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Technical Perspective: Finding Connections between One-Way Functions and Kolmogorov Complexity
"Toward Basing Cryptography on the Hardness of EXP," by Yanyi Liu and Rafael Pass, establishes surprisingly tight bidirectional connections between one-way functions...
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Toward Basing Cryptography on the Hardness of EXP
We show that the only "gap" toward getting (infinitely-often) OWFs from the assumption that EXP ≠ BPP is the seemingly "minor" technical gap between two-sided error...
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Technical Perspective: Reconsidering the Design of User-Schedulable Languages
The breakthrough of "Achieving High Performance the Functional Way," by Bastian Hagedorn et al., is in fundamentally rethinking the design of user-schedulable languages...
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Achieving High Performance the Functional Way: Expressing High-Performance Optimizations as Rewrite Strategies
We show how to employ functional programming techniques to solve with elegance the challenge of using a high-level language to describe functionality and a separate...
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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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Proving Data-Poisoning Robustness in Decision Trees
We present a sound verification technique based on abstract interpretation and implement it in a tool called Antidote, which abstractly trains decision trees for...
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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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Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness
We propose several efficient data structures for the exact and approximate variants of the fair near neighbor problem.
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Technical Perspective: Can Data Structures Treat Us Fairly?
In "Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness," Aumüller et al. investigate a basic problem in similarity search called near neighbor in the context of fair...
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Technical Perspective: The Compression Power of the BWT
"Resolution of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform Conjecture," by Dominik Kempa and Tomasz Kociumaka, finally settles the question of how well r in the BWT captures...
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Resolution of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform Conjecture
In this paper, we show that r = (z log2 n) holds for every text. This result has numerous implications for text indexing and data compression.
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Technical Perspective: 'What Is the Ideal Operating System?'
The authors of "Set the Configuration for the Heart of the OS" put a fresh view on the practicability of automatic kernel debloating.
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Set the Configuration for the Heart of the OS: On the Practicality of Operating System Kernel Debloating
This paper presents a study on the practicality of operating system kernel debloating, that is, reducing kernel code that is not needed by the target applications...
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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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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.
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Technical Perspective: How Do Experts Learn New Programming Languages?
"Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language?" by Shrestha et al. provides insight into the difficulty of learning...
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Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language?
Our findings demonstrate that interference is a widespread phenomenon, forcing programmers to adopt suboptimal, opportunistic learning strategies.
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Technical Perspective: Applying Design-Space Exploration to Quantum Architectures
"Toward Systematic Architectural Design of Near-Term Trapped Ion Quantum Computers" presents a study on scaling trapped-ion quantum architectures, and challenges...
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