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Byzantine Fault-Tolerance in Federated Local SGD Under 2f-Redundancy

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EPFL2018

Universally Scalable Concurrent Data Structures

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EPFL2017

Proof-of-Personhood: Redemocratizing Permissionless Cryptocurrencies

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