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The geometric median, an instrumental component of the secure machine learning toolbox, is known to be effective when robustly aggregating models (or gradients), gathered from potentially malicious (or strategic) users. What is less known is the extent to ...

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Nothing New Under the Sun: Novelty Constructs and Measures in Social Studies

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The concept of novelty is central to questions of creativity, innovation, and discovery. Despite the prominence in scientific inquiry and everyday discourse, there is a chronic ambiguity over its meaning and a surprising variety of empirical measures, whic ...

Emerald Publishing Limited2022

System Support for Robust Distributed Learning

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Machine learning (ML) applications are ubiquitous. They run in different environments such as datacenters, the cloud, and even on edge devices. Despite where they run, distributing ML training seems the only way to attain scalable, high-quality learning. B ...

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Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological implications from two decades of spectroscopic surveys at the Apache Point Observatory

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We present the cosmological implications from final measurements of clustering using galaxies, quasars, and Ly alpha forests from the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) lineage of experiments in large-scale structure. These experiments, composed of ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Quantifying uncertain system outputs via the multilevel Monte Carlo method — Part I: Central moment estimation

Fabio Nobile, Sebastian Krumscheid, Michele Pisaroni

In this work we introduce and analyze a novel multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) estimator for the accurate approximation of central moments of system outputs affected by uncertainties. Central moments play a central role in many disciplines to characterize a r ...

2020

Local Vulnerabilities and Global Robustness of Coupled Dynamical Systems on Complex Networks

Melvyn Sandy Tyloo

Coupled dynamical systems are omnipresent in everyday life. In general, interactions between individual elements composing the system are captured by complex networks. The latter greatly impact the way coupled systems are functioning and evolving in time. ...

EPFL2020

Convergence without Convexity: Sampling, Optimization, and Games

Ya-Ping Hsieh

Many important problems in contemporary machine learning involve solving highly non- convex problems in sampling, optimization, or games. The absence of convexity poses significant challenges to convergence analysis of most training algorithms, and in some ...

EPFL2020

Hard criteria for empirical theories of consciousness

Michael Herzog, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Aaron Schurger

Consciousness is now a well-established field of empirical research. A large body of experimental results has been accumulated and is steadily growing. In parallel, many Theories of Consciousness (ToCs) have been proposed. These theories are diverse in nat ...

2020

Generalized maximum entropy estimation

John Lygeros, Tobias Sutter

We consider the problem of estimating a probability distribution that maximizes the entropy while satisfying a finite number of moment constraints, possibly corrupted by noise. Based on duality of convex programming, we present a novel approximation scheme ...

2019

Dimension-free Information Concentration via Exp-Concavity

Volkan Cevher, Ya-Ping Hsieh

Information concentration of probability measures have important implications in learning theory. Recently, it is discovered that the information content of a log-concave distribution concentrates around their differential entropy, albeit with an unpleasan ...

2018

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