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28 results for outsourcing

We deal with the problem of outsourcing the debt for a big investment, according two situations: either the firm outsources both the investment (and the associated debt) and the exploitation to a private consortium, or the firm supports the debt and the investment but outsources the exploitation. We prove the existence…

2013-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithms use outsourced data to improve model training efficiency.

problem Limited computational resources restrict model training efficiency.
method Simulation-based algorithms using outsourced data to find good initial points.
result The algorithms can find good initial points with high probability under suitable conditions.

The paper provides an algorithm for the risk estimation when a company selects an outsourcing service provider for innovation product. Calculations are based on expert surveys conducted among customers and among providers of outsourcing. The surveys assessed the degree of materiality of species at risk.

2016-03-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Although freelancing work has grown substantially in recent years, in part facilitated by a number of online labor marketplaces, (e.g., Guru, Freelancer, Amazon Mechanical Turk), traditional forms of "in-sourcing" work continue being the dominant form of employment. This means that, at least for the time being, freelan…

2020-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Detects backdoors in outsourced models by replicating training steps across multiple servers.

problem Detecting backdoors in models trained on cloud providers without prior knowledge.
method Replicate training steps across multiple servers to identify deviations and malicious updates.
result 99.6% accuracy in identifying backdoored models out of 50% malicious providers.

Improves distributed SGD convergence speed with reduced computation load.

problem Mitigating stragglers in distributed SGD to speed up convergence.
method Modeling communication and computation times, adapting number of workers and computation load dynamically.
result Significantly reduces computation load while improving convergence speed.

P3GM improves privacy-preserving data synthesis for high-dimensional data.

problem Mitigating privacy risks in releasing large volumes of sensitive data.
method Privacy-preserving phased generative model (P3GM) with two-phase learning process.
result P3GM significantly outperforms existing solutions in terms of noise reduction and data accuracy.

NIFTy.re accelerates imaging models and expands Gaussian processes and variational inference.

problem Slow performance and limited inference strategies in NIFTy.
method Rewritten NIFTy with new modeling principles, inference strategies, and JAX integration.
result Dramatic acceleration of models and new inference capabilities.

Decisions are increasingly taken by both humans and machine learning models. However, machine learning models are currently trained for full automation -- they are not aware that some of the decisions may still be taken by humans. In this paper, we take a first step towards the development of machine learning models th…

2019-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning on encrypted data has received a lot of attention thanks to recent breakthroughs in homomorphic encryption and secure multi-party computation. It allows outsourcing computation to untrusted servers without sacrificing privacy of sensitive data. We propose a practical framework to perform partially encr…

2019-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Publicly pretraining models on Web data may undermine differential privacy.

problem The use of large Web-scraped datasets in differential privacy models.
method Critical review of leveraging pretrained models on public datasets for differential privacy.
result Publicizing pretrained models as 'private' could harm trust and generalize poorly.

Novel deep learning approach for fast, differentiable fluid simulations.

problem Challenges in solving incompressible fluid dynamics equations efficiently.
method Physics-constrained training approach for convolutional neural networks.
result Trained models can handle various fluid phenomena and offer fast simulations.

Train a lightweight carry-on model on existing LLMs for faster customization.

problem Customizing large language models for specific tasks is computationally expensive.
method Train an additional branch of transformer blocks on the final-layer embedding of pretrained LLMs, then merge them with a carry-on module.
result Training a 100M carry-on layer requires less than 1GB GPU memory, making it scalable and affordable.

As freelancing work keeps on growing almost everywhere due to a sharp decrease in communication costs and to the widespread of Internet-based labour marketplaces (e.g., guru.com, feelancer.com, mturk.com, upwork.com), many researchers and practitioners have started exploring the benefits of outsourcing and crowdsourcin…

2020-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