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Cloud function (CF) services, such as AWS Lambda, have been applied as the new computing infrastructure in implementing analytical query engines. For bursty and sparse workloads, CF-based query engine is more elastic than the traditional query engines runn ...

ACM2023

Efficient Concurrent Analytical Query Processing using Data and Workload-conscious Sharing

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Analytical workloads are evolving as the number of users surges and applications that submit queries in batches become popular. However, traditional analytical databases that optimize-then-execute each query individually struggle to provide timely response ...

EPFL2023

Interpretable Representation Learning and Evaluation for Abstractive Summarization

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Abstractive summarization has seen big improvements in recent years, mostly due to advances in neural language modeling, language model pretraining, and scaling models and datasets. While large language models generate summaries that are fluent, coherent, ...

EPFL2023

Graph Embedding for Retrieval

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Information retrieval (IR) systems such as search engines are important for people to find what they need among the tremendous amount of data available in their organization or on the Internet. These IR systems enable users to search in a large data collec ...

EPFL2022

Knowledge-Aware Cross-Modal Text-Image Retrieval for Remote Sensing Images

Devis Tuia, Christel Marie Tartini-Chappuis, Li Mi, Siran Li

Image-based retrieval in large Earth observation archives is difficult, because one needs to navigate across thousands of candidate matches only with the proposition image as a guide. By using text as a query language, the retrieval system gains in usabili ...

2022

Efficient and Effective Multi-Modal Queries Through Heterogeneous Network Embedding

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The heterogeneity of today's Web sources requires information retrieval (IR) systems to handle multi-modal queries. Such queries define a user's information needs by different data modalities, such as keywords, hashtags, user profiles, and other media. Rec ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

Efficient GPU-accelerated Join Optimization for Complex Queries

Anastasia Ailamaki, Bikash Chandra, Srinivas Karthik Venkatesh, Riccardo Mancini, Vasileios Mageirakos

Analytics on modern data analytic and data warehouse systems often need to run large complex queries on increasingly complex database schemas. A lot of progress has been made on executing such complex queries using techniques like scale out query processin ...

IEEE2022

Information Retrieval Under Network Uncertainty: Robust Internet Ranking

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Internet ranking algorithms play a crucial role in information technologies and numerical analysis due to their efficiency in high dimensions and wide range of possible applications, including scientometrics and systemic risk in finance (SinkRank, DebtRank ...

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How We Use Wikipedia: Studying Readers' Behavior with Navigation Traces

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In the information age, the Web and the growing global connectivity drastically simplified our access to information. Learning and fact-checking from online resources is nowadays part of our daily routine. Studying the dynamic associated with online conten ...

EPFL2022

Fair Incentivization of Bandwidth Sharing in Decentralized Storage Networks

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Peer-to-peer (p2p) networks are not independent of their peers, and the network efficiency depends on peers contributing resources. Because shared resources are not free, this contribution must be rewarded. Peers across the network may share computation po ...

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