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November 11 London, UK Colocated with CCS 2019. Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a highAN ERGODIC WALK
Two postdoctoral research positions are now available in the Department of Electrical Engineering – Systems at Tel Aviv University, Israel, in the fields of information theory and interactive communications.Starting immediately for up to two years. Funded by the European Research Council (ERC).. We offer two postdoctoral fellowships for researchers in the broad area ofinformation theory
PUBLISHING | AN ERGODIC WALK Michael Eisen gave a talk at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco recently. Eisen is the founder of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), which publishes a large number of open-access journals in the biosciences, including the amazingly named PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.His remarks begin with the background on the “stranglehold existing journals have on academic publishing.” A NICE FORMULA FOR THE VOLUME OF AN L_P BALL The main result is that for , the volume is equal to. The formula for the volume of the -sphere in the norm is well known, but this formula lets us calculate all sorts of volumes. For example, for the unit ball we get the rather clean and beautiful formula. The proof given in the note is by induction, and a remark at the end points to several THE HISTORY OF NEW FOODS IN INDIA Konnichiwa, Varshney-san.Your post on the potato inspired me to read the papers you mentioned as well as a reference suggested by a friend here in Chicago:. Sucheta Mazumdar, “The Impact of New World Food Crops on the Diet and Economy of China and India, ca. 1600-1900.”Food in Global History. Ed. Raymond Grew. Westview Press, 1999. 58-78. The Columbian Exchange refers to the THE HISTORY OF THE MARTINGALE A martingale is the name for a Y-shaped strap used in a harness — it runs along the horse’s chest and then splits up the middle to join the saddle. A martingale is a name for a betting strategy (usually we think of doubling bets) but it’s not clear which one from the historical record. “To play the martingale is to always bet all that WEB | AN ERGODIC WALK A while ago, Alex Dimakis sent me an EFF article on information theory and privacy, which starts out with an observation of Latanya Sweeney’s that gender, ZIP code, birthdate are uniquely identifying for a large portion of the population (an updated observation was made in 2006).. What’s weird is that the article veers into “how many bits of do you need to uniquely identify someone WHAT’S THE PROPER BIBTEX TYPE FOR ARXIV PAPERS? I like to use @techreport, like @techreport{ShakeriBS:16ks_dict, author = {Z. Shakeri and W.U. Bajwa and A.D. Sarwate}, title = {Minimax Lower Bounds on FENCHEL DUALITY, ENTROPY, AND THE LOG PARTITION FUNCTION The function is a vector of statistics calculated from , and is a vector of parameters. the function is the log partition function: Where the partition function is. The entropy of the distribution is easy to calculate: The Fenchel dual of a function is the function. . NIPS2019 | AN ERGODIC WALK Description. This one day workshop focuses on privacy preserving techniques for training, inference, and disclosure in large scale data analysis, both in the distributed and centralized settings. We have observed increasing interest of the ML community in leveraging cryptographic techniques such as Multi-Party Computation (MPC) andHomomorphic
AN ERGODIC WALK
November 11 London, UK Colocated with CCS 2019. Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a highAN ERGODIC WALK
Two postdoctoral research positions are now available in the Department of Electrical Engineering – Systems at Tel Aviv University, Israel, in the fields of information theory and interactive communications.Starting immediately for up to two years. Funded by the European Research Council (ERC).. We offer two postdoctoral fellowships for researchers in the broad area ofinformation theory
PUBLISHING | AN ERGODIC WALK Michael Eisen gave a talk at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco recently. Eisen is the founder of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), which publishes a large number of open-access journals in the biosciences, including the amazingly named PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.His remarks begin with the background on the “stranglehold existing journals have on academic publishing.” A NICE FORMULA FOR THE VOLUME OF AN L_P BALL The main result is that for , the volume is equal to. The formula for the volume of the -sphere in the norm is well known, but this formula lets us calculate all sorts of volumes. For example, for the unit ball we get the rather clean and beautiful formula. The proof given in the note is by induction, and a remark at the end points to several THE HISTORY OF NEW FOODS IN INDIA Konnichiwa, Varshney-san.Your post on the potato inspired me to read the papers you mentioned as well as a reference suggested by a friend here in Chicago:. Sucheta Mazumdar, “The Impact of New World Food Crops on the Diet and Economy of China and India, ca. 1600-1900.”Food in Global History. Ed. Raymond Grew. Westview Press, 1999. 58-78. The Columbian Exchange refers to the THE HISTORY OF THE MARTINGALE A martingale is the name for a Y-shaped strap used in a harness — it runs along the horse’s chest and then splits up the middle to join the saddle. A martingale is a name for a betting strategy (usually we think of doubling bets) but it’s not clear which one from the historical record. “To play the martingale is to always bet all that WEB | AN ERGODIC WALK A while ago, Alex Dimakis sent me an EFF article on information theory and privacy, which starts out with an observation of Latanya Sweeney’s that gender, ZIP code, birthdate are uniquely identifying for a large portion of the population (an updated observation was made in 2006).. What’s weird is that the article veers into “how many bits of do you need to uniquely identify someone WHAT’S THE PROPER BIBTEX TYPE FOR ARXIV PAPERS? I like to use @techreport, like @techreport{ShakeriBS:16ks_dict, author = {Z. Shakeri and W.U. Bajwa and A.D. Sarwate}, title = {Minimax Lower Bounds on FENCHEL DUALITY, ENTROPY, AND THE LOG PARTITION FUNCTION The function is a vector of statistics calculated from , and is a vector of parameters. the function is the log partition function: Where the partition function is. The entropy of the distribution is easy to calculate: The Fenchel dual of a function is the function. . NIPS2019 | AN ERGODIC WALK Description. This one day workshop focuses on privacy preserving techniques for training, inference, and disclosure in large scale data analysis, both in the distributed and centralized settings. We have observed increasing interest of the ML community in leveraging cryptographic techniques such as Multi-Party Computation (MPC) andHomomorphic
ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein PUBLISHING | AN ERGODIC WALK Michael Eisen gave a talk at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco recently. Eisen is the founder of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), which publishes a large number of open-access journals in the biosciences, including the amazingly named PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.His remarks begin with the background on the “stranglehold existing journals have on academic publishing.” WEB | AN ERGODIC WALK A while ago, Alex Dimakis sent me an EFF article on information theory and privacy, which starts out with an observation of Latanya Sweeney’s that gender, ZIP code, birthdate are uniquely identifying for a large portion of the population (an updated observation was made in 2006).. What’s weird is that the article veers into “how many bits of do you need to uniquely identify someoneMACHINE LEARNING
Prof. Urbashi Mitra is looking for multiple postdocs. Given that this is the time of year when the future looks murkiest, these are great opportunities! I am seeking multiple post-doctoral researchers are sought with expertise in one or more areas: Communication Theory, (Statistical) Signal Processing, Controls, Information Theory, andMachine Learning.
