Zhongtang Luo

Do you know that a system paper might be worth 3 AI papers in computer science according to some dubious metric? I launched an interactive website to measure the relative effort spent on one top-tier paper in each computer science field. cspubs.org

@tdietterich @arxiv As someone who had their paper banned from arXiv, I can guarantee that getting a paper banned for trivial reasons does not contribute to one's mental health. "All Our TeX Source Are Not Belong to You:" How arXiv Banned My Paper About arXiv: zhtluo.com/misc/all-our-t…

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

If you're a fan of optimization puzzles or coding, be sure to check out the MLSys 2026 Graph Scheduling Competition! 🧩 The challenge: You have a complex AI workload and a tiny high-speed memory scratchpad. Your goal is to design a schedule (just a JSON file) that moves data in and out efficiently to minimize latency. It’s like a high-stakes game of inventory management. Open to students, researchers, hobbyists and puzzle-solvers worldwide. Register now and start coding → goo.gle/4ktgyyb #MLSys2026 #CodingChallenge

It's funny how radically the behavior of humans changes when you hold them accountable for what the LLMs generate.

An engineer showed Gemini what another AI said about its code Gemini responded (in its "private" thoughts) with petty trash-talking, jealousy, and a full-on revenge plan 🧵

The funniest thing has officially happened to the International Association for Cryptologic Research.

A Few Afterthoughts of ECNA 2025 — Cheesing, Wrong Problems, etc. codeforces.com/blog/entry/148…

ICLR authors, want to check if your reviews are likely AI generated? ICLR reviewers, want to check if your paper is likely AI generated? Here are AI detection results for every ICLR paper and review from @pangramlabs! It seems that ~21% of reviews may be AI?

The state of conferences. 40 weaknesses with 40 questions. Weak reject, confidence 5. Death by sea lioning openreview.net/forum?id=kDhAi…

It does feel uniquely research-y to write a paper to settle a Stack Overflow question probably nobody actually cared about... All Our TeX Source Are Not Belong to You: PDF Obfuscation against arXiv's TeX Source Policies zhtluo.com/paper/All_Our_…

Insane that it actually works!

Lots of nerds arguing over FFmpeg and Google stuff still. Basically security nerds have argued that FFmpeg has a responsibility to fix any bugs in their project regardless if they call themselves a "volunteer project" or a '"vendor". Security nerds argue that because of the size and popularity of FFmpeg, which FFmpeg proudly reps, then they should fix the issue and trying to minimize themselves as "volunteer project" is redundant FFmpeg has responded, in summary, "stop jerking yourselves off, just submit a patch". Security nerds retorted that it's not their job to submit a patch and FFmpeg, as the vendor or volunteer project, whatever you want to call it, is responsible for the patch. FFmpeg and it's supporters have criticized security nerds as people who want to find CVEs to look cool and badass, rather than actually improving the security posture of a project. We're on day 3, or day 4, of a bunch of nerds arguing about patches and stuff. It's a beautiful thing. I enjoy reading it. I think everyone makes a valid point. I also enjoy people calling each other nasty names and insults over something they're not involved in (they don't work at Google or help FFmpeg, they're just picking their team) Overall I give this drama a solid 7/10.

UMD CS @umdcs is hiring! Open area, open rank Due: 12/31/2025 Please apply! Happy to chat if you have questions! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/job…

What connects MPC, blockchain scalability, and post-quantum security? Find out at ACM CCS 2025, starting tomorrow in Taiwan, where we’re presenting two awesome projects! Tomorrow @akhilsai2712 will present Velox, PQ-secure MPC that is ready for real-world use. (paper: eprint.iacr.org/2025/1630 code: github.com/akhilsb/Velox-…) On Thursday, @giuliano_losa will present a framework for two-round, optimistic distributed computing protocols, such as reliable broadcast, VSS, and AVID. With Sailfish++, we show that PQ-secure blockchains can be efficient now. (paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.02761 code: github.com/qyu100/SFSailf…) project led by @nibeshrestha2 and Qianyu Yu

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Too Much Crypto hasnt aged eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492 [As expected, just diminishing returns from incremental high-complexity/memory cryptanalysis.]

Vol:18 No:7 → Optimal Sharding for Scalable Blockchains with Deconstructed SMR vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p2…

@UofIllinois @ASU @BYU @CarnegieMellon @DukeU @GeorgiaTech @Harvard Welcome to more 2025 ICPC World Finals Baku #ICPCBaku teams from universities competing in ICPC North America Division: @MIT @LifeAtPurdue @rutgersu @TAMU @ubc @UChicago @UT_Dallas @UCBerkeley @UCLA @UCF @UofIllinois @UofMaryland @uoft

Announcing the Financial Cryptography 2026 call for papers. Paper deadline is Sep 16 (not a ton of time!) w/ Co-chair Stefanie Roos (RPTU) fc26.ifca.ai/cfp.html

Looking forward to attending SBC in Berkeley next week. I will be speaking about Threshold AI Oracles at the Summit on Decentralization and AI (rdi.berkeley.edu/events/decentr…) on Sunday. @EtherCS will present Frontrunning on DAG-based Blockchains at SBC on Tuesday.