32 research outputs found
On the Systematic Constructions of Rotation Symmetric Bent Functions with Any Possible Algebraic Degrees
In the literature, few constructions of -variable rotation symmetric bent
functions have been presented, which either have restriction on or have
algebraic degree no more than . In this paper, for any even integer
, a first systemic construction of -variable rotation symmetric
bent functions, with any possible algebraic degrees ranging from to , is
proposed
The Co-Evolution of Global Legitimation and Technology Upgrading: The Case of Huawei
This study explores the underlying relationship between acquisition of global legitimacy and the search for technology upgrading by Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs). Using Huawei’s investment in Russia, Kenya, the United Kingdom and Canada as an in-depth case study, we observe that through corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in foreign markets and engaging with local community, Chinese MNEs can acquire global legitimacy and gradually catch up with industry leaders. However, the process of global legitimation and innovation continues to evolve. We find that, together with engaging in CSR activities, acquisition of sophisticated knowledge and creation of innovation bring more legitimacy challenges to these firms. Thus, we suggest that Chinese MNEs’ global legitimation and innovation processes are closely coupled and mutually influential, resulting in co-evolution
What is the Solution for State-Adversarial Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning?
Various types of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) methods have been
developed, assuming that agents' policies are based on true states. Recent
works have improved the robustness of MARL under uncertainties from the reward,
transition probability, or other partners' policies. However, in real-world
multi-agent systems, state estimations may be perturbed by sensor measurement
noise or even adversaries. Agents' policies trained with only true state
information will deviate from optimal solutions when facing adversarial state
perturbations during execution. MARL under adversarial state perturbations has
limited study. Hence, in this work, we propose a State-Adversarial Markov Game
(SAMG) and make the first attempt to study the fundamental properties of MARL
under state uncertainties. We prove that the optimal agent policy and the
robust Nash equilibrium do not always exist for an SAMG. Instead, we define the
solution concept, robust agent policy, of the proposed SAMG under adversarial
state perturbations, where agents want to maximize the worst-case expected
state value. We then design a gradient descent ascent-based robust MARL
algorithm to learn the robust policies for the MARL agents. Our experiments
show that adversarial state perturbations decrease agents' rewards for several
baselines from the existing literature, while our algorithm outperforms
baselines with state perturbations and significantly improves the robustness of
the MARL policies under state uncertainties
Uncertainty Quantification of Collaborative Detection for Self-Driving
Sharing information between connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs)
fundamentally improves the performance of collaborative object detection for
self-driving. However, CAVs still have uncertainties on object detection due to
practical challenges, which will affect the later modules in self-driving such
as planning and control. Hence, uncertainty quantification is crucial for
safety-critical systems such as CAVs. Our work is the first to estimate the
uncertainty of collaborative object detection. We propose a novel uncertainty
quantification method, called Double-M Quantification, which tailors a moving
block bootstrap (MBB) algorithm with direct modeling of the multivariant
Gaussian distribution of each corner of the bounding box. Our method captures
both the epistemic uncertainty and aleatoric uncertainty with one inference
pass based on the offline Double-M training process. And it can be used with
different collaborative object detectors. Through experiments on the
comprehensive collaborative perception dataset, we show that our Double-M
method achieves more than 4X improvement on uncertainty score and more than 3%
accuracy improvement, compared with the state-of-the-art uncertainty
quantification methods. Our code is public on
https://coperception.github.io/double-m-quantification.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
On constructions of weightwise perfectly balanced Boolean functions
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On Correlation Immune Boolean Functions With Minimum Hamming Weight Power of 2
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A construction method of balanced rotation symmetric Boolean functions on arbitrary even number of variables with optimal algebraic immunity
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Concrete constructions of weightwise perfectly balanced (2-rotation symmetric) functions with optimal algebraic immunity and high weightwise nonlinearity
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Concrete constructions of weightwise perfectly balanced (2-rotation symmetric) functions with optimal algebraic immunity and high weightwise nonlinearity
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