FENCHEL DUALITY, ENTROPY, AND THE LOG PARTITION FUNCTION The function is a vector of statistics calculated from , and is a vector of parameters. the function is the log partition function: Where the partition function is. The entropy of the distribution is easy to calculate: The Fenchel dual of a function is the function. . THAT REVIEW IS SO… META The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. GENERATING VECTOR-VALUED NOISE FOR DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY A distribution that appears frequently in differential privacy is the Laplace distribution.While in the scalar case we have seen that Laplace noise may not be the best, it’s still the easiest example to start with. Suppose we have scalars and we want to compute the average in a differentially private way. One way to do this is to release , where has a Laplace distribution: DIFFERENTIALLY PRIVATE ERM Right after Memorial Day, I submitted a paper with Kamalika Chaudhuri and Claire Monteleoni to the Journal of Machine Learning Research on differential privacy and empirical risk minimization. This work looks at how to learn a classifier from training data in such a way that an adversary with access to the classifier and full knowledge JANUARY | 2007 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during January 2007. Since I only recently started reading ArXiV through my RSS aggregator, I was a unaware of the astonishing regularity with which “proofs” of polynomial-time algorithms for NP-complete problems are proposed. Most recent is this one, but one can find a more comprehensive list here.The latter page is a bit too unskeptical of the claims DECEMBER | 2009 | AN ERGODIC WALK From Bobak I saw that US drones in Iraq have been hacked because “the remotely flown planes have an unprotected communications link” but “there was no evidence that they were able to jam electronic signals from the aircraft.”. This illustrates nicely the difference between eavesdropping and jamming. However, a nice by-product of anti-jamming codes using sharedAN ERGODIC WALK
November 11 London, UK Colocated with CCS 2019. Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a high ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein THE HISTORY OF NEW FOODS IN INDIA Konnichiwa, Varshney-san.Your post on the potato inspired me to read the papers you mentioned as well as a reference suggested by a friend here in Chicago:. Sucheta Mazumdar, “The Impact of New World Food Crops on the Diet and Economy of China and India, ca. 1600-1900.”Food in Global History. Ed. Raymond Grew. Westview Press, 1999. 58-78. The Columbian Exchange refers to the WEB | AN ERGODIC WALK A while ago, Alex Dimakis sent me an EFF article on information theory and privacy, which starts out with an observation of Latanya Sweeney’s that gender, ZIP code, birthdate are uniquely identifying for a large portion of the population (an updated observation was made in 2006).. What’s weird is that the article veers into “how many bits of do you need to uniquely identify someone A NICE FORMULA FOR THE VOLUME OF AN L_P BALL The main result is that for , the volume is equal to. The formula for the volume of the -sphere in the norm is well known, but this formula lets us calculate all sorts of volumes. For example, for the unit ball we get the rather clean and beautiful formula. The proof given in the note is by induction, and a remark at the end points to several THE HISTORY OF THE MARTINGALE A martingale is the name for a Y-shaped strap used in a harness — it runs along the horse’s chest and then splits up the middle to join the saddle. A martingale is a name for a betting strategy (usually we think of doubling bets) but it’s not clear which one from the historical record. “To play the martingale is to always bet all that WHAT’S THE PROPER BIBTEX TYPE FOR ARXIV PAPERS? I like to use @techreport, like @techreport{ShakeriBS:16ks_dict, author = {Z. Shakeri and W.U. Bajwa and A.D. Sarwate}, title = {Minimax Lower Bounds on THAT REVIEW IS SO… META The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. AUGUST | 2013 | AN ERGODIC WALK The Wizard of The Crow — This is an epic political farce about an African dictatorship. It’s a bit slow getting into it, but once I was about 70 pages in I was hooked. MAY | 2005 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during May 2005. This mix is for Erin‘s road trip to Ann Arbor for grad school. It is a bit inauspicious that it starts with a quote from Scott’s failed expedition to the South Pole.AN ERGODIC WALK
November 11 London, UK Colocated with CCS 2019. Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a high ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein THE HISTORY OF NEW FOODS IN INDIA Konnichiwa, Varshney-san.Your post on the potato inspired me to read the papers you mentioned as well as a reference suggested by a friend here in Chicago:. Sucheta Mazumdar, “The Impact of New World Food Crops on the Diet and Economy of China and India, ca. 1600-1900.”Food in Global History. Ed. Raymond Grew. Westview Press, 1999. 58-78. The Columbian Exchange refers to the WEB | AN ERGODIC WALK A while ago, Alex Dimakis sent me an EFF article on information theory and privacy, which starts out with an observation of Latanya Sweeney’s that gender, ZIP code, birthdate are uniquely identifying for a large portion of the population (an updated observation was made in 2006).. What’s weird is that the article veers into “how many bits of do you need to uniquely identify someone A NICE FORMULA FOR THE VOLUME OF AN L_P BALL The main result is that for , the volume is equal to. The formula for the volume of the -sphere in the norm is well known, but this formula lets us calculate all sorts of volumes. For example, for the unit ball we get the rather clean and beautiful formula. The proof given in the note is by induction, and a remark at the end points to several THE HISTORY OF THE MARTINGALE A martingale is the name for a Y-shaped strap used in a harness — it runs along the horse’s chest and then splits up the middle to join the saddle. A martingale is a name for a betting strategy (usually we think of doubling bets) but it’s not clear which one from the historical record. “To play the martingale is to always bet all that WHAT’S THE PROPER BIBTEX TYPE FOR ARXIV PAPERS? I like to use @techreport, like @techreport{ShakeriBS:16ks_dict, author = {Z. Shakeri and W.U. Bajwa and A.D. Sarwate}, title = {Minimax Lower Bounds on THAT REVIEW IS SO… META The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. AUGUST | 2013 | AN ERGODIC WALK The Wizard of The Crow — This is an epic political farce about an African dictatorship. It’s a bit slow getting into it, but once I was about 70 pages in I was hooked. MAY | 2005 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during May 2005. This mix is for Erin‘s road trip to Ann Arbor for grad school. It is a bit inauspicious that it starts with a quote from Scott’s failed expedition to the South Pole. ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein WEB | AN ERGODIC WALK A while ago, Alex Dimakis sent me an EFF article on information theory and privacy, which starts out with an observation of Latanya Sweeney’s that gender, ZIP code, birthdate are uniquely identifying for a large portion of the population (an updated observation was made in 2006).. What’s weird is that the article veers into “how many bits of do you need to uniquely identify someoneMACHINE LEARNING
Prof. Urbashi Mitra is looking for multiple postdocs. Given that this is the time of year when the future looks murkiest, these are great opportunities! I am seeking multiple post-doctoral researchers are sought with expertise in one or more areas: Communication Theory, (Statistical) Signal Processing, Controls, Information Theory, andMachine Learning.
