<div dir="ltr">Dear Dr. Joni Zhong,<div>I just leased your post at AMDNL, since the subject is related to the list.</div><div>I have a serious question for you that is linked to research ethics. </div><div>You wrote: "the `human-in-the-loop' refers to the active integration of human inputs with different physiological inputs, such as BCI."<br>This would lead to computer assisted human learning, instead of "skull-closed" machine development that my group proposed and has been working on.</div><div>More severely, I allege here that your skull-open approach leads to the "Deep Learning" Misconduct in my following paper:<br></div><table summary="Additional metadata" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.312px"><tbody><tr style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><td class="gmail-tablecell gmail-arxivid" style="padding:0px 6.5px 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;border:0px;font-size:0.95em"><span class="gmail-arxivid" style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16350" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:normal"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">arXiv:2211.16350</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><div>If you test your skull-open machine, is it a test on human-machine in combination? It is not machine learning at all. For example, the human knows the test set!<br><br>Yours humbly,</div><div>-John</div><div>Juyang Weng</div><div>Brain-Mind Institute</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 11:52 AM Joni Zhong <<a href="mailto:jonizhong@msn.com">jonizhong@msn.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-3167399525807787479">
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<span lang="EN-HK">IJCNN 2023 Special Session - Human-in-the-loop Algorithms and System Designs<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK"><u></u> Submission link: <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline"><a href="https://edas.info/N30081" id="m_6686192724799974369LPlnk224938" target="_blank">https://edas.info/N30081</a><span> </span></span><u></u></span></p>
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Submission Deadline: Jan 31, 2023</p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">The human-in-the-loop (HIL) terms can be used in different ways in different research fields. Human-in-the-loop learning algorithms refer to algorithms that include human feedback into the training loop of the machine
learning models to improve the quality of training and to augment the functions of the model. In the hardware applications, the human-in-the-loop learning devices or robots refer to the skill transfer skills from the users to the robots, where a human’s skills
could be actively learnt by the robots’ model to enhance its intelligence or skill levels in an active and autonomous way. In the system design and implementation processes, the “human-in-the-loop” refers to the active integration of human inputs with different
physiological inputs, such as BCI. We can see the “human-in-the-loop” methodologies in different research scopes differ, but their central approach can stay unified an,d interdisciplinary research and development can be foreseen. The special session aims to
reduce the gaps between the robotic systems’ techniques and settings and the users’ practical needs by the users’ inputs and optimization.<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">Themes of interest to this special session include, but are not limited to:<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">•<span>
</span><span> </span><span> </span>HIL in Human-robot interaction<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">•<span>
</span>HIL in Human-robot collaboration<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">•<span>
</span><span> </span>HIL in Assistive Technologies<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">•<span>
</span>Human-guided Reinforcement Learning<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">•<span>
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<span lang="EN-HK">•<span>
</span>Human-centric Design for Assistive Technologies<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">•<span>
</span>Interpretable Machine Learning<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">•<span>
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<span lang="EN-HK">•<span>
</span>Conversation Systems between Human and Robots<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">•<span>
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<b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Important
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">January
31, 2023</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">March
31, 2023</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Conference</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">June
18-23, 2023</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">Junpei Zhong, <span>
</span>The Hong Kong Polytechnic University <u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">Ding Ding, Southeast University <u></u>
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<span lang="EN-HK">Francisco Cruz, New South Wales University
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<span lang="EN-HK">Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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<span lang="EN-HK">Dr. Joni Zhong, <a href="mailto:joni.zhong@polyu.edu.hk" target="_blank">
joni.zhong@polyu.edu.hk</a><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">Please submit your paper at the following link <a href="https://edas.info/N30081" target="_blank">https://edas.info/N30081</a> and choose the track " Special Session: Human-in-the-loop Algorithms and System Designs “. Please follow the standard submission guidelines of
IJCNN 2023. </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">Authors of selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issues published in MDPI Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417) or Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581).
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