors adhering to the lung pleural wall, the juxtapleural nodule segmentation is >98%, and the lung parenchyma segmentation accuracy is >96%.

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