NIPS2019 | AN ERGODIC WALK Description. This one day workshop focuses on privacy preserving techniques for training, inference, and disclosure in large scale data analysis, both in the distributed and centralized settings. We have observed increasing interest of the ML community in leveraging cryptographic techniques such as Multi-Party Computation (MPC) andHomomorphic
THAT REVIEW IS SO… META The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. FENCHEL DUALITY, ENTROPY, AND THE LOG PARTITION FUNCTION The function is a vector of statistics calculated from , and is a vector of parameters. the function is the log partition function: Where the partition function is. The entropy of the distribution is easy to calculate: The Fenchel dual of a function is the function. . THE MATRIX DETERMINANT LEMMA Matrix Determinant Lemma. Let be an positive definite matrix and and be two matrices. Then. . To see this, note that. , and take determinants on both sides. So now applying this to our problem, But the right side is clearly maximized by choosing corresponding to the largest singular value of , which in this case is the smallestsingular value of .
AUGUST | 2013 | AN ERGODIC WALK The Wizard of The Crow — This is an epic political farce about an African dictatorship. It’s a bit slow getting into it, but once I was about 70 pages in I was hooked. NOVEMBER | 2009 | AN ERGODIC WALK 3 posts published by Anand Sarwate during November 2009. One of the simple example graphs I’ve used in some of my research on gossip algorithms has been the 2-dimensional torus with vertices, which looks like a grid with the top and left edges wrapped around to connect with the bottom and right edges. Every vertex has 4 neighbors. MAY | 2005 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during May 2005. This mix is for Erin‘s road trip to Ann Arbor for grad school. It is a bit inauspicious that it starts with a quote from Scott’s failed expedition to the South Pole.AN ERGODIC WALK
November 11 London, UK Colocated with CCS 2019. Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a high ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein A NICE FORMULA FOR THE VOLUME OF AN L_P BALL The main result is that for , the volume is equal to. The formula for the volume of the -sphere in the norm is well known, but this formula lets us calculate all sorts of volumes. For example, for the unit ball we get the rather clean and beautiful formula. The proof given in the note is by induction, and a remark at the end points to several THE HISTORY OF NEW FOODS IN INDIA Konnichiwa, Varshney-san.Your post on the potato inspired me to read the papers you mentioned as well as a reference suggested by a friend here in Chicago:. Sucheta Mazumdar, “The Impact of New World Food Crops on the Diet and Economy of China and India, ca. 1600-1900.”Food in Global History. Ed. Raymond Grew. Westview Press, 1999. 58-78. The Columbian Exchange refers to the THE HISTORY OF THE MARTINGALE A martingale is the name for a Y-shaped strap used in a harness — it runs along the horse’s chest and then splits up the middle to join the saddle. A martingale is a name for a betting strategy (usually we think of doubling bets) but it’s not clear which one from the historical record. “To play the martingale is to always bet all that WEB | AN ERGODIC WALK A while ago, Alex Dimakis sent me an EFF article on information theory and privacy, which starts out with an observation of Latanya Sweeney’s that gender, ZIP code, birthdate are uniquely identifying for a large portion of the population (an updated observation was made in 2006).. What’s weird is that the article veers into “how many bits of do you need to uniquely identify someone WHAT’S THE PROPER BIBTEX TYPE FOR ARXIV PAPERS? I like to use @techreport, like @techreport{ShakeriBS:16ks_dict, author = {Z. Shakeri and W.U. Bajwa and A.D. Sarwate}, title = {Minimax Lower Bounds on THAT REVIEW IS SO… META The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. MONTHLY ARCHIVES: JULY 2013 Posted on July 22, 2013 by Anand Sarwate. One big difference between reviewing for conferences like NIPS/ICML and ISIT is that there is a “discussion” period between the reviewers and the Area Chair. These discussions are not anonymized, so you know who the other reviewers are and you can also read their reviews. MAY | 2005 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during May 2005. This mix is for Erin‘s road trip to Ann Arbor for grad school. It is a bit inauspicious that it starts with a quote from Scott’s failed expedition to the South Pole.AN ERGODIC WALK
November 11 London, UK Colocated with CCS 2019. Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a high ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein A NICE FORMULA FOR THE VOLUME OF AN L_P BALL The main result is that for , the volume is equal to. The formula for the volume of the -sphere in the norm is well known, but this formula lets us calculate all sorts of volumes. For example, for the unit ball we get the rather clean and beautiful formula. The proof given in the note is by induction, and a remark at the end points to several THE HISTORY OF NEW FOODS IN INDIA Konnichiwa, Varshney-san.Your post on the potato inspired me to read the papers you mentioned as well as a reference suggested by a friend here in Chicago:. Sucheta Mazumdar, “The Impact of New World Food Crops on the Diet and Economy of China and India, ca. 1600-1900.”Food in Global History. Ed. Raymond Grew. Westview Press, 1999. 58-78. The Columbian Exchange refers to the THE HISTORY OF THE MARTINGALE A martingale is the name for a Y-shaped strap used in a harness — it runs along the horse’s chest and then splits up the middle to join the saddle. A martingale is a name for a betting strategy (usually we think of doubling bets) but it’s not clear which one from the historical record. “To play the martingale is to always bet all that WEB | AN ERGODIC WALK A while ago, Alex Dimakis sent me an EFF article on information theory and privacy, which starts out with an observation of Latanya Sweeney’s that gender, ZIP code, birthdate are uniquely identifying for a large portion of the population (an updated observation was made in 2006).. What’s weird is that the article veers into “how many bits of do you need to uniquely identify someone WHAT’S THE PROPER BIBTEX TYPE FOR ARXIV PAPERS? I like to use @techreport, like @techreport{ShakeriBS:16ks_dict, author = {Z. Shakeri and W.U. Bajwa and A.D. Sarwate}, title = {Minimax Lower Bounds on THAT REVIEW IS SO… META The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. MAY | 2005 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during May 2005. This mix is for Erin‘s road trip to Ann Arbor for grad school. It is a bit inauspicious that it starts with a quote from Scott’s failed expedition to the South Pole. MONTHLY ARCHIVES: JULY 2013 Posted on July 22, 2013 by Anand Sarwate. One big difference between reviewing for conferences like NIPS/ICML and ISIT is that there is a “discussion” period between the reviewers and the Area Chair. These discussions are not anonymized, so you know who the other reviewers are and you can also read their reviews. ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein WEB | AN ERGODIC WALK A while ago, Alex Dimakis sent me an EFF article on information theory and privacy, which starts out with an observation of Latanya Sweeney’s that gender, ZIP code, birthdate are uniquely identifying for a large portion of the population (an updated observation was made in 2006).. What’s weird is that the article veers into “how many bits of do you need to uniquely identify someoneMACHINE LEARNING
Prof. Urbashi Mitra is looking for multiple postdocs. Given that this is the time of year when the future looks murkiest, these are great opportunities! I am seeking multiple post-doctoral researchers are sought with expertise in one or more areas: Communication Theory, (Statistical) Signal Processing, Controls, Information Theory, andMachine Learning.
