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09/01/2023
The Role of User-Agent Interactions on Mobile Money Practices in Kenya and Tanzania
Digital financial services have catalyzed financial inclusion in Africa....
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07/31/2023
Pretrained deep models outperform GBDTs in Learning-To-Rank under label scarcity
While deep learning (DL) models are state-of-the-art in text and image d...
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05/16/2023
Raft-Forensics: High Performance CFT Consensus with Accountability for Byzantine Faults
Crash fault tolerant (CFT) consensus algorithms are commonly used in sce...
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03/03/2023
Summary Statistic Privacy in Data Sharing
Data sharing between different parties has become increasingly common ac...
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02/17/2023
Privately Customizing Prefinetuning to Better Match User Data in Federated Learning
In Federated Learning (FL), accessing private client data incurs communi...
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11/23/2022
Batching of Tasks by Users of Pseudonymous Forums: Anonymity Compromise and Protection
There are a number of forums where people participate under pseudonyms. ...
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06/03/2022
On the Privacy Properties of GAN-generated Samples
The privacy implications of generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a...
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05/24/2022
Towards a Defense against Backdoor Attacks in Continual Federated Learning
Backdoor attacks are a major concern in federated learning (FL) pipeline...
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05/13/2022
Strategic Latency Reduction in Blockchain Peer-to-Peer Networks
Most permissionless blockchain networks run on peer-to-peer (P2P) networ...
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03/20/2022
RareGAN: Generating Samples for Rare Classes
We study the problem of learning generative adversarial networks (GANs) ...
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12/29/2021
Distance-Aware Private Set Intersection
Private set intersection (PSI) allows two mutually-untrusting parties to...
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12/07/2021
Locally Differentially Private Sparse Vector Aggregation
Vector mean estimation is a central primitive in federated analytics. In...
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08/16/2021
Reducing the Communication Cost of Federated Learning through Multistage Optimization
A central question in federated learning (FL) is how to design optimizat...
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05/24/2021
Abusive Language Detection in Heterogeneous Contexts: Dataset Collection and the Role of Supervised Attention
Abusive language is a massive problem in online social platforms. Existi...
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03/31/2021
Self-Supervised Euphemism Detection and Identification for Content Moderation
Fringe groups and organizations have a long history of using euphemisms–...
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03/04/2021
The Effect of Network Topology on Credit Network Throughput
Credit networks rely on decentralized, pairwise trust relationships (cha...
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02/12/2021
Efficient Algorithms for Federated Saddle Point Optimization
We consider strongly convex-concave minimax problems in the federated se...
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09/06/2020
Why Spectral Normalization Stabilizes GANs: Analysis and Improvements
Spectral normalization (SN) is a widely-used technique for improving the...
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12/04/2019
SquirRL: Automating Attack Discovery on Blockchain Incentive Mechanisms with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Incentive mechanisms are central to the functionality of permissionless ...
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09/30/2019
Generating High-fidelity, Synthetic Time Series Datasets with DoppelGANger
Limited data access is a substantial barrier to data-driven networking r...
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09/25/2019
Prism: Scaling Bitcoin by 10,000x
Bitcoin is the first fully decentralized permissionless blockchain proto...
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09/18/2019
Barracuda: The Power of ℓ-polling in Proof-of-Stake Blockchains
A blockchain is a database of sequential events that is maintained by a ...
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09/06/2019
Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Routing Cryptocurrency over Payment Channel Networks
Payment channel networks (PCNs) are viewed as one of the most promising ...
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06/14/2019
InfoGAN-CR: Disentangling Generative Adversarial Networks with Contrastive Regularizers
Training disentangled representations with generative adversarial networ...
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01/07/2019
Communication cost of consensus for nodes with limited memory
Motivated by applications in blockchains and sensor networks, we conside...
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10/18/2018
Deconstructing the Blockchain to Approach Physical Limits
Transaction throughput, confirmation latency and confirmation reliabilit...
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09/20/2018
Compounding of Wealth in Proof-of-Stake Cryptocurrencies
Proof-of-stake (PoS) is a promising approach for designing efficient blo...
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09/13/2018
Routing Cryptocurrency with the Spider Network
With the growing usage of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, many scala...
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05/28/2018
Dandelion++: Lightweight Cryptocurrency Networking with Formal Anonymity Guarantees
Recent work has demonstrated significant anonymity vulnerabilities in Bi...
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12/12/2017