A State-of-the-Art Survey on Deep Learning Theory and Architectures

In recent years, deep learning has garnered tremendous success in a variety of application domains. This new field of machine learning has been growing rapidly and has been applied to most traditional application domains, as well as some new areas that present more opportunities. Different methods have been proposed based on different categories of learning, including supervised, semi-supervised, and un-supervised learning. Experimental results show state-of-the-art performance using deep learning when compared to traditional machine learning approaches in the fields of image processing, computer vision, speech recognition, machine translation, art, medical imaging, medical information processing, robotics and control, bioinformatics, natural language processing, cybersecurity, and many others. This survey presents a brief survey on the advances that have occurred in the area of Deep Learning (DL), starting with the Deep Neural Network (DNN). The survey goes on to cover Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Units (GRU), Auto-Encoder (AE), Deep Belief Network (DBN), Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). Additionally, we have discussed recent developments, such as advanced variant DL techniques based on these DL approaches. This work considers most of the papers published after 2012 from when the history of deep learning began. Furthermore, DL approaches that have been explored and evaluated in different application domains are also included in this survey. We also included recently developed frameworks, SDKs, and benchmark datasets that are used for implementing and evaluating deep learning approaches. There are some surveys that have been published on DL using neural networks and a survey on Reinforcement Learning (RL). However, those papers have not discussed individual advanced techniques for training large-scale deep learning models and the recently developed method of generative models.

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Detection of Malicious Software by Analyzing Distinct Artifacts Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms

Electronics ◽

10.3390/electronics10141694 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (14) ◽

pp. 1694

Author(s):

Mathew Ashik ◽

A. Jyothish ◽

S. Anandaram ◽

P. Vinod ◽

Francesco Mercaldo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Machine Learning ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Support Vector ◽

Malware Analysis ◽

Learning Approaches ◽

Dynamic Features ◽

System Calls ◽

Prevention Methods ◽

Structural Aspects

Malware is one of the most significant threats in today’s computing world since the number of websites distributing malware is increasing at a rapid rate. Malware analysis and prevention methods are increasingly becoming necessary for computer systems connected to the Internet. This software exploits the system’s vulnerabilities to steal valuable information without the user’s knowledge, and stealthily send it to remote servers controlled by attackers. Traditionally, anti-malware products use signatures for detecting known malware. However, the signature-based method does not scale in detecting obfuscated and packed malware. Considering that the cause of a problem is often best understood by studying the structural aspects of a program like the mnemonics, instruction opcode, API Call, etc. In this paper, we investigate the relevance of the features of unpacked malicious and benign executables like mnemonics, instruction opcodes, and API to identify a feature that classifies the executable. Prominent features are extracted using Minimum Redundancy and Maximum Relevance (mRMR) and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Experiments were conducted on four datasets using machine learning and deep learning approaches such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), Naïve Bayes, J48, Random Forest (RF), and XGBoost. In addition, we also evaluate the performance of the collection of deep neural networks like Deep Dense network, One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (1D-CNN), and CNN-LSTM in classifying unknown samples, and we observed promising results using APIs and system calls. On combining APIs/system calls with static features, a marginal performance improvement was attained comparing models trained only on dynamic features. Moreover, to improve accuracy, we implemented our solution using distinct deep learning methods and demonstrated a fine-tuned deep neural network that resulted in an F1-score of 99.1% and 98.48% on Dataset-2 and Dataset-3, respectively.

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Analysis of the Nosema Cells Identification for Microscopic Images

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21093068 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (9) ◽

pp. 3068

Author(s):

Soumaya Dghim ◽

Carlos M. Travieso-González ◽

Radim Burget

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Machine Learning ◽

Image Processing ◽

Deep Learning ◽

The Other ◽

Support Vector ◽

Learning Approaches ◽

Microscopic Images ◽

Trained Neural Network ◽

Nosema Disease

The use of image processing tools, machine learning, and deep learning approaches has become very useful and robust in recent years. This paper introduces the detection of the Nosema disease, which is considered to be one of the most economically significant diseases today. This work shows a solution for recognizing and identifying Nosema cells between the other existing objects in the microscopic image. Two main strategies are examined. The first strategy uses image processing tools to extract the most valuable information and features from the dataset of microscopic images. Then, machine learning methods are applied, such as a neural network (ANN) and support vector machine (SVM) for detecting and classifying the Nosema disease cells. The second strategy explores deep learning and transfers learning. Several approaches were examined, including a convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier and several methods of transfer learning (AlexNet, VGG-16 and VGG-19), which were fine-tuned and applied to the object sub-images in order to identify the Nosema images from the other object images. The best accuracy was reached by the VGG-16 pre-trained neural network with 96.25%.

