Activities

Apr 2018

09 Apr

The Cascade-Correlation Learning Architecture

09/04/2018    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Buob
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

04/04/2018    
2:00 pm
Dalia Popescu
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

28/03/2018    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Hamed Haddadi
 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

26/03/2018    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Anastasios Giovanidis
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

12/03/2018    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Nathan De Lara
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

07/03/2018    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Bertrand Charpentier
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

26/02/2018    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Élie de Panafieu
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

21/02/2018    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ravi Mazumdar
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

14/02/2018    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Gustavo de Veciana
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

12/02/2018    
2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Édouard Pineau
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

02/02/2018    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Jim Davis
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

31/01/2018    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Han Qiu
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)

29/01/2018    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
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

24/01/2018    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Celine Comte
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

15/01/2018    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Achille Salaün
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

03/01/2018    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Diego Pacheco Paramo
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

18/12/2017    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Céline Comte
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 [...]
13 Dec

Random Fixed Points, Limits and Systemic risk

13/12/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Kavitha Veeraruna
Abstract: We consider vector fixed point (FP) equations in large dimensional spaces involving random variables, and study their realization-wise solutions. We have an underlying directed [...]
06 Dec

The real fuss with quantum mechanics

06/12/2017    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Filippo Miatto
Many foundational issues in quantum mechanics frustrate the experts and keep them up at night. Unfortunately, when these concepts reach the greater public, they are [...]

Nov 2017

29 Nov

Predicting user QoE from QoS metrics for internet applications

29/11/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Diego Da Hora
Predicting the user Quality-of-Experience (QoE) for an internet application is a highly desirable feature in a number of situations. However, directly measuring user QoE is [...]
22 Nov

Optimal flow segmentation in SDN with memory constraints: a reinforcement learning approach

22/11/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Antonio Massaro
Datacenter flow routing relies on packet-in messages generated by switches and directed to the controller upon new flows arrivals. The SDN controller reacts to packet-in [...]
20 Nov

Non-negative matrix factorization

20/11/2017    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Thomas Bonald
Thomas Bonald will talk about non-negative matrix factorization.
15 Nov

Optimal Joint Subcarrier and Power Allocation in Power-Domain NOMA is Strongly NP-Hard: Complexity Analysis

15/11/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Lou Salaun
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising radio access technology for 5G. It allows several users to transmit on the same frequency and time resource [...]
06 Nov

One-dimensional non-deterministic random walks

06/11/2017    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Élie de Panafieu
Élie de Panafieu will present some current work about one-dimensional, non-deterministic, random walks.

Oct 2017

25 Oct

Will productivity growth return in the new digital era?

25/10/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Iraj Saniee
It is increasingly acknowledged that we are on the verge of the next technological and industrial revolution, driven by the digitization and interconnection of physical [...]
23 Oct

Poisson games

23/10/2017    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
François Durand will present an introduction to Poisson games based on the two following articles: R. Myerson. Large Poisson Games. Journal of Economic Theory, 94:7–45, [...]
11 Oct

Multi-Area Interchange Scheduling under Uncertainty

11/10/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Yuting Ji
Large interconnected power systems are often operated by independent system operators, each having its own operating region within which internal resources are used economically. The [...]
04 Oct

Adaptive Video Streaming: Towards a systematic comparison of ICN and TCP/IP

04/10/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Jacques Samain
Streaming of video contents over the Internet isexperiencing an unprecedented growth. While video permeatesevery application, it also puts tremendous pressure in the network --to support [...]

Sep 2017

27 Sep

Active Hypothesis Testing: Learning to Match in Expert Systems

27/09/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Nidhi Hegde
We study adaptive matching in expert systems, as an instance of adaptive sequential hypothesis testing. Examples of such systems include Q&A platforms, crowdsourcing, image classification. [...]
21 Sep

Why deep neural networks ?

