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We consider a least absolute deviation (LAD) approach to the robust phase retrieval problem that aims to recover a signal from its absolute measurements corrupted with sparse noise. To solve the resulting non-convex optimization problem, we propose a robust alternating minimization (Robust-AM) derived as an unconstrained Gauss-Newton method.

Steganography is the art of covert communication that pursues the secrecy of concealment. In adaptive steganography, the most commonly used framework of steganography, the sender embeds a “secret message” signal within another “cover” signal with respect to a certain adaptive distortion function that measures the distortion incurred, contributing to the composite “stego” signal that resembles the cover, and the receiver extracts the “secret message” signal from the stego.

In this paper, a memory-enhanced distributed accelerated algorithm is proposed for solving large-scale systems of linear equations within the context of multi-agent systems. By employing a local predictor consisting of a linear combination of the nodes' current and previous values, the inclusion of two memory taps can be characterized such that the convergence of the distributed solution algorithm for coordinated computation is accelerated.

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great promise in modeling relationships between nodes in a graph, but capturing higher-order relationships remains a challenge for large-scale networks. Previous studies have primarily attempted to utilize the information from higher-order neighbors in the graph, involving the incorporation of powers of the shift operator, such as the graph Laplacian or adjacency matrix.

Static meshes with texture maps have attracted considerable attention in both industrial manufacturing and academic research, leading to an urgent requirement for effective and robust objective quality evaluation. However, current model-based static mesh quality metrics (i.e., metrics that directly use the raw data of the static mesh to extract features and predict the quality) have obvious limitations: most of them only consider geometry information, while color information is ignored, and they have strict constraints for the meshes’ geometrical topology.

Image compression distortion can cause performance degradation of machine analysis tasks, therefore recent years have witnessed fast progress in developing deep image compression methods optimized for machine perception. However, the investigation still lacks for saliency segmentation. First, in this paper we propose a deep compression network increasing local signal fidelity of important image pixels for saliency segmentation, which is different from existing methods utilizing the analysis network loss for backward propagation.

Modern integrated circuits (ICs) require a complex, outsourced supply-chain, involving computer-aided design (CAD) tools, expert knowledge, and advanced foundries. This complexity has led to various security threats, such as Trojans inserted by adversaries during outsourcing, but also run-time threats like physical probing. Our proposed design-time solution, DEFense , is an extensible CAD framework for holistic assessment and proactive mitigation of multiple prominent threats.

The deep learning-based profiling attacks have received significant attention for their potential against masking-protected devices. Currently, additional capabilities like exploiting only a segment of the side-channel traces or having knowledge of the specific countermeasure scheme have been granted to attackers during the profiling phase. In case either capability is removed, a practical profiling attack faces great difficulty and complexity. 

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has great potential to improve the performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, especially in scenarios where line-of-sight paths between the base station and users are blocked. However, the spectral efficiency (SE) of RIS-aided ISAC uplink transmissions may be drastically reduced by the heavy burden of pilot overhead for realizing sensing capabilities.