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SHEDR: An End-to-End Deep Neural Event Detection and Recommendation Framework for Hyperlocal News Using Social Media

INFORMS Journal on Computing ◽

10.1287/ijoc.2021.1112 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yuheng Hu ◽

Yili Hong

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Social Media ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Event Detection ◽

Large Scale ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Neural Network Models ◽

Neural Event ◽

End To End

Residents often rely on newspapers and television to gather hyperlocal news for community awareness and engagement. More recently, social media have emerged as an increasingly important source of hyperlocal news. Thus far, the literature on using social media to create desirable societal benefits, such as civic awareness and engagement, is still in its infancy. One key challenge in this research stream is to timely and accurately distill information from noisy social media data streams to community members. In this work, we develop SHEDR (social media–based hyperlocal event detection and recommendation), an end-to-end neural event detection and recommendation framework with a particular use case for Twitter to facilitate residents’ information seeking of hyperlocal events. The key model innovation in SHEDR lies in the design of the hyperlocal event detector and the event recommender. First, we harness the power of two popular deep neural network models, the convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM), in a novel joint CNN-LSTM model to characterize spatiotemporal dependencies for capturing unusualness in a region of interest, which is classified as a hyperlocal event. Next, we develop a neural pairwise ranking algorithm for recommending detected hyperlocal events to residents based on their interests. To alleviate the sparsity issue and improve personalization, our algorithm incorporates several types of contextual information covering topic, social, and geographical proximities. We perform comprehensive evaluations based on two large-scale data sets comprising geotagged tweets covering Seattle and Chicago. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework in comparison with several state-of-the-art approaches. We show that our hyperlocal event detection and recommendation models consistently and significantly outperform other approaches in terms of precision, recall, and F-1 scores. Summary of Contribution: In this paper, we focus on a novel and important, yet largely underexplored application of computing—how to improve civic engagement in local neighborhoods via local news sharing and consumption based on social media feeds. To address this question, we propose two new computational and data-driven methods: (1) a deep learning–based hyperlocal event detection algorithm that scans spatially and temporally to detect hyperlocal events from geotagged Twitter feeds; and (2) A personalized deep learning–based hyperlocal event recommender system that systematically integrates several contextual cues such as topical, geographical, and social proximity to recommend the detected hyperlocal events to potential users. We conduct a series of experiments to examine our proposed models. The outcomes demonstrate that our algorithms are significantly better than the state-of-the-art models and can provide users with more relevant information about the local neighborhoods that they live in, which in turn may boost their community engagement.

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Covid-19 detection via deep neural network and occlusion sensitivity maps

10.36227/techrxiv.14100890 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Noor Ahmad ◽

Muhammad Aminu ◽

Mohd Halim Mohd Noor

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Deep Neural Network ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Color Images ◽

Fine Tuning ◽

Training Dataset ◽

Learning Approaches ◽

Learning Models ◽

Sensitivity Maps

Deep learning approaches have attracted a lot of attention in the automatic detection of Covid-19 and transfer learning is the most common approach. However, majority of the pre-trained models are trained on color images, which can cause inefficiencies when fine-tuning the models on Covid-19 images which are often grayscale. To address this issue, we propose a deep learning architecture called CovidNet which requires a relatively smaller number of parameters. CovidNet accepts grayscale images as inputs and is suitable for training with limited training dataset. Experimental results show that CovidNet outperforms other state-of-the-art deep learning models for Covid-19 detection.

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Comparison between Deep Learning and Tree-Based Machine Learning Approaches for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping

Water ◽

10.3390/w13192664 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (19) ◽

pp. 2664

Author(s):

Sunil Saha ◽

Jagabandhu Roy ◽

Tusar Kanti Hembram ◽

Biswajeet Pradhan ◽

Abhirup Dikshit ◽

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Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Machine Learning ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Landslide Susceptibility ◽

Learning Model ◽

Susceptibility Mapping ◽

Landslide Susceptibility Mapping ◽

Learning Approaches ◽

Statistical Measures ◽

Deep Learning Model

The efficiency of deep learning and tree-based machine learning approaches has gained immense popularity in various fields. One deep learning model viz. convolution neural network (CNN), artificial neural network (ANN) and four tree-based machine learning models, namely, alternative decision tree (ADTree), classification and regression tree (CART), functional tree and logistic model tree (LMT), were used for landslide susceptibility mapping in the East Sikkim Himalaya region of India, and the results were compared. Landslide areas were delimited and mapped as landslide inventory (LIM) after gathering information from historical records and periodic field investigations. In LIM, 91 landslides were plotted and classified into training (64 landslides) and testing (27 landslides) subsets randomly to train and validate the models. A total of 21 landslide conditioning factors (LCFs) were considered as model inputs, and the results of each model were categorised under five susceptibility classes. The receiver operating characteristics curve and 21 statistical measures were used to evaluate and prioritise the models. The CNN deep learning model achieved the priority rank 1 with area under the curve of 0.918 and 0.933 by using the training and testing data, quantifying 23.02% and 14.40% area as very high and highly susceptible followed by ANN, ADtree, CART, FTree and LMT models. This research might be useful in landslide studies, especially in locations with comparable geophysical and climatological characteristics, to aid in decision making for land use planning.

