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Technical Perspective: Robust Statistics Tackle New Problems

"Robustness Meets Algorithms," by Ilias Diakonikolas, et al., represents the beginning of a long and productive line of work on robust statistics in high dimensions...

Robustness Meets Algorithms
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Robustness Meets Algorithms

We give the first efficient algorithm for estimating the parameters of a high-dimensional Gaussian that is able to tolerate a constant fraction of corruptions that...

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Technical Perspective: A Logical Step Toward the Graph Isomorphism Problem

In "Isomorphism, Canonization, and Definability for Graphs of Bounded Rank Width," Grohe and Neuen show that the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm in its plain form solves...

Isomorphism, Canonization, and Definability for Graphs of Bounded Rank Width
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Isomorphism, Canonization, and Definability for Graphs of Bounded Rank Width

In this paper we study the graph isomorphism problem and the closely related graph canonization problem as well as logical definability and descriptive complexity...

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Technical Perspective: Why Don't Today's Deep Nets Overfit to Their Training Data?

"Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking Generalization," Chiyuan Zhang, et al., brings a fundamental new theoretical challenge: Why don't today's...

Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking Generalization
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Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking Generalization

In this work, we presented a simple experimental framework for interrogating purported measures of generalization.

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Technical Perspective: Programming Microfluidics to Execute Biological Protocols

The approach taken in "BioScript," by Jason Ott, et al., is an example of how programming languages can help develop executable protocols that are conforming, understandable...

BioScript
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BioScript: Programming Safe Chemistry on Laboratories-on-a-Chip

This paper introduces BioScript, a domain-specific language for programmable biochemistry that executes on emerging microfluidic platforms.

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Technical Perspective: SkyCore's Architecture Takes It to the 'Edge'

"SkyCore," by Mehrdad Moradi, et al., addresses an exciting use case for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in which UAVs can act as mobile base stations for the cellular...

SkyCore
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SkyCore: Moving Core to the Edge for Untethered and Reliable UAV-Based LTE Networks

We argue for and propose an alternate, radical edge evolved packet core design, called SkyCore, that pushes the EPC functionality to the extreme edge of the core...

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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...

BLeak
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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: 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...

MadMax
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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...

Lower Bounds for External Memory Integer Sorting via Network Coding
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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: Supporting Linear Algebra Operations in SQL

Do we need a completely new database system to support machine learning?

Scalable Linear Algebra on a Relational Database System
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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: Algorithm Selection as a Learning Problem

"Data-Driven Algorithm Design," by Rishi Gupta and Tim Roughgarden, addresses the issue that the best algorithm to use for many problems depends on what the input...

Data-Driven Algorithm Design
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Data-Driven Algorithm Design

We model the problem of identifying a good algorithm from data as a statistical learning problem.
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