The paper Efficient Randomized DCAS, a joint work by George Giakkoupis (WIDE), Mehrdad Jafari Giv and Philipp Woelfel (University of Calgary, Canada) has been accepted at the 53rd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2021). Double-Compare-And-Swap (DCAS) is a tremendously useful shared-memory synchronization primitive, which is also notoriously difficult…
Our paper, in collaboration with IRIT/ENSHEEIT and LAAS/CNRS, has been accepted to the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), one of the flagship conferences in networking. It is entitled “Setting the Record Straighter on Shadow Banning”, and deals with the user-side observation of the (black-box) moderation algorithm of…
The Coronasurveys team (https://coronasurveys.org/) led by Antonio Fernandez from IMDEA, and involving Davide Frey from the WIDE team, were finalists in the Facebook Symptom Data Challenge (https://www.symptomchallenge.org/). They developed forecasting methods for the number of COVID-19 cases based on the signals collected by the FB Symptom Survey and by coronasurveys.org.…
The paper Online Federated Learning via Staleness Awareness and Performance Prediction. Georgios Damaskinos, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vlad Nitu, Rhicheek Patra, François Taïani ⟨10.1145/3423211.3425685⟩. ⟨hal-03043237⟩ has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2020 ACM/IFP International Conference on Middleware, the premier event for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific…
The WIDE team proudly presented three papers at Middleware 2020, the ACM/IFIP International Conference on Middleware. Congratulations to Erwan, Georgios and Loïck, and for their respective successes! Georgios Damaskinos, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vlad Nitu, Rhicheek Patra, François Taïani. FLeet: Online Federated Learning via Staleness Awareness and Performance Prediction. ⟨10.1145/3423211.3425685⟩.…
Loïck Bonniot from WIDE, and his team ‘Steredeg’ have won 1st place at the Graph Neural Networking Challenge 2020, organized as part of the AI/ML in 5G Challenge of ITU (the International Telecommunication Union), a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for all matters related to information and communication…
You are cordially invited to attend the PhD defense of Louison Gitzinger that will be held online on December 8 at 10am. The defense can be followed from the player below: Jury Members: Sonia BEN MOKHTAR Directrice de recherche – CNRS Lyon Romain ROUVOY Professeur des universités – Université de…
Congratulations to Erwan Le Merrer (WIDE) and Gilles Trédan (LAAS), whose paper “Remote explainability faces the bouncer problem” has recently been published by Nature! The paper considers the concept of explainability of machine learning decisions. The concept is simple: like humans, algorithms should explain the rationale behind their decisions so…
Our paper “Smaller, Faster & Lighter KNN Graph Constructions” has been accepted to WWW2020 (The Web Conf), that will be held in Taipei on April 21-24 (physically and on-line). Congratulation to the main author, Olivier Ruas, now a post-doctoral researcher at Peking University!
Florestan De Moor received this year’s “Prix National Jeunes André Blanc-Lapierre 2019” and the “Prix Groupe Ouest 2019” from the SEE society (Société de l’électricité, de l’électronique et des technologies de l’information et de la communication), for his Master thesis entitled “A Biclustering Approach to Recommender Systems” performed within WIDE, and…
