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text: Evolutionary studies are often limited by missing data that are critical to
understanding the history of selection. Selection experiments, which reproduce
rapid evolution under controlled conditions, are excellent tools to study how
genomes evolve under selection. Here we present a genomic dissection of the Longshanks
selection experiment, in which mice were selectively bred over 20 generations
for longer tibiae relative to body mass, resulting in 13% longer tibiae in two
replicates. We synthesized evolutionary theory, genome sequences and molecular
genetics to understand the selection response and found that it involved both
polygenic adaptation and discrete loci of major effect, with the strongest loci
tending to be selected in parallel between replicates. We show that selection
may favor de-repression of bone growth through inactivating two limb enhancers
of an inhibitor, Nkx3-2. Our integrative genomic analyses thus show that it is
possible to connect individual base-pair changes to the overall selection response.
article_number: e42014
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: João Pl
full_name: Castro, João Pl
last_name: Castro
- first_name: Michelle N.
full_name: Yancoskie, Michelle N.
last_name: Yancoskie
- first_name: Marta
full_name: Marchini, Marta
last_name: Marchini
- first_name: Stefanie
full_name: Belohlavy, Stefanie
id: 43FE426A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Belohlavy
orcid: 0000-0002-9849-498X
- first_name: Layla
full_name: Hiramatsu, Layla
last_name: Hiramatsu
- first_name: Marek
full_name: Kučka, Marek
last_name: Kučka
- first_name: William H.
full_name: Beluch, William H.
last_name: Beluch
- first_name: Ronald
full_name: Naumann, Ronald
last_name: Naumann
- first_name: Isabella
full_name: Skuplik, Isabella
last_name: Skuplik
- first_name: John
full_name: Cobb, John
last_name: Cobb
- first_name: Nicholas H
full_name: Barton, Nicholas H
id: 4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Barton
orcid: 0000-0002-8548-5240
- first_name: Campbell
full_name: Rolian, Campbell
last_name: Rolian
- first_name: Yingguang Frank
full_name: Chan, Yingguang Frank
last_name: Chan
citation:
ama: Castro JP, Yancoskie MN, Marchini M, et al. An integrative genomic analysis
of the Longshanks selection experiment for longer limbs in mice. eLife.
2019;8. doi:10.7554/eLife.42014
apa: Castro, J. P., Yancoskie, M. N., Marchini, M., Belohlavy, S., Hiramatsu, L.,
Kučka, M., … Chan, Y. F. (2019). An integrative genomic analysis of the Longshanks
selection experiment for longer limbs in mice. ELife. eLife Sciences Publications.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42014
chicago: Castro, João Pl, Michelle N. Yancoskie, Marta Marchini, Stefanie Belohlavy,
Layla Hiramatsu, Marek Kučka, William H. Beluch, et al. “An Integrative Genomic
Analysis of the Longshanks Selection Experiment for Longer Limbs in Mice.” ELife.
eLife Sciences Publications, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42014.
ieee: J. P. Castro et al., “An integrative genomic analysis of the Longshanks
selection experiment for longer limbs in mice,” eLife, vol. 8. eLife Sciences
Publications, 2019.
ista: Castro JP, Yancoskie MN, Marchini M, Belohlavy S, Hiramatsu L, Kučka M, Beluch
WH, Naumann R, Skuplik I, Cobb J, Barton NH, Rolian C, Chan YF. 2019. An integrative
genomic analysis of the Longshanks selection experiment for longer limbs in mice.
eLife. 8, e42014.
mla: Castro, João Pl, et al. “An Integrative Genomic Analysis of the Longshanks
Selection Experiment for Longer Limbs in Mice.” ELife, vol. 8, e42014,
eLife Sciences Publications, 2019, doi:10.7554/eLife.42014.
short: J.P. Castro, M.N. Yancoskie, M. Marchini, S. Belohlavy, L. Hiramatsu, M.
Kučka, W.H. Beluch, R. Naumann, I. Skuplik, J. Cobb, N.H. Barton, C. Rolian, Y.F.
Chan, ELife 8 (2019).
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abstract:
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text: We study double quantum dots in a Ge/SiGe heterostructure and test their maturity
towards singlet-triplet ($S-T_0$) qubits. We demonstrate a large range of tunability,
from two single quantum dots to a double quantum dot. We measure Pauli spin blockade
and study the anisotropy of the $g$-factor. We use an adjacent quantum dot for
sensing charge transitions in the double quantum dot at interest. In conclusion,
Ge/SiGe possesses all ingredients necessary for building a singlet-triplet qubit.
acknowledged_ssus:
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acknowledgement: "We thank Matthias Brauns for helpful discussions and careful proofreading
of the manuscript. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement
No 844511 and from the FWF project P30207. The research was supported by the Scientific
Service Units of IST Austria through resources provided by the MIBA machine shop
and the nanofabrication\r\nfacility."
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full_name: Hofmann, Andrea C
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last_name: Jirovec
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- first_name: Maxim
full_name: Borovkov, Maxim
last_name: Borovkov
- first_name: Ivan
full_name: Prieto Gonzalez, Ivan
id: 2A307FE2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Prieto Gonzalez
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- first_name: Andrea
full_name: Ballabio, Andrea
last_name: Ballabio
- first_name: Jacopo
full_name: Frigerio, Jacopo
last_name: Frigerio
- first_name: Daniel
full_name: Chrastina, Daniel
last_name: Chrastina
- first_name: Giovanni
full_name: Isella, Giovanni
last_name: Isella
- first_name: Georgios
full_name: Katsaros, Georgios
id: 38DB5788-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Katsaros
orcid: 0000-0001-8342-202X
citation:
ama: Hofmann AC, Jirovec D, Borovkov M, et al. Assessing the potential of Ge/SiGe
quantum dots as hosts for singlet-triplet qubits. arXiv. doi:10.48550/arXiv.1910.05841
apa: Hofmann, A. C., Jirovec, D., Borovkov, M., Prieto Gonzalez, I., Ballabio, A.,
Frigerio, J., … Katsaros, G. (n.d.). Assessing the potential of Ge/SiGe quantum
dots as hosts for singlet-triplet qubits. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1910.05841
chicago: Hofmann, Andrea C, Daniel Jirovec, Maxim Borovkov, Ivan Prieto Gonzalez,
Andrea Ballabio, Jacopo Frigerio, Daniel Chrastina, Giovanni Isella, and Georgios
Katsaros. “Assessing the Potential of Ge/SiGe Quantum Dots as Hosts for Singlet-Triplet
Qubits.” ArXiv, n.d. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1910.05841.
ieee: A. C. Hofmann et al., “Assessing the potential of Ge/SiGe quantum dots
as hosts for singlet-triplet qubits,” arXiv. .
ista: Hofmann AC, Jirovec D, Borovkov M, Prieto Gonzalez I, Ballabio A, Frigerio
J, Chrastina D, Isella G, Katsaros G. Assessing the potential of Ge/SiGe quantum
dots as hosts for singlet-triplet qubits. arXiv, 1910.05841.
mla: Hofmann, Andrea C., et al. “Assessing the Potential of Ge/SiGe Quantum Dots
as Hosts for Singlet-Triplet Qubits.” ArXiv, 1910.05841, doi:10.48550/arXiv.1910.05841.
short: A.C. Hofmann, D. Jirovec, M. Borovkov, I. Prieto Gonzalez, A. Ballabio, J.
