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Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, Volume 4, Issue 1

2022 March - 13 articles

Cover Story: For the purpose of verifying the authenticity of objects, we have proved that reliable and robust information can be extracted from optical images that contain cholesteric spherical reflectors (CSRs). CSRs are microscopic cholesteric liquid crystals in a spherical shape, used to build identifiable tags. They can supply objects with unclonable fingerprint-like characteristics, making it possible to authenticate objects. This research study has the prospect to change how we authenticate objects with non-professional microscopes, like those which are becoming embedded in new generation smartphones. The research will also have positive implications for the security of digital supply chain technology, strengthening the bond between physical and digital identities of goods. View this paper
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Articles (13)

  • Review
  • Open Access
161 Citations
30,214 Views
40 Pages

Robust Reinforcement Learning: A Review of Foundations and Recent Advances

  • Janosch Moos,
  • Kay Hansel,
  • Hany Abdulsamad,
  • Svenja Stark,
  • Debora Clever and
  • Jan Peters

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a highly successful framework for learning in Markov decision processes (MDP). Due to the adoption of RL in realistic and complex environments, solution robustness becomes an increasingly important aspect of RL...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,920 Views
22 Pages

Comparison of Text Mining Models for Food and Dietary Constituent Named-Entity Recognition

  • Nadeesha Perera,
  • Thi Thuy Linh Nguyen,
  • Matthias Dehmer and
  • Frank Emmert-Streib

Biomedical Named-Entity Recognition (BioNER) has become an essential part of text mining due to the continuously increasing digital archives of biological and medical articles. While there are many well-performing BioNER tools for entities such as ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,224 Views
14 Pages

Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly being used for high-stake applications that can greatly impact people’s lives. Sometimes, these models can be biased toward certain social groups on the basis of race, gender, or ethnicity. Many pri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fairness and Explanation for Trustworthy AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,998 Views
18 Pages

Arrays of Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors (CSRs), microscopic cholesteric liquid crystals in a spherical shape, have been argued to become a game-changing technology in anti-counterfeiting. Used to build identifiable tags or coating, called CSR IDs,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
130 Citations
50,446 Views
50 Pages

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning: A Survey and Open Research Challenges

  • Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse,
  • Kevin Mets and
  • Steven Latré

Reinforcement learning (RL) allows an agent to solve sequential decision-making problems by interacting with an environment in a trial-and-error fashion. When these environments are very complex, pure random exploration of possible solutions often fa...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,736 Views
22 Pages

Air quality is relevant to society because it poses environmental risks to humans and nature. We use explainable machine learning in air quality research by analyzing model predictions in relation to the underlying training data. The data originate f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,167 Views
19 Pages

A Novel Framework for Fast Feature Selection Based on Multi-Stage Correlation Measures

  • Ivan-Alejandro Garcia-Ramirez,
  • Arturo Calderon-Mora,
  • Andres Mendez-Vazquez,
  • Susana Ortega-Cisneros and
  • Ivan Reyes-Amezcua

Datasets with thousands of features represent a challenge for many of the existing learning methods because of the well known curse of dimensionality. Not only that, but the presence of irrelevant and redundant features on any dataset can degrade the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Feature Selection)
  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
25,643 Views
26 Pages

Machine Learning Based Restaurant Sales Forecasting

  • Austin Schmidt,
  • Md Wasi Ul Kabir and
  • Md Tamjidul Hoque

To encourage proper employee scheduling for managing crew load, restaurants need accurate sales forecasting. This paper proposes a case study on many machine learning (ML) models using real-world sales data from a mid-sized restaurant. Trendy recurre...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,210 Views
37 Pages

A Survey of Near-Data Processing Architectures for Neural Networks

  • Mehdi Hassanpour,
  • Marc Riera and
  • Antonio González

Data-intensive workloads and applications, such as machine learning (ML), are fundamentally limited by traditional computing systems based on the von-Neumann architecture. As data movement operations and energy consumption become key bottlenecks in t...

(This article belongs to the Section Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,088 Views
24 Pages

NER in Archival Finding Aids: Extended

  • Luís Filipe da Costa Cunha and
  • José Carlos Ramalho

The amount of information preserved in Portuguese archives has increased over the years. These documents represent a national heritage of high importance, as they portray the country’s history. Currently, most Portuguese archives have made thei...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Language Processing and Knowledge Extraction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
13,519 Views
20 Pages

Transfer learning is a machine learning technique that uses previously acquired knowledge from a source domain to enhance learning in a target domain by reusing learned weights. This technique is ubiquitous because of its great advantages in achievin...

(This article belongs to the Section Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,614 Views
21 Pages

Hybrid simulation is a method used to investigate the dynamic response of a system subjected to a realistic loading scenario. The system under consideration is divided into multiple individual substructures, out of which one or more are tested physic...

(This article belongs to the Section Data)
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