WIDE team members François Taiani and Georgy Ishmaev co-organized the fifth edition of the research workshop Distributed Infrastructure for the Common Good (DICG’25), on July 20 in Glasgow. The workshop explores the role of distributed infrastructures in supporting human interaction and economic activity, with a particular emphasis on serving the common good. This year,…
Georgy Ishmaev, a WIDE team member, recently spoke at one of the opening sessions of Protocol Berg v2 2025 in Berlin. His talk, titled “Blockchain Ethics: Pure Reason or Pure Madness,” explored the need for advancing interdisciplinary research on blockchain technologies and their ethical implications across both academic and industry contexts. Protocol Berg…
Congratulations to Mounah Honoré Césaire, David Bromberg, and Djob Mvondo for their work “The Impact of Kernel Asynchronous APIs on the Performance of a Kernel VPN” accepted at SYSTOR 2025. The paper explores the impact of kernel-level routines on the performance of VPNs, which are essential to today’s computing infrastructure.…
A cutting-edge reconciliation algorithm developed at WIDE is being used by Bluesky, the decentralized social network built on the AT protocol. In a recent research paper detailing Bluesky’s tech stack [1], researchers from Cambridge and Bluesky reveal that the AT protocol harnesses Merkle Search Trees (MST) – an innovative data…
Programme: Tuesday July 1st 2025 09:00 – Arrival 09:05 – Opening (François) 09:10 – Mining in logarithmic space with variable difficulty (Emmanuelle Anceaume, ACM CCS 2026) 09:50 – Naively Sorting Evolving Data (George Giakkoupis, IEEE FOCS 2024) 10:30 – ☕️ Coffee Break 11:10 – Game 1: The past 12:10 –…
Et si pour voyager dans l’inconnu, il suffisait de faire de la recherche ? Manon Sourisseau, François Taïani, Timothé Albouy, et Davide Frey (de WIDE) ainsi qu’Emmanuelle Anceaume (de l’équipe PIRAT) on participé au tournage de l’émission Esprit Sorcier TV : les surprises de la recherche filmée à Rennes en…
Congratulations to Dimitri Lereverend, Davide Frey, and François Taiani for their work “Low-Cost Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Learning” accepted at PoPETS 2025. The paper explores the use of correlated noise in decentralized learning to achieve an efficient privacy-utility tradeoff. Decentralized learning allows machine learning while keeping individual data local and private, but…
WIDE is organizing a one-day workshop on Reliable Distributed Systems and Blockchain on December 17, 2024, in Rennes. International experts will give invited talks, showcasing key recent results on distributed systems and blockchain research. More information is available here.
Congratulations to Augustin Godinot, Erwan Le Merrer, and Francois Taiani for their paper entitled “Queries, Representation & Detection: the next 100 model fingerprinting schemes” accepted at AAAI 2025, a flagship conference in artificial intelligence. Comparing learned models is a fundamental task in Machine Learning (ML). In this paper, they studied model…
Congratulations to Brice Ekane, Djob Mvondo, and Yérom-David Bromberg for their paper entitled “DiSC: Backpressure Mitigation In Multi-tier Applications With Distributed Shared Connection” accepted at NSDI 2025, a flagship conference in network and systems. This work targets load reduction on frontend servers by intelligently displacing the load on backend servers…
