Colloquium

When it comes to security, hardware is the new software. Starting some years ago, this shift was made plain when a litany of attacks, such as "Spectre/Meltdown" and "Rowhammer", shattered our confidence in processors as a root of trust. Making matters worse, modern processors are incredibly complex, and have (as it turns out) been designed […]

Latent variable models have been an integral part of probabilistic machine learning, ranging from simple mixture models to variational autoencoders to powerful diffusion probabilistic models at the center of recent media attention. Perhaps less well-appreciated is the intimate connection between latent variable models and data compression, and the potential of these models for advancing natural […]