Turing Laureate Professor Manuel Blum Joins Peking University

On June 15th, 2020, the first Cloud Appointment Ceremony of Peking University was held with President Hao Ping issuing letters of appointment to Professor Manuel Blum and Professor Lenore Blum as Visiting Chair Professor of Peking University.

[Distinguished Lecture Series] Professor Leif Kobbelt: Surface maps and layouts

On December 11th, 2020, Professor Leif Kobbelt from RWTH Aachen University was invited to deliver an online lecture titled " Surface maps and layouts" at No. 5 Courtyard of Jingyuan, organized by CFCS, Peking University.

[SODA 2021] Efficient Linear and Affine Codes for Correcting Insertions/Deletions

[SODA 2021] Efficient Document Exchange and Error Correcting Codes with Asymmetric Information

[AAAI 2021] The Smoothed Complexity of Computing Kemeny and Slater Rankings

In this paper, we develop the first smoothed complexity results for winner determination in voting.

[TOG 2020] MotioNet: 3D Human Motion Reconstruction from Monocular Video with Skeleton Consistency

We introduce MotioNet, a deep neural network that directly reconstructs the motion of a 3D human skeleton from monocular video.

The 16th Conference on Web and Internet Economics is Successfully Held Online

WINE 2020 focuses on the latest development and cutting-edge issues of internet economics and related disciplines, covering the topics of mechanism design, game theory, auctions, pricing, social choice theory, and etc.

[NeurIPS 2020] Learning Multi-Agent Coordination for Enhancing Target Coverage in Directional Sensor Networks

We propose a Hierarchical Target-oriented Multi-Agent Coordination (HiT-MAC), which decomposes the target coverage problem into two-level tasks: targets assignment by a coordinator and tracking assigned targets by executors.

The 3rd Mini Research Symposium of CFCS and Turing Class is Held

On December 5th, 2020, the 3rd Mini Research Symposium of CFCS and Turing Class was held at Peking University. 23 students from CFCS and Turing Class signed up to present their latest research works and to give tutorials introducing their research fields.

[Distinguished Lecture Series] Professor Alan Yuille: Adversarial Examiners and Generative Models

On November 24th, 2020, Professor Alan Yuille from Johns Hopkins University was invited to deliver an online lecture titled " Adversarial Examiners and Generative Models " at No. 5 Courtyard of Jingyuan, organized by CFCS, Peking University.

[NeurIPS 2020] Learning Utilities and Equilibria in Non-Truthful Auctions

We give almost matching(up to polylog factors) lower bound on the sample complexity for learning utilities.

PKU Student Supercomputing Team Won the Silver Medal in SC20 Student Cluster Competition

In the early morning of November 20th, the results of Supercomputing Conference 2020 (SC20) Student Cluster Competition finals were announced. The team formed by students from the School of EECS, Peking University, won the silver medal. It is worth mentioning that 5 out of the 6 members in the team come from the Turing Class. Congratulations!

[NeurIPS 2020] Explainable Voting

We discuss the significance of our results for AI and machine learning,including their potential to bolster an emerging paradigm of automated decisionmaking called virtual democracy.

John Hopcroft Foundation Recognizes 2020 Outstanding Students

On Friday, November 20th, 2020, the inaugural John Hopcroft Scholarship award ceremony was held at Courtyard No.5, Jingyuan, Peking University. 26 students from Turing Program were awarded in recognition of their outstanding performances in the academic year of 2019-2020.

[Distinguished Lecture Series] Professor Wenfei Fan: Big Graphs: Challenges and Opportunities

On November 15th, 2020, Professor Wenfei Fan from University of Edinburgh visited Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies (CFCS) and delivered a lecture titled " Big Graphs: Challenges and Opportunities ".

Welcome Dr. Xiao Yuan to Join CFCS, Peking University

Dr. Xiao Yuan joined Peking University in November 2020 and is currently an assistant professor at Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, PKU.

Peking University Holds Opening Ceremony for Turing Class of 2019 and 2020

On October 27th, 2020, the opening ceremony for Turing Class of 2019 and 2020 was held at Peking University.

[IEEE TPAMI] Locally Connected Network for Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation

We propose Locally Connected Network (LCN) to overcome the limitations of GCN by allocating dedicated rather than shared filters for different joints.

CFCS Holds the 6th Youth Forum on Frontiers of Computing (ONLINE)

The 6th Youth Forum on Frontiers of Computing was held successfully online from October 17th to October 18th, 2020 with 10 faculty candidates from world-known universities, e.g. MIT, University of Oxford, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, etc. being invited to talk about their studies. Dr. Feifei Li, Vice President of Alibaba Group, and Prof. Le Song from Georgia Institute of Technology were invited as keynote speakers.

[NeurIPS 2020] Generative 3D Part Assembly via Dynamic Graph Learning

In this paper, we focus on the pose estimation subproblem from the vision side involving geometric and relational reasoning over the input part geometry.