Publications related to LAQy: Efficient and Reusable Query Approximations via Lazy Sampling

Gibbs sampling the posterior of neural networks

Giovanni Piccioli, Lenka Zdeborová, Emanuele Troiani

In this paper, we study sampling from a posterior derived from a neural network. We propose a new probabilistic model consisting of adding noise at every pre- and post-activation in the network, arguing that the resulting posterior can be sampled using an ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Center-aware Adversarial Augmentation for Single Domain Generalization

Mathieu Salzmann, Zhiye Wang

Domain generalization (DG) aims to learn a model from multiple training (i.e., source) domains that can generalize well to the unseen test (i.e., target) data coming from a different distribution. Single domain generalization (SingleDG) has recently emerge ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Aggregation and Exploration of High-Dimensional Data Using the Sudokube Data Cube Engine

Christoph Koch, Sachin Basil John, Peter Lindner, Zhekai Jiang

We present Sudokube, a novel system that supports interactive speed querying on high-dimensional data using partially materialized data cubes. Given a storage budget, it judiciously chooses what projections to precompute and materialize during cube constru ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Traversing Time Dependent Light Fields for Daylight Glare Evaluation

Stephen William Wasilewski

To understand how daylight gives shape and life to architectural spaces, whether existing or imagined, requires quantifying its dynamism and energy. Maintaining these details presents a challenge to simulation and analysis methods that flatten data into di ...

EPFL2023

Sampling-Based AQP in Modern Analytical Engines

Anastasia Ailamaki, Viktor Sanca

As the data volume grows, reducing the query execution times remains an elusive goal. While approximate query processing (AQP) techniques present a principled method to trade off accuracy for faster queries in analytics, the sample creation is often consid ...

ACM2022

Structure-property relationships and mixed conductivity in layered hybrid perovskites based on phenyl-derived spacers

Algirdas Ducinskas

Hybrid halide perovskites are currently one of the most studied semiconductors. However, due to poor intrinsic and extrinsic stability, further developments to commercialize devices based on hybrid halide perovskites are limited. Many different strategies ...

EPFL2022

Micro-architectural Analysis of Database Workloads

Utku Sirin

Database workloads have significantly evolved in the past twenty years. Traditional database systems that are mainly used to serve Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) workloads evolved into specialized database systems that are optimized for particular ...

EPFL2021

System and methods for differential imaging using a lock-in camera

Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Timothé Laforest, Chiara Bonati

The present invention describes an imaging system that allows visualization of a wide range of samples both in terms of morphology and in terms of material (e.g. density distribution, varying chemical composition, or anything that induces a change of optic ...

2021

Edit Based Grading of SQL Queries

Bikash Chandra

Grading student SQL queries manually is a tedious and error-prone process. Earlier work on testing correctness of student SQL queries, such as the XData system, can be used to test the correctness of a student query. However, in case a student query is fou ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Global Free-Energy Landscapes as a Smoothly Joined Collection of Local Maps

Michele Ceriotti, Gareth Aneurin Tribello, Federico Giberti

Enhanced sampling techniques have become an essential tool in computational chemistry and physics, where they are applied to sample activated processes that occur on a time scale that is inaccessible to conventional simulations. Despite their popularity, i ...

2021

Development of microdevices for the in-plane thermoelectric characterization of deposited films

Stefano Mischler

Measuring the thermoelectric transport properties of a material is a prerequisite to determining its usefulness for application in waste heat recovery or cooling and the basis for devising improvement strategies. While well-established characterization met ...

ELSEVIER2021

The role of demand in fostering product vs process innovation: a model and an empirical test

Gabriele Pellegrino

While the extant innovation literature has provided extensive evidence of the so-called "demand-pull" effect, the possible diverse impact of demand evolution on product vs process innovation activities has not been yet investigated. This paper develops a f ...

SPRINGER2021

Sublinear Bounds on the Distinguishing Advantage for Multiple Samples

Serge Vaudenay

The maximal achievable advantage of a (computationally unbounded) distinguisher to determine whether a source

Z

is distributed according to distribution

P_0

or

P_1

, when given access to one sample of

Z

, is characterized by the statistical distance ...

Springer, Cham2020

Multilevel weighted least squares polynomial approximation

Fabio Nobile

Weighted least squares polynomial approximation uses random samples to determine projections of functions onto spaces of polynomials. It has been shown that, using an optimal distribution of sample locations, the number of samples required to achieve quasi ...

2020

Removing imaging systematics from galaxy clustering measurements with Obiwan: application to the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey emission-line galaxy sample

Johan Comparat, Anand Stéphane Raichoor, Cheng Zhao

This work presents the application of a new tool, Obiwan, which uses image simulations to determine the selection function of a galaxy redshift survey and calculate three-dimensional (3D) clustering statistics. Obiwan relies on a forward model of the proce ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Hold me tight! Influence of discriminative features on deep network boundaries

Pascal Frossard, Seyed Mohsen Moosavi Dezfooli, Apostolos Modas, Guillermo Ortiz Jimenez

Important insights towards the explainability of neural networks reside in the characteristics of their decision boundaries. In this work, we borrow tools from the field of adversarial robustness, and propose a new perspective that relates dataset features ...

2020

SpecROP: Speculative Exploitation of ROP Chains

Atri Bhattacharyya, Mathias Josef Payer, Andrés Sánchez Marín

Speculative execution attacks, such as Spectre, reuse code from the victim’s binary to access and leak secret information during speculative execution. Every variant of the attack requires very particular code sequences, necessitating elaborate gadget-sear ...

2020

Timely and cost-efficient data exploration through adaptive tuning

Matthaios Alexandros Olma

Modern applications accumulate data at an exponentially increasing rate and traditional database systems struggle to keep up. Decision support systems used in industry, rely heavily on data analysis, and require real-time responses irrespective of data siz ...

EPFL2019

HetExchange: Encapsulating heterogeneous CPU-GPU parallelism in JIT compiled engines

Anastasia Ailamaki, Manolis Karpathiotakis, Raja Appuswamy, Periklis Chrysogelos

Modern server hardware is increasingly heterogeneous as hardware accelerators, such as GPUs, are used together with multicore CPUs to meet the computational demands of modern data analytics workloads. Unfortunately, query parallelization techniques used by ...

2019

Assessment of water resource contamination by pesticides in vegetable-producing areas in Burkina Faso

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Edouard René Gilbert Lehmann, Morgan Fargues, Jean-Jacques Stéphane Nfon Dibie

This study proposes a comprehensive approach to investigate water resource contamination by pesticides under the specific climatic and hydrological conditions of the Sudano-Sahelian climate. Samples were collected from tradi- tional wells, boreholes, and a ...

2018