Lili Su: Learning with Distributed Systems: Adversary-Resilience and Neural Networks Friday, October 18, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm In this talk, I will first talk about how to secure Federated Learning (FL) against adversarial faults. FL is a new distributed learning paradigm proposed by Google. |
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Lower Bounds for Dynamic Distributed Task Allocation Friday, May 10, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm Abstract: I will talk about problem of distributed task allocation in multi-agent systems. |
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Brabeeba Wang: Integrating Temporal Information to Spatial Information in a Neural Circuit Friday, March 8, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm Algorithms in the brain are inherently distributed. |
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Quanquan Liu: On Bioelectric Algorithms: A Novel Application of Theoretical Computer Science to Core Problems in Developmental Biology. Authors: Seth Gilbert, James Maguire, Calvin Newport Friday, December 14, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm Previous experimental studies have suggested that cellular bioelectricity plays a key role in organism developmental processes such as tissue regeneration, tumor suppression, and embryogenesis. |
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Lewis Tseng: Resilient Causal Memory in Client-Server Model Friday, December 7, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm We study how to emulate resilient causal memory in the client-server model over asynchronous message- passing network. |
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Rati Gelashvili: Why Extension-based Proofs Fail Friday, November 30, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm We prove that a class of fundamental shared memory tasks are not amenable to certain standard proof techniques in the field. |
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Adam Alon: Deterministic Abortable Mutual Exclusion with Sublogarithmic Adaptive RMR Complexity Friday, October 12, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm Abstract: We present a deterministic abortable mutual exclusion algorithm for a cache-coherent (CC) model with read, write, Fetch-And-Add (F&A), and CAS primitives, whose RMR complexity is O(log_W N) , where W is the size of the F& |
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Kishori Konwar: FLECKS-Fast Lean Erasure-coded Consistent Key-value Store Friday, September 14, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm Creating highly-available and cost-effective large-scale distributed object storage systems with useful consistency guarantees is at the heart of enabling the implementation of many Internet-based applications. |
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Nancy Lynch: An Algorithmic Theory of Brain Networks Friday, May 18, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm |
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Ren Ling: Efficient Synchronous Byzantine Consensus Friday, May 4, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm |