cool-papers

Papers that we find interesting (modelled off of: https://github.com/mike-bowles/hdDeepLearningStudy)

Sep 21, 2023

FlexGen: High-Throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.06865.pdf

July 3, 2021

Sol: Fast Distributed Computation Over Slow Networks

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi20-paper-lai.pdf

June 27, 2021

Multiprogramming a 64 kB Computer Safely and Efficiently

http://www.amitlevy.com/papers/tock-sosp2017.pdf

June 20, 2021

MATch: Differentiable Material Graphs for Procedural Material Capture

http://match.csail.mit.edu/papers/ToG20.pdf

June 13, 2021

Soft Typing

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.24.9333&rep=rep1&type=pdf

June 6, 2021

Strata: A Cross Media File System

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/witchel/pubs/kwon17sosp-strata.pdf

May 30, 2021

RoboCut: Hot-wire Cutting with Robot-controlled Flexible Rods

http://crl.ethz.ch/papers/hotwirecutter.pdf

May 23, 2021

NetCache: Balancing Key-Value Stores with Fast In-Network Caching

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jnfoster/papers/netcache.pdf

May 16, 2021

ABC: A Simple Explicit Congestion Controller for Wireless Networks

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.03429.pdf

May 9, 2021

ALLSTEPS: Curriculum-driven Learning of Stepping Stone Skills

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/2020-allsteps/allsteps-arxiv-small.pdf

May 2, 2021

Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.09913.pdf

April 25, 2021

Skipped

April 18, 2021

Skipped

April 11, 2021

Quanta Burst Photography

http://wisionlab.cs.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/quanta_burst_photography_wision.pdf

April 4, 2021

Scaling a file system to many cores using an operation log

https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/bhat-scalefs.pdf

March 28, 2021

Generative Adversarial Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661?fbclid=IwAR2AZvVO2FlEvW53i4xqC71cIIFWmBFOwi-G1awhjrV7aSPFkChsKMmnOl8

March 21, 2021

My VM is Lighter (and Safer) than your Container

http://cnp.neclab.eu/projects/lightvm/lightvm.pdf

March 14, 2021

Differentiable Vector Graphics Rasterization for Editing and Learning

https://people.csail.mit.edu/tzumao/diffvg/diffvg.pdf

March 7, 2021

Experiences with Modeling Network Topologies at Multiple Levels of Abstraction

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi20-paper-mogul.pdf

February 28, 2021

NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.08934.pdf

February 21, 2021

Yodel: Strong Metadata Security for Voice Calls

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3341301.3359648

February 14, 2021

Teechain: A Secure Payment Network with Asynchronous Blockchain Access

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.05454.pdf

February 7, 2021

AmphiLight: Direct Air-Water Communication with Laser Light

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi20-paper-carver.pdf

January 31, 2021

Skipped

January 24, 2021

MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/muzero-mastering-go-chess-shogi-and-atari-without-rules

January 17, 2021

New Directions in Cryptography

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs380s/dh.pdf

January 10, 2021

3D Shape Reconstruction from Vision and Touch

https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/3D-Shape-Reconstruction-from-Vision-and-Touch.pdf

January 3, 2021

Propositions as Types

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/propositions-as-types/propositions-as-types.pdf

December 27, 2020

Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search

https://vk.com/doc-44016343_437229031?dl=56ce06e325d42fbc72

December 20, 2020

Parallel generational-copying garbage collection with a block-structured heap

http://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/250RTS/archive/simon-marlow/par-gc-ismm08.pdf

