Over the past decade, we have witnessed an enormous amount of research effort dedicated
to the design of efficient outlier detection techniques while taking into consideration …

Sharding is the prevalent approach to breaking the trilemma of simultaneously achieving
decentralization, security, and scalability in traditional blockchain systems, which are …

A major approach to overcoming the performance and scalability limitations of current
blockchain protocols is to use sharding which is to split the overheads of processing …

Multi-armed bandits a simple but very powerful framework for algorithms that make
decisions over time under uncertainty. An enormous body of work has accumulated over the …

Recent advances in attention-free sequence models rely on convolutions as alternatives to
the attention operator at the core of Transformers. In particular, long convolution sequence …

Bitcoin is the first and most popular decentralized cryptocurrency to date. In this work, we
extract and analyze the core of the Bitcoin protocol, which we term the Bitcoin backbone …

Identifying interesting relationships between pairs of variables in large data sets is
increasingly important. Here, we present a measure of dependence for two-variable …

During the last decade, sampling-based path planning algorithms, such as probabilistic
roadmaps (PRM) and rapidly exploring random trees (RRT), have been shown to work well …

Learning expressive low-dimensional representations of ultrahigh-dimensional data, eg,
data with thousands/millions of features, has been a major way to enable learning methods …

Bitcoin is one of the most prominent examples of a distributed cryptographic protocol that is
extensively used in reality. Nonetheless, existing security proofs are property-based, and as …