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1. The trainer, the verifier, the imitator: Three ways in which human platform workers support artificial intelligence

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Paola Tubaro, Antonio A. Casilli, Marion Coville, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), TAckling the Underspecified (TAU), Inria Saclay - Ile de France, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI), CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI), CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie et de la Société (IDHES), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne (UEVE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay), Sociologie Information-Communication Design (SID), Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation de Telecom Paris (I3 SES), Télécom ParisTech-Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation (I3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Télécom ParisTech-Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation (I3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département Sciences Economiques et Sociales (SES), Télécom ParisTech, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Poitiers (IAE Poitiers), Université de Poitiers, CEntre de REcherche en GEstion - EA 1722 (CEREGE), Université de Poitiers-Université de Poitiers-Université de Poitiers-La Rochelle Université (ULR), This paper presents results of a larger study called Digital Platform Labour (DiPLab), co-funded by Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Saclay, Force Ouvrière, a workers’ union, as part of a grant from Institut de recherches économiques et sociales (IRES), and France Stratégie, a service of the French Prime Minister’s office. The platform Foule Factory offered logistical support, and Inria provided complementary funding. For more information: http://diplab.eu, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay)-Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne (UEVE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1), Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation (I3, une unité mixte de recherche CNRS (UMR 9217)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Télécom ParisTech-MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Télécom ParisTech-MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Université de Poitiers-Université de Poitiers-Université de Poitiers-Université de La Rochelle (ULR), École polytechnique (X)-Télécom ParisTech-Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Télécom ParisTech-Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and École polytechnique (X)-Télécom ParisTech-MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris

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Information Systems and Management, Computer science, Trainer, Big data, 050801 communication & media studies, lcsh:A, Library and Information Sciences, micro-work, Digital platform labour, [INFO.INFO-AI]Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI], 0508 media and communications, datafied production processes, 0502 economics and business, 050207 economics, Focus (computing), [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology, business.industry, Communication, 05 social sciences, artificial intelligence, [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, Computer Science Applications, machine learning, Artificial intelligence, lcsh:General Works, business, Information Systems
Abstract

International audience; This paper sheds light on the role of digital platform labour in the development of today's artificial intelligence, predicated on data-intensive machine learning algorithms. Focus is on the specific ways in which outsourcing of data tasks to myriad 'micro-workers', recruited and managed through specialized platforms, powers virtual assistants, self-driving vehicles and connected objects. Using qualitative data from multiple sources, we show that micro-work performs a variety of functions, between three poles that we label, respectively, 'artificial intelligence preparation', 'artificial intelligence verification' and 'artificial intelligence impersonation'. Because of the wide scope of application of micro-work, it is a structural component of contemporary artificial intelligence production processes - not an ephemeral form of support that may vanish once the technology reaches maturity stage. Through the lens of micro-work, we prefigure the policy implications of a future in which data technologies do not replace human workforce but imply its marginalization and precariousness.

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2020
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2. The cost of monotonicity in distributed graph searching

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Nicolas Nisse, David Soguet, David Ilcinkas, Département d'Informatique et d'Ingénierie (DII), Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-CentraleSupélec-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Additional supports from the project 'Fragile' of the ACI Sécurité Informatique, and from the project 'Grand Large' of INRIA., Eduardo Tovar, Philippas Tsigas, Hacène Fouchal, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB), Algorithmics for computationally intensive applications over wide scale distributed platforms (CEPAGE), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Algorithms, simulation, combinatorics and optimization for telecommunications (MASCOTTE), Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (CRISAM), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-COMmunications, Réseaux, systèmes Embarqués et Distribués (Laboratoire I3S - COMRED), Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux, et Systèmes de Sophia Antipolis (I3S), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux, et Systèmes de Sophia Antipolis (I3S), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), See paper for details., ANR-07-BLAN-0322,ALADDIN,Algorithm Design and Analysis for Implicitly and Incompletely Defined Interaction Networks(2007), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), and COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)