NIPS2019 | AN ERGODIC WALK Description. This one day workshop focuses on privacy preserving techniques for training, inference, and disclosure in large scale data analysis, both in the distributed and centralized settings. We have observed increasing interest of the ML community in leveraging cryptographic techniques such as Multi-Party Computation (MPC) andHomomorphic
THAT REVIEW IS SO… META The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. FENCHEL DUALITY, ENTROPY, AND THE LOG PARTITION FUNCTION The function is a vector of statistics calculated from , and is a vector of parameters. the function is the log partition function: Where the partition function is. The entropy of the distribution is easy to calculate: The Fenchel dual of a function is the function. . AUGUST | 2013 | AN ERGODIC WALK The Wizard of The Crow — This is an epic political farce about an African dictatorship. It’s a bit slow getting into it, but once I was about 70 pages in I was hooked. DETECTION AND ESTIMATION: BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS? It's confirmed that I will be teaching Detection and Estimation next semester so I figured I would use the blog to conjure up some book recommendations (or even debate, if I can be so hopeful). Some of the contenders: Steven M. Kay, Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing - Estimation Theory (Vol. 1), Prentice Hall, 1993. NOVEMBER | 2009 | AN ERGODIC WALK 3 posts published by Anand Sarwate during November 2009. One of the simple example graphs I’ve used in some of my research on gossip algorithms has been the 2-dimensional torus with vertices, which looks like a grid with the top and left edges wrapped around to connect with the bottom and right edges. Every vertex has 4 neighbors. MAY | 2005 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during May 2005. This mix is for Erin‘s road trip to Ann Arbor for grad school. It is a bit inauspicious that it starts with a quote from Scott’s failed expedition to the South Pole.AN ERGODIC WALK
November 11 London, UK Colocated with CCS 2019. Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a high ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein A NICE FORMULA FOR THE VOLUME OF AN L_P BALL The main result is that for , the volume is equal to. The formula for the volume of the -sphere in the norm is well known, but this formula lets us calculate all sorts of volumes. For example, for the unit ball we get the rather clean and beautiful formula. The proof given in the note is by induction, and a remark at the end points to several THE HISTORY OF NEW FOODS IN INDIA Konnichiwa, Varshney-san.Your post on the potato inspired me to read the papers you mentioned as well as a reference suggested by a friend here in Chicago:. Sucheta Mazumdar, “The Impact of New World Food Crops on the Diet and Economy of China and India, ca. 1600-1900.”Food in Global History. Ed. Raymond Grew. Westview Press, 1999. 58-78. The Columbian Exchange refers to the THE HISTORY OF THE MARTINGALE A martingale is the name for a Y-shaped strap used in a harness — it runs along the horse’s chest and then splits up the middle to join the saddle. A martingale is a name for a betting strategy (usually we think of doubling bets) but it’s not clear which one from the historical record. “To play the martingale is to always bet all that WEB | AN ERGODIC WALK A while ago, Alex Dimakis sent me an EFF article on information theory and privacy, which starts out with an observation of Latanya Sweeney’s that gender, ZIP code, birthdate are uniquely identifying for a large portion of the population (an updated observation was made in 2006).. What’s weird is that the article veers into “how many bits of do you need to uniquely identify someone WHAT’S THE PROPER BIBTEX TYPE FOR ARXIV PAPERS? I like to use @techreport, like @techreport{ShakeriBS:16ks_dict, author = {Z. Shakeri and W.U. Bajwa and A.D. Sarwate}, title = {Minimax Lower Bounds on THAT REVIEW IS SO… META The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. MONTHLY ARCHIVES: JULY 2013 Posted on July 22, 2013 by Anand Sarwate. One big difference between reviewing for conferences like NIPS/ICML and ISIT is that there is a “discussion” period between the reviewers and the Area Chair. These discussions are not anonymized, so you know who the other reviewers are and you can also read their reviews. MAY | 2005 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during May 2005. This mix is for Erin‘s road trip to Ann Arbor for grad school. It is a bit inauspicious that it starts with a quote from Scott’s failed expedition to the South Pole.AN ERGODIC WALK
November 11 London, UK Colocated with CCS 2019. Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a high ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein A NICE FORMULA FOR THE VOLUME OF AN L_P BALL The main result is that for , the volume is equal to. The formula for the volume of the -sphere in the norm is well known, but this formula lets us calculate all sorts of volumes. For example, for the unit ball we get the rather clean and beautiful formula. The proof given in the note is by induction, and a remark at the end points to several THE HISTORY OF NEW FOODS IN INDIA Konnichiwa, Varshney-san.Your post on the potato inspired me to read the papers you mentioned as well as a reference suggested by a friend here in Chicago:. Sucheta Mazumdar, “The Impact of New World Food Crops on the Diet and Economy of China and India, ca. 1600-1900.”Food in Global History. Ed. Raymond Grew. Westview Press, 1999. 58-78. The Columbian Exchange refers to the THE HISTORY OF THE MARTINGALE A martingale is the name for a Y-shaped strap used in a harness — it runs along the horse’s chest and then splits up the middle to join the saddle. A martingale is a name for a betting strategy (usually we think of doubling bets) but it’s not clear which one from the historical record. “To play the martingale is to always bet all that WEB | AN ERGODIC WALK A while ago, Alex Dimakis sent me an EFF article on information theory and privacy, which starts out with an observation of Latanya Sweeney’s that gender, ZIP code, birthdate are uniquely identifying for a large portion of the population (an updated observation was made in 2006).. What’s weird is that the article veers into “how many bits of do you need to uniquely identify someone WHAT’S THE PROPER BIBTEX TYPE FOR ARXIV PAPERS? I like to use @techreport, like @techreport{ShakeriBS:16ks_dict, author = {Z. Shakeri and W.U. Bajwa and A.D. Sarwate}, title = {Minimax Lower Bounds on THAT REVIEW IS SO… META The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. MONTHLY ARCHIVES: JULY 2013 Posted on July 22, 2013 by Anand Sarwate. One big difference between reviewing for conferences like NIPS/ICML and ISIT is that there is a “discussion” period between the reviewers and the Area Chair. These discussions are not anonymized, so you know who the other reviewers are and you can also read their reviews. MAY | 2005 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during May 2005. This mix is for Erin‘s road trip to Ann Arbor for grad school. It is a bit inauspicious that it starts with a quote from Scott’s failed expedition to the South Pole. ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein WEB | AN ERGODIC WALK A while ago, Alex Dimakis sent me an EFF article on information theory and privacy, which starts out with an observation of Latanya Sweeney’s that gender, ZIP code, birthdate are uniquely identifying for a large portion of the population (an updated observation was made in 2006).. What’s weird is that the article veers into “how many bits of do you need to uniquely identify someoneMACHINE LEARNING
