Abstract. Sponge functions were introduced by Bertoni et al. as an alternative to the classical MerkleDamg˚ard design. Many hash function submissions to the SHA-3 competition laun...
The supervised learning paradigm assumes in general that both training and test data are sampled from the same distribution. When this assumption is violated, we are in the setting...
We address the problem of learning the parameters in graphical models when inference is intractable. A common strategy in this case is to replace the partition function with its B...
The use of agile principles and practices in software development is becoming a powerful force in today’s workplace. In our quest to develop better products, therefore, it is im...
Shvetha Soundararajan, Amine Chigani, James D. Art...
The deluge of huge data sets such as those provided by
sensor networks, online transactions, and the web provide
exciting opportunities for data analysis. The scale of the
data ...