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Machine Learning models face increased concerns regarding the storage of personal user data and adverse impacts of corrupted data like backdoors or systematic bias. Machine Unlearning can address these by allowing post-hoc deletion of affected training data from a learned model. Achieving this task exactly is computationally expensive; consequently, recent works have proposed inexact unlearning algorithms to solve this approximately as well as evaluation methods to test the effectiveness of these algorithms. In this work, we first outline some necessary criteria for evaluation methods and show no existing evaluation satisfies them all. Then, we design a stronger black-box evaluation method called the Interclass Confusion (IC) test which adversarially manipulates data during training to detect the insufficiency of unlearning procedures. We also propose two analytically motivated baseline methods~(EU-k and CF-k) which outperform several popular inexact unlearning methods. Overall, we demonstrate how adversarial evaluation strategies can help in analyzing various unlearning phenomena which can guide the development of stronger unlearning algorithms.

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Detecting abusive language in multimodal videos has become a pressing need in ensuring a safe and inclusive online environment. This paper focuses on addressing this challenge through the development of a novel approach for multimodal abusive language detection in Tamil videos and sentiment analysis for Tamil/Malayalam videos. By leveraging state-of-the-art models such as Multiscale Vision Transformers (MViT) for video analysis, OpenL3 for audio analysis, and the bert-basemultilingual-cased model for textual analysis, our proposed framework integrates visual, auditory, and textual features. Through extensive experiments and evaluations, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our model in accurately detecting abusive content and predicting sentiment categories. The limited availability of effective tools for performing these tasks in Dravidian Languages has prompted a new avenue of research in these domains. Keywords: abusive language detection, sentiment analysis, multimodal analysis, video analysis, Dravidian languages.

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This study addresses the challenge of detecting fake news in Dravidian languages by leveraging Google’s MuRIL (Multilingual Representations for Indian Languages) model. Drawing upon previous research, we investigate the intricacies involved in identifying fake news and explore the potential of transformer-based models for linguistic analysis and contextual understanding. Through supervised learning, we fine-tune the ”muril-base-cased” variant of MuRIL using a carefully curated dataset of labeled comments and posts in Dravidian languages, enabling the model to discern between original and fake news. During the inference phase, the fine-tuned MuRIL model analyzes new textual content, extracting contextual and semantic features to predict the content’s classification. We evaluate the model’s performance using standard metrics, highlighting the effectiveness of MuRIL in detecting fake news in Dravidian languages and contributing to the establishment of a safer digital ecosystem. Keywords: fake news detection, Dravidian languages, MuRIL, transformer-based models, linguistic analysis, contextual understanding.x

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Abusive comments in online platforms have become a significant concern, necessitating the development of effective detection systems. However, limited work has been done in low resource languages, including Dravidian languages. This paper addresses this gap by focusing on abusive comment detection in a dataset containing Tamil, Tamil-English and TeluguEnglish code-mixed comments. Our methodology involves logistic regression and explores suitablef embeddings to enhance the performance of the detection model. Through rigorous experimentation, we identify the most effective combination of logistic regression and embeddings. The results demonstrate the performance of our proposed model, which contributes to the development of robust abusive comment detection systems in low resource language settings. Keywords: Abusive comment detection, Dravidian languages, logistic regression, embeddings, low resource languages, code-mixed dataset.

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This study employed the P-MiSTIC method to analyze decadal temperature patterns in contiguous Peninsular India. A gridded temperature dataset from IMD spanning 1990-2020 was utilized, generating three decade-wise datasets. P-MiSTIC identified similar zones in decadal and overall datasets, revealing localized data characteristics. The 30-year trend for diurnal temperature range (DTR) showed a significant increase of 0.002oC/year for all zones, while the Western Himalayas and Karakoram range exhibited higher increasing trends of 0.019oC/year and 0.028oC/year, respectively. The DTR lapse rate over 30 years was quantified as -0.133oC/km, with a sharp decline observed from the first two decades (0.012 & 0.028 oC/km) to the third decade (-0.533 oC/km). Differential elevation-dependent temperature changes were observed, with the Karakoram region displaying the most prominent increase, suggesting the emergence of Elevation Dependent Warming in contiguous Peninsular India.

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Researchers have extensively studied the field of vision and language, discovering that both visual and textual content is crucial for understanding scenes effectively. Particularly, comprehending text in videos holds great significance, requiring both scene text understanding and temporal reasoning. This paper focuses on exploring two recently introduced datasets, NewsVideoQA and M4-ViteVQA, which aim to address video question answering based on textual content. The NewsVideoQA dataset contains question-answer pairs related to the text in news videos, while M4-ViteVQA comprises question-answer pairs from diverse categories like vlogging, traveling, and shopping. We provide an analysis of the formulation of these datasets on various levels, exploring the degree of visual understanding and multi-frame comprehension required for answering the questions. Additionally, the study includes experimentation with BERT-QA, a text-only model, which demonstrates comparable performance to the original methods on both datasets, indicating the shortcomings in the formulation of these datasets. Furthermore, we also look into the domain adaptation aspect by examining the effectiveness of training on M4-ViteVQA and evaluating on NewsVideoQA and vice-versa, thereby shedding light on the challenges and potential benefits of out-of-domain training.

