Conference Papers

My Google Scholar page lists papers by citation count order.

Papers are listed below by year of publication

Under Review

Free2Shard: Adaptive-adversary-resistant sharding via Dynamic Self Allocation,

R. Rana, S. Kannan, D. Tse and P. Viswanath
May, 2020.

2021

KO codes: inventing nonlinear encoding and decoding for reliable wireless communication via deep-learning,

A. Makkuva, X. Liu, V. Jamali, H. Mahdavifar, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
ICML, 2021.

Reed-Muller Subcodes: Machine Learning-Aided Design of Efficient Soft Recursive Decoding,

V. Jamali, X. Liu, A. Makkuva, H. Mahdavifar, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
ISIT, 2021.

Securing Parallel Chain Protocols under Variable Mining Power,

X. Wang, V. Muppirala, L. Yang, S. Kannan and P. Viswanath
CCS, 2021.

BFT Protocol Forensics,

P. Sheng, G. Wang, K. Nayak, S. Kannan and P. Viswanath
CCS, 2021.

The Checkpointed Longest Chain: User-dependent Adaptivity and Finality,

S. Sankagiri, X. Wang, S. Kannan and P. Viswanath
Financial Cryptography, 2021

ACeD: Scalable Data Availability Oracle,

P. Sheng, B. Xue, S. Kannan and P. Viswanath
Financial Crytopgraphy, 2021.

2020

Enriching Word Embeddings with Temporal and Spatial Information,

H. Gong, S. Bhat and P. Viswanath
CoNLL, 2020.

Everything is a Race and Nakamoto Always Wins,

A. Dembo, S. Kannan, E. Tas, D. Tse, P. Viswanath, X. Wang and O. Zeitouni
CCS, 2020.

Prism Removes Consensus Bottleneck for Smart Contracts,

G. Wang, S. Wang, V. Bagaria, D. Tse and P. Viswanath
Crypto Valley Conference, 2020.

Joint Channel Coding and Modulation via Deep Learning,

Y. Jiang, H. Kim, H. Asnani, S. Kannan, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
IEEE workshop on signal processing advances in wireless communication, 2020.

PolyShard: Coded Sharding Achieves Linearly Scaling Efficiency and Security Simultaneously,

S. Li, M. Yu, C-S. Yang, S. Avestimehr, S. Kannan and P. Viswanath
ISIT, 2020.

Coded Merkle Tree: Solving Data Availability Attacks in Blockchains,

M. Yu, S. Sahraei, S. Li, S. Avestimehr, S. Kannan and P. Viswanath
Financial Cryptography, 2020.

Learning in Gated Neural Networks,

A. Makkuva, S. Oh, S. Kannan and P. Viswanath
AISTATS, 2020.

2019

Prism: Deconstructing the Blockchain to Approach Physical Limits,

V. Bagaria, S. Kannan, D. Tse, G. Fanti and P. Viswanath
ACM CCS 2019.

Coded State Machine - Scaling State Machine Execution under Byzantine Faults,

S. Li, S. Sahraei, M. Yu, S. Avestimehr, S. Kannan, and P. Viswanath
PODC, 2019.

Information Balancing in Proof-of-Stake Blockchains,

G. Fanti, J. Jiao, S. Oh, A. Makkuva, R. Rana and P. Viswanath
ACM Mobihoc, 2019. Best Paper Award.

Economics of Proof-of-stake payment systems,

G. Fanti, L. Kogan and P. Viswanath
NBER Workshop on Economics of Proof of Stake Payment Systems, Blockchain, Distributed Ledgers, and Financial Contracting, 2019.

Compounding of Wealth in Proof-of-Stake Cryptocurrencies,

G. Fanti, L. Kogan, S. Oh, K. Ruan, P. Viswanath and G. Wang
Financial Cryptography, 2019.

Context-Sensitive Malicious Spelling Error Correction,

H. Gong, Y. Li, S. Bhat and P. Viswanath
The Web Conference (WWW), 2019.

Learning One-hidden-layer Neural Networks under General Input Distributions,

W. Gao, A. Makkuva, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
AISTATS, 2019.

Breaking the gridlock in Mixture-of-Experts: Consistent and Efficient Algorithms,

A. Makkuva, S. Kannan, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
ICML, 2019.

Turbo Autoencoder: Deep learning based channel code for point-to-point communication channels,