December 13, 2020

Attention Is All You Need

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf

December 6, 2020

Predicate Dispatching: A Unified Theory of Dispatch

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/dispatching-ecoop98.pdf

November 29, 2020

Composable and Compilable Macros

https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/macromod.pdf

November 22, 2020

Programming and Reasoning with Algebraic Effects and Dependent Types

https://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/drafts/effects.pdf

November 15, 2020

Skipped

November 8, 2020

Local Optimization for Robust Signed Distance Field Collision

https://mmacklin.com/sdfcontact.pdf

November 1, 2020

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Repeat)

https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

October 25, 2020

Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Compute Clouds

https://hovav.net/ucsd/dist/cloudsec.pdf

October 18, 2020

Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space

https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf

October 11, 2020

Precomputed Atmospheric Scattering

http://www-ljk.imag.fr/Publications/Basilic/com.lmc.publi.PUBLI_Article@11e7cdda2f7_f64b69/article.pdf

October 4, 2020

The Next 700 Programming Languages

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf

September 20, 2020

Piranha: A Scalable Architecture Based on Single-Chip Multiprocessing

https://barroso.org/publications/isca00.pdf

September 13, 2020

Digital Video Stabilization and Rolling Shutter Correction using Gyroscopes

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/stabilization/karpenko_gyro.pdf

July 26, 2020

The Google File System

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf

July 19, 2020

The Geometry of Innocent Flesh on the Bone: Return-into-libc without Function Calls (on the x86)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1315245.1315313

July 12, 2020

Differential Privacy: A Survey of Results

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~franklin/ecs289/2010/dwork_2008.pdf

July 5, 2020

Imaging Vector Fields Using Line Integral Convolution

http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci2370/2000/1999/cabral.pdf

June 28, 2020

Simple, Fast, and Practical Non-Blocking and Blocking Concurrent Queue Algorithms

https://www.cs.rochester.edu/~scott/papers/1996_PODC_queues.pdf

June 21, 2020

Jukebox: A Generative Model for Music

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.00341.pdf

June 14, 2020

FORESHADOW: Extracting the Keys to the Intel SGX Kingdom with Transient Out-of-Order Execution

https://foreshadowattack.eu/foreshadow.pdf

June 7, 2020

N-Dimensional Rigid Body Dynamics

https://marctenbosch.com/ndphysics/NDrigidbody.pdf

May 31, 2020

Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi20-paper-agache.pdf

May 24, 2020

Skipped

May 17, 2020

Link-level Measurements from an 802.11b Mesh Network

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2004/papers/p442-aguayo1111.pdf

May 10, 2020

Millions of Tiny Databases

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi20-paper-brooker.pdf

May 3, 2020

XORs in The Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rahul/papers/cope-sigcomm2006.pdf

April 26, 2020

Femto-Photography: Capturing and Visualizing the Propagation of Light

http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~ajarabo/pubs/femtoSIG2013/downloads/velten_sig13.pdf

April 19, 2020

Just say NO to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus with Network Ordering

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi16/osdi16-li.pdf

April 12, 2020

Skipped

April 5, 2020

Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/44824.pdf

March 29, 2020

A Distributional Code for Value in Dopamine-Based reinforcement learning

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Dopamine-and-temporal-difference-learning-A-fruitful-relationship-between-neuroscience-and-AI

March 22, 2020

Kraken: Leveraging Live Traffic Tests to Identify and Resolve Resource Utilization Bottlenecks in Large Scale Web Services

https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/kraken_leveraging_live_traf_c_tests_to_identify_and_resolve_resource_utilization_bottlenecks_in_large_scale_web_services.pdf?

March 15, 2020

KinectFusion: Real-Time Dense Surface Mapping and Tracking

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ismar2011.pdf

March 8, 2020

Chosen Ciphertext Attacks Against Protocols Based on the RSA Encryption Standard

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BFb0055716.pdf

March 1, 2020

COZ: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.03676.pdf

February 23, 2020

Skipped

February 16, 2020

Skipped

February 09, 2020

The design and implementation of an operating system to support distributed multimedia applications

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/projects/archive/pegasus/papers/jsac-jun97.ps.gz

January 26, 2020

On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F3-540-52592-0_60.pdf

January 19, 2020

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.07366.pdf

December 22, 2019

A Feasibility Study of Radio-frequency Retroreflector Attack

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot18/woot18-paper-wakabayashi.pdf