Prof. Urbashi Mitra is looking for multiple postdocs. Given that this is the time of year when the future looks murkiest, these are great opportunities! I am seeking multiple post-doctoral researchers are sought with expertise in one or more areas: Communication Theory, (Statistical) Signal Processing, Controls, Information Theory, andMachine Learning.
NIPS2019 | AN ERGODIC WALK Description. This one day workshop focuses on privacy preserving techniques for training, inference, and disclosure in large scale data analysis, both in the distributed and centralized settings. We have observed increasing interest of the ML community in leveraging cryptographic techniques such as Multi-Party Computation (MPC) andHomomorphic
THAT REVIEW IS SO… META The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. FENCHEL DUALITY, ENTROPY, AND THE LOG PARTITION FUNCTION The function is a vector of statistics calculated from , and is a vector of parameters. the function is the log partition function: Where the partition function is. The entropy of the distribution is easy to calculate: The Fenchel dual of a function is the function. . AUGUST | 2013 | AN ERGODIC WALK The Wizard of The Crow — This is an epic political farce about an African dictatorship. It’s a bit slow getting into it, but once I was about 70 pages in I was hooked. DETECTION AND ESTIMATION: BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS? It's confirmed that I will be teaching Detection and Estimation next semester so I figured I would use the blog to conjure up some book recommendations (or even debate, if I can be so hopeful). Some of the contenders: Steven M. Kay, Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing - Estimation Theory (Vol. 1), Prentice Hall, 1993. NOVEMBER | 2009 | AN ERGODIC WALK 3 posts published by Anand Sarwate during November 2009. One of the simple example graphs I’ve used in some of my research on gossip algorithms has been the 2-dimensional torus with vertices, which looks like a grid with the top and left edges wrapped around to connect with the bottom and right edges. Every vertex has 4 neighbors. MAY | 2005 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during May 2005. This mix is for Erin‘s road trip to Ann Arbor for grad school. It is a bit inauspicious that it starts with a quote from Scott’s failed expedition to the South Pole.AN ERGODIC WALK
November 11 London, UK Colocated with CCS 2019. Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a high ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein A NICE FORMULA FOR THE VOLUME OF AN L_P BALL The main result is that for , the volume is equal to. The formula for the volume of the -sphere in the norm is well known, but this formula lets us calculate all sorts of volumes. For example, for the unit ball we get the rather clean and beautiful formula. The proof given in the note is by induction, and a remark at the end points to several THE HISTORY OF THE MARTINGALE A martingale is the name for a Y-shaped strap used in a harness — it runs along the horse’s chest and then splits up the middle to join the saddle. A martingale is a name for a betting strategy (usually we think of doubling bets) but it’s not clear which one from the historical record. “To play the martingale is to always bet all that THAT REVIEW IS SO… META The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. NIPS2019 | AN ERGODIC WALK Description. This one day workshop focuses on privacy preserving techniques for training, inference, and disclosure in large scale data analysis, both in the distributed and centralized settings. We have observed increasing interest of the ML community in leveraging cryptographic techniques such as Multi-Party Computation (MPC) andHomomorphic
11 | JANUARY | 2011 | AN ERGODIC WALK Rudolf Ahlswede (1938 – 2010) Posted on January 11, 2011 by Anand Sarwate. At the end of last week I learned, much to my sadness, that Rudolf Ahlswede passed away in December. There will be some sort of commemoration at the ITA workshop. His Wikipedia entry has beenedited, but I
JANUARY | 2004 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during January 2004. Charles L. Mee is a playwright who has the full text of all his plays available for free on his website. Last year I did a monologue from his play Big Love, a modernization of The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus.I’m not sure if it will get his plays performed more, but it’s great for those who want to read the works of a pretty well MARCH | 2005 | AN ERGODIC WALK Another late start, another late night. Today was Japanese day. We hit up the Sunshine movie theater for the ham-handed film Steamboy, by the creator of Akira.Pretty standard fare in the “technology has a dark side,” “science is running amok,” and “children and old people are the only ones who can see the truth” genre of anime. MONTHLY ARCHIVES: JULY 2013 Posted on July 22, 2013 by Anand Sarwate. One big difference between reviewing for conferences like NIPS/ICML and ISIT is that there is a “discussion” period between the reviewers and the Area Chair. These discussions are not anonymized, so you know who the other reviewers are and you can also read their reviews.AN ERGODIC WALK
November 11 London, UK Colocated with CCS 2019. Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a high ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein A NICE FORMULA FOR THE VOLUME OF AN L_P BALL The main result is that for , the volume is equal to. The formula for the volume of the -sphere in the norm is well known, but this formula lets us calculate all sorts of volumes. For example, for the unit ball we get the rather clean and beautiful formula. The proof given in the note is by induction, and a remark at the end points to several THE HISTORY OF THE MARTINGALE A martingale is the name for a Y-shaped strap used in a harness — it runs along the horse’s chest and then splits up the middle to join the saddle. A martingale is a name for a betting strategy (usually we think of doubling bets) but it’s not clear which one from the historical record. “To play the martingale is to always bet all that THAT REVIEW IS SO… META The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. NIPS2019 | AN ERGODIC WALK Description. This one day workshop focuses on privacy preserving techniques for training, inference, and disclosure in large scale data analysis, both in the distributed and centralized settings. We have observed increasing interest of the ML community in leveraging cryptographic techniques such as Multi-Party Computation (MPC) andHomomorphic
