Pramod Viswanath

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∙ 07/31/2023

SAKSHI: Decentralized AI Platforms

Large AI models (e.g., Dall-E, GPT4) have electrified the scientific, te...

0 Suma Bhat, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Weizhao Tang, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/20/2023

Compressed Error HARQ: Feedback Communication on Noise-Asymmetric Channels

In modern communication systems with feedback, there are increasingly mo...

0 Sravan Kumar Ankireddy, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/16/2023

Machine Learning-Aided Efficient Decoding of Reed-Muller Subcodes

Reed-Muller (RM) codes achieve the capacity of general binary-input memo...

0 Mohammad Vahid Jamali, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/20/2022

TrustBoost: Boosting Trust among Interoperable Blockchains

Currently there exist many blockchains with weak trust guarantees, limit...

0 Xuechao Wang, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/20/2022

Proof of Backhaul: Trustfree Measurement of Broadband Bandwidth

Recent years have seen the emergence of decentralized wireless networks ...

0 Peiyao Sheng, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/01/2022

CRISP: Curriculum based Sequential Neural Decoders for Polar Code Family

Polar codes are widely used state-of-the-art codes for reliable communic...

0 S Ashwin Hebbar, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/30/2022

TinyTurbo: Efficient Turbo Decoders on Edge

In this paper, we introduce a neural-augmented decoder for Turbo codes c...

0 S Ashwin Hebbar, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/22/2022

Optimal Bootstrapping of PoW Blockchains

Proof of Work (PoW) blockchains are susceptible to adversarial majority ...

0 Ranvir Rana, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/27/2022

Minotaur: Multi-Resource Blockchain Consensus

Resource-based consensus is the backbone of permissionless distributed l...

0 Matthias Fitzi, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/29/2021

KO codes: Inventing Nonlinear Encoding and Decoding for Reliable Wireless Communication via Deep-learning

Landmark codes underpin reliable physical layer communication, e.g., Ree...

0 Ashok Vardhan Makkuva, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/06/2021

Securing Parallel-chain Protocols under Variable Mining Power

Several emerging PoW blockchain protocols rely on a "parallel-chain" arc...

0 Xuechao Wang, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/02/2021

Reed-Muller Subcodes: Machine Learning-Aided Design of Efficient Soft Recursive Decoding

Reed-Muller (RM) codes are conjectured to achieve the capacity of any bi...

0 Mohammad Vahid Jamali, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/30/2020

ACeD: Scalable Data Availability Oracle

A popular method in practice offloads computation and storage in blockch...

0 Peiyao Sheng, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/26/2020

The Checkpointed Longest Chain: User-dependent Adaptivity and Finality

Longest-chain protocols such as the one invented by Nakamoto for Bitcoin...

0 Suryanarayana Sankagiri, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/14/2020

BFT Protocol Forensics

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols allow a group of replicas to co...

0 Peiyao Sheng, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/02/2020

Enriching Word Embeddings with Temporal and Spatial Information

The meaning of a word is closely linked to sociocultural factors that ca...

0 Hongyu Gong, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/18/2020

Deepcode and Modulo-SK are Designed for Different Settings

We respond to [1] which claimed that "Modulo-SK scheme outperforms Deepc...

17 Hyeji Kim, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/21/2020

Everything is a Race and Nakamoto Always Wins

Nakamoto invented the longest chain protocol, and claimed its security b...

0 Amir Dembo, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/19/2020

Free2Shard: Adaptive-adversary-resistant sharding via Dynamic Self Allocation

Propelled by the growth of large-scale blockchain deployments, much rece...

0 Ranvir Rana, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/19/2020

Prism Removes Consensus Bottleneck for Smart Contracts

The performance of existing permissionless smart contract platforms such...

0 Gerui Wang, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/08/2019

Turbo Autoencoder: Deep learning based channel codes for point-to-point communication channels

Designing codes that combat the noise in a communication medium has rema...

0 Yihan Jiang, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/05/2019

Proof-of-Stake Longest Chain Protocols Revisited

The Nakamoto longest chain protocol has served Bitcoin well in its decad...

