Oct 2018
24
Oct
Two new methods for graph classification
Graph classification has recently received a lot of attention from various fields of machine learning e.g. kernel methods, sequential modeling or graph embedding. We address [...]
24
Oct
Some Architectural Considerations for Algorithms in Python
In this talk, we address a very common and practical question for the programmer: what should be the general architecture of our code? In particular, [...]
17
Oct
The Physics of Spectral Graph Embedding
Learning from data strutured as a graph usually requires to embed this graph in some vector space of low dimension. The most popular technique relies [...]
10
Oct
The Roaming Edge
Edge computing provides a new way to implement services with many unique advantages. While many edge computing solutions have been implemented within different network infrastructures, [...]
08
Oct
Finding structure with randomness: Probabilistic algorithms for constructing approximate matrix decompositions
Nathan de Lara will present the article Halko, N., Martinsson, P. G., & Tropp, J. A. (2011). Finding structure with randomness: Probabilistic algorithms for constructing [...]
03
Oct
Of Kernels and Queues: when network calculus meets analytic combinatorics
Stochastic network calculus is a tool for computing error bounds on the performance of queueing systems. However, deriving accurate bounds for networks consisting of several [...]
Sep 2018
26
Sep
Irrational Agents and the Power Grid
For decades power systems academics have proclaimed the need for real time prices to create a more efficient grid. The rationale is economics 101: proper [...]
24
Sep
Convex Optimization and Duality
The talk is based on the Online Course Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd and the Book Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe. Slides [...]
19
Sep
Regular Inference on Artificial Neural Networks
This lecture explores the general problem of explaining the behavior of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). The goal is to construct a representation which enhances human [...]
12
Sep
Asymptotic Optimal Control of Markov-Modulated Restless Bandits
In this talk we will discuss optimal control subject to changing conditions (a changing environment). This is an area that recently received a lot of [...]
10
Sep
JiT acceleration in Python: introduction to Numba
This tutorial will explain how to easily turn slow Python into fast Python with the numba package. Speed up of X2000 will be demonstrated on [...]
Aug 2018
29
Aug
Protecting privacy in dynamic decision making
Motivated by the increasing ubiquity of large-scale data collection infrastructures, we investigate how to protect sensitive information in dynamic resource allocation problems. The central question [...]
02
Aug
On Network Connectivity for Distributed Machine Learning
Abstract: Many learning problems are formulated as minimization of some loss function on a training set of examples. Distributed gradient methods on a cluster are [...]
Jun 2018
27
Jun
In the wild Sensing for Smarter Cities and Healthcare
Modern cities are alive with sensors, such as smartphones, wearables, vehicles, and cameras. Realizing our plans for smart environments of the future necessitates a radical [...]
19
Jun
2018 LINCS Workshop
Workshop LINCS and its Scientific Committee June 19th and 20th, 2018 LINCS - 23 avenue d’Italie, 4th floor – 75013 Paris Agenda June 19th Welcome [...]
07
Jun
On the notion of Dimension of Unimodular Random Graphs
In this talk we will define notions of dimension on unimodular random graphs. The key point in this definition is unimodularity which is used indispensably [...]
06
Jun
On Mapping the Interconnections in Today’s Internet
Internet interconnections are the means by which networks exchange traffic between one another. These interconnections are typically established in facilities that have known geographic locations, [...]
May 2018
23
May
Machine Learning approaches for Computer Vision applications
Machine Learning, as the most successful paradigm of Artificial Intelligence to date, has shown its great potential in restructuring all aspects in our everyday life, [...]
14
May
Online influence maximization
We will talk about the online influence maximization problem in social networks under the independent cascade model. Specifically, we aim to learn the set of [...]
14
May
Topic detection and classification in Twitter
In this talk we introduce a novel information propagation method in Twitter, while maintaining a low computational complexity. The proposed method first employs Joint Complexity, [...]
14
May
On finding dense subgraphs and events in social media
Social media contain information shared by hundreds of millions of users across the world and provide one of the richest dataset created by human activity. [...]
14
May
Hierarchical clustering: Objective functions and algorithms
Hierarchical clustering is a recursive partitioning of a dataset into clusters at an increasingly finer granularity. Motivated by the fact that most work on hierarchical [...]
14
May
On graph reconstruction via empirical risk minimization
The problem of predicting connections between a set of data points finds many applications, in systems biology and social network analysis among others. We focus [...]
14
May
Building and exploiting large graphs connecting images
In this talk, I will present recent works on large-scale similarity search, and show that it is possible to build a graph connecting up to [...]
14
May
Modularity for soft-graph clustering
Clustering is a central problem in machine learning for which graph-based approaches have proven their efficiency. In this paper, we study a relaxation of the [...]
14
May
The many facets of community detection
In this talk, I will present a collection of results focusing on the presence of inhomogeneities in networks: from the detection of dense clusters (community [...]
