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Technical Perspective: XNOR-Networks – Powerful but Tricky
How to produce a convolutional neural net that is small enough to run on a mobile device, and accurate enough to be worth using? The strategies in "Enabling AI...
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Enabling AI at the Edge with XNOR-Networks
We present a novel approach to running state-of-the-art AI algorithms in edge devices, and propose two efficient approximations to standard convolutional neural...
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Technical Perspective: BLeak: Semantics-Aware Leak Detection in the Web
What is the right leak oracle that can precisely capture the behavior of leaks in Web applications? "BLeak: Automatically Debugging Memory Leaks in Web Applications...
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BLeak: Automatically Debugging Memory Leaks in Web Applications
This paper introduces BLeak (Browser Leak debugger), the first system for automatically debugging memory leaks in web applications.
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Technical Perspective: When the Adversary Is Your Friend
The key insight of the "Generative Adversarial Networks," by Ian Goodfellow et al., is to learn a generative model's loss function at the same time as learning...
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Generative Adversarial Networks
In this overview paper, we describe one particular approach to unsupervised learning via generative modeling called generative adversarial networks. We briefly...
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Technical Perspective: Analyzing Smart Contracts with MadMax
"MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts," by Neville Grech et al., effectively discovers a new smart contract vulnerability, and proposes a detection...
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MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts
We identify gas-focused vulnerabilities and present MadMax: a static program analysis technique that automatically detects gas-focused vulnerabilities with very...
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Technical Perspective: Two for the Price of One
"Lower Bounds for External Memory Integer Sorting via Network Coding" proves a remarkable connection between how efficiently computers can perform sorting and transmitting...
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Lower Bounds for External Memory Integer Sorting via Network Coding
In this paper, we present a tight conditional lower bound on the complexity of external memory sorting of integers.
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Technical Perspective: Progress in Spatial Computing for Flood Prediction
There are few algorithms for multi-flow graphs beyond flow accumulation. The authors of "Flood-Risk Analysis on Terrains" take a big step to fill this knowledge...
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Flood-Risk Analysis on Terrains
In this paper, we study a number of flood-risk related problems, give an overview of efficient algorithms for them, as well as explore the efficacy and efficiency...
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Technical Perspective: Computing the Value of Location Data
"Computing Value of Spatiotemporal Information," by Heba Aly et al., describes a technique for computing the monetary value of a person's location data for a potential...
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Computing Value of Spatiotemporal Information
We investigate the intrinsic value of location data in the context of strong privacy, where location information is only available from end users via purchase. ...
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Technical Perspective: Supporting Linear Algebra Operations in SQL
Do we need a completely new database system to support machine learning?
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Scalable Linear Algebra on a Relational Database System
We show that by making just a few changes to a parallel/distributed relational database system, such a system can become a competitive platform for scalable linear...
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Technical Perspective: Entity Matching with Magellan
Magellan's key insight is that a successful entity matching system must offer a versatile system building paradigm for entity matching that can be easily adapted...
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Magellan: Toward Building Ecosystems of Entity Matching Solutions
Entity matching can be viewed as a special class of data science problems and thus can benefit from system building ideas in data science.
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Technical Perspective: ASIC Clouds: Specializing the Datacenter
Can we build purpose-built, warehouse-scale datacenters customized for large-scale arrays of ASIC accelerators or, to use a term coined in the paper by Michael...
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