Congratulations to Timothée Chauvin (ARTISHAU team), Erwan Le Merrer (ARTISHAU team), and François Taïani (WIDE team) for their recent paper “Token-Efficient Change Detection in LLM APIs” that was accepted at ICML 2026, the Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning, in collaboration with Clément Lalanne (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse), Jean-Michel Loubes (Institut…
Congratulations to Djob Mvondo for his contribution to the paper “Efficient Memory Usage for Edge FaaS Platforms” accepted at PERCOM 2026. This work addresses the memory retained by idle sandboxes in FaaS platforms, which limit a cluster’s capacity to host additional functions. This unused memory is detrimental for low-resource devices,…
WIDE team members had two papers accepted at ICLR’26. Congratulations to all involved!. Find below the list of accepted papers. We mark in bold the Wide team members involved.
Congratulations to Hugo Bertin for his best student paper award. His paper entitled “Disconnecting Users from Virtual Worlds with a Single Packet: an Unreal Untold Story,” co-authored with Ilies Benhabbour, Marc Dacier, and David Bromberg, won the best student paper award at the 3rd International. Conf. on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies…
Congratulations to Victoire Nganfang, Yérom-David Bromberg, and Djob Mvondo for their paper accepted at ASIACCS 2026. The paper introduces DroidHunter, a new vision-based malware detector designed to remain effective even when Android applications are heavily obfuscated or lightly packed, two techniques commonly used to hide malicious behavior. DroidHunter disassembles apps…
WIDE team members François Taiani and Georgy Ishmaev co-organized the fifth edition of the research workshop Distributed Infrastructure for the Common Good (DICG’25), on July 20 in Glasgow. The workshop explores the role of distributed infrastructures in supporting human interaction and economic activity, with a particular emphasis on serving the common good. This year,…
Georgy Ishmaev, a WIDE team member, recently spoke at one of the opening sessions of Protocol Berg v2 2025 in Berlin. His talk, titled “Blockchain Ethics: Pure Reason or Pure Madness,” explored the need for advancing interdisciplinary research on blockchain technologies and their ethical implications across both academic and industry contexts. Protocol Berg…
Congratulations to Mounah Honoré Césaire, David Bromberg, and Djob Mvondo for their work “The Impact of Kernel Asynchronous APIs on the Performance of a Kernel VPN” accepted at SYSTOR 2025. The paper explores the impact of kernel-level routines on the performance of VPNs, which are essential to today’s computing infrastructure.…
A cutting-edge reconciliation algorithm developed at WIDE is being used by Bluesky, the decentralized social network built on the AT protocol. In a recent research paper detailing Bluesky’s tech stack [1], researchers from Cambridge and Bluesky reveal that the AT protocol harnesses Merkle Search Trees (MST) – an innovative data…
Programme: Tuesday July 1st 2025 09:00 – Arrival 09:05 – Opening (François) 09:10 – Mining in logarithmic space with variable difficulty (Emmanuelle Anceaume, ACM CCS 2026) 09:50 – Naively Sorting Evolving Data (George Giakkoupis, IEEE FOCS 2024) 10:30 – ☕️ Coffee Break 11:10 – Game 1: The past 12:10 –…
