Mathematics
Dr. TLA+ Series – Fast Paxos
The presentation slide and the complete schedule of Dr. TLA+ Series are available at https://github.com/tlaplus/DrTLAPlus. Replicating data across geographically distributed data centers is the new norm in cloud services. Compared to Classic Paxos, Fast Paxos shines…
Near-Optimal Robust Matrix Completion via Non-convex Optimization
Several important applications require completion a low-rank matrix in presence of gross outliers. Examples include robust PCA with missing entries, robust recommendation system, foreground background separation in sublinear time etc. Existing solutions for this problem…
Complexity Theory for MapReduce Algorithms
For many problems, algorithms implemented in MapReduce or similar two-ranks-of-parallel-tasks systems exhibit a tradeoff between memory size and communication. More precisely, the tradeoff is between “reducer size” (the number of inputs received by the second…
Learning Invariant Feature Points
In this talk, I will present a novel Deep Network architecture that implements the full feature point-handling pipeline, that is, detection, orientation estimation, and feature description. While previous works have successfully tackled each one of…
