Mohammad Aldossary^1,*, Hatem A. Alharbi², Nasir Ayub³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4603-4620, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050862 - 20 June 2024

Abstract Cloud computing has become increasingly popular due to its capacity to perform computations without relying on physical infrastructure, thereby revolutionizing computer processes. However, the rising energy consumption in cloud centers poses a significant challenge, especially with the escalating energy costs. This paper tackles this issue by introducing efficient solutions for data placement and node management, with a clear emphasis on the crucial role of the Internet of Things (IoT) throughout the research process. The IoT assumes a pivotal role in this study by actively collecting real-time data from various sensors strategically positioned in and around… More >

Yuecheng Yu^1,*, Liming Cai¹, Anqi Ning¹, Jinlong Shi¹, Xudong Chen², Shixin Huang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 1915-1931, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.046125 - 27 February 2024

Abstract Under the influence of air humidity, dust, aerosols, etc., in real scenes, haze presents an uneven state. In this way, the image quality and contrast will decrease. In this case, It is difficult to detect the target in the image by the universal detection network. Thus, a dual subnet based on multi-task collaborative training (DSMCT) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, in the training phase, the Gated Context Aggregation Network (GCANet) is used as the supervisory network of YOLOX to promote the extraction of clean information in foggy scenes. In the test phase, only the… More >

Chaoyu Fan^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 1719-1738, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.041395 - 29 November 2023

Abstract There is a growing amount of data uploaded to the internet every day and it is important to understand the volume of those data to find a better scheme to process them. However, the volume of internet data is beyond the processing capabilities of the current internet infrastructure. Therefore, engineering works using technology to organize and analyze information and extract useful information are interesting in both industry and academia. The goal of this paper is to explore the entity relationship based on deep learning, introduce semantic knowledge by using the prepared language model, develop an More >

Hengyang Liu, Chuncheng Huang^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.2, pp. 1745-1761, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040710 - 30 August 2023

Abstract In the field of medical images, pixel-level labels are time-consuming and expensive to acquire, while image-level labels are relatively easier to obtain. Therefore, it makes sense to learn more information (knowledge) from a small number of hard-to-get pixel-level annotated images to apply to different tasks to maximize their usefulness and save time and training costs. In this paper, using Pixel-Level Labeled Images for Multi-Task Learning (PLDMLT), we focus on grading the severity of fundus images for Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). This is because, for the segmentation task, there is a finely labeled mask, while the severity… More >

Kaiyue Wang¹, Jian Gao^1,2,*, Xinyan Lei¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 619-638, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036701 - 29 April 2023

Abstract Traffic characterization (e.g., chat, video) and application identification (e.g., FTP, Facebook) are two of the more crucial jobs in encrypted network traffic classification. These two activities are typically carried out separately by existing systems using separate models, significantly adding to the difficulty of network administration. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Transformer are deep learning-based approaches for network traffic classification. CNN is good at extracting local features while ignoring long-distance information from the network traffic sequence, and Transformer can capture long-distance feature dependencies while ignoring local details. Based on these characteristics, a multi-task learning model that… More >

Arwa Saif Fadel^1,2,*, Osama Ahmed Abulnaja¹, Mostafa Elsayed Saleh¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 4419-4444, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.037112 - 31 March 2023

Abstract Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a fine-grained process. Its fundamental subtasks are aspect term extraction (ATE) and aspect polarity classification (APC), and these subtasks are dependent and closely related. However, most existing works on Arabic ABSA content separately address them, assume that aspect terms are preidentified, or use a pipeline model. Pipeline solutions design different models for each task, and the output from the ATE model is used as the input to the APC model, which may result in error propagation among different steps because APC is affected by ATE error. These methods are impractical… More >

Hongxin Luo, Xiaobing Zhou^*, Haiyan Ding, Liqing Wang

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3583-3593, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036622 - 15 March 2023

Abstract Online advertising has gained much attention on various platforms as a hugely lucrative market. In promoting content and advertisements in real life, the acquisition of user target actions is usually a multi-step process, such as impression→click→conversion, which means the process from the delivery of the recommended item to the user’s click to the final conversion. Due to data sparsity or sample selection bias, it is difficult for the trained model to achieve the business goal of the target campaign. Multi-task learning, a classical solution to this problem, aims to generalize better on the original task… More >

Lingyun Xiang^1,*, Rong Wang¹, Yuhang Liu¹, Yangfan Liu¹, Lina Tan^2,3

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 2383-2399, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037067 - 09 February 2023

Abstract Prevailing linguistic steganalysis approaches focus on learning sensitive features to distinguish a particular category of steganographic texts from non-steganographic texts, by performing binary classification. While it remains an unsolved problem and poses a significant threat to the security of cyberspace when various categories of non-steganographic or steganographic texts coexist. In this paper, we propose a general linguistic steganalysis framework named LS-MTL, which introduces the idea of multi-task learning to deal with the classification of various categories of steganographic and non-steganographic texts. LS-MTL captures sensitive linguistic features from multiple related linguistic steganalysis tasks and can concurrently… More >

Ni Ruiwen¹, Mu Ye^1,2,3,4,*, Li Ji¹, Zhang Tong¹, Luo Tianye¹, Feng Ruilong¹, Gong He^1,2,3,4, Hu Tianli^1,2,3,4, Sun Yu^1,2,3,4, Guo Ying^1,2,3,4, Li Shijun^5,6, Thobela Louis Tyasi⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3263-3274, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026881 - 16 June 2022

Abstract In order to accurately segment architectural features in high-resolution remote sensing images, a semantic segmentation method based on U-net network multi-task learning is proposed. First, a boundary distance map was generated based on the remote sensing image of the ground truth map of the building. The remote sensing image and its truth map were used as the input in the U-net network, followed by the addition of the building ground prediction layer at the end of the U-net network. Based on the ResNet network, a multi-task network with the boundary distance prediction layer was built. More >

Yatian Shen¹, Yubo Mai², Xiajiong Shen², Wenke Ding^{2, *}, Mengjiao Guo³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 529-541, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011139 - 23 July 2020

Abstract Previous studies have shown that there is potential semantic dependency between part-of-speech and semantic roles. At the same time, the predicate-argument structure in a sentence is important information for semantic role labeling task. In this work, we introduce the auxiliary deep neural network model, which models semantic dependency between part-of-speech and semantic roles and incorporates the information of predicate-argument into semantic role labeling. Based on the framework of joint learning, part-of-speech tagging is used as an auxiliary task to improve the result of the semantic role labeling. In addition, we introduce the argument recognition layer More >