Swati Gupta, MIT. When someone is denied a job, offered a different price for the same goods or services, or declined a loan, intent to discriminate is often not the… Read More »New Algorithmic Challenges for Ethical Decision-Making

Chandrajit Bajaj, UT Austin Reinforcement learning (RL) with continuous state and action spaces is arguably one the most challenging problems within the field of machine learning.  Most current learning methods… Read More »Global Search and Discovery with Differential Policy Optimization

Deepak Bansal, Microsoft Abstract: Customer networks have grown, mostly organically, large and complex in cloud environments like Azure. Customers are often afraid to make changes and find it hard to… Read More »Leveraging LLMs for Networking & Security in Cloud Environments

Vijay V. Vazirani , University of California, Irvine. It is well known that the proof of some prominent results in mathematics took a very long time --- decades and even… Read More »A Theory of Alternating Paths and Blossoms, from the Perspective of Minimum Length

Rajeev Barua, University of Maryland. The battle between cyber attackers and attack detection teams is an arms race that is not letting up. Attackers constantly devise new ways of exploiting… Read More »Cybersecurity: Why its hard, solutions, and careers

Allan Borodin, University of Toronto What can and cannot be computed by “conceptually simple algorithms"? In this regard, my primary interest is in approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems and… Read More »Online, greedy, and conceptually simple algorithms

Sourav Chakraborty  (Indian Statistical Institute) We will present a very simple streaming algorithm on F0 estimation that also caught the eye of Donald E. Knuth.  In a recent article, Donald E.… Read More »Distinct Elements in Streams and the Klee’s Measure Problem

Speaker: Raghuvansh Saxena (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) We show how to convert any circuit of poly-logarithmic depth and polynomial size into a functionally equivalent circuit of polynomial size (and… Read More »Polynomial Size, Short-Circuit Resilient Circuits for NC