How to annoy your co-authors: a Gitlab CI pipeline for LaTeX
11 May 2020 9 min read
The process of writing a LaTeX document can be one full of manual steps, resulting in a patchwork document that is not exercisable nor complete. This makes it impossible to reproduce the document from code and data. In this post we will create a pipeline for compiling a LaTeX document that works both locally and using GitLab CI. This is part of a series to create the perfect open science git repository.
Top 10 LaTeX packages for academic writing
03 May 2020 4 min read
In academic writing with LaTeX there are a lot of things that can be frustrating to the author. For many of these things there exists many packages that can help alleviate this frustration, but it is hard to find them. In this post I list 10 of my favorite packages to help remove some of this frustation, and make your papers look nicer so that you have a higher probability of getting your paper accepted. Hopefully.
Reproducibility aspects of the Swedish COVID–19 estimate report
25 Apr 2020 8 min read
Researchers have called out for more transparency from The Public Health Agency of Sweden regarding the COVID-19 estimates for Sweden. Recently, a report has been released covering such estimates for the Stockholm region. Along the report, the code used for these estimates was uploaded to Github, which makes it possible for others to review and critique the work. In this post we will take a look at the reproducibility aspects of this release. We find that it is possible to some extent reproduce the figures in the report, and we suggest many improvements to the repository.
Secure Federated Learning in 5G Mobile Networks →
15 Apr 2020 ~1 min read
Machine Learning (ML) is an important enabler for optimizing, securing and managing mobile networks. This leads to increased collection and processing of data from network functions, which in turn may increase threats to sensitive end-user information. Consequently, mechanisms to reduce threats to end-user privacy are needed to take full advantage of ML. We seamlessly integrate Federated Learning (FL) into the 3GPP 5G Network Data Analytics (NWDA) architecture, and add a Multi-Party Computation (MPC) protocol for protecting the confidentiality of local updates. We evaluate the protocol and find that it has much lower overhead than previous work, without affecting ML performance.
Create publication ready figures with Matplotlib and TikZ
29 Sep 2019 6 min read
Figures in scientific papers often look less than professional, and sometimes this can even get in the way of understanding the figure. In this blog post we show how to use matplotlib and tikzplotlib to make publication ready figures that look great and can be styled from the document preamble. Beautiful and understandable figures can possibly lead to higher publication acceptance rate, at least I hope so…
He makes intelligent systems even smarter →
12 Oct 2018 ~1 min read
In the future, different intelligent systems will need to share data and experiences with each other to become good enough for certain tasks. RISE Industrial PhD student Martin Isaksson’s research is an important step on the way. This area is highly relevant for Ericsson and the development of its 5G but lessons learned along the way might open for many more solutions.