And there were some great talks by Gérard Cornuéjols, David Woodruff, and Alan Frieze, but I neglected to get pictures of any of them
@thegautamkamath
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Data Poisoning Attacks: Theoretical Advances and Security Implications
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Avrim talking about some really cool work on the theory of data poisoning attacks (
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Ravi’s Contributions: From Gaussians to Large Language Models
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Sanjeev Arora (
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ACORN Workshop Celebrates Ravi Kannan’s 70th Birthday
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I'm in Atlanta for the ACORN workshop (
https://
sites.gatech.edu/acorn/), bringing together the ACO groups from Waterloo, GaTech, and CMU. Today's a celebration of Ravi Kannan's 70th birthday. Santosh kicks it off with a topic close to my heart, robust estimation https://
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Discrete Gaussian Sampling for Differential Privacy Applications
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I just thought it was cool math. But Thomas suggested to me and Clément that it could be useful for discrete Gaussian sampling in the context of differential privacy. And the rest is history.
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Privacy Mechanism for 2020 US Census Data Protection
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This tweet, from three years ago today, may be the most impactful tweet I've made. It led to this privacy mechanism w/ @ccanonne_ @shortstein https://
arxiv.org/abs/2004.00010 That mechanism was used in the 2020 US Census. If you were in the US on 4/1/2020, it was run on your data. -
Reviewer Selection and Research Community Responsibility Practices
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Combination of picking reviewers I know personally and/or with relevant expertise. I don't think I have any special formula that others wouldn't think of. I would give more credit to the pocket of the research community that I reside in, where people seem to be pretty responsible
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Tim Roughgarden’s Inspiring Talk Captivates Full Audience
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Such an inspiring and captivating talk by Tim Roughgarden. Full room, standing room only. I didn't see a single person on their phone or computer.
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Tim Roughgarden Distinguished Lecture on Blockchains Web3
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SUPER excited to have @Tim_Roughgarden visiting @UWCheritonCS today as our Distinguished Lecture Speaker! "The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case Study in Blockchains/Web3" Today at 3 PM! https://
cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/dls-tim
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Membership Inference Attacks Applied to Beluga Whale Conservation
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One of the most unique "privacy" papers I've ever seen: using membership inference attacks to discriminate between pictures of Beluga whales. Using privacy attacks for social good! Membership Inference Attack for Beluga Whales Discrimination https://
arxiv.org/abs/2302.14769