December 15, 2019

A better zip bomb

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/woot19-paper_fifield_0.pdf

December 8, 2019

End-to-end differentiable learning of protein structure

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/08/29/265231.full.pdf

December 1, 2019

The Rendering Equation

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/year/2011/course/TDA361/2007/rend_eq.pdf

November 24, 2019

Handheld Mobile Photography in Very Low Light

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.11336.pdf

November 3, 2019

VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network

http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~mosharaf/Readings/VL2.pdf

October 27, 2019

Casper the Friendly Finality Gadget

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.09437.pdf

October 20, 2019

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

October 13, 2019

Skipped

October 6, 2019

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rJl-b3RcF7

September 29, 2019

Efficient and Scalable Multiprocessor Fair Scheduling Using Distributed Weighted Round-Robin

http://happyli.org/tongli/papers/dwrr.pdf

September 22, 2019

Attention Is All You Need

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf

September 15, 2019

TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

http://download.tensorflow.org/paper/whitepaper2015.pdf

September 8, 2019

Scaling Memcache at Facebook

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi13/nsdi13-final170_update.pdf

September 1, 2019

Semantic Photo Manipulation with a Generative Image Prior

http://ganpaint.io/Bau_et_al_Semantic_Photo_Manipulation_preprint.pdf

August 25,2019

TAO: Facebook’s Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc13/atc13-bronson.pdf

August 18, 2019

Skipped

August 11, 2019

Handheld Multi-Frame Super-Resolution

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EC3L91DqxetMy60Y7dspPhj4gS8PAlu7/view

August 4, 2019

Skipped

July 27, 2019

A Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) RFC

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1105

An Algorithm for Distributed Computation of a Spanning Tree in an Extended LAN

https://www.it.uu.se/edu/course/homepage/datakom/ht06/slides/sta-perlman.pdf

July 20, 2019

Skipped

July 13, 2019

VR Facial Animation via Multiview Image Translation

https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/VR-Facial-Animation-via-Multiview-Image-Translation.pdf

July 6, 2019

Skipped

June 30, 2019

Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance

http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf

June 23, 2019

Universal Transformers

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.03819.pdf

June 16, 2019

Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing

http://notes.stephenholiday.com/Kafka.pdf

Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lorenzo/corsi/cs380d/papers/paper2-1.pdf

June 9, 2019

The Part-Time Parliament (Paxos)

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-paxos.pdf

Paxos Made Simple

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf

June 2, 2019

Skipped

May 25, 2019

Large-Scale Study of Curiosity-Driven Learning

https://pathak22.github.io/large-scale-curiosity/

May 18, 2019

Zookeeper

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/atc10/tech/full_papers/Hunt.pdf

Chubby (Optional)

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf

May 11, 2019

Generative Adversarial Nets

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.2661.pdf

May 5, 2019

Skipped

April 28, 2019

Skipped

April 21, 2019

Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf

April 14, 2019

Skipped

April 7, 2019

Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.04474.pdf

Progressive Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.04671.pdf

March 31, 2019

Skipped

March 24, 2019

Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/chord:sigcomm01/chord_sigcomm.pdf

Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf

March 17, 2019

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Extended Version)

https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

March 10, 2019

Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks

https://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus/papers/zeilerECCV2014.pdf

March 3, 2019

Skipped

February 24, 2019

Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou, a Weakly Connected Replicated Storage System

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262b/update-conflicts.pdf

Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (Lamport Clocks)

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/courses/cs294-4-F03/papers/clocks.pdf

February 17, 2019

Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of a Distributed System (Chandy-Lamport Snapshot Algorithm)

http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/chandy.pdf

February 3, 2019

Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815

Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24270

February 3, 2019

Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search (AlphaGo Original)

https://vk.com/doc-44016343_437229031?dl=56ce06e325d42fbc72

January 27, 2019

Spectre/Meltdown

Spectre: https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf Metldown: https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf

January 20, 2019

Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf