Re: [Coin] For information: talk on "Function Computation in Networks"

"David R. Oran" <daveoran@orandom.net> Wed, 19 June 2019 13:18 UTC

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To: Marie-Jose Montpetit <marie@mjmontpetit.com>
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Subject: Re: [Coin] For information: talk on "Function Computation in Networks"
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On 18 Jun 2019, at 11:46, Marie-Jose Montpetit wrote:

> I can go too :)
>
Sorry I’ll miss this - I’m in Amherst today giving a talk at the ACM 
Multimedia systems conference.

> mjm
> Marie-Jose Montpetit, Ph.D.
> mariejo@mit.edu
> marie@mjmontpetit.com
> +1-781-526-2661
> @SocialTVMIT
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>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 11:26 AM, Ciavaglia, Laurent (Nokia - 
>> FR/Paris-Saclay) <laurent.ciavaglia@nokia.com> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> This talk might be of interest to the PRG.
>>
>> "Function Computation in Networks" by Derya Malak (MIT).
>> See https://www.lincs.fr/events/talk-by-derya-malak/ 
>> <https://www.lincs.fr/events/talk-by-derya-malak/>
>> Wednesday 19 June 2019, 2pm CEST
>>
>> Abstract: This talk describes a new perspective on cloud/fog 
>> computing, by distributing computation in order to handle the large 
>> volume of data with growing computational demand. Our goal is to 
>> devise coding techniques for functional compression in networks, by 
>> employing the concepts of graph entropy, common information, and 
>> exploiting function subjectivity and role of a helper in encoding of 
>> functions. These techniques suit different applications such as 
>> caching, classification, federated learning, quantization, and 
>> compressed sensing. Our unified insights suggest to distribute 
>> computation by making use of underlying redundancy both in data and 
>> functions, in order to recover a sparse representation, or labeling.
>>
>> Note that the presentations are generally recorded and the videos are 
>> available few days after the seminars at the same links.
>>
>> Best regards, Laurent.
>>
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