defeatoverseer: Let me gather my thoughts on this. In the meantime you can read this if you haven't already: reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/pkg3d6…ero_project_should_actively_recruit

I gave that a read just before. The recruitment channel is not very lively unfortunately.

hi

new here, what are some interesting topics of ongoing research right now

is this relevant? monero-project/research-lab #94 (last edit in 2021)

Fake out selection never gets out of style.

Including binning and deterministic selection.

is there prior work here? something i can see if I can expand upon

Rucknium[m] is the one to talk to about this.

ashok: Welcome! Yes, that list is still relevant (last edit in Oct 2022 actually). Are you interested in something specific?

thanks @moneromooo and @Rucknium[m] let me dig a little deeper into the list and see if anything sticks out to me

my background one part FPGA acceleration / Verilog and another part AI/ML research, so idk if there's anything super relevant to me

however maybe there's a project with crossover skillset

IIRC isthmus was using ML to try and classify txes.

is this still an ongoing topic

would love to see any previous work there

I have no links, just wait till they chime in. Might be a week, IIRC isthmus only reads backlog every so often.

ok sounds good

I'm assuming I can try coming with up my own project as well?

Sure.

cool, I'll come up with few ideas and run them through here (or at a research meeting, if those still happen)

They do.

ashok: You're in luck since we had a conversation here about a month ago about ML: libera.monerologs.net/monero-research-lab/20230116#c189870

Says "Meetings Wednesday @ 17:00 UTC" in the topic, I assume that's still up to date.

Many links to previous work there

Also the Open Research Questions GitHub issue has links to a few papers in the blue boxes

great - really appreciate you