Publications: MR Ignacio De Castro Arribas

Gu Y, Zhang M, Castro I, Wu S, Tyson G ( 2025 ) . Contrastive Domain Adaptation with Test-Time Training for Out-of-Context News Detection . Pattern Recognition vol. 164 , Article 111530 , 111530 - 111530 .

Zhang Y, McQuistin S, Karan V, Ramirez-Centeno H, Perkins C, Tyson G, Castro I ( 2025 ) . Two Decades of IETF Affiliations: Evolution and Impact . Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop on ZZZ . Conference: ANRW '25: ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop 202517 - 23 .

Zia HB, Raman A, Castro I, Tyson G ( 2025 ) . Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse .

Karan VM, McQuistin S, Yanagida R, Perkins C, Tyson G, Castro I, Healey PGT, Purver M ( 2025 ) . A Dataset for Expert Reviewer Recommendation with Large Language Models as Zero-shot Rankers . COLING . 11422 - 11427 .

Hosseini P, Castro I, Ghinassi I, Purver M ( 2025 ) . Efficient Solutions For An Intriguing Failure of LLMs: Long Context Window Does Not Mean LLMs Can Analyze Long Sequences Flawlessly . COLING . 1880 - 1891 .

Bin Zia H, He J, Castro I, Tyson G ( 2024 ) . Fediverse Migrations: A Study of User Account Portability on the Mastodon Social Network . Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference . Conference: IMC '24: ACM Internet Measurement Conference68 - 75 .

Balduf L, Sokoto S, Ascigil O, Tyson G, Scheuermann B, Korczyński M, Castro I, Król M ( 2024 ) . Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky . Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference . Conference: IMC '24: ACM Internet Measurement Conference76 - 91 .

Zia HB, Castro I, Tyson G ( 2024 ) . Mastodoner: A Command-line Tool and Python Library for Public Data Collection from Mastodon . Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management . Conference: CIKM '24: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management5314 - 5317 .

Balduf L, Sokoto S, Ascigil O, Tyson G, Scheuermann B, Korczyński M, Castro I, Król M ( 2024 ) . Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky .

Agarwal V, Raman A, Sastry N, M. Abdelmoniem A, Tyson G, Castro I ( 2024 ) . Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-Based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse . Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media vol. 18 , 2 - 14 .

He Y, Gu Y, Shekhar R, Castro I, Tyson G ( 2024 ) . Making the Pick: Understanding Professional Editor Comment Curation in Online News . Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media vol. 18 , 557 - 568 .

Gu Y, Castro I, Tyson G ( 2024 ) . Detecting Multimodal Fake News with Gated Variational AutoEncoder . ACM Web Science Conference . Conference: Websci '24: 16th ACM Web Science Conference129 - 138 .

Trautwein D, Wei Y, Psaras Y, Schubotz M, Castro I, Gipp B, Tyson G ( 2024 ) . IPFS in the Fast Lane: Accelerating Record Storage with Optimistic Provide . IEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications . Conference: IEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications from: 20/05/2024 to: 23/05/2024 , 1920 - 1929 .

Agarwal V, Raman A, Sastry N, Abdelmoniem AM, Tyson G, Castro I ( 2024 ) . Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse .

Hosseini P, Hosseini M, Castro I, Purver M ( 2024 ) . Cost-Effective Attention Mechanisms for Low Resource Settings: Necessity\n & Sufficiency of Linear Transformations .

Healey PGT, Khare P, Castro I, Tyson G, Karan M, Shekhar R, McQuistin S, Perkins C et al. ( 2024 ) . Power and vulnerability: managing sensitive language in organizational communication . Frontiers in Psychology vol. 14 , Article 1266425 ,

Hosseini P, Castro I, Ghinassi I, Purver M ( 2024 ) . Efficient Solutions For An Intriguing Failure of LLMs: Long Context Window Does Not Mean LLMs Can Analyze Long Sequences Flawlessly .

Sokoto S, Balduf L, Trautwein D, Wei Y, Tyson G, Castro I, Ascigil O, Pavlou G et al. ( 2024 ) . Guardians of the Galaxy: Content Moderation in the InterPlanetary File System . Proceedings of the 33rd Usenix Security Symposium . 1507 - 1524 .

Wei Y, Trautwein D, Psaras Y, Castro I, Scott W, Raman A, Tyson G ( 2024 ) . The Eternal Tussle: Exploring the Role of Centralization in IPFS . Proceedings of the 21st Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation Nsdi 2024 . 441 - 454 .

Barnes MR, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C, Tyson G, Purver M, Castro I, Clegg RG ( 2023 ) . Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long\n Standing Hierarchy .

Fernandes EL, Antichi G, Boettger T, Castro I, Uhlig S ( 2023 ) . Faster Control Plane Experimentation with Horse .

Zia HB, Haq EU, Castro I, Hui P, Tyson G ( 2023 ) . An Analysis of Twitter Discourse on the War Between Russia and Ukraine .

Iqbal W, Ghafouri V, Tyson G, Suarez-Tangil G, Castro I ( 2023 ) . Lady and the Tramp Nextdoor: Online Manifestations of Real-World Inequalities in the Nextdoor Social Network . Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media vol. 17 , 399 - 410 .

Vallina P, Castro I, Tyson G ( 2023 ) . Cashing in on Contacts: Characterizing the OnlyFans Ecosystem . Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 . Conference: WWW '23: The ACM Web Conference 20232645 - 2654 .

Anaobi IH, Raman A, Castro I, Zia HB, Ibosiola D, Tyson G ( 2023 ) . Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse . ACM Web Conference 2023 Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference Www 2023 . 3109 - 3120 .