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Monotonicity, Mathematical optimization, Theoretical computer science, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer science, [INFO.INFO-DS]Computer Science [cs]/Data Structures and Algorithms [cs.DS], 050801 communication & media studies, 0102 computer and information sciences, 02 engineering and technology, Strength of a graph, Biconnected graph, 01 natural sciences, Theoretical Computer Science, law.invention, 0508 media and communications, Graph power, law, Line graph, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Graph property, Complement graph, Graph searching, Distance-hereditary graph, Mobile agent, Discrete mathematics, 020203 distributed computing, 05 social sciences, Voltage graph, Directed graph, Butterfly graph, Competitive ratio, Graph bandwidth, Computational Theory and Mathematics, 010201 computation theory & mathematics, Hardware and Architecture, [INFO.INFO-DC]Computer Science [cs]/Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [cs.DC], Null graph, Graph factorization, MathematicsofComputing_DISCRETEMATHEMATICS
Abstract

International audience; Blin {\it et al.} (2006) proposed a distributed protocol that enables the smallest number of searchers to clear any unknown asynchronous graph in a decentralized manner. {\it Unknown} means that the searchers are provided no {\it a priori} information about the graph. However, the strategy that is actually performed lacks of an important property, namely the monotonicity. That is, the clear part of the graph may decrease at some steps of the execution of the protocol. Actually, the protocol of Blin {\it et al.} is executed in exponential time. Nisse and Soguet (2007) proved that, in order to ensure the smallest number of searchers to clear any $n$-node graph in a monotone way, it is necessary and sufficient to provide $\Theta(n \log n)$ bits of information to the searchers by putting short labels on the nodes of the graph. This paper deals with the smallest number of searchers that are necessary and sufficient to monotoneously clear any graph in a decentralized manner, when the searchers have no a priori information about the graph. The distributed graph searching problem considers a team of searchers that is aiming at clearing any connected contaminated graph. The clearing of the graph is required to be {\it connected}, i.e., the clear part of the graph must remain permanently connected, and {\it monotone}, i.e., the clear part of the graph only grows. The {\it search number} $\mcs(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the smallest number of searchers necessary to clear $G$ in a monotone connected way in centralized settings. We prove that any distributed protocol aiming at clearing any unknown n-node graph in a monotone connected way, in decentralized settings, has {\it competitive ratio} $\Theta(\frac{n}{\log n})$. That is, we prove that, for any distributed protocol $\cal P$, there exists a constant $c$ such that for any sufficiently large $n$, there exists a $n$-node graph $G$ such that $\cal P$ requires at least $c\frac{n}{\log n}\, \mcs(G)$ searchers to clear $G$. Moreover, we propose a distributed protocol that allows $O(\frac{n}{\log n})\, \mcs(G)$ searchers to clear any unknown asynchronous $n$-node graph $G$ in a monotone connected way.

Published
2009
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3. Power Masks for Low-Complexity Very High Bit Rate Multi-Carrier Local Loop

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F. Rambeau, Benoit Geller, I. Diatta, Jean-Marc Brossier, A. Wei, Laboratoire des images et des signaux (LIS), Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and This paper has been performed in the framework of the European program MEDEA+ A110 MIDAS.

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Quadrature modulation, Computer science, 050801 communication & media studies, Data_CODINGANDINFORMATIONTHEORY, 02 engineering and technology, Carrierless amplitude phase modulation, digital subscriber line (DSL), 0508 media and communications, Signal-to-noise ratio, [INFO.INFO-TS]Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Electronic engineering, multicarrier communications, low-complexity, bit loading, Amplitude and phase-shift keying, Analog transmission, 05 social sciences, Transmitter, 020206 networking & telecommunications, Audio bit depth, Discrete multitone (DMT), QAM, Digital subscriber line, Pulse-amplitude modulation, Bit rate, Bit error rate, [SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing, Modulation error ratio, Quadrature amplitude modulation, Phase-shift keying
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International audience; This paper describes several power mask designs for local loop multcarrier transmission. The proposed algorithms exploit the signal to noise and interference ratio knowledge at the transmitter in order to maximize the overall bit rate. This design prevents from the multiple large constellations soft-demapping burden by using a single mid-size Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM). We illustrate the algorithms performance by giving results for Very high bit rate Digital Suscriber Line (VDSL) systems.

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2006
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