Frigerio, D. Chrastina, G. Isella, G. Katsaros, ArXiv (n.d.).
date_created: 2021-10-01T12:14:51Z
date_published: 2019-10-13T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2024-03-27T23:30:26Z
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abstract:
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text: Aberrant display of the truncated core1 O-glycan T-antigen is a common feature
of human cancer cells that correlates with metastasis. Here we show that T-antigen
in Drosophila melanogaster macrophages is involved in their developmentally programmed
tissue invasion. Higher macrophage T-antigen levels require an atypical major
facilitator superfamily (MFS) member that we named Minerva which enables macrophage
dissemination and invasion. We characterize for the first time the T and Tn glycoform
O-glycoproteome of the Drosophila melanogaster embryo, and determine that Minerva
increases the presence of T-antigen on proteins in pathways previously linked
to cancer, most strongly on the sulfhydryl oxidase Qsox1 which we show is required
for macrophage tissue entry. Minerva’s vertebrate ortholog, MFSD1, rescues the
minerva mutant’s migration and T-antigen glycosylation defects. We thus identify
a key conserved regulator that orchestrates O-glycosylation on a protein subset
to activate a program governing migration steps important for both development
and cancer metastasis.
acknowledged_ssus:
- _id: LifeSc
article_number: e41801
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full_name: Valosková, Katarina
id: 46F146FC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Valosková
- first_name: Julia
full_name: Biebl, Julia
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last_name: Biebl
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last_name: Emtenani
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full_name: György, Attila
id: 3BCEDBE0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: György
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full_name: Misova, Michaela
id: 495A3C32-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Misova
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- first_name: Aparna
full_name: Ratheesh, Aparna
id: 2F064CFE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Ratheesh
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- first_name: Patricia
full_name: Rodrigues, Patricia
id: 2CE4065A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Rodrigues
- first_name: Katerina
full_name: Shkarina, Katerina
last_name: Shkarina
- first_name: Ida Signe Bohse
full_name: Larsen, Ida Signe Bohse
last_name: Larsen
- first_name: Sergey Y
full_name: Vakhrushev, Sergey Y
last_name: Vakhrushev
- first_name: Henrik
full_name: Clausen, Henrik
last_name: Clausen
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full_name: Siekhaus, Daria E
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last_name: Siekhaus
orcid: 0000-0001-8323-8353
citation:
ama: Valosková K, Bicher J, Roblek M, et al. A conserved major facilitator superfamily
member orchestrates a subset of O-glycosylation to aid macrophage tissue invasion.
eLife. 2019;8. doi:10.7554/elife.41801
apa: Valosková, K., Bicher, J., Roblek, M., Emtenani, S., György, A., Misova, M.,
… Siekhaus, D. E. (2019). A conserved major facilitator superfamily member orchestrates
a subset of O-glycosylation to aid macrophage tissue invasion. ELife. eLife
Sciences Publications. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.41801
chicago: Valosková, Katarina, Julia Bicher, Marko Roblek, Shamsi Emtenani, Attila
György, Michaela Misova, Aparna Ratheesh, et al. “A Conserved Major Facilitator
Superfamily Member Orchestrates a Subset of O-Glycosylation to Aid Macrophage
Tissue Invasion.” ELife. eLife Sciences Publications, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.41801.
ieee: K. Valosková et al., “A conserved major facilitator superfamily member
orchestrates a subset of O-glycosylation to aid macrophage tissue invasion,” eLife,
vol. 8. eLife Sciences Publications, 2019.
ista: Valosková K, Bicher J, Roblek M, Emtenani S, György A, Misova M, Ratheesh
A, Rodrigues P, Shkarina K, Larsen ISB, Vakhrushev SY, Clausen H, Siekhaus DE.
2019. A conserved major facilitator superfamily member orchestrates a subset of
O-glycosylation to aid macrophage tissue invasion. eLife. 8, e41801.
mla: Valosková, Katarina, et al. “A Conserved Major Facilitator Superfamily Member
Orchestrates a Subset of O-Glycosylation to Aid Macrophage Tissue Invasion.” ELife,
vol. 8, e41801, eLife Sciences Publications, 2019, doi:10.7554/elife.41801.
short: K. Valosková, J. Bicher, M. Roblek, S. Emtenani, A. György, M. Misova, A.
