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Technical Perspective: Beautiful Symbolic Abstractions for Safe and Secure Machine Learning
"Proving Data-Poisoning Robustness in Decision Trees," by Samuel Drews et al., addresses the challenge of processing an intractably large set of trained models...
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Technical Perspective: The Power of Low-Power GPS Receivers for Nanosats
The work explored in "Hummingbird," by Sujay Narayana et al., focuses on the energy consumption of a typical GPS receiver and its operational challenges in a nanosat...
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Hummingbird: An Energy-Efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites
In this work, we elucidate the design of a low-cost, low-power GPS receiver for small satellites.
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Technical Perspective: Traffic Classification in the Era of Deep Learning
"Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web," by Iman Akbari et al., does a great job in reviewing related work in the network traffic classification...
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Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web
In this paper, we design a novel feature engineering approach used for encrypted Web protocols, and develop a neural network architecture based on stacked long...
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Technical Perspective: Physical Layer Resilience through Deep Learning in Software Radios
"Polymorphic Wireless Receivers," by Francesco Restuccia and Tommaso Melodia, tackles the problem of physical layer resilience in wireless systems from a completely...
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Polymorphic Wireless Receivers
We introduce PolymoRF, a deep learning-based polymorphic receiver able to reconfigure itself in real time based on the inferred waveform parameters.
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Technical Perspective: hXDP: Light and Efficient Packet Processing Offload
In "hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs," the authors offer an interesting solution to bridging the performance gap between the CPU and the...
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hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs
We present hXDP, a solution to run on FPGAs software packet processing tasks described with the eBPF technology and targeting the Linux's eXpress Data Path.
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Technical Perspective: Evaluating Sampled Metrics Is Challenging
"On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation," by Walid Krichene and Steffen Rendle, exposes a crucial aspect for the evaluation of algorithms and tools: the impact...
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On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation
This paper investigates sampled metrics and shows that it is possible to improve the quality of sampled metrics by applying a correction, obtained by minimizing...
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Technical Perspective: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection
In "FANG," the authors focus on a strategy of automatically detecting disinformation campaigns on online media with a new graph-based, contextual technique for...
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