0 Xuechao Wang, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/02/2019

Coded Merkle Tree: Solving Data Availability Attacks in Blockchains

In this paper, we propose coded Merkle tree (CMT), a novel hash accumula...

0 Mingchao Yu, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/25/2019

Prism: Scaling Bitcoin by 10,000x

Bitcoin is the first fully decentralized permissionless blockchain proto...

0 Lei Yang, et al. ∙

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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 ...

0 Giulia Fanti, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/26/2019

Coded State Machine -- Scaling State Machine Execution under Byzantine Faults

We introduce an information-theoretic framework, named Coded State Machi...

0 Songze Li, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/06/2019

Learning in Gated Neural Networks

Gating is a key feature in modern neural networks including LSTMs, GRUs ...

0 Ashok Vardhan Makkuva, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/06/2019

DeepTurbo: Deep Turbo Decoder

Present-day communication systems routinely use codes that approach the ...

0 Yihan Jiang, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/23/2019

Context-Sensitive Malicious Spelling Error Correction

Misspelled words of the malicious kind work by changing specific keyword...

0 Hongyu Gong, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/30/2018

LEARN Codes: Inventing Low-latency Codes via Recurrent Neural Networks

Designing channel codes under low latency constraints is one of the most...

2 Yihan Jiang, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/26/2018

Estimators for Multivariate Information Measures in General Probability Spaces

Information theoretic quantities play an important role in various setti...

0 Arman Rahimzamani, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/18/2018

Deconstructing the Blockchain to Approach Physical Limits

Transaction throughput, confirmation latency and confirmation reliabilit...

0 Vivek Bagaria, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/09/2018

Learning One-hidden-layer Neural Networks under General Input Distributions

Significant advances have been made recently on training neural networks...

6 Weihao Gao, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/27/2018

PolyShard: Coded Sharding Achieves Linearly Scaling Efficiency and Security Simultaneously

Today's blockchains do not scale in a meaningful sense. As more nodes jo...

0 Songze Li, et al. ∙

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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...

0 Giulia Fanti, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/13/2018

Routing Cryptocurrency with the Spider Network

With the growing usage of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, many scala...

0 Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/02/2018

Deepcode: Feedback Codes via Deep Learning

The design of codes for communicating reliably over a statistically well...

0 Hyeji Kim, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/28/2018

Dandelion++: Lightweight Cryptocurrency Networking with Formal Anonymity Guarantees

Recent work has demonstrated significant anonymity vulnerabilities in Bi...

0 Giulia Fanti, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/23/2018

Embedding Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions via Tensor Decomposition

Prepositions are among the most frequent words in English and play compl...

0 Hongyu Gong, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/23/2018

Communication Algorithms via Deep Learning

Coding theory is a central discipline underpinning wireline and wireless...

2 Hyeji Kim, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/21/2018

Globally Consistent Algorithms for Mixture of Experts

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) is a widely popular neural network architecture...

0 Ashok Vardhan Makkuva, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/14/2018

Graph2Seq: Scalable Learning Dynamics for Graphs

Neural networks have been shown to be an effective tool for learning alg...

0 Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/12/2017

Discovering Potential Correlations via Hypercontractivity

Discovering a correlation from one variable to another variable is of fu...

0 Hyeji Kim, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/18/2017

Representing Sentences as Low-Rank Subspaces

Sentences are important semantic units of natural language. A generic, d...

0 Jiaqi Mu, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/07/2017

MORSE: Semantic-ally Drive-n MORpheme SEgment-er

We present in this paper a novel framework for morpheme segmentation whi...

0 Tarek Sakakini, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/07/2017

Fixing the Infix: Unsupervised Discovery of Root-and-Pattern Morphology

We present an unsupervised and language-agnostic method for learning roo...

0 Tarek Sakakini, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/05/2017

Prepositions in Context

Prepositions are highly polysemous, and their variegated senses encode s...

0 Hongyu Gong, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/05/2017

All-but-the-Top: Simple and Effective Postprocessing for Word Representations

Real-valued word representations have transformed NLP applications, popu...

0 Jiaqi Mu, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/29/2016

Geometry of Compositionality

This paper proposes a simple test for compositionality (i.e., literal us...

0 Hongyu Gong, et al. ∙

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