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Thirty Years of Machine Learning: The Road to Pareto-Optimal Wireless Networks
Future wireless networks have a substantial potential in terms of supporting
a broad range of complex compelling applications both in military and civilian
fields, where the users are able to enjoy high-rate, low-latency, low-cost and
reliable information services. Achieving this ambitious goal requires new radio
techniques for adaptive learning and intelligent decision making because of the
complex heterogeneous nature of the network structures and wireless services.
Machine learning (ML) algorithms have great success in supporting big data
analytics, efficient parameter estimation and interactive decision making.
Hence, in this article, we review the thirty-year history of ML by elaborating
on supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning and deep
learning. Furthermore, we investigate their employment in the compelling
applications of wireless networks, including heterogeneous networks (HetNets),
cognitive radios (CR), Internet of things (IoT), machine to machine networks
(M2M), and so on. This article aims for assisting the readers in clarifying the
motivation and methodology of the various ML algorithms, so as to invoke them
for hitherto unexplored services as well as scenarios of future wireless
networks.Comment: 46 pages, 22 fig
Gaussian Process Regression for Estimating EM Ducting Within the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer
We show that Gaussian process regression (GPR) can be used to infer the
electromagnetic (EM) duct height within the marine atmospheric boundary layer
(MABL) from sparsely sampled propagation factors within the context of bistatic
radars. We use GPR to calculate the posterior predictive distribution on the
labels (i.e. duct height) from both noise-free and noise-contaminated array of
propagation factors. For duct height inference from noise-contaminated
propagation factors, we compare a naive approach, utilizing one random sample
from the input distribution (i.e. disregarding the input noise), with an
inverse-variance weighted approach, utilizing a few random samples to estimate
the true predictive distribution. The resulting posterior predictive
distributions from these two approaches are compared to a "ground truth"
distribution, which is approximated using a large number of Monte-Carlo
samples. The ability of GPR to yield accurate and fast duct height predictions
using a few training examples indicates the suitability of the proposed method
for real-time applications.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure
Safe Mutations for Deep and Recurrent Neural Networks through Output Gradients
While neuroevolution (evolving neural networks) has a successful track record
across a variety of domains from reinforcement learning to artificial life, it
is rarely applied to large, deep neural networks. A central reason is that
while random mutation generally works in low dimensions, a random perturbation
of thousands or millions of weights is likely to break existing functionality,
providing no learning signal even if some individual weight changes were
beneficial. This paper proposes a solution by introducing a family of safe
mutation (SM) operators that aim within the mutation operator itself to find a
degree of change that does not alter network behavior too much, but still
facilitates exploration. Importantly, these SM operators do not require any
additional interactions with the environment. The most effective SM variant
capitalizes on the intriguing opportunity to scale the degree of mutation of
each individual weight according to the sensitivity of the network's outputs to
that weight, which requires computing the gradient of outputs with respect to
the weights (instead of the gradient of error, as in conventional deep
learning). This safe mutation through gradients (SM-G) operator dramatically
increases the ability of a simple genetic algorithm-based neuroevolution method
to find solutions in high-dimensional domains that require deep and/or
recurrent neural networks (which tend to be particularly brittle to mutation),
including domains that require processing raw pixels. By improving our ability
to evolve deep neural networks, this new safer approach to mutation expands the
scope of domains amenable to neuroevolution
An objective based classification of aggregation techniques for wireless sensor networks
Wireless Sensor Networks have gained immense popularity in recent years due to their ever increasing capabilities and wide range of critical applications. A huge body of research efforts has been dedicated to find ways to utilize limited resources of these sensor nodes in an efficient manner. One of the common ways to minimize energy consumption has been aggregation of input data. We note that every aggregation technique has an improvement objective to achieve with respect to the output it produces. Each technique is designed to achieve some target e.g. reduce data size, minimize transmission energy, enhance accuracy etc. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of aggregation techniques that can be used in distributed manner to improve lifetime and energy conservation of wireless sensor networks. Main contribution of this work is proposal of a novel classification of such techniques based on the type of improvement they offer when applied to WSNs. Due to the existence of a myriad of definitions of aggregation, we first review the meaning of term aggregation that can be applied to WSN. The concept is then associated with the proposed classes. Each class of techniques is divided into a number of subclasses and a brief literature review of related work in WSN for each of these is also presented
Deep convolutional neural networks for estimating porous material parameters with ultrasound tomography
We study the feasibility of data based machine learning applied to ultrasound
tomography to estimate water-saturated porous material parameters. In this
work, the data to train the neural networks is simulated by solving wave
propagation in coupled poroviscoelastic-viscoelastic-acoustic media. As the
forward model, we consider a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method while
deep convolutional neural networks are used to solve the parameter estimation
problem. In the numerical experiment, we estimate the material porosity and
tortuosity while the remaining parameters which are of less interest are
successfully marginalized in the neural networks-based inversion. Computational
examples confirms the feasibility and accuracy of this approach
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