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Sharing Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) among different slices in Fifth Generation (5G) is a potential strategy to simplify the system implementation and utilize 5G resources efficiently. In this paper, we propose a security-aware VNF…
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Context- and flow-sensitive value-flow information is an important building block for many static analysis tools. Unfortunately, current approaches to compute value-flows do not scale to large codebases, due to high memory and runtime…
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Normalizing Flows (NFs) are widely used in deep generative models for their exact likelihood estimation and efficient sampling. However, they require substantial memory since the latent space matches the input dimension. Multi-scale…
This work provides the first study to explore the interaction of update propagation with and without fine-grained synchronization (push vs. pull), emerging coherence protocols (GPU vs. DeNovo coherence), and software-centric consistency…
The rapid development of deep neural networks (DNNs) is inherently accompanied by the problem of high computational costs. To tackle this challenge, dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) is emerging as a promising technology for…
Intra-device parallelism addresses resource under-utilization in ML inference and training by overlapping the execution of operators with different resource usage. However, its wide adoption is hindered by a fundamental conflict with the…
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are powerful tools that have shown extraordinary results in many scenarios, ranging from pattern recognition to complex robotic problems. However, their intricate designs and lack of transparency raise safety…
Unsupervised anomaly detection is often framed around two widely studied paradigms. Deep one-class classification, exemplified by Deep SVDD, learns compact latent representations of normality, while density estimators realized by…
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Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has experienced significant advancements in recent years and has been widely used in many fields. In DRL-based robotic policy learning, however, current de facto policy parameterization is still…
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