Readings

A collection of notes from past paper readings. Papers were sourced from the Red Book, Prof. Danqi Chen's Understanding LLMs class, and Prof. Natacha Crooks' Privacy Preserving Systems class.

2022
• 10-24

  Network Dissection: Quantifying Interpretability of Deep Visual Representations
• 10-03

  Task-Oriented Dialogue as Dataflow Synthesis
• 09-17

  Inferring Rewards From Language in Context
• 09-08

  Action Search: Spotting Actions in Videos and Its Application to Temporal Action Localization
• 09-02

  ABCD: A Corpus for Building More In-Depth Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
• 08-21

  GOLD: Improving Out-of-Scope Detection in Dialogues using Data Augmentation
• 08-03

  MultiWOZ: a large-scale multi-domain wizard-of-oz dataset for task-oriented dialogue modeling
• 07-11

  World of Bits: An Open-Domain Platform for Web-Based Agents
• 06-23

  Human Language Understanding & Reasoning
2021
• 02-14

  Transaction management in the R* distributed database management system
• 02-04

  Conclave - secure multi-party computation on big data
• 02-03

  SMCQL - Secure Querying for Federated Databases
• 01-26

  Zerocash - Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin
• 01-25

  Privacy Integrated Queries
• 01-24

  Pretzel - Email encryption and provider-supplied functions are compatible
• 01-23

  Delphi - A Cryptographic Inference Service for Neural Networks
• 01-22

  Unobservable Communication over Fully Untrusted Infrastructure
• 01-21

  Atom - Horizontally Scaling Strong Anonymity
• 01-20

  Riposte - An Anonymous Messaging System Handling Millions of Users
• 01-19

  PIR with compressed queries and amortized query processing
• 01-18

  Scalable and Private Media Consumption with Popcorn
• 01-17

  Obladi - Oblivious Serializable Transactions in the Cloud
• 01-16

  Constants Count - Practical Improvements to Oblivious RAM
• 01-15

  Foreshadow - Extracting the Keys to the Intel SGX Kingdom
• 01-14

  Controlled-Channel Attacks - Deterministic Side Channels for Untrusted Operating Systems
• 01-13

  Ryoan - A Distributed Sandbox for Untrusted Computation on Secret Data
• 01-12

  Shielding Applications from an Untrusted Cloud with Haven
• 01-11

  The Case for Learned Index Structures
• 01-10

  Why your Encrypted DB is not secure
• 01-08

  Deterministic, Stash-Free Write-Only ORAM