Ratheesh, P. Rodrigues, K. Shkarina, I.S.B. Larsen, S.Y. Vakhrushev, H. Clausen,
D.E. Siekhaus, ELife 8 (2019).
date_created: 2019-03-28T13:37:45Z
date_published: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2024-03-27T23:30:29Z
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text: "Invasive migration plays a crucial role not only during development and homeostasis
but also in pathological states, such as tumor metastasis. Drosophila macrophage
migration into the extended germband is an interesting system to study invasive
migration. It carries similarities to immune cell transmigration and cancer cell
invasion, therefore studying this process could also bring new understanding of
invasion in higher organisms. In our work, we uncover a highly conserved member
of the major facilitator family that plays a role in tissue invasion through regulation
of glycosylation on a subgroup of proteins and/or by aiding the precise timing
of DN-Cadherin downregulation. \r\n\r\nAberrant display of the truncated core1
O-glycan T-antigen is a common feature of human cancer cells that correlates with
metastasis. Here we show that T-antigen in Drosophila melanogaster macrophages
is involved in their developmentally programmed tissue invasion. Higher macrophage
T-antigen levels require an atypical major facilitator superfamily (MFS) member
that we named Minerva which enables macrophage dissemination and invasion. We
characterize for the first time the T and Tn glycoform O-glycoproteome of the
Drosophila melanogaster embryo, and determine that Minerva increases the presence
of T-antigen on proteins in pathways previously linked to cancer, most strongly
on the sulfhydryl oxidase Qsox1 which we show is required for macrophage tissue
entry. Minerva’s vertebrate ortholog, MFSD1, rescues the minerva mutant’s migration
and T-antigen glycosylation defects. We thus identify \r\na key conserved regulator
that orchestrates O-glycosylation on a protein subset to activate \r\na program
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in Drosophila embryonic macrophage migration. 2019. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:6546
apa: Valosková, K. (2019). The role of a highly conserved major facilitator superfamily
member in Drosophila embryonic macrophage migration. Institute of Science
and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6546
chicago: Valosková, Katarina. “The Role of a Highly Conserved Major Facilitator
Superfamily Member in Drosophila Embryonic Macrophage Migration.” Institute of
Science and Technology Austria, 2019. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6546.
ieee: K. Valosková, “The role of a highly conserved major facilitator superfamily
member in Drosophila embryonic macrophage migration,” Institute of Science and
Technology Austria, 2019.
ista: Valosková K. 2019. The role of a highly conserved major facilitator superfamily
member in Drosophila embryonic macrophage migration. Institute of Science and
Technology Austria.
mla: Valosková, Katarina. The Role of a Highly Conserved Major Facilitator Superfamily
Member in Drosophila Embryonic Macrophage Migration. Institute of Science
and Technology Austria, 2019, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:6546.
short: K. Valosková, The Role of a Highly Conserved Major Facilitator Superfamily
Member in Drosophila Embryonic Macrophage Migration, Institute of Science and
Technology Austria, 2019.
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text: "Distinguishing between similar experiences is achieved by the brain
\ in a process called pattern separation. In the hippocampus, pattern
\ separation reduces the interference of memories and increases the storage
capacity by decorrelating similar inputs patterns of neuronal activity into
\ non-overlapping output firing patterns. Winners-take-all (WTA) mechanism
\ is a theoretical model for pattern separation in which a \"winner\"
\ cell suppresses the activity of the neighboring neurons through feedback
inhibition. However, if the network properties of the dentate gyrus support WTA
as a biologically conceivable model remains unknown. Here, we showed that the
connectivity rules of PV+interneurons and their synaptic properties are optimizedfor
efficient pattern separation. We found using multiple whole-cell in vitrorecordings
that PV+interneurons mainly connect to granule cells (GC) through lateral inhibition,
a form of feedback inhibition in which a GC inhibits other GCs but not
\ itself through the activation of PV+interneurons. Thus, lateral inhibition
between GC–PV+interneurons was ~10 times more abundant than recurrent connections.
Furthermore, the GC–PV+interneuron connectivity was more spatially confined
\ but less abundant than PV+interneurons–GC connectivity, leading to an
\ asymmetrical distribution of excitatory and inhibitory connectivity. Our
network model of the dentate gyrus with incorporated real connectivity rules efficiently
decorrelates neuronal activity patterns using WTA as the primary mechanism.
\ This process relied on lateral inhibition, fast-signaling properties of
\ PV+interneurons and the asymmetrical distribution of excitatory and inhibitory
connectivity. Finally, we found that silencing the activity of PV+interneurons
in vivoleads to acute deficits in discrimination between similar environments,
suggesting that PV+interneuron networks are necessary for behavioral relevant
computations. Our results demonstrate that PV+interneurons possess unique
connectivity and fast signaling properties that confer to the dentate
\ gyrus network properties that allow the emergence of pattern separation. Thus,
our results contribute to the knowledge of how specific forms of network organization
underlie sophisticated types of information processing. \r\n"
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in hippocampal microcircuits. 2019. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:6363
apa: Espinoza Martinez, C. (2019). Parvalbumin+ interneurons enable efficient
pattern separation in hippocampal microcircuits. Institute of Science and
Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6363
chicago: Espinoza Martinez, Claudia . “Parvalbumin+ Interneurons Enable Efficient
Pattern Separation in Hippocampal Microcircuits.” Institute of Science and Technology
Austria, 2019. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6363.
ieee: C. Espinoza Martinez, “Parvalbumin+ interneurons enable efficient pattern
separation in hippocampal microcircuits,” Institute of Science and Technology
Austria, 2019.
ista: Espinoza Martinez C. 2019. Parvalbumin+ interneurons enable efficient pattern
separation in hippocampal microcircuits. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
mla: Espinoza Martinez, Claudia. Parvalbumin+ Interneurons Enable Efficient Pattern
Separation in Hippocampal Microcircuits. Institute of Science and Technology
Austria, 2019, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:6363.
short: C. Espinoza Martinez, Parvalbumin+ Interneurons Enable Efficient Pattern
Separation in Hippocampal Microcircuits, Institute of Science and Technology Austria,
2019.
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text: "In this work, we consider the almost-sure termination problem for probabilistic
programs that asks whether a\r\ngiven probabilistic program terminates with probability
1. Scalable approaches for program analysis often\r\nrely on modularity as their
theoretical basis. In non-probabilistic programs, the classical variant rule (V-rule)\r\nof
Floyd-Hoare logic provides the foundation for modular analysis. Extension of this
rule to almost-sure\r\ntermination of probabilistic programs is quite tricky,
and a probabilistic variant was proposed in [16]. While the\r\nproposed probabilistic
variant cautiously addresses the key issue of integrability, we show that the
proposed\r\nmodular rule is still not sound for almost-sure termination of probabilistic
programs.\r\nBesides establishing unsoundness of the previous rule, our contributions
are as follows: First, we present a\r\nsound modular rule for almost-sure termination
of probabilistic programs. Our approach is based on a novel\r\nnotion of descent
supermartingales. Second, for algorithmic approaches, we consider descent supermartingales\r\nthat
are linear and show that they can be synthesized in polynomial time. Finally,
we present experimental\r\nresults on a variety of benchmarks and several natural
examples that model various types of nested while\r\nloops in probabilistic programs
and demonstrate that our approach is able to efficiently prove their almost-sure\r\ntermination
property"
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full_name: Huang, Mingzhang
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- first_name: Hongfei
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ama: 'Huang M, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK. Modular verification for almost-sure
termination of probabilistic programs. In: Proceedings of the 34th ACM International
Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications
. Vol 3. ACM; 2019. doi:10.1145/3360555'
apa: 'Huang, M., Fu, H., Chatterjee, K., & Goharshady, A. K. (2019). Modular
verification for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. In Proceedings
of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems,
Languages, and Applications (Vol. 3). Athens, Greece: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3360555'
chicago: Huang, Mingzhang, Hongfei Fu, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Amir Kafshdar
Goharshady. “Modular Verification for Almost-Sure Termination of Probabilistic
Programs.” In Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented
Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications , Vol. 3. ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3360555.
ieee: M. Huang, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, and A. K. Goharshady, “Modular verification
for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs,” in Proceedings of the
34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages,
and Applications , Athens, Greece, 2019, vol. 3.
ista: 'Huang M, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK. 2019. Modular verification for
almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. Proceedings of the 34th ACM
International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and
Applications . OOPSLA: Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications
vol. 3, 129.'
mla: Huang, Mingzhang, et al. “Modular Verification for Almost-Sure Termination
of Probabilistic Programs.” Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference
on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications , vol.
3, 129, ACM, 2019, doi:10.1145/3360555.
short: M. Huang, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, in:, Proceedings of the
34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages,
and Applications , ACM, 2019.
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text: 'There is a huge gap between the speeds of modern caches and main memories,
and therefore cache misses account for a considerable loss of efficiency in programs.
The predominant technique to address this issue has been Data Packing: data elements
that are frequently accessed within time proximity are packed into the same cache
block, thereby minimizing accesses to the main memory. We consider the algorithmic
problem of Data Packing on a two-level memory system. Given a reference sequence
R of accesses to data elements, the task is to partition the elements into cache
blocks such that the number of cache misses on R is minimized. The problem is
notoriously difficult: it is NP-hard even when the cache has size 1, and is hard
to approximate for any cache size larger than 4. Therefore, all existing techniques
for Data Packing are based on heuristics and lack theoretical guarantees. In this
work, we present the first positive theoretical results for Data Packing, along
with new and stronger negative results. We consider the problem under the lens
of the underlying access hypergraphs, which are hypergraphs of affinities between
the data elements, where the order of an access hypergraph corresponds to the
size of the affinity group. We study the problem parameterized by the treewidth
of access hypergraphs, which is a standard notion in graph theory to measure the
closeness of a graph to a tree. Our main results are as follows: We show there
is a number q* depending on the cache parameters such that (a) if the access hypergraph
of order q* has constant treewidth, then there is a linear-time algorithm for
Data Packing; (b)the Data Packing problem remains NP-hard even if the access hypergraph
of order q*-1 has constant treewidth. Thus, we establish a fine-grained dichotomy
depending on a single parameter, namely, the highest order among access hypegraphs
that have constant treewidth; and establish the optimal value q* of this parameter.
Finally, we present an experimental evaluation of a prototype implementation of
our algorithm. Our results demonstrate that, in practice, access hypergraphs of
many commonly-used algorithms have small treewidth. We compare our approach with
several state-of-the-art heuristic-based algorithms and show that our algorithm
leads to significantly fewer cache-misses. '
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last_name: Pavlogiannis
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citation:
ama: Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Okati N, Pavlogiannis A. Efficient parameterized
algorithms for data packing. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages.
2019;3(POPL). doi:10.1145/3290366
apa: Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., Okati, N., & Pavlogiannis, A. (2019).
Efficient parameterized algorithms for data packing. Proceedings of the ACM
on Programming Languages. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290366
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Nastaran Okati, and Andreas
Pavlogiannis. “Efficient Parameterized Algorithms for Data Packing.” Proceedings
of the ACM on Programming Languages. ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290366.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, N. Okati, and A. Pavlogiannis, “Efficient
parameterized algorithms for data packing,” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming
Languages, vol. 3, no. POPL. ACM, 2019.
ista: Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Okati N, Pavlogiannis A. 2019. Efficient parameterized
algorithms for data packing. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages.
3(POPL), 53.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Efficient Parameterized Algorithms for Data
Packing.” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, vol. 3, no.
POPL, 53, ACM, 2019, doi:10.1145/3290366.
short: K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, N. Okati, A. Pavlogiannis, Proceedings of
the ACM on Programming Languages 3 (2019).
