Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for co-operative and cascaded inference on the edge device using an integrated Deep Learning (DL) model for object detection and localization, which comprises a strong classifier trained on largely available datasets and a weak localizer trained on scarcely available datasets, and work in coordination to first detect object (fire) in every input frame using the classifier, and then trigger a localizer only for the frames that are classified as fire frames. The classifier and the localizer of the integrated DL model are jointly trained using Multitask Learning approach. Works in literature hardly address the technical challenge of embedding such integrated DL model to be deployed on edge devices. The method provides an optimal hardware software partitioning approach for components or segments of the integrated DL model which achieves a tradeoff between latency and accuracy in object classification and localization.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for automatic adaptive client selection in federated learning. A server sends parameters of a machine learning model to all of clients, where all of the clients compute respective gradients using the parameters. The server receives sketches of the respective gradients, where the sketches are computed by all of the clients. The server uses the sketches to compute similarity between all of the clients and clusters the all of the clients based on the similarity. The server optimizes a number of client clusters and a dimension of the sketches, subject to a constraint of memory consumption, a constraint of communication overhead, and a performance metric. The server determines a subset of the clients that send the respective gradients, by selecting the clients from the client clusters. The server aggregates the respective gradients sent by the subset of the clients.

Abstract: A system and machine-implemented method for providing a multiple medium social networking experience, the method comprising receiving a message from a user through a communication medium to perform an operation at a social networking site, determining if the message format used by the communication medium is compatible with the social networking site and generating a message in a format supported by the social networking site in response to determining that the communication medium is not compatible with the social networking site, the message including a command executable by the social networking site to perform the operation at the social networking site on behalf of the user.