Alistair Stewart

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  • University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science


According to our database1, Alistair Stewart authored at least 48 papers between 2012 and 2023.

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2023
Sassafras and Semi-Anonymous Single Leader Election.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023

Ethical identity, ring VRFs, and zero-knowledge continuations.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023

2022
Accountable Light Client Systems for PoS Blockchains.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022

Efficient Aggregatable BLS Signatures with Chaum-Pedersen Proofs.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022

Bridging Sapling: Private Cross-Chain Transfers.
CoRR, 2022

Efficient Approximation Algorithms for the Inverse Semivalue Problem.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2022

2021
Robustness meets algorithms.
Commun. ACM, 2021

Statistical Query Lower Bounds for List-Decodable Linear Regression.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2021, 2021

Outlier-Robust Learning of Ising Models Under Dobrushin's Condition.
Proceedings of the Conference on Learning Theory, 2021

A verifiably secure and proportional committee election rule.
Proceedings of the AFT '21: 3rd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, Arlington, Virginia, USA, September 26, 2021

2020
Testing Bayesian Networks.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2020

Polynomial Time Algorithms for Branching Markov Decision Processes and Probabilistic Min(Max) Polynomial Bellman Equations.
Math. Oper. Res., 2020

Overview of Polkadot and its Design Considerations.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020

GRANDPA: a Byzantine Finality Gadget.
CoRR, 2020

Validator election in nominated proof-of-stake.
CoRR, 2020

2019
Robust Estimators in High-Dimensions Without the Computational Intractability.
SIAM J. Comput., 2019

Efficient Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Robust Linear Regression.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2019

Outlier-Robust High-Dimensional Sparse Estimation via Iterative Filtering.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2019, 2019

A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Log-Concave Maximum Likelihood via Locally Exponential Families.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2019, 2019

Sever: A Robust Meta-Algorithm for Stochastic Optimization.
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2019

Reachability for Branching Concurrent Stochastic Games.
Proceedings of the 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, 2019

Poster: GRANDPA Finality Gadget.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2019

2018
Greatest fixed points of probabilistic min/max polynomial equations, and reachability for branching Markov decision processes.
Inf. Comput., 2018

A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multivariate Log-concave Densities.
CoRR, 2018

Learning geometric concepts with nasty noise.
Proceedings of the 50th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2018

List-decodable robust mean estimation and learning mixtures of spherical gaussians.
Proceedings of the 50th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2018

Testing conditional independence of discrete distributions.
Proceedings of the 50th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2018

Robustly Learning a Gaussian: Getting Optimal Error, Efficiently.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2018

Testing for Families of Distributions via the Fourier Transform.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2018, 2018

Robust Learning of Fixed-Structure Bayesian Networks.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2018, 2018

Near-Optimal Sample Complexity Bounds for Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multivariate Log-concave Densities.
Proceedings of the Conference On Learning Theory, 2018

2017
A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Computing Extinction Probabilities of Multitype Branching Processes.
SIAM J. Comput., 2017

Sharp Bounds for Generalized Uniformity Testing.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2017

Fourier-Based Testing for Families of Distributions.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2017

Playing Anonymous Games using Simple Strategies.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2017

Being Robust (in High Dimensions) Can Be Practical.
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2017

Learning Multivariate Log-concave Distributions.
Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Learning Theory, 2017

2016
Statistical Query Lower Bounds for Robust Estimation of High-dimensional Gaussians and Gaussian Mixtures.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2016

Efficient Robust Proper Learning of Log-concave Distributions.
CoRR, 2016

The fourier transform of poisson multinomial distributions and its algorithmic applications.
Proceedings of the 48th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2016

Properly Learning Poisson Binomial Distributions in Almost Polynomial Time.
Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Learning Theory, 2016

Optimal Learning via the Fourier Transform for Sums of Independent Integer Random Variables.
Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Learning Theory, 2016

2015
Upper Bounds for Newton's Method on Monotone Polynomial Systems, and P-Time Model Checking of Probabilistic One-Counter Automata.
J. ACM, 2015

Nearly Optimal Learning and Sparse Covers for Sums of Independent Integer Random Variables.
CoRR, 2015

2013
A note on the complexity of comparing succinctly represented integers, with an application to maximum probability parsing.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2013

Stochastic Context-Free Grammars, Regular Languages, and Newton's Method.
Proceedings of the Automata, Languages, and Programming - 40th International Colloquium, 2013

2012
Polynomial Time Algorithms for Multi-Type Branching Processes and Stochastic Context-Free Grammars
CoRR, 2012

Polynomial time algorithms for multi-type branching processesand stochastic context-free grammars.
Proceedings of the 44th Symposium on Theory of Computing Conference, 2012


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