52 Search Results for "Tang, Yi"


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Incentivizing High-Quality Content in Online Recommender Systems

Authors: Xinyan Hu, Meena Jagadeesan, Michael I. Jordan, and Jacob Steinhardt

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 368, 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2026)


Abstract
In content recommender systems such as TikTok and YouTube, the platform’s recommendation algorithm shapes content producer incentives. Many platforms employ online learning, which generates intertemporal incentives, since content produced today affects recommendations of future content. We study the game between producers and analyze the content created at equilibrium. We prove that standard online learning algorithms, such as Hedge and EXP3, unfortunately incentivize producers to create low-quality content, where producers' effort approaches zero in the long run for typical learning rate schedules. Motivated by this negative result, we design learning algorithms that incentivize producers to invest high effort and achieve high user welfare. At a conceptual level, our work illustrates the unintended impact that a platform’s learning algorithm can have on content quality and introduces algorithmic approaches to mitigating these effects.

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Xinyan Hu, Meena Jagadeesan, Michael I. Jordan, and Jacob Steinhardt. Incentivizing High-Quality Content in Online Recommender Systems. In 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 368, pp. 15:1-15:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{hu_et_al:LIPIcs.FORC.2026.15,
  author =	{Hu, Xinyan and Jagadeesan, Meena and Jordan, Michael I. and Steinhardt, Jacob},
  title =	{{Incentivizing High-Quality Content in Online Recommender Systems}},
  booktitle =	{7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2026)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-419-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{368},
  editor =	{Lin, Huijia (Rachel)},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-259887},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: recommender systems, content quality, producer incentives, online learning, algorithmic game theory, Stackelberg games}
}
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Privacy, Prediction, and Allocation

Authors: Ben Jacobsen and Nitin Kohli

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 368, 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2026)


Abstract
Algorithmic predictions are increasingly used to inform the allocation of scarce resources. The promise of these methods is that, through machine learning, they can better identify the people who would benefit most from interventions. Recently, however, several works have called this assumption into question by demonstrating the existence of settings where simple, unit-level allocation strategies can meet or even exceed the performance of those based on individual-level targeting. Separately, other works have objected to individual-level targeting on privacy grounds, leading to an unusual situation where a single solution, unit-level targeting, is recommended for reasons of both privacy and utility. Motivated by the desire to fully understand the interplay of privacy and targeting levels, we initiate the study of aid allocation systems that satisfy differential privacy, synthesizing existing works on private optimization with the economic models of aid allocation used in the non-private literature. To this end, we investigate private variants of both individual and unit-level allocation strategies in both stochastic and distribution-free settings under a range of constraints on data availability. Through this analysis, we provide clean, interpretable bounds characterizing the tradeoffs between privacy, efficiency, and targeting precision in allocation.

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Ben Jacobsen and Nitin Kohli. Privacy, Prediction, and Allocation. In 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 368, pp. 20:1-20:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{jacobsen_et_al:LIPIcs.FORC.2026.20,
  author =	{Jacobsen, Ben and Kohli, Nitin},
  title =	{{Privacy, Prediction, and Allocation}},
  booktitle =	{7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2026)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-419-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{368},
  editor =	{Lin, Huijia (Rachel)},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-259935},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Differential privacy, fair allocation, limits of prediction}
}
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Approximating Euclidean Shallow-Light Trees

Authors: Hung Le, Shay Solomon, Cuong Than, Csaba D. Tóth, and Tianyi Zhang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 367, 42nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2026)


