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Information Bottleneck Methods for Distributed Learning
Parinaz Farajiparvar, Ahmad Beirami, Matthew Nokleby
We study a distributed learning problem in which Alice sends a compressed distillation of a set of training data to Bob, who uses the distilled version to best solve an associated…
Why Botnets Work: Distributed Brute-Force Attacks Need No Synchronization
Salman Salamatian, Wasim Huleihel, Ahmad Beirami +2
In September 2017, McAffee Labs quarterly report estimated that brute force attacks represent 20\% of total network attacks, making them the most prevalent type of attack ex-aequo…
A Characterization of Guesswork on Swiftly Tilting Curves
Ahmad Beirami, Robert Calderbank, Mark Christiansen +2
Given a collection of strings, each with an associated probability of occurrence, the guesswork of each of them is their position in a list ordered from most likely to least likely…