Federated Learning (FL) addresses the growing concerns of Internet of Things (IoT) service security and privacy in edge computing environments by enabling collaborative model training without the need to centralize sensitive data. Most existing FL frameworks remain vulnerable to sophisticated threats such as source inference attacks (SIAs), which exploit model updates to infer sensitive information about participating clients, thereby compromising the integrity and security of edge services. To mitigate such attacks and ensure service security and user privacy, various defensive methods, such as RM Learning and RelaxLoss, have been proposed. However, these methods fail to provide effective privacy protection in practical FL scenarios characterized by non-IID data distributions. To address this issue, we propose FedMLU, a novel algorithm designed to counter SIAs effectively. Specifically, FedMLU combines a model alternating update strategy with the RelaxLoss algorithm to minimize the loss discrepancy among samples, thereby reducing the distinguishability exploited by SIAs. Furthermore, distinct soft labels are assigned for training each federated participant model, aiming to decrease the model's prediction confidence and enhance privacy protection. Extensive experiments on synthetic datasets and various real-world datasets demonstrate that our method achieves better defense performance and a more favorable tradeoff between privacy protection and model utility compared to the state-of-the-art RelaxLoss and two popular FL frameworks, particularly in scenarios with data heterogeneity.

In modern software systems, log anomaly detection is a key technology to ensure system stability and reliability. The existing log-based anomaly detection methods have make significant development, but they fail to provide high detection accuracy when processing semantic information, especially in terms of semantic noise and the need for task-specific semantic embeddings. To address these issues, we propose a novel anomaly detection method called Contrast-Enhanced Log Anomaly Detection (CELA). The CELA model first enriches the content of log events using large language models and further optimizes the pretrained BERT model through contrastive learning techniques, ensuring that the event representations extracted from logs more accurately reflect potential anomalous patterns. On this basis, we have developed an anomaly detection model based on LSTM, which can effectively learn and identify anomalies from rich event representations. Evaluated on two public log datasets, the CELA model demonstrated superior performance compared to existing methods.

In the question-answering system, users frequently express multiple intents within a single utterance. The majority of intent recognition models tend to either primarily address single-intent scenarios or simply aggregate the overall intent context vectors of all tokens, neglecting the integration of multi-intent information. However, current methods suffer from slow inference speed, limited generalization capability, and the relatively independent treatment of multi-intent recognition tasks, leading to suboptimal model performance. In this paper, we design a novel model based on BERT, employing a non-autoregressive approach for the task of multi-intent recognition. This model achieves enhanced speed and accuracy. Additionally, this model introduces a global slot-intent interaction layer, simulating interactions between multiple intents and slots within an utterance. Experimental results on a series of benchmarking datasets demonstrate that this model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods, improving both the effectiveness and efficiency of the overall system.

Summary In sedimentology, the integration of intelligent engineering decision‐making with edge computing environments aims to furnish engineers and decision‐makers with precise, real‐time insights into sediment‐related issues. This approach markedly reduces data transfer time and response latency by harnessing the computational power of edge computing, thereby bolstering the decision‐making process. Concurrently, the establishment of a sediment knowledge graph serves as a pivotal conduit for disseminating sediment‐related knowledge in the realm of intelligent engineering decision‐making. Moreover, it facilitates a comprehensive exploration of the intricate evolutionary and transformative processes inherent in sediment materials. By unveiling the evolutionary trajectory of life on Earth, the sediment knowledge graph catalyzes a deeper understanding of our planet's history and dynamics. Relationship extraction, as a key step in knowledge graph construction, implements automatic extraction and establishment of associations between entities from a large amount of sedimentary literature data. However, sedimentological literature presents multi‐source heterogeneous features, which leads to a weak representation of hidden relationships, thus decreasing the accuracy of relationship extraction. In this article, we propose an attribute‐extended relation extraction approach (AERE), which is specifically designed for sedimentary relation extraction scenarios. First, context statements containing sediment entities are obtained from the literature. Then, a cohesive hierarchical clustering algorithm is used to extend the relationship attributes between sediments. Finally, mine the relationships between entities based on AERE. The experimental results show that the proposed model can effectively extract the hidden relations and exhibits strong robustness in dealing with redundant noise before and after sentences, which in turn improves the completeness of the relations between deposits. After the relationship extraction, a proprietary sediment knowledge graph is constructed with the extracted triads.

Recent studies of video action recognition can be classified into two categories: the appearance-based methods and the pose-based methods. The appearance-based methods generally cannot model temporal dynamics of large motion well by virtue of optical flow estimation, while the pose-based methods ignore the visual context information such as typical scenes and objects, which are also important cues for action understanding. In this paper, we tackle these problems by proposing a Pose-Appearance Relational Network (PARNet), which models the correlation between human pose and image appearance, and combines the benefits of these two modalities to improve the robustness towards unconstrained real-world videos. There are three network streams in our model, namely pose stream, appearance stream and relation stream. For the pose stream, a Temporal Multi-Pose RNN module is constructed to obtain the dynamic representations through temporal modeling of 2D poses. For the appearance stream, a Spatial Appearance CNN module is employed to extract the global appearance representation of the video sequence. For the relation stream, a Pose-Aware RNN module is built to connect pose and appearance streams by modeling action-sensitive visual context information. Through jointly optimizing the three modules, PARNet achieves superior performances compared with the state-of-the-arts on both the pose-complete datasets (KTH, Penn-Action, UCF11) and the challenging pose-incomplete datasets (UCF101, HMDB51, JHMDB), demonstrating its robustness towards complex environments and noisy skeletons. Its effectiveness on NTU-RGBD dataset is also validated even compared with 3D skeleton-based methods. Furthermore, an appearance-enhanced PARNet equipped with a RGB-based I3D stream is proposed, which outperforms the Kinetics pre-trained competitors on UCF101 and HMDB51. The better experimental results verify the potentials of our framework by integrating various modules.

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging technology that is recognized as a key to 5G networks. Because MEC provides an IT service environment and cloud-computing services at the edge of the mobile network, researchers hope to use MEC for secure service deployment, such as Internet of vehicles, Internet of Things (IoT), and autonomous vehicles. Because of the characteristics of MEC which do not have terminal servers, it tends to be deployed on the edge of networks. However, there are few related works that systematically introduce the deployment of MEC. Also, secure service deployment frameworks with MEC are even rare. For this reason, we have conducted a comprehensive and concrete survey of recent research studies on secure deployment. Although numerous research studies and experiments about MEC service deployment have been conducted, there are few systematic summaries that conclude basic concepts and development strategies about secure service deployment of commercial MEC. To make up for the gap, a detailed and complete survey about relative achievements is presented.