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Tagging terms in text

Terminology ◽

10.1075/term.21010.rig ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Ayla Rigouts Terryn ◽

Véronique Hoste ◽

Els Lefever

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Machine Learning ◽

Language Processing ◽

Conditional Random Fields ◽

Traditional Approach ◽

Learning Approaches ◽

Term Extraction ◽

The Neural Network ◽

Predicted Probability ◽

Automatic Term Extraction

Abstract As with many tasks in natural language processing, automatic term extraction (ATE) is increasingly approached as a machine learning problem. So far, most machine learning approaches to ATE broadly follow the traditional hybrid methodology, by first extracting a list of unique candidate terms, and classifying these candidates based on the predicted probability that they are valid terms. However, with the rise of neural networks and word embeddings, the next development in ATE might be towards sequential approaches, i.e., classifying each occurrence of each token within its original context. To test the validity of such approaches for ATE, two sequential methodologies were developed, evaluated, and compared: one feature-based conditional random fields classifier and one embedding-based recurrent neural network. An additional comparison was added with a machine learning interpretation of the traditional approach. All systems were trained and evaluated on identical data in multiple languages and domains to identify their respective strengths and weaknesses. The sequential methodologies were proven to be valid approaches to ATE, and the neural network even outperformed the more traditional approach. Interestingly, a combination of multiple approaches can outperform all of them separately, showing new ways to push the state-of-the-art in ATE.

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From Characters to Time Intervals: New Paradigms for Evaluation and Neural Parsing of Time Normalizations

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics ◽

10.1162/tacl_a_00025 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 343-356 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Egoitz Laparra ◽

Dongfang Xu ◽

Steven Bethard

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Machine Learning ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Learning Approaches ◽

Semantic Parsing ◽

Time Intervals ◽

Semantic Composition ◽

Previous State ◽

New Scoring

This paper presents the first model for time normalization trained on the SCATE corpus. In the SCATE schema, time expressions are annotated as a semantic composition of time entities. This novel schema favors machine learning approaches, as it can be viewed as a semantic parsing task. In this work, we propose a character level multi-output neural network that outperforms previous state-of-the-art built on the TimeML schema. To compare predictions of systems that follow both SCATE and TimeML, we present a new scoring metric for time intervals. We also apply this new metric to carry out a comparative analysis of the annotations of both schemes in the same corpus.

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Deep learning for brain disorders: from data processing to disease treatment

Briefings in Bioinformatics ◽

10.1093/bib/bbaa310 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ninon Burgos ◽

Simona Bottani ◽

Johann Faouzi ◽

Elina Thibeau-Sutre ◽

Olivier Colliot

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Language Processing ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Imaging Genetics ◽

Environmental Data ◽

Brain Disorders ◽

Disease Treatment ◽

Clinical Routine

Abstract In order to reach precision medicine and improve patients’ quality of life, machine learning is increasingly used in medicine. Brain disorders are often complex and heterogeneous, and several modalities such as demographic, clinical, imaging, genetics and environmental data have been studied to improve their understanding. Deep learning, a subpart of machine learning, provides complex algorithms that can learn from such various data. It has become state of the art in numerous fields, including computer vision and natural language processing, and is also growingly applied in medicine. In this article, we review the use of deep learning for brain disorders. More specifically, we identify the main applications, the concerned disorders and the types of architectures and data used. Finally, we provide guidelines to bridge the gap between research studies and clinical routine.

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Comparing Deep-Learning Architectures and Traditional Machine-Learning Approaches for Satire Identification in Spanish Tweets

Mathematics ◽

10.3390/math8112075 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (11) ◽

pp. 2075

Author(s):

Óscar Apolinario-Arzube ◽

José Antonio García-Díaz ◽

José Medina-Moreira ◽

Harry Luna-Aveiga ◽

Rafael Valencia-García

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Deep Learning ◽

User Interfaces ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Learning Approaches ◽

Word Embeddings ◽

Linguistic Features ◽

Intended Meaning ◽

Language User ◽

Learning Architectures

Automatic satire identification can help to identify texts in which the intended meaning differs from the literal meaning, improving tasks such as sentiment analysis, fake news detection or natural-language user interfaces. Typically, satire identification is performed by training a supervised classifier for finding linguistic clues that can determine whether a text is satirical or not. For this, the state-of-the-art relies on neural networks fed with word embeddings that are capable of learning interesting characteristics regarding the way humans communicate. However, as far as our knowledge goes, there are no comprehensive studies that evaluate these techniques in Spanish in the satire identification domain. Consequently, in this work we evaluate several deep-learning architectures with Spanish pre-trained word-embeddings and compare the results with strong baselines based on term-counting features. This evaluation is performed with two datasets that contain satirical and non-satirical tweets written in two Spanish variants: European Spanish and Mexican Spanish. Our experimentation revealed that term-counting features achieved similar results to deep-learning approaches based on word-embeddings, both outperforming previous results based on linguistic features. Our results suggest that term-counting features and traditional machine learning models provide competitive results regarding automatic satire identification, slightly outperforming state-of-the-art models.

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