Abstract
For a weighted graph G = (V, E, w) and a designated source vertex s ∈ V, a spanning tree that simultaneously approximates a shortest-path tree w.r.t. source s and a minimum spanning tree is called a shallow-light tree (SLT). Specifically, an (α, β)-SLT of G w.r.t. s ∈ V is a spanning tree of G with root-stretch α (preserving all distances between s and all other vertices up to a factor of α) and lightness β (its weight is at most β times the weight of a minimum spanning tree of G). It was shown in the early 1990s that (1) for any graph, any source, and any ε > 0, there is a (1 + ε, O(1/ε))-SLT, and (2) there exist graphs for which β = Ω(1/ε) for any (1+ε,β)-SLT. The focus of this work is on SLTs in low-dimensional Euclidean spaces, which are of special interest for some applications of SLTs, in geometric network optimization problems. The aforementioned existential lower bound applies to Euclidean plane, as well. It was shown more than a decade ago that (1) by using Steiner points, one can reduce the lightness bound from O(1/ε) to O(√{1/ε}), and (2) there exist point sets in the plane for which β = Ω(√{1/ε}) for any Steiner (1+ε,β)-SLT. These tight existential bounds for the Euclidean case yield approximation factors of O(1/ε) and O(√{1/ε}) on the minimum weight of any non-Steiner and Steiner tree with root-stretch 1+ε, respectively. Despite the large body of work on SLTs, the basic question of whether a better approximation algorithm exists was left untouched to date, and this holds in any graph family. This paper makes a first nontrivial step towards resolving this question by presenting two bicriteria approximation algorithms. For any ε > 0, a set P of n points in constant-dimensional Euclidean space and a source s ∈ P, our first (respectively, second) algorithm returns, in O(n log n ⋅ polylog(ε^{-1})) time, a non-Steiner (resp., Steiner) tree with root-stretch 1+O(ε log ε^{-1}) and weight at most O(opt_ε ⋅ log² ε^{-1}) (resp., O(opt_ε ⋅ log ε^{-1})), where opt_ε denotes the minimum weight of a non-Steiner (resp., Steiner) tree with root-stretch 1+ε.

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Hung Le, Shay Solomon, Cuong Than, Csaba D. Tóth, and Tianyi Zhang. Approximating Euclidean Shallow-Light Trees. In 42nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 367, pp. 71:1-71:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{le_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2026.71,
  author =	{Le, Hung and Solomon, Shay and Than, Cuong and T\'{o}th, Csaba D. and Zhang, Tianyi},
  title =	{{Approximating Euclidean Shallow-Light Trees}},
  booktitle =	{42nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2026)},
  pages =	{71:1--71:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-418-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{367},
  editor =	{Ahn, Hee-Kap and Hoffmann, Michael and Nayyeri, Amir},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2026.71},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-258789},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2026.71},
  annote =	{Keywords: geometric network design, optimization, shallow-light tree, Steiner point}
}
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Mapping Chemical Space: Topological Data Analysis of Chemical Latent Space with Mapper

Authors: Dhruv Meduri, Chuan-Shen Hu, Cong Shen, Kelin Xia, and Bei Wang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 367, 42nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2026)


Abstract
The vast chemical space, encompassing virtually innumerable molecules and materials, presents both immense opportunities and significant challenges. The design and discovery of novel drugs and functional materials may be viewed as a search within this space; however, the sheer scale of potential candidates renders exhaustive exploration infeasible. To address this, we introduce Chemical Mapper, a framework that integrates topological data analysis with deep learning to enable the visual exploration and analysis of chemical latent spaces. At its core, Chemical Mapper employs mapper, a widely used tool in topological data analysis, to investigate the organizational principles of chemical latent spaces defined by molecular representations learned by geometric deep learning models. In doing so, Chemical Mapper not only highlights groups of molecular representations but also uncovers the relationships among them through linkages and branching structures. Our results show that Chemical Mapper reveals intrinsic patterns associated with molecular scaffolds, functional groups, and chemical properties, as well as the structural and functional evolutions of the molecules.

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Dhruv Meduri, Chuan-Shen Hu, Cong Shen, Kelin Xia, and Bei Wang. Mapping Chemical Space: Topological Data Analysis of Chemical Latent Space with Mapper. In 42nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 367, pp. 78:1-78:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{meduri_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2026.78,
  author =	{Meduri, Dhruv and Hu, Chuan-Shen and Shen, Cong and Xia, Kelin and Wang, Bei},
  title =	{{Mapping Chemical Space: Topological Data Analysis of Chemical Latent Space with Mapper}},
  booktitle =	{42nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2026)},
  pages =	{78:1--78:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-418-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{367},
  editor =	{Ahn, Hee-Kap and Hoffmann, Michael and Nayyeri, Amir},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2026.78},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-258854},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2026.78},
  annote =	{Keywords: Practice of computational topology, topological data analysis, applications in chemistry, mapper algorithm, high-dimensional data analysis, chemical spaces, geometric deep learning, latent space geometry}
}
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A Survey of Real-Time Support, Analysis, and Advancements in ROS 2

