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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This is an announcement of Yuyang Huang Masters Exam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Candidate:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Yuyang Huang<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Date:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Monday, September 16th, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Time:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> 10:00am -11:00am CT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Remote Location:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/96022687230?pwd%3DpvkzHZu6hNCi1y7SVV6NBn6wNenDbM.1&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1725890337115490&usg=AOvVaw0j1VwhsOp9xrm3vxXj309T" target="_blank">https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/96022687230?pwd=pvkzHZu6hNCi1y7SVV6NBn6wNenDbM.1</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Title:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Concierge: Towards Accuracy-Driven Bandwidth Allocation for Video Analytics Applications in Edge Network<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Abstract:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> When performing inference on sensor data, edge video analytics applications may not always need high-fidelity data, since
important information may not appear all the time. Consequently, each edge AI application’s bandwidth demand is highly dynamic. Thus, a shared edge system should dynamically allocate more bandwidth to the applications in need to reach high accuracy at each
moment. However, previous bandwidth allocators are ill-suited because they are agnostic to the time varying impact of bandwidth on each application’s accuracy. We explore a new accuracy-driven approach to bandwidth allocation, which periodically re-allocates
bandwidth across edge AI applications based on the sensitivity of each application’s accuracy to its bandwidth share. To examine its practical benefit and technical challenges, we present a concrete accuracy-driven bandwidth allocator called Concierge, which
exposes a simple yet efficient interface to estimate each application’s sensitivity to a small change in its bandwidth share. We run Concierge on state-of-the-art video-analytics applications with real video streams and show its early promise in greatly improving
the inference accuracy of video analytics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Advisors:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Prof. Haryadi Gunawi<b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Committee Members:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Junchen Jiang, Changho Huang, Haryadi Gunawi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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