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text: In today's programmable blockchains, smart contracts are limited to being
deterministic and non-probabilistic. This lack of randomness is a consequential
limitation, given that a wide variety of real-world financial contracts, such
as casino games and lotteries, depend entirely on randomness. As a result, several
ad-hoc random number generation approaches have been developed to be used in smart
contracts. These include ideas such as using an oracle or relying on the block
hash. However, these approaches are manipulatable, i.e. their output can be tampered
with by parties who might not be neutral, such as the owner of the oracle or the
miners.We propose a novel game-theoretic approach for generating provably unmanipulatable
pseudorandom numbers on the blockchain. Our approach allows smart contracts to
access a trustworthy source of randomness that does not rely on potentially compromised
miners or oracles, hence enabling the creation of a new generation of smart contracts
that are not limited to being non-probabilistic and can be drawn from the much
more general class of probabilistic programs.
article_number: '8751326'
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
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- first_name: Arash
full_name: Pourdamghani, Arash
last_name: Pourdamghani
citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Pourdamghani A. Probabilistic smart contracts:
Secure randomness on the blockchain. In: IEEE International Conference on Blockchain
and Cryptocurrency. IEEE; 2019. doi:10.1109/BLOC.2019.8751326'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., & Pourdamghani, A. (2019). Probabilistic
smart contracts: Secure randomness on the blockchain. In IEEE International
Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Seoul, Korea: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/BLOC.2019.8751326'
chicago: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Arash Pourdamghani.
“Probabilistic Smart Contracts: Secure Randomness on the Blockchain.” In IEEE
International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. IEEE, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/BLOC.2019.8751326.'
ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, and A. Pourdamghani, “Probabilistic smart
contracts: Secure randomness on the blockchain,” in IEEE International Conference
on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Seoul, Korea, 2019.'
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Pourdamghani A. 2019. Probabilistic smart contracts:
Secure randomness on the blockchain. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain
and Cryptocurrency. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency,
8751326.'
mla: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Probabilistic Smart Contracts: Secure Randomness
on the Blockchain.” IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency,
8751326, IEEE, 2019, doi:10.1109/BLOC.2019.8751326.'
short: K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, A. Pourdamghani, in:, IEEE International
Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, IEEE, 2019.
conference:
end_date: 2019-05-17
location: Seoul, Korea
name: IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
start_date: 2019-05-14
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day: '01'
department:
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text: 'In today''s cryptocurrencies, Hashcash proof of work is the most commonly-adopted
approach to mining. In Hashcash, when a miner decides to add a block to the chain,
she has to solve the difficult computational puzzle of inverting a hash function.
While Hashcash has been successfully adopted in both Bitcoin and Ethereum, it
has attracted significant and harsh criticism due to its massive waste of electricity,
its carbon footprint and environmental effects, and the inherent lack of usefulness
in inverting a hash function. Various other mining protocols have been suggested,
including proof of stake, in which a miner''s chance of adding the next block
is proportional to her current balance. However, such protocols lead to a higher
entry cost for new miners who might not still have any stake in the cryptocurrency,
and can in the worst case lead to an oligopoly, where the rich have complete control
over mining. In this paper, we propose Hybrid Mining: a new mining protocol that
combines solving real-world useful problems with Hashcash. Our protocol allows
new miners to join the network by taking part in Hashcash mining without having
to own an initial stake. It also allows nodes of the network to submit hard computational
problems whose solutions are of interest in the real world, e.g.~protein folding
problems. Then, miners can choose to compete in solving these problems, in lieu
of Hashcash, for adding a new block. Hence, Hybrid Mining incentivizes miners
to solve useful problems, such as hard computational problems arising in biology,
in a distributed manner. It also gives researchers in other areas an easy-to-use
tool to outsource their hard computations to the blockchain network, which has
enormous computational power, by paying a reward to the miner who solves the problem
for them. Moreover, our protocol provides strong security guarantees and is at
least as resilient to double spending as Bitcoin.'
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full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar
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citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Pourdamghani A. Hybrid Mining: Exploiting blockchain’s
computational power for distributed problem solving. In: Proceedings of the
34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. Vol Part F147772. ACM; 2019:374-381.
doi:10.1145/3297280.3297319'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., & Pourdamghani, A. (2019). Hybrid Mining:
Exploiting blockchain’s computational power for distributed problem solving. In
Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Vol. Part F147772,
pp. 374–381). Limassol, Cyprus: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3297280.3297319'
chicago: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Arash Pourdamghani.