11 | JANUARY | 2011 | AN ERGODIC WALK Rudolf Ahlswede (1938 – 2010) Posted on January 11, 2011 by Anand Sarwate. At the end of last week I learned, much to my sadness, that Rudolf Ahlswede passed away in December. There will be some sort of commemoration at the ITA workshop. His Wikipedia entry has beenedited, but I
JANUARY | 2004 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during January 2004. Charles L. Mee is a playwright who has the full text of all his plays available for free on his website. Last year I did a monologue from his play Big Love, a modernization of The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus.I’m not sure if it will get his plays performed more, but it’s great for those who want to read the works of a pretty well MARCH | 2005 | AN ERGODIC WALK Another late start, another late night. Today was Japanese day. We hit up the Sunshine movie theater for the ham-handed film Steamboy, by the creator of Akira.Pretty standard fare in the “technology has a dark side,” “science is running amok,” and “children and old people are the only ones who can see the truth” genre of anime. MONTHLY ARCHIVES: JULY 2013 Posted on July 22, 2013 by Anand Sarwate. One big difference between reviewing for conferences like NIPS/ICML and ISIT is that there is a “discussion” period between the reviewers and the Area Chair. These discussions are not anonymized, so you know who the other reviewers are and you can also read their reviews. ABOUT | AN ERGODIC WALK An Ergodic Walk is a blog written (with high probability) by Anand Sarwate, who is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The ideas and opinions expressed here are not those of Rutgers or the State of New Jersey. The opinions expressed herein GENDER INCLUSIVITY IN COMMUNICATION MODELS I submitted a paper to ISIT in which I tried something different. It's about communication models with a jammer, so there are three parties: Alice, Bob, and the jammer. Alice wants to send a message to Bob. The jammer wants to prevent it from being reliably received. We always use Alice for the encoder/transmitter. Knowing FENCHEL DUALITY, ENTROPY, AND THE LOG PARTITION FUNCTION The function is a vector of statistics calculated from , and is a vector of parameters. the function is the log partition function: Where the partition function is. The entropy of the distribution is easy to calculate: The Fenchel dual of a function is the function. . PIONEERING WORKS IN MUSIC AND MORE GENERALLY I was reading some Adorno a while ago, and this excerpt (from the meandering essay "Motifs" in the collection Quasi una Fantasia: Among the most infamous phrases used to defeat changes in musical consciousness is that of the 'trendsetting or pioneering work.' A work of art legitimates itself historically only by virtue of itsuniqueness
HOME/LAND AT ALBANY PARK THEATRE PROJECT On Friday I saw Home/Land at the Albany Park Theatre Project.I’ve been raving to people about it because I think this may be the most important piece of theater I have ever seen.. This is a play built out of stories collected from all over Chicago about immigration and the struggles of families and communities who have come here from all overthe world.
JANUARY | 2004 | AN ERGODIC WALK 10 posts published by Anand Sarwate during January 2004. Charles L. Mee is a playwright who has the full text of all his plays available for free on his website. Last year I did a monologue from his play Big Love, a modernization of The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus.I’m not sure if it will get his plays performed more, but it’s great for those who want to read the works of a pretty well A COMMENT ABOUT MAXIMAL VERSUS AVERAGE ERROR In my previous post I made some vague comments about maximal and average error which I think are not complicated but don’t often arise when we think about plain POSTDOC POSITIONS AT UCLA IN CODING THEORY I will write more about the IHP workshop! In the meantime, here are some exciting postdoc opportunities with my ex-classmate Lara Dolecek! I'm writing to let you know that I have 2 postdoc positions available in my research group at UCLA, starting this summer. I am looking for talented students who want to work on SEPTEMBER | 2003 | AN ERGODIC WALK 3 posts published by Anand Sarwate during September 2003. I went to the Bear’s Lair, which is the student pub here (brighter than the Thirsty and more zealous about carding), and had a pint of porter while reading neuroscience papers. DECEMBER | 2005 | AN ERGODIC WALK By request, today’s paper is kind of about the mathematics of paint-by-numbers puzzles.Merry Christmas, Erin. A Simple Proof of the Gale-Ryser Theorem Manfred Krause The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 103, No. 4. (Apr., 1996), pp. 335-337.AN ERGODIC WALK
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* Conference Blogging DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS SHOULD NOT BE VETOED BY THE US Posted on July 8, 2019by Anand Sarwate
I attended the IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSOC) Board of Governors meeting at ISIT in Paris this week and found something gnawing at me afterwards from thepresentation
about the Distinguished Lecturer (DL) program. The presentation said that “IEEE denied the selection of a DL based in Iran due to U.S. sanction.” The name of the particular DL nominee _does not appear inthe public record_.
Why can IEEE deny the selection of a DL? In part, there are _requirements_ for DLs now: > DL should visit IT Society local chapters. DL program pays for > airfare and travel. Local chapter pays for local expenses (hotel). > If traveling to a different continent, visits to two locations are > required. DL lectures should be freely accessible to the public > (i.e. no registration fees). A DL from Iran cannot be reimbursed by IEEE because the IEEE is based in the US and has to abide by US law. By the new rules then, scholars from Iran are automatically disqualified from the DL program. Being a DL is an important recognition: it is arguably an award. It certainly bestows a certain level of prestige. Acceding to this intervention by IEEE sends the message that “if you are from Iran, you can’t get an award.” Once we go down this road we might as well ban conference submissions, membership, and participation in the academic community for scholars from Iran. Why not go whole hog and become a tool of the US State Department? It’s ludicrous. ITSOC should not sit by and passively accept this “veto” from IEEE: it’s an assault on academic freedom that devalues scholarship on purely political grounds. To not even name the nominee _erases the honor to which they are entitled_. In fact, they should be given the honor/award with the stipulation that they are exempt from the reimbursement. It is possible to take a stand without violating the law: recognize this scholar and take a public stand against the encroachment of American foreign policy onto an international academiccommunity.