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We propose CLIP-Head, a novel approach towards text-driven neu- ral parametric 3D head model generation. Our method takes simple text prompts in natural language, describing the appearance & facial expressions, and generates 3D neural head avatars with ac- curate geometry and high-quality texture maps. Unlike existing approaches, which use conventional parametric head models with limited control and expressiveness, we leverage Neural Parametric Head Models (NPHM), offering disjoint latent codes for the dis- entangled encoding of identities and expressions. To facilitate the text-driven generation, we propose two weakly-supervised map- ping networks to map the CLIP’s encoding of input text prompt to NPHM’s disjoint identity and expression vector. The predicted latent codes are then fed to a pre-trained NPHM network to gener- ate 3D head geometry. Since NPHM mesh doesn’t support textures, we propose a novel aligned parametrization technique, followed by text-driven generation of texture maps by leveraging a recently pro- posed controllable diffusion model for the task of text-to-image syn- thesis. Our method is capable of generating 3D head meshes with arbitrary appearances and a variety of facial expressions, along with photoreal texture details. We show superior performance with ex- isting state-of-the-art methods, both qualitatively & quantitatively, and demonstrate potentially useful applications of our method.

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The discovery of potential therapeutic agents for life-threatening diseases has become a significant problem. There is a requirement for fast and accurate methods to identify drug-like molecules that can be used as potential candidates for novel targets. Existing techniques like high-throughput screening and virtual screening are time-consuming and inefficient. Traditional molecule generation pipelines are more efficient than virtual screening but use time-consuming docking software. Such docking functions can be emulated using Machine Learning models with comparable accuracy and faster execution times. However, we find that when pre-trained machine learning models are employed in generative pipelines as oracles, they suffer from model degradation in areas where data is scarce. In this study, we propose an active learning-based model that can be added as a supplement to enhanced molecule generation architectures. The proposed method uses uncertainty sampling on the molecules created by the generator model and dynamically learns as the generator samples molecules from different regions of the chemical space. The proposed framework can generate molecules with high binding affinity with ∼ a 70% improvement in runtime compared to the baseline model by labeling only ∼ 30% of molecules compared to the baseline oracle.

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Robust spectrum sensing is crucial for facilitating opportunistic spectrum utilization for secondary users (SU) in the absense of primary users (PU). However, propagation environment factors such as multi-path fading, shadowing, and lack of line of sight (LoS) often adversely affect detection performance. To deal with these issues, this paper focuses on utilizing reconfig- urable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to improve spectrum sensing in the scenario wherein both the multi-path fading and noise are correlated. In particular, to leverage the spatially correlated fading, we propose to use maximum eigenvalue detection (MED) for spectrum sensing. We first derive exact distributions of test statistics, i.e., the largest eigenvalue of the sample covariance matrix, observed under the null and signal present hypothesis. Next, utilizing these results, we present the exact closed-form expressions for the false alarm and detection probabilities. In addition, we also optimally configure the phase shift matrix of RIS such that the mean of the test statistics is maximized, thus improving the detection performance. Our numerical analysis demonstrates that the MED’s receiving operating characteristic (ROC) curve improves with increased RIS elements, SNR, and the utilization of statistically optimal configured RIS. Index Terms—Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Spectrum Sensing, Maximum Eigenvalue Detector, Correlated Fading, e

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This paper presents a star-of-star topology for internet-of-things (IoT) networks using mega low-Earth-orbit constellations. The proposed topology enables IoT users to broadcast their sensed data to multiple satellites simultaneously over a shared channel, which is then relayed to the ground station (GS) using amplify-and-forward relaying. The GS coherently combines the signals from multiple satellites using maximal ratio combining. To analyze the performance of the proposed topology in the presence of interference, a comprehensive outage probabil- ity (OP) analysis is performed, assuming imperfect channel state information at the GS. The paper employs stochastic geometry to model the random locations of satellites, making the analysis gen- eral and independent of any specific constellation. Furthermore, the paper examines successive interference cancellation (SIC) and capture model (CM)-based decoding schemes at the GS to mitigate interference. The average OP for the CM-based scheme and the OP of the best user for the SIC scheme are derived analytically. The paper also presents simplified expressions for the OP under a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) assumption, which are utilized to optimize the system parameters for achieving a tar- get OP. The simulation results are consistent with the analytical expressions and provide insights into the impact of various system parameters, such as mask angle, altitude, number of satellites, and decoding order. The findings of this study demonstrate that the proposed topology can effectively leverage the benefits of multiple satellites to achieve the desired OP and enable burst transmissions without coordination among IoT users, making it an attractive choice for satellite-based IoT networks. Index Terms—Amplify-and-forward, LEO satellites, outage probability, satellite-based IoT, stochastic geometry