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Best Paper Award at the ICLR 2021 Secure ML Workshop

Best Paper Award at the ICLR 2021 Secure ML Workshop

 

Tian Li, Shengyuan Hu, Ahmad Beirami and Virginia Smith (CMU) won a Best Paper Award at the ICLR 2021 for “Ditto: Fair and Robust Federated Learning Through Personalization”. Fairness and robustness are two important concerns for federated learning systems. In this work, they identify that robustness to data and model poisoning attacks and fairness, measured as the uniformity of performance across devices, are competing constraints in statistically heterogeneous networks.

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Baidu Best Paper Award at NeurIPS – SpicyFL 2020

Baidu Best Paper Award at NeurIPS - SpicyFL 2020

Salman Avastimehr and his group, University of Southern California have just received the Baidu Best Paper Award at NeurIPS – SpicyFL 2020 (Workshop on Scalability, Privacy, and Security in Federated Learning) for the paper “FedML: A Research Library and Benchmark for Federated Machine Learning”

 

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Second Prize in German IT-Security Award 2020

Second Prize in German IT-Security Award 2020

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With their submission “ContactGuard”, Christian Weinert, Thomas Schneider, and former ENCRYPTO master student Matthias Senker together with Daniel Kales and Christian Rechberger from TU Graz won the second prize in the 8. German IT-Security Award 2020 (60,000 EUR) among 46 submissions.
This award is given every two years by the Horst Görtz foundation for outstanding IT security innovations of great practical and market relevance. It is one of the most highly endowed awards in Germany.
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Retreat, January 26 and 27 2021

Retreat, January 26 and 27 2021

The first retreat of the Private AI Institute was a great success: More than 80 participants, lively talks and discussions in which participating PIs and industry partners developed a mutual understanding of the collaborative research, explored opportunities for scientific as well as technical collaboration and discussed future directions.

Sessions and Talks

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