Stephen talked about past work on efficiently recovering private data from the anime tracking website through queries against an affinity oracle.

More information can be found at the GitHub repository stephen-huan/mal-affinity-attack.

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Stephen talked about automatic differentiation (autodiff) techniques including finite differencing, forward-mode autodiff, and reverse-mode autodiff, the last of which is also commonly known as “backpropagation”.

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