Authors: Daniel Casini, Jian-Jia Chen, Jing Li, Federico Reghenzani, and Harun Teper

Published in: LITES, Volume 11, Issue 1 (2026). Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 11, Issue 1


Abstract
The Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) has emerged as a relevant middleware framework for robotic applications, offering modularity, distributed execution, and communication. In the last six years, ROS 2 has drawn increasing attention from the real-time systems community and industry. This survey presents a comprehensive overview of research efforts that analyze, enhance, and extend ROS 2 to support real-time execution. We first provide a detailed description of the internal scheduling mechanisms of ROS 2 and its layered architecture, including the interaction with DDS-based communication and other communication middleware. We then review key contributions from the literature, covering timing analysis for both single- and multi-threaded executors, metrics such as response time, reaction time, and data age, and different communication modes. The survey also discusses community-driven enhancements to the ROS 2 runtime, including new executor algorithm designs, real-time GPU management, and microcontroller support via micro-ROS. Furthermore, we summarize techniques for bounding DDS communication delays, message filters, and profiling tools that have been developed to support analysis and experimentation. To help systematize this growing body of work, we introduce taxonomies that classify the surveyed contributions based on different criteria. This survey aims to guide both researchers and practitioners in understanding and improving the real-time capabilities of ROS 2.

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Daniel Casini, Jian-Jia Chen, Jing Li, Federico Reghenzani, and Harun Teper. A Survey of Real-Time Support, Analysis, and Advancements in ROS 2. In LITES, Volume 11, Issue 1 (2026). Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 1:1-1:37, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@Article{casini_et_al:LITES.11.1.1,
  author =	{Casini, Daniel and Chen, Jian-Jia and Li, Jing and Reghenzani, Federico and Teper, Harun},
  title =	{{A Survey of Real-Time Support, Analysis, and Advancements in ROS 2}},
  journal =	{Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems},
  pages =	{1:1--1:37},
  ISSN =	{2199-2002},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{11},
  number =	{1},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LITES.11.1.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-257914},
  doi =		{10.4230/LITES.11.1.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: ROS 2, middleware, real-time, timing predictability, publish-subscribe}
}
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On the Computational Cost of Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Authors: Victor Charpenay, Mansour Zoubeirou A Mayaki, and Antoine Zimmermann

Published in: TGDK, Volume 4, Issue 1 (2026). Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge, Volume 4, Issue 1


Abstract
Over a decade, numerous Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE) models have been designed and evaluated on reference datasets, always with increasing performance. In this paper, we re-evaluate these models with respect to their computational efficiency during training, by estimating the computational cost of the procedure expressed in floating-point operations. We design a cost model based on analytical expressions and apply it on a collection of 20 KGE models, representative of the state-of-the-art. We show that dimensionality or parameter efficiency, used in the literature to compare models with each other, are not suitable to evaluate the true cost of models. Through fixed-budget experiments, a novel approach to evaluate KGE models based on cost estimates, we re-assess the relative performance of model families compared to the state-of-the-art. Bilinear models such as ComplEx underperform with a low computational budget while hyperbolic linear models appear to offer no particular benefit compared to simpler Euclidian models, especially the MuRE model. Neural models, such as ConvE or CompGCN, achieve reasonable performance in the literature but their high computational cost appears unnecessary when compared with other models. The trade-off between efficiency and expressivity of both linear and neural models is to be further explored.

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Victor Charpenay, Mansour Zoubeirou A Mayaki, and Antoine Zimmermann. On the Computational Cost of Knowledge Graph Embeddings. In Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK), Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 1:1-1:30, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@Article{charpenay_et_al:TGDK.4.1.1,
  author =	{Charpenay, Victor and Zoubeirou A Mayaki, Mansour and Zimmermann, Antoine},
  title =	{{On the Computational Cost of Knowledge Graph Embeddings}},
  journal =	{Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge},
  pages =	{1:1--1:30},
  ISSN =	{2942-7517},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{4},
  number =	{1},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/TGDK.4.1.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-256863},
  doi =		{10.4230/TGDK.4.1.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Knowledge Graph Embedding, Parameter Efficiency, Computational Budget, Green AI}
}
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What Obstructed Skies Teach Us About Satellite Internet