21/09/2017    
4:00 pm-5:30 pm
Anne Bouillard
Anne Bouillard will present the paper Why deep neural networks ?, by Shiyu Liang and R. Srikant, 2016.
20 Sep

QoE-Aware Service and Network Management for Video Streaming

20/09/2017    
2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Thomas Zinner
Today's consumer Internet traffic is transmitted on a best effort basis without taking into account any quality requirements. The backbone and the wireless access networks [...]
06 Sep

Learning the Network of a Linear Dynamical System from Ambient Fluctuations

06/09/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Deepjyoti Deka
Linear Dynamical Systems are used to model several evolving network processes in biology, physical systems as well as financial networks. Estimation of the topology of [...]

Jul 2017

12 Jul

Economic models for wireless sensor network-based services

12/07/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Luis Guijarro Coloma
The Internet of Things is one of the hottest topics being debated today across industries worldwide. Successful IoT deployment needs sustainable business models that are [...]
10 Jul

Incentive Mechanism Design for Public Cryptocurrencies

10/07/2017    
2:30 pm-3:00 pm
Fabio Pianese
Presentation for the Working Group on BitCoin.
10 Jul

Fairness in block-chain systems

10/07/2017    
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Sara Tucci
Abstract: Formal security analyses for block-chains derived the famous "honest majority" assumption: the system well-behaves only if the majority of the hashing power is in [...]
05 Jul

Global Measurements of Internet Censorship

05/07/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Nick Feamster
Abstract: Internet users in many countries around the world are subject to various forms of censorship and information control. Despite its widespread nature, however, measuring [...]

Jun 2017

28 Jun

Competitive Caching of Contents in 5G Edge Cloud Networks

28/06/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Francesco De Pellegrini
The surge of mobile data traffic forces network operators to cope with capacity shortage. The deployment of small cells in 5G networks is meant to [...]
23 Jun

Kleinberg's Grid Unchained

23/06/2017    
2:15 pm-2:45 pm
Fabien Mathieu
Talk from the LINCS Workshop.
23 Jun

Toward automated recommendation of IoT services

23/06/2017    
11:00 am-11:15 am
Ludovic Noirie
Talk from the LINCS Workshop.
23 Jun

Massively-Parallel Feature Selection for Big Dimensionality Data

23/06/2017    
10:45 am-11:00 am
Prof. Vassilis Christophides
Talk from the LINCS Workshop
23 Jun

Studying large networks and graphical data via local weak limit theory

23/06/2017    
9:30 am-10:15 am
Prof. Venkat Anantharam
Talk from the LINCS Workshop.
22 Jun

Future Directions in Wireless Networking

22/06/2017    
5:30 pm-6:15 pm
Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Talk from the LINCS Workshop.
22 Jun

Stream processing for monitoring of real-time network services

22/06/2017    
5:15 pm-5:30 pm
Yuchia Tseng
Talk from the LINCS workshop.
22 Jun

Blockchains and incentives

22/06/2017    
5:00 pm-5:15 pm
Fabio Pianese
Talk from the LINCS Workshop.
22 Jun

Understanding Performance of Large Cellular Networks — Data and Models

22/06/2017    
4:30 pm-5:00 pm
Prof. Bartek Blaszczyszyn
Talk from the LINCS Workshop.
22 Jun

PhDs and PostDocs' Presentations

22/06/2017    
2:30 pm-4:00 pm
Misc.
LINCS younglings present their work in a few minutes for the LINCS workshop
22 Jun

Adaptive Matching in Expert Systems

22/06/2017    
12:15 pm-12:30 pm
Nidhi Hegde
Talk from the LINCS Workshop.
21 Jun

Perennial and Personalized Sensing through Wireless Energy

21/06/2017    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Kaushik Chowdhury
In a future where implanted and wearable sensors continuously report physiological data, how to power such sensors without battery replacement and developing new communication methods [...]
13 Jun

Mechanism Design

13/06/2017    
4:00 pm-5:30 pm
François Durand
Continuation of last week's presentation
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