“Hybrid Mining: Exploiting Blockchain’s Computational Power for Distributed Problem
Solving.” In Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing,
Part F147772:374–81. ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3297280.3297319.'
ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, and A. Pourdamghani, “Hybrid Mining: Exploiting
blockchain’s computational power for distributed problem solving,” in Proceedings
of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Limassol, Cyprus, 2019, vol.
Part F147772, pp. 374–381.'
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Pourdamghani A. 2019. Hybrid Mining: Exploiting
blockchain’s computational power for distributed problem solving. Proceedings
of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
vol. Part F147772, 374–381.'
mla: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Hybrid Mining: Exploiting Blockchain’s Computational
Power for Distributed Problem Solving.” Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium
on Applied Computing, vol. Part F147772, ACM, 2019, pp. 374–81, doi:10.1145/3297280.3297319.'
short: K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, A. Pourdamghani, in:, Proceedings of the
34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM, 2019, pp. 374–381.
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abstract:
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text: "We consider the problem of expected cost analysis over nondeterministic probabilistic
programs,\r\nwhich aims at automated methods for analyzing the resource-usage
of such programs.\r\nPrevious approaches for this problem could only handle nonnegative
bounded costs.\r\nHowever, in many scenarios, such as queuing networks or analysis
of cryptocurrency protocols,\r\nboth positive and negative costs are necessary
and the costs are unbounded as well.\r\n\r\nIn this work, we present a sound and
efficient approach to obtain polynomial bounds on the\r\nexpected accumulated
cost of nondeterministic probabilistic programs.\r\nOur approach can handle (a)
general positive and negative costs with bounded updates in\r\nvariables; and
(b) nonnegative costs with general updates to variables.\r\nWe show that several
natural examples which could not be\r\nhandled by previous approaches are captured
in our framework.\r\n\r\nMoreover, our approach leads to an efficient polynomial-time
algorithm, while no\r\nprevious approach for cost analysis of probabilistic programs
could guarantee polynomial runtime.\r\nFinally, we show the effectiveness of our
approach using experimental results on a variety of programs for which we efficiently
synthesize tight resource-usage bounds."
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full_name: Wang, Peixin
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last_name: Qin
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citation:
ama: 'Wang P, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Chatterjee K, Qin X, Shi W. Cost analysis of
nondeterministic probabilistic programs. In: PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the
40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.
Association for Computing Machinery; 2019:204-220. doi:10.1145/3314221.3314581'
apa: 'Wang, P., Fu, H., Goharshady, A. K., Chatterjee, K., Qin, X., & Shi, W.
(2019). Cost analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs. In PLDI 2019:
Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design
and Implementation (pp. 204–220). Phoenix, AZ, United States: Association
for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3314221.3314581'
chicago: 'Wang, Peixin, Hongfei Fu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Krishnendu Chatterjee,
Xudong Qin, and Wenjun Shi. “Cost Analysis of Nondeterministic Probabilistic Programs.”
In PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming
Language Design and Implementation, 204–20. Association for Computing Machinery,
2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3314221.3314581.'
ieee: 'P. Wang, H. Fu, A. K. Goharshady, K. Chatterjee, X. Qin, and W. Shi, “Cost
analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs,” in PLDI 2019: Proceedings
of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation,
Phoenix, AZ, United States, 2019, pp. 204–220.'
ista: 'Wang P, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Chatterjee K, Qin X, Shi W. 2019. Cost analysis
of nondeterministic probabilistic programs. PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. PLDI:
Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 204–220.'
mla: 'Wang, Peixin, et al. “Cost Analysis of Nondeterministic Probabilistic Programs.”
PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language
Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019, pp.
204–20, doi:10.1145/3314221.3314581.'
short: 'P. Wang, H. Fu, A.K. Goharshady, K. Chatterjee, X. Qin, W. Shi, in:, PLDI
2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design
and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019, pp. 204–220.'
conference:
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location: Phoenix, AZ, United States
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ec_funded: 1
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