Authors: Bhaskar Kataria, Hammas Bin Tanveer, Rishab Nithyanand, and Rachee Singh

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 139, 1st New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS 2026)


Abstract
Low Earth Orbit satellite networks can extend Internet connectivity to remote areas where traditional broadband infrastructure is unavailable. However physical obstructions, e.g., dense forest cover, can interfere with satellite communication by blocking the user terminal’s line of sight to the satellite constellation. Unfortunately the impact of such obstructions on the connectivity of user terminals is not well studied. We bridge this gap by conducting an experimental study of how physical obstructions influence satellite network connectivity. Through controlled experiments using a purpose-built hardware testbed, we quantify the performance degradation caused by physical obstructions to user terminals. Our results show that obstructions increase round-trip latency by an average of 4% and packet loss by 0.3%. Obstructions cause user terminals to connect to a different satellite than the unobstructed terminal approximately 15% of the time. We find evidence of a previously undocumented adaptive mechanism we call responsive routing, where the satellite network switches obstructed terminals to alternative satellites within the standard 15-second interval between typical handovers. Our data is publicly available as supplementary material to this article.

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Bhaskar Kataria, Hammas Bin Tanveer, Rishab Nithyanand, and Rachee Singh. What Obstructed Skies Teach Us About Satellite Internet. In 1st New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS 2026). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 139, pp. 7:1-7:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{kataria_et_al:OASIcs.NINeS.2026.7,
  author =	{Kataria, Bhaskar and Tanveer, Hammas Bin and Nithyanand, Rishab and Singh, Rachee},
  title =	{{What Obstructed Skies Teach Us About Satellite Internet}},
  booktitle =	{1st New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS 2026)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:25},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-414-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{139},
  editor =	{Argyraki, Katerina and Panda, Aurojit},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.NINeS.2026.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255923},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.NINeS.2026.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Satellite Internet, Starlink, Network Measurement, LEO Satellites, Obstructions}
}
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TURBO: Utility-Aware Bandwidth Allocation for Cloud-Augmented Autonomous Control

Authors: Peter Schafhalter, Alexander Krentsel, Hongbo Wei, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 139, 1st New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS 2026)


Abstract
Autonomous driving system progress has been driven by improvements in machine learning (ML) models, whose computational demands now exceed what edge devices alone can provide. The cloud offers abundant compute, but the network has long been treated as an unreliable bottleneck rather than a co-equal part of the autonomous vehicle control loop. We argue that this separation is no longer tenable: safety-critical autonomy requires co-design of control, models, and network resource allocation itself. We introduce TURBO, a cloud-augmented control framework that addresses this challenge, formulating bandwidth allocation and control pipeline configuration across both the car and cloud as a joint optimization problem. TURBO maximizes benefit to the car while guaranteeing safety in the face of highly variable network conditions. We implement TURBO and evaluate it in both simulation and real-world deployment, showing it can improve average accuracy by up to 15.6%pt over existing on-vehicle-only pipelines. Our code is made available at www.github.com/NetSys/turbo.

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Peter Schafhalter, Alexander Krentsel, Hongbo Wei, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica. TURBO: Utility-Aware Bandwidth Allocation for Cloud-Augmented Autonomous Control. In 1st New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS 2026). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 139, pp. 18:1-18:34, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{schafhalter_et_al:OASIcs.NINeS.2026.18,
  author =	{Schafhalter, Peter and Krentsel, Alexander and Wei, Hongbo and Gonzalez, Joseph E. and Ratnasamy, Sylvia and Shenker, Scott and Stoica, Ion},
  title =	{{TURBO: Utility-Aware Bandwidth Allocation for Cloud-Augmented Autonomous Control}},
  booktitle =	{1st New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS 2026)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:34},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-414-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{139},
  editor =	{Argyraki, Katerina and Panda, Aurojit},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.NINeS.2026.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-256039},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.NINeS.2026.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: autonomous vehicles, bandwidth allocation, cloud computing, edge computing, machine learning}
}
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Simulate Before Sending: Rethinking Transport in Datacenter Networks