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THAT REVIEW IS SO… META Posted on June 18, 2019by Anand
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Reviewing has started for NeurIPS 2019 and this time around I am an area chair (AC). We’ve been given a lot of instructions and some tasks: bidding on papers, bidding on reviewers, adjusting reviewers, identifying what we think are likely rejects in the batch of papers we are handling, and so on. It’s a little more involved than being an AC for ICML, but that’s to be expected since the whole reviewing game has been evolving rapidly to adapt to the massive increase in submissions. Since there is yet another tier of TPC above the ACs (the Senior ACs), how should one approach the meta-review? One view is that the meta-review is AC’s decision/opinion informed by the reviews, the response, the discussion, and their own reading of the paper. This makes the AC a bit like an associate editor at a journal. This also gives the AC quite a bit of flexibility: if the discussion is limited or not particularly useful, the AC can fill in the gap by adding their own voice. The downside is that ACs might bring more of their own preferences (or biases) to the process. A different approach is to make the meta-review akin to a panel summary as part of an NSF review. In the panels I have been on, there are N people who write reviews of each proposal, one of whom leads the discussion. There is also a scribe for the discussion who has not written a review: a dispassionate observer. The whole panel (even those who didn’t read the proposal) participates in the discussion. The scribe is supposed to draft a summary/synthesis of the discussion and runs it past the panel for edits until they reach a consensus. The N reviews are still there though, with their diversity of opinion. I think I might prefer the second model. The setup is a bit different, since authors get to respond to the reviews. The meta-review is supposed to augment the existing reviews by incorporating the discussion and author response. The AC is supposed to guide the discussion, which is a role shared by the lead discussant and program officer in the NSF model. The only problem is that the amount of discussion on each paper is highly variable. It’s sometimes like pulling teeth to get reviewers to respond/interact. Reviewers, for their part, might be participating in 5 different discussions, so context switching to each paper can be tough. But for papers with some reasonable discussion, the meta-review as panel summary might be agood way to go.
One complaint about panel summaries is that they often feel anodyne. However, I think this might be desirable in a meta-review, since it could lead to fewer angry authors. One aspect of the NSF model which I think could be adopted, regardless of how the AC views their job, is running the meta-review past the reviewers. I did this for ICML and got some edits and feedback from the reviewers that improved the finalreview.
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CFP: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY (TPDP) 2019 Posted on May 8, 2019by Anand Sarwate
November 11
London, UK
Colocated with CCS 2019 Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy-preserving data analysis. Differential privacy provides strong worst-case guarantees about the harm that a user could suffer from participating in a differentially private data analysis, but is also flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of data analyses to be performed with a high degree of utility. Having already been the subject of a decade of intense scientific study, it has also now been deployed in products at government agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau and companies like Apple and Google. Researchers in differential privacy span many distinct research communities, including algorithms, computer security, cryptography, databases, data mining, machine learning, statistics, programming languages, social sciences, and law. This workshop will bring researchers from these communities together to discuss recent developments in both the theory and practice of differential privacy. Specific topics of interest for the workshop include (but are notlimited to):
* theory of differential privacy, * differential privacy and security, * privacy preserving machine learning, * differential privacy and statistics, * differential privacy and data analysis, * trade-offs between privacy protection and analytic utility, * differential privacy and surveys, * programming languages for differential privacy, * relaxations of the differential privacy definition, * differential privacy vs other privacy notions and methods, * experimental studies using differential privacy, * differential privacy implementations, * differential privacy and policy making, * applications of differential privacy.SUBMISSIONS
The goal of TPDP is to stimulate the discussion on the relevance of differentially private data analyses in practice. For this reason, we seek contributions from different research areas of computer science and statistics. Authors are invited to submit a short abstract (4 pages maximum) of their work. Submissions will undergo a lightweight review process and will be judged on originality, relevance, interest and clarity. Submission should describe novel work or work that has already appeared elsewhere but that can stimulate the discussion between different communities at the workshop. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop either as a talk or a poster. The workshop will not have formal proceedings and is not intended to preclude later publication at another venue. Selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit a full version of their work for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Privacy andConfidentiality.
SUBMISSION WEBSITE: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdp2019IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: June 21 (anywhere on earth) Notification: August 9Workshop: 11/11
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Michael Hay (co-chair), Colgate University * Aleksandar Nikolov (co-chair), University of Toronto * Aws Albarghouthi, University of Wisconsin–Madison * Borja Balle, Amazon * Mark Bun, Boston University * Graham Cormode, University of Warwick * Rachel Cummings, Georgia Tech University * Xi He, University of Waterloo * Gautam Kamath, University of Waterloo * Ilya Mironov, Google Research – Brain * Uri Stemmer, Ben-Gurion University * Danfeng Zhang, Penn State University For more information, visit the workshop website at https://tpdp.cse.buffalo.edu/2019/.
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SIGNAL BOOST: TRAVEL GRANTS FOR SPAWC 2019 Posted on May 6, 2019by Anand Sarwate
Passing a message along for my colleague Waheed Bajwa: > As the US Liaison Chair of IEEE SPAWC 2019 > , I have received NSF funds to support > travel of undergraduate and/or graduate students > to Cannes, France > for IEEE SPAWC 2019. Having a paper at the workshop is not a > prerequisite for these grants and a number of grants are reserved > for underrepresented minority students whose careers might benefit > from these travel grants. Please share this with any interested > students and, if you know one, please encourage her/him to consider > applying for these grants. / Tagged conferences , signal processing /Leave a comment
ICML 2019 ENCOURAGED CODE SUBMISSION. THAT IS GREAT! Posted on April 12, 2019by Anand Sarwate
ICML 2019 had an optional code submissionfor papers.
