Dimitris Papailiopoulos
Assistant Professor @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Sciences (by courtesy)
I am an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Sciences (by courtesy) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a faculty fellow at the Grainger Institute, and a faculty affiliate with the Optimization group at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.
My research lies in the intersection of machine learning, coding theory, and distributed systems. I am particularly interested in the theory and practice of large-scale machine learning and the challenges that arise once we aim to build solutions that come with robustness and scalability guarantees.
Before coming to Madison, I spent two wonderful years as a postdoc at UC Berkeley, where I was a member of the AMPLab and BLISS, and had the pleasure to collaborate with
Ben Recht and Kannan Ramchandran.
I received my Ph.D. in 2014 from UT Austin, where I was fortunate to be advised by
Alex Dimakis. Before UT, I spent 3.5 years as a grad student at USC.
Before all that, I received my M.Sc. (2009) and ECE Diploma (2007) from the Technical University of Crete (TUC), located in the beautiful city of Chania.
In 2018, I co-founded the conference on Machine Learning & Systems (MLSys), a new conference that targets research at the intersection of systems and machine learning. In 2018 and 2020, I was the program co-chair for MLSys. In 2019, I also co-chaired the 3rd Midwest Machine Learning Symposium (MMLS).
My research has been supported by
an NSF CAREER Award,
a Sony Faculty Innovation Award,
an AFRL Center of Excellence grant (MADLab),
an
ARPA-E Award,
and
AWS Cloud Credits for Research.
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Teaching
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Fall 2019 [flipped format]
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Fall 2017, Fall 2018 [flipped format]
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Fall 2016, Spring 2018
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Spring 2020 [reading group]
Publications
2020
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Federated Learning with Matched Averaging
2019
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DETOX: A Redundancy-based Framework for Faster and More Robust Gradient AggregationNeurIPS 2019. [arxiv]
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Does Data Augmentation Lead to Positive Margin?ICML 2019. [arxiv]
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Bad Global Minima Exist and SGD Can Reach ThemICML 2019, Deep Phenomena Workshop (oral). [arxiv]
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A Geometric Perspective on the Transferability of Adversarial DirectionsAISTATS 2019. [arxiv]
2018
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ATOMO: Communication-efficient Learning via Atomic SparsificationNeurIPS 2018. [arxiv]
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The Effect of Network Width on the Performance of Large-batch TrainingNeurIPS 2018. [arxiv]
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DRACO: Byzantine-resilient Distributed Training via Redundant GradientsICML 2018. [arxiv]
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Stability and Generalization of Learning Algorithms that Converge to Global OptimaICML 2018. [arxiv]
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Gradient Coding Using the Stochastic Block ModelISIT 2018. [arxiv]
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Gradient Diversity: a Key Ingredient for Scalable Distributed LearningAISTATS 2018. [arxiv]
2017
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Gradient Diversity: a Key Ingredient for Scalable Distributed LearningNIPS 2017, OPT Workshop (oral). [arxiv]
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UberShuffle: Communication-efficient Data Shuffling for SGD via Coding TheoryNIPS 2017, ML Systems Workshop [pdf]
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Perturbed Iterate Analysis for Asynchronous Stochastic OptimizationSIAM Journal on Optimization. [arxiv]
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Speeding-up Distributed Machine Learning Using CodesIEEE Transactions on Information Theory. [arxiv]
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Coded Computation for Multicore SetupsISIT 2017. [pdf]
2016
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CYCLADES: Conflict-free Asynchronous Machine LearningNIPS 2016. [arxiv]
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Speeding-up Distributed Machine Learning Using CodesISIT 2016. [arxiv]
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On the Worst-Case Approximability of Sparse PCACOLT 2016. [arxiv]
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Bipartite Correlation Clustering - Maximizing AgreementsAISTATS 2016. [arxiv]
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Locality and Availability in Distributed StorageIEEE Transactions on Information Theory. [preprint]
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Optimal Locally Repairable Codes and Connections to Matroid TheoryIEEE Trans. on Information Theory. [preprint]
2015
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Perturbed Iterate Analysis for Asynchronous Stochastic OptimizationNIPS 2015, OPT Workshop (oral). [long version]
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Speeding-up Distributed Machine Learning Using CodesNIPS 2015, ML-Systems Workshop. [arxiv]
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Parallel Correlation Clustering on Big GraphsNIPS 2015. [long version]
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Sparse PCA via Bipartite MatchingsNIPS 2015. [long version]
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Orthogonal NMF through Subspace ExplorationNIPS 2015. [long version]
2014
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Provable Deterministic Leverage Score SamplingKDD 2014. [long version]
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Finding Dense Subgraphs via Low-Rank Bilinear Optimization
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Nonnegative Sparse PCA with Provable Guarantees
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Locality and Availability in Distributed StorageISIT 2014. [long version]
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Locally Repairable CodesIEEE Transactions on Information Theory, September 2014. ,
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A Repair Framework for Scalar MDS CodesIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, May 2014. ,
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The Sparse Principal Component of a Constant-rank MatrixIEEE Transactions on Information Theory, March 2014. , implementation by Megas.
2013
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Sparse PCA through Low-rank Approximations
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Optimal Locally Repairable Codes and Connections to Matroid TheoryISIT 2013. [IEEEXplore], [arXiv]
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XORing Elephants: Novel Erasure Codes for Big Data
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Repair Optimal Erasure Codes through Hadamard DesignsIEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May 2013. [IEEEXplore], [arXiv]
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Maximum-Likelihood Noncoherent PAM DetectionIEEE Transactions on Communications, March 2013. [IEEEXplore], [draft]
2012
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A Repair Framework for Scalar MDS CodesAllerton 2012. [IEEEXplore], [arXiv]
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Locally Repairable Codes
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Feedback in the K-user Interference channel
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Simple Regenerating Codes: Network Coding for Cloud Storage
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Maximum-likelihood Blind PAM DetectionICC 2012. [IEEEXplore], [long]
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Interference Alignment as a Rank Constrained Rank Minimization
2011
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Repair Optimal Erasure Codes through Hadamard Designs
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Distributed Storage Codes through Hadamard Designs
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Sparse Principal Component of a Rank-deficient Matrix
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Repairing Erasure CodesUSENIX FAST 2011, Work-In-Progress (WiP). [short abstract]
2010
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Distributed Storage Codes Meet Multiple-Access Wiretap Channels
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MCMC Methods for Integer Least-Squares ProblemsAllerton 2010. [IEEEXplore], [draft]
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Interference Alignment as a Rank Constrained Rank Minimization
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Maximum-likelihood Noncoherent OSTBC Detection with Polynomial ComplexityIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, June 2010. [IEEEXplore], [draft]
2007-2009
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Optimal OSTBC Sequence Detection over Unknown Correlated Fading ChannelsAsilomar 2009. [IEEEXplore], [draft]
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Efficient maximum-likelihood noncoherent orthogonal STBC detection
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Polynomial-complexity maximum-likelihood block noncoherent MPSK detectionICASSP 2008. [IEEEXplore], [draft]
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Near ML detection of nonlinearly distorted OFDM signals