193 research outputs found
Study on Optimization of Flood Discharge Types in MHSJ Stilling Basin
At the beginning of the operation of a Hydropower Station adopted a new type of stilling basin with multi-horizontal submerged jets (MHSJ), it was found there was a phenomenon of roller shutter door and window vibration in some local area of the downstream region during the flood discharging process. The prototype observation indicated that the flow induced vibration is greatly influenced by flood discharging types with different open combination of the sluice gates. Flow fluctuating pressure is a main load that frequently causes damages to flood discharge structures, which is a crucial incentive that caused flow induced vibration of the downstream region of the hydropower station. In this paper, from the perspective of hydraulics, the flood discharging types with different open combination of the sluice gates under same flood discharge were simulated through a series of hydraulic model experiments. Judged by the values of fluctuating pressure on the bottom plate of stilling basin, it was found the joint discharging type of surface outlets and middle outlets is better than surface outlets discharging type or middle outlets discharging type. The response law between discharge allocation proportion of each outlet and fluctuating pressure characteristics in the still basin was preliminary revealed. The optimal flood discharge types were obtained. The research results can provide technical support for the operation and management of the Hydropower Station. The reduction of vibration intensity from the source is expected
Android HIV: A Study of Repackaging Malware for Evading Machine-Learning Detection
Machine learning based solutions have been successfully employed for
automatic detection of malware in Android applications. However, machine
learning models are known to lack robustness against inputs crafted by an
adversary. So far, the adversarial examples can only deceive Android malware
detectors that rely on syntactic features, and the perturbations can only be
implemented by simply modifying Android manifest. While recent Android malware
detectors rely more on semantic features from Dalvik bytecode rather than
manifest, existing attacking/defending methods are no longer effective. In this
paper, we introduce a new highly-effective attack that generates adversarial
examples of Android malware and evades being detected by the current models. To
this end, we propose a method of applying optimal perturbations onto Android
APK using a substitute model. Based on the transferability concept, the
perturbations that successfully deceive the substitute model are likely to
deceive the original models as well. We develop an automated tool to generate
the adversarial examples without human intervention to apply the attacks. In
contrast to existing works, the adversarial examples crafted by our method can
also deceive recent machine learning based detectors that rely on semantic
features such as control-flow-graph. The perturbations can also be implemented
directly onto APK's Dalvik bytecode rather than Android manifest to evade from
recent detectors. We evaluated the proposed manipulation methods for
adversarial examples by using the same datasets that Drebin and MaMadroid (5879
malware samples) used. Our results show that, the malware detection rates
decreased from 96% to 1% in MaMaDroid, and from 97% to 1% in Drebin, with just
a small distortion generated by our adversarial examples manipulation method.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figure
Do We Fully Understand Students' Knowledge States? Identifying and Mitigating Answer Bias in Knowledge Tracing
Knowledge tracing (KT) aims to monitor students' evolving knowledge states
through their learning interactions with concept-related questions, and can be
indirectly evaluated by predicting how students will perform on future
questions. In this paper, we observe that there is a common phenomenon of
answer bias, i.e., a highly unbalanced distribution of correct and incorrect
answers for each question. Existing models tend to memorize the answer bias as
a shortcut for achieving high prediction performance in KT, thereby failing to
fully understand students' knowledge states. To address this issue, we approach
the KT task from a causality perspective. A causal graph of KT is first
established, from which we identify that the impact of answer bias lies in the
direct causal effect of questions on students' responses. A novel
COunterfactual REasoning (CORE) framework for KT is further proposed, which
separately captures the total causal effect and direct causal effect during
training, and mitigates answer bias by subtracting the latter from the former
in testing. The CORE framework is applicable to various existing KT models, and
we implement it based on the prevailing DKT, DKVMN, and AKT models,
respectively. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the
effectiveness of CORE in making the debiased inference for KT.Comment: 13 page
ON and OFF retinal ganglion cells differentially regulate serotonergic and GABAergic activity in the dorsal raphe nucleus
The dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN), the major source of serotonergic input to the forebrain, receives excitatory input from the retina that can modulate serotonin levels and depressive-like behavior. In the Mongolian gerbil, retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) with alpha-like morphological and Y-like physiological properties innervate the DRN with ON DRN-projecting RGCs out numbering OFF DRN-projecting RGCs. The DRN neurons targeted by ON and OFF RGCs are unknown. To explore retino-raphe anatomical organization, retinal afferents labeled with Cholera toxin B were examined for association with the postsynaptic protein PSD-95. Synaptic associations between retinal afferents and DRN serotonergic and GABAergic neurons were observed. To explore retino-raphe functional organization, light-evoked c-fos expression was examined. Light significantly increased the number of DRN serotonergic and GABAergic cells expressing c-Fos. When ON RGCs were rendered silent while enhancing the firing rate of OFF RGCs, c-Fos expression was greatly increased in DRN serotonergic neurons suggesting that OFF DRN-projecting RGCs predominately activate serotonergic neurons whereas ON DRN-projecting RGCs mainly target GABAergic neurons. Direct glutamatergic retinal input to DRN 5-HT neurons contributes to the complex excitatory drive regulating these cells. Light, via the retinoraphe pathway can modify DRN 5-HT neuron activity which may play a role in modulating affective behavior
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