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Technical Perspective: On Abstractions and Embedded Networks
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Technical Perspective: On Abstractions and Embedded Networks

"Symbol-Synchronous Buses," by Jonathan Oostvogels et al., conceives a notion of a symbol-synchronous bus, which effectively makes a multi-hop wireless network...

Symbol-Synchronous Buses: Deterministic, Low-Latency Wireless Mesh Networking with LEDs
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Symbol-Synchronous Buses: Deterministic, Low-Latency Wireless Mesh Networking with LEDs

We describe a novel networking paradigm that aims to enable a new class of latency-sensitive applications by systematically breaking networking abstractions.

Technical Perspective: Beautiful Symbolic Abstractions for Safe and Secure Machine Learning
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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...

Technical Perspective: The Power of Low-Power GPS Receivers for Nanosats
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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...

Hummingbird
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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.

Technical Perspective: Traffic Classification in the Era of Deep Learning
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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...

Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web
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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...

Technical Perspective: Physical Layer Resilience through Deep Learning in Software Radios
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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...

Polymorphic Wireless Receivers
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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.

Technical Perspective: hXDP
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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...

hXDP
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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.

Technical Perspective: Evaluating Sampled Metrics Is Challenging
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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...

On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation
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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...

Technical Perspective: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection
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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...

FANG
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FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation

We propose Factual News Graph (FANG), a novel graphical social context representation and learning framework for fake news detection.

Technical Perspective: Model Structure Takes Guesswork Out of State Estimation
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Technical Perspective: Model Structure Takes Guesswork Out of State Estimation

"Worst-Case Topological Entropy and Minimal Data Rate for State Estimation of Switched Linear Systems" gives a method for computing the topological entropy of a...

Worst-Case Topological Entropy and Minimal Data Rate for State Estimation of Switched Linear Systems
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Worst-Case Topological Entropy and Minimal Data Rate for State Estimation of Switched Linear Systems

In this paper, we study the problem of estimating the state of a switched linear system when the observation of the system is subject to communication constraints...

Technical Perspective: Neural Radiance Fields Explode on the Scene
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Technical Perspective: Neural Radiance Fields Explode on the Scene

Neural volume rendering exploded onto the scene in 2020, triggered by "NeRF," the impressive paper by Ben Mildenhall et al., on Neural Radiance Fields.

NeRF
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NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis

We present a method that achieves state-of-the-art results for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes by optimizing an underlying continuous volumetric scene...

Technical Perspective: The Importance of WINOGRANDE
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Technical Perspective: The Importance of WINOGRANDE

"WINOGRANDE" explores new methods of dataset development and adversarial filtering, expressly designed to prevent AI systems from making claims of smashing through...
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