As an area chair, I handled a mix of papers, some more theoretical than others, but almost all of them had some empirical validation. Not all of them submitted code. For a paper with a theorem, the experiments can range from sanity checks to a detailed exploration of the effects of some parameters for problem sizes of interest. For more applied/empirical papers, the experiments are doing the heavy lifting of making a case. A survey just went out to Area Chairs asking to what degree code submission was taken as a factor in our recommendations to the senior program committee. Absent a compelling reason not to submit code, I think that ensuring some form of reproducibility is important for both transparency and the open communication of ideas. Reviewers already approach reading a paper with some skepticism — the burden of proof is on the authors to make a compelling argument in their paper. But if the argument is largely empirical (e.g. “this heuristic works very well for problem A”) then the burden of proof consists of making a case that the experiments, as described in the paper, were in fact carried out and not mere fabrications. How better to do that than to provide the implementation of the method? Providing implementations is not always possible: examples abound in multiple fields, including electrical engineering. In antenna design the schematic might be provided in the paper, but the actual fabricated antenna and anechoic chamber are not available to the reviewers. Nobody seems to think this is a problem: reviewers somehow trust that the authors are not making things up. Shouldn’t we trustML authors as well?
One factor that makes a difference is that conferences are just not as competitive outside of computer science. Conferences have a short review period in which to evaluate a large volume of papers. The prestige conferred by getting a paper accepted to a top CS conference is often compared to getting a paper accepted to a top journal. Authors benefit a lot from the research community accepting their paper. It is only appropriate that they also share a lot. Let’s take an example. Suppose you are working in academia and developed a new method for solving Problem X. You are going to launch a startup based on this method. How much more appealing would it be to funders if you had one (or more!) ICML papers about how you’ve totally nailed Problem X, showing that you are a total rockstar in the ML/AI community? But your competitive advantage might be at risk if reviewers (and then later the community) has access to your code. So then you write a paper where you discuss the main _ideas_ behind your approach and give the experimental results but no implementation with the 5 other things you had to do to make the thing actually work. In this case you’re getting the stamp of approval while not sharing with the rest of the research community. Of course, one can imagine that submissions from industry authors might rely on proprietary code bases which they cannot (for policy reasons) provide. An academic conference is about the open and free exchange of ideas, knowledge, and techniques. It seems that a trade show would be a more appropriate venue for showing the results without sharing the methods. I’m not trying to suggest that industry researchers are nefarious in some way, but it’s important to think about the incentives and benefits. The rules for submission (in this case code submission) articulate some of the _values_ of the research community. Encouraging (but not requiring) code submission requires authors to signal (and allows reviewers to consider) whether they agree to the social contract./ 1 Comment
READINGS
Posted on March 19, 2019by Anand Sarwate
I’m on sabbatical now, which ostensibly means having a bit more time to read things (technical and not). I’m not exactly burning through books but 2019 has already had a few good ones. CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN (Sayaka Murata): The book has a lot of critical acclaim but I can see many readers being put off by it: the story is pretty disturbing in the end. The narrator and protagonist is (I think) neuro-atypical, which comes across in the writing (I’d love to read some notes from the translator). On the other hand, it is also a critique of Japanese work culture, I think, although not the usual office-drone/salaryman/Aggretsuko type, which is refreshing. GOLDEN HILL (Francis Spufford): This was a really great picaresque with a lot of detail about early New York that made me want to tour around lower Manhattan with a copy of the manuscript to trace out some of the locations. There’s a twist (as always!) but I don’t want to give it away. Spufford, as usual, has a real ear for the language: although it took a little getting used to, I eventually settled in and it was a real page-turner. THE MINISTRY OF PAIN (Dubravka Ugrešić): A novel by a Balkan author living in Amsterdam about a Balkan refugee teaching Balkan literature in Amsterdam to (mostly) other refugees. There’s a lot about language and the war and “our language” as she puts it. The story unfolds slowly but I think the atmosphere and ideas were what I appreciated the most about it. The discomfort of addressing while not reenacting trauma is palpable. BINTI: HOME and BINTI: THE NIGHT MASQUERADE (Nnedi Okorafor) books 2 and 3 in a sci-fi trilogy. The world expands quite a bit beyond the first one and I thought Binti’s character arc was quite dramatic. I wish there had been more to learn about the other characters as well. But these books are novellas so perhaps I should do a bit more work to fill in the gaps with my imagination? STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND: SEARCHING FOR GERSHOM SCHOLEM AND JERUSALEM (George Prochnik): A rather discursive biography of Gershom Scholem, who almost single-handedly (it seems) made started the academic study of Kabbalah which is interleaved with the author’s autobiography of moving to Jerusalem, taking up graduate studies, starting a family, and becoming disenchanted. I thought it was a stretch at times to relate the two, and I had no prior information about Scholem but I found myself almost wanting two books: a straight biography and a straight memoir. Both had their merits but the alternation made it a bit of a slog to read. / Tagged books , fiction/ Leave a comment
GENDER INCLUSIVITY IN COMMUNICATION MODELS Posted on February 9, 2019by Anand Sarwate
I submitted a paper to ISIT in which I tried something different. It’s about communication models with a jammer, so there are three parties: Alice, Bob, and the jammer. Alice wants to send a message to Bob. The jammer wants to prevent it from being reliably received. We always use Alice for the encoder/transmitter. Knowing nothing more than the name, I would use the pronouns she/her/hers to refer toAlice.
We always use Bob for the encoder/transmitter. Knowing nothing more than the name, I would use the pronouns he/him/his to refer to Bob. What about the jammer? In previous papers (and in our research discussions) we called the jammer various names: Calvin (to get the C) or James (for the J). We ended up also using he/him/his for the jammertoo.
This time I proposed we use Jamie for the jammer. Knowing nothing more than the name, I suggested they/them/their as the most appropriate. In my mind, Jamie may be gender nonconforming, right? At this point many readers (if there are any) would say I’m being a bit on the nose. Why make James into Jamie and why deliberately change the pronouns? Won’t it just confuse people? There are so many responses to this. First, just on pragmatics. This makes pronouns which are uniquely decodable to the parties in the communication model. What can beclearer?
Second, if pronouns create a problem for a mathematically-minded reader, then they are far too obsessed with (gendered) Alice/Bob metaphor. It’s a mathematical engineering paper, not a kid’sstory.
But finally, and _most importantly_, even though all the authors of this paper may be cis-gendered, writing the _stories in our papers_ in a more inclusive way is the right thing to do. Why Alice and Bob? Why not Aarti and Bhaskar, Anting and Bolei, Avital and Binyamin, or Arash and Babak? I’ve heard arguments that we should be more ecumenical in the national origin of our communicating parties. Can we be more inclusive by gender as well?We can and should!
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