Authors: Dan Straussman, Isaac Keslassy, Alexander Shpiner, and Liran Liss

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 139, 1st New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS 2026)


Abstract
Existing transport protocols in commodity datacenter networks struggle to provide low collective completion times (CCTs) to AI training collectives, as packet losses and retransmissions significantly degrade performance. We propose dcSim, an efficient transport that achieves low CCTs and practically lossless performance with commodity switches. In dcSim, each packet first employs a small simulation probe to traverse the network and explore congestion along a candidate path. Only packets whose simulation probes succeed are then transmitted, expecting to succeed as well. Evaluations confirm that dcSim achieves faster CCTs than existing schemes, with small queues and virtually zero packet loss. Finally, dcSim also excels in adverse conditions, including oversubscribed topologies.

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Dan Straussman, Isaac Keslassy, Alexander Shpiner, and Liran Liss. Simulate Before Sending: Rethinking Transport in Datacenter Networks. In 1st New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS 2026). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 139, pp. 19:1-19:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{straussman_et_al:OASIcs.NINeS.2026.19,
  author =	{Straussman, Dan and Keslassy, Isaac and Shpiner, Alexander and Liss, Liran},
  title =	{{Simulate Before Sending: Rethinking Transport in Datacenter Networks}},
  booktitle =	{1st New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS 2026)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:22},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-414-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{139},
  editor =	{Argyraki, Katerina and Panda, Aurojit},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.NINeS.2026.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-256044},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.NINeS.2026.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: Datacenter networks, transport protocols, AI training, lossless networks}
}
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Integrated Memory Grouping and Power-Aware MBIST Scheduling for MPSoCs

Authors: Koki Asahina and Yasuhiko Nakashima

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 140, 7th Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2026)


Abstract
Memory Built-In Self-Test (MBIST) is a widely adopted technique for testing memory. In modern large-scale SoCs, hundreds to thousands of embedded memories are integrated, and to test them efficiently, methods that group memories and test them in parallel within each group are employed. However, many existing approaches either do not account for test scheduling or rely on evolutionary methods, such as genetic algorithms (GAs), for grouping, which incur high computational costs. In this work, we propose a framework that covers the flow from memory grouping to test scheduling. Taking the specifications and layout information of multiple SRAMs into account, the framework comprises a flexible, fast memory grouping method and a scheduling method that minimizes the total test time under a power-constrained constraint. In the proposed approach, DBSCAN and rectangular partitioning are used to perform fast grouping while suppressing long routing connections, and an LPT-based greedy heuristic is employed to shorten the total test time under constraints on the power limit and the number of simultaneously active BIST controllers. Experimental evaluation using SRAM placement data based on the ASAP7 PDK shows that, compared with existing K-means, Greedy, and GA-based methods, the proposed method reduces the number of groups by up to 48% while achieving approximately 87× speedup in clustering runtime. Furthermore, compared with a commercial Industrial Solution, it reduces the test time by 53%. These results demonstrate that the proposed method provides high scalability and practical effectiveness for MBIST design, even in large-scale MPSoCs with a large number and variety of embedded memories.

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Koki Asahina and Yasuhiko Nakashima. Integrated Memory Grouping and Power-Aware MBIST Scheduling for MPSoCs. In 7th Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2026). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 140, pp. 3:1-3:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{asahina_et_al:OASIcs.NG-RES.2026.3,
  author =	{Asahina, Koki and Nakashima, Yasuhiko},
  title =	{{Integrated Memory Grouping and Power-Aware MBIST Scheduling for MPSoCs}},
  booktitle =	{7th Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2026)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:13},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-415-4},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{140},
  editor =	{Ali, Hazem Ismail and Kurunathan, Harrison},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2026.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-254214},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2026.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: MBIST, DfT, Memory Grouping, Power-Aware Scheduling}
}
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Vanishing Signatures, Orbit Closure, and the Converse of the Holant Theorem

Authors: Jin-Yi Cai and Ben Young

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)


