47 citations · 93 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for
10 papers
Attention Mean Fields Predict Average Representation Dynamics and Reveal Context-Specific Computation
Micah Adler, John W. Byers, Mark Crovella
A language model's representation geometry is not predetermined; it evolves as the model runs. A faithful account of that geometry must capture that dynamic process, and so cannot…
Learn to Earn: Enabling Coordination within a Ride Hailing Fleet
Harshal A. Chaudhari, John W. Byers, Evimaria Terzi
The problem of optimizing social welfare objectives on multi sided ride hailing platforms such as Uber, Lyft, etc., is challenging, due to misalignment of objectives between driver…
Judicious QoS using Cloud Overlays
Osama Haq, Cody Doucette, John W. Byers +1
We revisit the long-standing problem of providing network QoS to applications, and propose the concept of judicious QoS -- combining the cheaper, best effort IP service with the cl…
TwitterMancer: Predicting Interactions on Twitter Accurately
Konstantinos Sotiropoulos, John W. Byers, Polyvios Pratikakis +1
This paper investigates the interplay between different types of user interactions on Twitter, with respect to predicting missing or unseen interactions. For example, given a set o…
CASPR: Judiciously Using the Cloud for Wide-Area Packet Recovery
Osama Haq, Cody Doucette, John W. Byers +1
We revisit a classic networking problem -- how to recover from lost packets in the best-effort Internet. We propose CASPR, a system that judiciously leverages the cloud to recover…
The Groupon Effect on Yelp Ratings: A Root Cause Analysis
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zervas
Daily deals sites such as Groupon offer deeply discounted goods and services to tens of millions of customers through geographically targeted daily e-mail marketing campaigns. In o…
Daily Deals: Prediction, Social Diffusion, and Reputational Ramifications
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zervas
Daily deal sites have become the latest Internet sensation, providing discounted offers to customers for restaurants, ticketed events, services, and other items. We begin by undert…
A Month in the Life of Groupon
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Michalis Potamias +1
Groupon has become the latest Internet sensation, providing daily deals to customers in the form of discount offers for restaurants, ticketed events, appliances, services, and othe…
Heapable Sequences and Subsequences
John Byers, Brent Heeringa, Michael Mitzenmacher +1
Let us call a sequence of numbers heapable if they can be sequentially inserted to form a binary tree with the heap property, where each insertion subsequent to the first occurs at…
Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zervas
Innovative auction methods can be exploited to increase profits, with Shubik's famous "dollar auction" perhaps being the most widely known example. Recently, some mainstream e-comm…