14
May
On the Performance of a Canonical Labeling for Matching Correlated Erdos-Renyi Graphs
Recent results have characterized the exact information-theoretic threshold for graph matching in correlated Erd?s-Rényi graphs. However, very little is known about the existence of efficient [...]
14
May
Analysis of temporal interactions with link streams
Money or data transfers, contacts between individuals, or product sales, may all be modeled as temporal interactions. Studying the structure and dynamics of interactions is [...]
14
May
Workshop on Graph Learning
This workshop will bring together researchers from both industry and academia for presenting and discussing learning techniques from/with graphs, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. [...]
Apr 2018
16
Apr
12
Apr
Network fingerprinting: TTL-based router signatures
Fingerprinting networking equipment has many potential applications and benefits in network management and security. More generally, it is useful for the understanding of network structures [...]
11
Apr
Open Web Proxies: analysis, threats and opportunities
Open web proxies promise anonymity and censorship circumvention at no cost. Several websites publish lists of free proxies organized by country, anonymity level, and performance. [...]
09
Apr
The Cascade-Correlation Learning Architecture
Marc-Olivier Buob will present a paper of Scott E. Fahlman and Christian Lebiere about The Cascade-Correlation Learning Architecture, August 29, 1991 CMU-CS-90-100
04
Apr
Vehicular networks in hyperfractal setup
Confinement of human settlement in areas limited in size is the foundation of the long-standing Central Place Theory which assumes the existence of regular spatial [...]
Mar 2018
28
Mar
User-Centric Personal Data Analytics on the Edge
Abstract: In this talk, I present our ongoing work on utilising edge-computing to improve the scalability and privacy of user-centred analytics in the context of [...]
26
Mar
Ergodic control and polyhedral approaches to PageRank optimization
In this session of the reading group, Anastasios Giovanidis will present the paper O. Fercoq, M. Akian, M. Bouhtou, S. Gaubert. “Ergodic control and polyhedral [...]
12
Mar
Knowledge graph embeddings
Nathan De Lara will introduce the knowledge graph embeddings, based on the following references: Bordes, A., Usunier, N., Garcia-Duran, A., Weston, J., and Yakhnenko, O. [...]
07
Mar
A Sliding-Resolution Algorithm for Hierarchical Graph Clustering
We propose a novel algorithm for the hierarchical clustering of graphs. The algorithm is a simple but key modification of the Louvain algorithm based on [...]
Feb 2018
26
Feb
Étude des sous-graphes typiques des graphes aléatoires par la combinatoire analytique
Orateur : Élie de Panafieu La question qui guidera l'exposé est l'étude de la loi limite du nombre de triangles dans un graphes aléatoire à [...]
21
Feb
Insensitivity of the Hydrodynamic Limit of PS under Randomized SQ(d) Algorithms
In many applications such as cloud computing, managing server farm resources etc. an incoming task or job has to be matched with an appropriate server [...]
14
Feb
Network Slicing Games: Enabling Statistical Multiplexing of Multi-tenant Spatial Loads
Next generation wireless architectures are expected to enable slices of shared wireless infrastructure which are customized to specific mobile operators/services. Given infrastructure costs and the [...]
12
Feb
Sequence to sequence learning
For the next reading group, Édouard Pineau will talk about sequence-to sequence learning, based on the two following references: Sutskever Ilya, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc [...]
02
Feb
Apple vs. Samsung: a Mathematical Battle
Abstract: Apple and Samsung have been fighting patent battles around the world. Come learn about the mathematics at the heart of one of these battles, [...]
Jan 2018
31
Jan
An Efficient Data Protection Architecture Based on Fragmentation and Encryption
In this presentation, a completely revisited secure data storage and transmission scheme ispresented. This new scheme is based on an agnostic selective encryption methods combinedwith [...]
29
Jan
Queuing or not Queuing? (in large systems)
Fabien Mathieu will talk about Queuing or not Queuing? (in large systems), and will mainly use the following reference : Load balancing in large-scale systems [...]
24
Jan
Performance of Balanced Fairness in Resource Pools: A Recursive Approach
Understanding the performance of a pool of servers is crucial for proper dimensioning. One of the main challenges is to take into account the complex [...]
15
Jan
Empirical Evaluation of Gated Recurrent Neural Networks on Sequence Modeling
Achille Salaün will talk about Recurrent Neural Networks and present the paper Empirical Evaluation of Gated Recurrent Neural Networks on Sequence Modeling by Chung, Gulcehre, [...]
03
Jan
Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Access Control with M2M/H2H traffic in LTE-A networks
Although many advantages are expected from the provision of services for M2M communications in cellular networks such as extended coverage, security, robust management and lower [...]
Dec 2017
18
Dec
Analyzing the M/G/1 queue with a branching process
For the next session of the reading group, Céline Comte will talk about Analyzing the M/G/1 queue with a branching process, and will mainly use [...]