Abstract
Valiant’s Holant theorem is a powerful tool for algorithms and reductions for counting problems. It states that if two sets ℱ and 𝒢 of tensors (a.k.a. constraint functions or signatures) are related by a holographic transformation, then ℱ and 𝒢 are Holant-indistinguishable, i.e., every tensor network using tensors from ℱ, respectively from 𝒢, contracts to the same value. Xia (ICALP 2010) conjectured the converse of the Holant theorem, but a counterexample was found based on vanishing signatures, those which are Holant-indistinguishable from 0. We prove two near-converses of the Holant theorem using techniques from invariant theory. (I) Holant-indistinguishable ℱ and 𝒢 always admit two sequences of holographic transformations mapping them arbitrarily close to each other, i.e., their GL_q-orbit closures intersect. (II) We show that vanishing signatures are the only true obstacle to a converse of the Holant theorem. As corollaries of the two theorems we obtain the first characterization of homomorphism-indistinguishability over graphs of bounded degree, a long standing open problem, and show that two graphs with invertible adjacency matrices are isomorphic if and only if they are homomorphism-indistinguishable over graphs with maximum degree at most three. We also show that Holant-indistinguishability is complete for a complexity class TOCI introduced by Lysikov and Walter [Vladimir Lysikov and Michael Walter, 2024], and hence hard for graph isomorphism.

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Jin-Yi Cai and Ben Young. Vanishing Signatures, Orbit Closure, and the Converse of the Holant Theorem. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 32:1-32:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{cai_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.32,
  author =	{Cai, Jin-Yi and Young, Ben},
  title =	{{Vanishing Signatures, Orbit Closure, and the Converse of the Holant Theorem}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253198},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Holant, Orbit Closure Intersection, Homomorphism Indistinguishability, Tensor Network}
}
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Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange from Commutativity to Group Laws

Authors: Dung Hoang Duong, Youming Qiao, and Chuanqi Zhang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)


Abstract
In Diffie-Hellman key exchange, the commutativity of power operations is instrumental in the agreement of keys. Viewing commutativity as a law in abelian groups, we propose Diffie-Hellman key exchange in the group action framework (Brassard-Yung, Crypto'90; Ji-Qiao-Song-Yun, TCC'19), for actions of non-abelian groups with laws. The security of this protocol is shown, following Fischlin, Günther, Schmidt, and Warinschi (IEEE S&P'16), based on a pseudorandom group action assumption. A concrete instantiation is proposed based on the monomial code equivalence problem.

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Dung Hoang Duong, Youming Qiao, and Chuanqi Zhang. Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange from Commutativity to Group Laws. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 52:1-52:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{duong_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.52,
  author =	{Duong, Dung Hoang and Qiao, Youming and Zhang, Chuanqi},
  title =	{{Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange from Commutativity to Group Laws}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{52:1--52:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.52},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253396},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.52},
  annote =	{Keywords: Diffie-Hellman, Key Exchange, Group Laws, Group Actions, Code Equivalence}
}
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Quantum Advantage from Sampling Shallow Circuits: Beyond Hardness of Marginals

Authors: Daniel Grier, Daniel M. Kane, Jackson Morris, Anthony Ostuni, and Kewen Wu

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)


Abstract
We construct a family of distributions {𝒟_n}_n with 𝒟_n over {0, 1}ⁿ and a family of depth-7 quantum circuits {C_n}_n such that 𝒟_n is produced exactly by C_n with the all zeros state as input, yet any constant-depth classical circuit with bounded fan-in gates evaluated on any binary product distribution has total variation distance 1 - e^{-Ω(n)} from 𝒟_n. Moreover, the quantum circuits we construct are geometrically local and use a relatively standard gate set: Hadamard, controlled-phase, CNOT, and Toffoli gates. All previous separations of this type suffer from some undesirable constraint on the classical circuit model or the quantum circuits witnessing the separation. Our family of distributions is inspired by the Parity Halving Problem of Watts, Kothari, Schaeffer, and Tal (STOC, 2019), which built on the work of Bravyi, Gosset, and König (Science, 2018) to separate shallow quantum and classical circuits for relational problems.