Y. Jiang, H. Kim, H. Asnani, S. Kannan, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
NeurIPS 2019.

2018

Communication Algorithms via Deep Learning,

H. Kim, Y. Jiang, R. Rana, S. Kannan, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
ICLR, 2018.

Deep Code: Feedback Codes via Deep Learning,

H. Kim, Y. Jiang, S. Kannan, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
NIPS, 2018.

All-but-the-top: Simple and Effective Postprocessing for Word Representations,

J. Mu, and P. Viswanath
ICLR, 2018.

Embedding Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions via Tensor Decomposition,

H. Gong, S. Bhat and P. Viswanath
NAACL, 2018.

Preposition Sense Disambiguation and Representation,

H. Gong, J. Mu, S. Bhat and P. Viswanath
EMNLP, 2018.

Estimators for Multivariate Information Measures in General Probability Spaces,

A. Rahimzamani, H. Asnani, S. Kannan and P. Viswanath
NIPS, 2018.

Dandelion++: Lightweight Cryptocurrency Networking with Formal Anonymity Guarantees,

G. Fanti, S. Bakshi, S. Venkatakrishnan, B. Denby, S. Bhargava, A. Miller and P. Viswanath
Sigmetrics, 2018.

Routing Cryptocurrency with the Spider Network,

V. Sivaraman, S. Venkatakrishnan, M. Alizadeh, G. Fanti and P. Viswanath
Hotnets, 2018.

2017

Geometry of Polysemy,

J. Mu, S. Bhat and P. Viswanath
ICLR, 2017.

Geometry of Compositionality,

H. Gong, S. Bhat and P. Viswanath
AAAI, 2017.

MORSE: Semantic-ally Drive-n MORpheme SEgment-er,

T. Sakakini, S. Bhat and P. Viswanath
ACL, 2017.

Representing Sentences as Low-Rank Subspaces,

J. Mu, S. Bhat and P. Viswanath
ACL, 2017.

Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity,

S. Venkatakrishnan, G. Fanti and P. Viswanath
Sigmetrics, 2017.

Deanonymization in the Bitcoin P2P Network,

G. Fanti and P. Viswanath
NIPS, 2017.

Demystifying Fixed k-Nearest Neighbor Information Estimators,

W. Gao, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
ISIT, 2017.
Dedicated to the occasion of Shannon Award Lecture of Prof. David Tse.

Density Functional Estimators with k-Nearest Neighbor Bandwidths,

W. Gao, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
ISIT, 2017.
Dedicated to the occasion of Shannon Award Lecture of Prof. David Tse.

Estimating Mutual Information for Discrete-Continuous Mixtures,

W. Gao, S. Kannan, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
NIPS, 2017.

Discovering Potential Correlations via Hypercontractivity,

H. Kim, W. Gao, S. Kannan, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
NIPS, 2017.

2016

Breaking the Bandwidth Barrier: Adaptive Geometrical Entropy Estimation,

W. Gao, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
NIPS, 2016.

Conditional Strength via Shannon Capacity: Axioms, Estimators and Applications,

W. Gao, S. Kannan, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
ICML, 2016.

Metadata-conscious anonymous messaging,

G. Fanti, P. Kairouz, S. Oh, K. Ramchandran and P. Viswanath
ICML, 2016.

Rumor Source Obfuscation on Irregular Trees,

G. Fanti, P. Kairouz, S. Oh, K. Ramchandran and P. Viswanath
ACM Sigmetrics, 2016.

Costly Circuits, Submodular Schedules and Approximate Caratheodory Theorems,

S. Venkatakrishnan, M. Alizadeh and P. Viswanath
ACM Sigmetrics, 2016.

Algorithmic Advances in Anonymous Communication over Networks,

G. Fanti and P. Viswanath
IEEE CISS (Invited Paper), 2016.

Information Complexity Density and Optimal Simulation of Protocols,

H. Tyagi, S. Venkatakrishnan, S. Watanabe and P. Viswanath
Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), January 2016.

2015

Secure Multi-party Differential Privacy

P. Kairouz, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015

Interactive Communication for Data Exchange

H. Tyagi, P. Viswanath and S. Watanabe
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2015

Spy vs. Spy: Rumor Source Obfuscation

G. Fanti, P. Kairouz, S. Oh and P. Viswanath
ACM Sigmetrics, 2015 Best Paper Award

Deterministic Near-Optimal P2P Streaming

S. Venkatakrishnan and P. Viswanath
ACM Sigmetrics, 2015

Delay-constrained Unicast and the Triangle-Cast Problem

C. Chekuri, S. Kamath, S. Kannan and P. Viswanath
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2015