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  1. Project Silica paper at SOSP 2023

    Project Silica: Sustainable cloud archival storage in glass 

    October 26, 2023

    This research paper was presented at the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (opens in new tab) (SOSP 2023), the premier forum for the theory and practice of computer systems software. For millennia, data has woven itself into every facet of our lives, from…

  2. Research Focus: October 25th

    Research Focus: Week of October 23, 2023 

    October 25, 2023

    In this issue: Kosmos-2.5: A Multimodal Literate Model; Can vine copulas explain complex relationships of weather variables; New system accelerates the adaptive training process; Structural inequalities and relational labor in the influencer industry.

  3. Research Focus October 11, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of October 9, 2023 

    October 11, 2023

    Research Focus: Principal researcher Lester Mackey recognized for pioneering statistical and ML techniques; Pareto frontiers in neural feature learning; structural inequality in the influencer industry; new research on cardinality estimation.

  4. ICCV 2023: SpaceEvo

    Efficient and hardware-friendly neural architecture search with SpaceEvo 

    October 6, 2023

    A persistent challenge in deep learning is optimizing neural network models for diverse hardware configurations, balancing performance and low latency. Learn how SpaceEvo automates hardware-aware neural architecture search to fine-tune DNN models for swift execution on diverse devices.

  5. Research Focus 25 | Week of September 25, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of September 25, 2023 

    September 27, 2023

    Chunked prefills & decode-maximal batching boost LLM inference; DragNUWA combines text, image, and trajectory for fine-grained video content control; reconstructing images from human brain signals; structural inequalities in creator-audience relationships.

  6. ECSQARU Blog Hero: Neural Graphical Models

    Neural Graphical Models 

    September 20, 2023 | Harsh Shrivastava and Urszula Chajewska

    This research paper was presented at the 17th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (opens in new tab), a premier forum for advances in the theory and practice of reasoning under uncertainty. In the field of reasoning under uncertainty, probabilistic…