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Daniel Grier, Daniel M. Kane, Jackson Morris, Anthony Ostuni, and Kewen Wu. Quantum Advantage from Sampling Shallow Circuits: Beyond Hardness of Marginals. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 73:1-73:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{grier_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.73,
  author =	{Grier, Daniel and Kane, Daniel M. and Morris, Jackson and Ostuni, Anthony and Wu, Kewen},
  title =	{{Quantum Advantage from Sampling Shallow Circuits: Beyond Hardness of Marginals}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{73:1--73:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.73},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253607},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.73},
  annote =	{Keywords: Shallow circuits, sampling, quantum circuits}
}
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Prior-Independent and Subgame Optimal Online Algorithms

Authors: Jason Hartline, Aleck Johnsen, and Anant Shah

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)


Abstract
This paper develops two game-theoretic notions of beyond worst-case analysis that give better than worst-case guarantees on natural inputs. We illustrate them through the finite-horizon ski-rental problem. First, we consider prior-independent design and analysis of online algorithms where, rather than choosing a worst-case input, the adversary chooses a worst-case independent and identical distribution over inputs. Prior-independent online algorithms are generally analytically intractable; instead we give a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme to compute them. Second, we consider the worst-case design of algorithms. We define "subgame optimality" which is stronger than worst-case optimality in that it requires the algorithm to take advantage of an adversary not playing a worst-case input. Algorithms that focus only on the worst case can be far from subgame optimal. Highlighting the potential improvement from these paradigms for the finite-horizon ski-rental problem, we empirically compare worst-case, subgame optimal, and prior-independent algorithms in the prior-independent framework. Finally, we analyze the structure of their decisions across input sequences: the prior-independent algorithm exhibits more extreme adaptations to observed data, in contrast with the more conservative behavior of worst-case and subgame optimal algorithms.

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Jason Hartline, Aleck Johnsen, and Anant Shah. Prior-Independent and Subgame Optimal Online Algorithms. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 75:1-75:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{hartline_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.75,
  author =	{Hartline, Jason and Johnsen, Aleck and Shah, Anant},
  title =	{{Prior-Independent and Subgame Optimal Online Algorithms}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{75:1--75:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.75},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253622},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.75},
  annote =	{Keywords: online algorithms, prior-independent algorithm design, zero-sum games}
}
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Mining Inter-Document Argument Structures in Scientific Papers for an Argument Web

Authors: Florian Ruosch, Cristina Sarasua, and Abraham Bernstein

Published in: TGDK, Volume 3, Issue 3 (2025). Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge, Volume 3, Issue 3


Abstract
In Argument Mining, predicting argumentative relations between texts (or spans) remains one of the most challenging aspects, even more so in the cross-document setting. This paper makes three key contributions to advance research in this domain. We first extend an existing dataset, the Sci-Arg corpus, by annotating it with explicit inter-document argumentative relations, thereby allowing arguments to be distributed over several documents forming an Argument Web; these new annotations are published using Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL). Second, we explore and evaluate three automated approaches for predicting these inter-document argumentative relations, establishing critical baselines on the new dataset. We find that a simple classifier based on discourse indicators with access to context outperforms neural methods. Third, we conduct a comparative analysis of these approaches for both intra- and inter-document settings, identifying statistically significant differences in results that indicate the necessity of distinguishing between these two scenarios. Our findings highlight significant challenges in this complex domain and open crucial avenues for future research on the Argument Web of Science, particularly for those interested in leveraging Semantic Web technologies and knowledge graphs to understand scholarly discourse. With this, we provide the first stepping stones in the form of a benchmark dataset, three baseline methods, and an initial analysis for a systematic exploration of this field relevant to the Web of Data and Science.

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Florian Ruosch, Cristina Sarasua, and Abraham Bernstein. Mining Inter-Document Argument Structures in Scientific Papers for an Argument Web. In Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK), Volume 3, Issue 3, pp. 4:1-4:33, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@Article{ruosch_et_al:TGDK.3.3.4,
  author =	{Ruosch, Florian and Sarasua, Cristina and Bernstein, Abraham},
  title =	{{Mining Inter-Document Argument Structures in Scientific Papers for an Argument Web}},
  journal =	{Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge},
  pages =	{4:1--4:33},
  ISSN =	{2942-7517},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{3},
  number =	{3},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/TGDK.3.3.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-252159},
  doi =		{10.4230/TGDK.3.3.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Argument Mining, Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs, Link Prediction}
}
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