Sreeram Kannan

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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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∙ 07/03/2023

BigDipper: A hyperscale BFT system with short term censorship resistance

Byzantine-fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols underlie a variety of decentral...

0 Bowen Xue, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/17/2023

Goldfish: Peer selection using Matrix completion in unstructured P2P network

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks underlie a variety of decentralized paradigm...

0 Bowen Xue, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/10/2023

HQAlign: Aligning nanopore reads for SV detection using current-level modeling

Motivation: Detection of structural variants (SV) from the alignment of ...

0 Dhaivat Joshi, 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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∙ 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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∙ 07/18/2022

Bitcoin-Enhanced Proof-of-Stake Security: Possibilities and Impossibilities

Bitcoin is the most secure blockchain in the world, supported by the imm...

0 Ertem Nusret Tas, 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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∙ 01/20/2022

Babylon: Reusing Bitcoin Mining to Enhance Proof-of-Stake Security

Bitcoin is the most secure blockchain in the world, supported by the imm...

0 Ertem Nusret Tas, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/08/2021

DispersedLedger: High-Throughput Byzantine Consensus on Variable Bandwidth Networks

The success of blockchains has sparked interest in large-scale deploymen...

0 Lei Yang, 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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∙ 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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∙ 10/15/2020

PoSAT: Proof-of-Work Availability andUnpredictability, without the Work

An important feature of Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchains is full dynamic ...

0 Soubhik Deb, 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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∙ 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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∙ 06/25/2020

Perigee: Efficient Peer-to-Peer Network Design for Blockchains

A key performance metric in blockchains is the latency between when a tr...

0 Yifan Mao, 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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∙ 05/17/2020

C-MI-GAN : Estimation of Conditional Mutual Information using MinMax formulation

Estimation of information theoretic quantities such as mutual informatio...

0 Arnab Kumar Mondal, 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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∙ 09/27/2019

Improving Federated Learning Personalization via Model Agnostic Meta Learning

Federated Learning (FL) refers to learning a high quality global model b...

0 Yihan Jiang, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/28/2019

Are Odds Really Odd? Bypassing Statistical Detection of Adversarial Examples

Deep learning classifiers are known to be vulnerable to adversarial exam...

1 Hossein Hosseini, 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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∙ 06/05/2019

CCMI : Classifier based Conditional Mutual Information Estimation

Conditional Mutual Information (CMI) is a measure of conditional depende...

0 Sudipto Mukherjee, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/01/2019

Dropping Pixels for Adversarial Robustness

Deep neural networks are vulnerable against adversarial examples. In thi...

0 Hossein Hosseini, 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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∙ 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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∙ 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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∙ 09/10/2018

ClusterGAN : Latent Space Clustering in Generative Adversarial Networks

Generative Adversarial networks (GANs) have obtained remarkable success ...

10 Sudipto Mukherjee, 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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∙ 06/25/2018

Mimic and Classify : A meta-algorithm for Conditional Independence Testing

Given independent samples generated from the joint distribution p(x,y,z)...

0 Rajat Sen, 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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∙ 10/13/2017

Potential Conditional Mutual Information: Estimators, Properties and Applications

The conditional mutual information I(X;Y|Z) measures the average informa...

0 Arman Rahimzamani, 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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∙ 08/27/2016

Learning Temporal Dependence from Time-Series Data with Latent Variables

We consider the setting where a collection of time series, modeled as ra...

0 Hossein Hosseini, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/10/2016

Conditional Dependence via Shannon Capacity: Axioms, Estimators and Applications

We conduct an axiomatic study of the problem of estimating the strength ...

0 Weihao Gao, et al. ∙

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