Iqbal W, Ghafouri V, Tyson G, Suarez-Tangil G, Castro I ( 2023 ) . Lady and the Tramp Nextdoor: Online Manifestations of Economic\n Inequalities in the Nextdoor Social Network .

Hosseini P, Hosseini M, Al-Azzawi SS, Liwicki M, Castro I, Purver M ( 2023 ) . Lon-ea at SemEval-2023 Task 11: A Comparison of Activation Functions for\n Soft and Hard Label Prediction .

Zia HB, He J, Raman A, Castro I, Sastry N, Tyson G ( 2023 ) . Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration .

McQuistin S, Karan M, Khare P, Perkins C, Purver M, Healey P, Castro I, Tyson G ( 2023 ) . Errare humanum est: What do RFC Errata say about Internet Standards? . TMA . 1 - 9 .

He J, Zia HB, Castro I, Raman A, Sastry N, Tyson G ( 2023 ) . Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration . IMC . 111 - 123 .

Karan M, Khare P, Shekhar R, McQuistin S, Castro I, Tyson G, Perkins C, Healey P et al. ( 2023 ) . LEDA: a Large-Organization Email-Based Decision-Dialogue-Act Analysis Dataset . ACL (Findings) . 6080 - 6089 .

Hosseini P, Hosseini M, Al-Azzawi SS, Liwicki M, Castro I, Purver M ( 2023 ) . Lon-ea at SemEval-2023 Task 11: A Comparison of Activation Functions for Soft and Hard Label Prediction . CoRR . vol. abs/2303.02468 ,

Barnes MR, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C, Tyson G, Purver M, Castro I, Clegg RG ( 2023 ) . Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing Hierarchy . CoRR . vol. abs/2311.13442 ,

Khare P, Shekhar R, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C, Castro I, Tyson G, Healey P et al. ( 2023 ) . Tracing Linguistic Markers of Influence in a Large Online Organisation . ACL (2) . 82 - 90 .

Iqbal W, Arshad MH, Tyson G, Castro I ( 2022 ) . Exploring Crowdsourced Content Moderation Through Lens of Reddit during COVID-19 . Proceedings of the 17th Asian Internet Engineering Conference . Conference: AINTEC'22: The 17th Asian Internet Engineering Conference26 - 35 .

Iqbal W, Tyson G, Ghafouri V, Suarez-Tangil G, Castro I ( 2022 ) . Exploring online manifestations of real-world inequalities . Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference . Conference: IMC '22: ACM Internet Measurement Conference762 - 763 .

Trautwein D, Raman A, Tyson G, Castro I, Scott W, Schubotz M, Gipp B, Psaras Y ( 2022 ) . Design and evaluation of IPFS . Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Conference . Conference: SIGCOMM '22: ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Conference739 - 752 .

Trautwein D, Raman A, Tyson G, Castro I, Scott W, Schubotz M, Gipp B, Psaras Y ( 2022 ) . Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web .

Bin Zia H, Raman A, Castro I, Hassan Anaobi I, De Cristofaro E, Sastry N, Tyson G ( 2022 ) . Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing . ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review vol. 50 , ( 1 ) 15 - 16 .

Bin Zia H, Raman A, Castro I, Hassan Anaobi I, De Cristofaro E, Sastry N, Tyson G ( 2022 ) . Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing . Abstract Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems . Conference: SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE '22: ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems15 - 16 .

Zia HB, Castro I, Zubiaga A, Tyson G . Improving Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Hate Speech Detection with Pseudo-Label Fine-Tuning of Transformer Language Models . Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media . vol. 16 , 1435 - 1439 .

Zia HB, Raman A, Castro I, Anaobi IH, De Cristofaro E, Sastry N, Tyson G ( 2022 ) . Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing .

Mazzola F, Marcos P, Castro I, Luckie M, Barcellos M ( 2022 ) . On the Latency Impact of Remote Peering . Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Springer International Publishing

Trautwein D, Raman A, Tyson G, Castro I, Scott W, Schubotz M, Gipp B, Psaras Y ( 2022 ) . Design and Evaluation of PFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web . SIGCOMM '22: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2022 ACM SIGCOMM 2022 CONFERENCE . 739 - 752 .

Gu Y, Castro I, Tyson G ( 2022 ) . MMVAE at SemEval-2022 Task 5: A Multi-modal Multi-task VAE on Misogynous Meme Detection . Semeval 2022 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation Proceedings of the Workshop . 700 - 710 .

Khare P, Karan M, McQuistin S, Perkins C, Tyson G, Purver M, Healey P, Castro I ( 2022 ) . The Web We Weave: Untangling the Social Graph of the IETF . ICWSM . 500 - 511 .

Hassan AI, Raman A, Castro I, Tyson G ( 2021 ) . The impact of Capitol Hill on Pleroma . Proceedings of the CoNEXT Student Workshop . Conference: CoNEXT '21: The 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies1 - 2 .

Hassan AI, Raman A, Castro I, Zia HB, De Cristofaro E, Sastry N, Tyson G ( 2021 ) . Exploring content moderation in the decentralised web . Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies . Conference: CoNEXT '21: The 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies328 - 335 .

Javed RT, Usama M, Iqbal W, Qadir J, Tyson G, Castro I, Garimella K ( 2021 ) . A deep dive into COVID-19-related messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan . Social Network Analysis and Mining vol. 12 , ( 1 ) Article 5 ,

Hassan AI, Raman A, Castro I, Zia HB, De Cristofaro E, Sastry N, Tyson G ( 2021 ) . Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case .

McQuistin S, Karan M, Khare P, Perkins C, Tyson G, Purver M, Healey P, Iqbal W et al. ( 2021 ) . Characterising the IETF through the lens of RFC deployment . Internet Measurement Conference . 137 - 149 .

Zia HB, Castro I, Tyson G ( 2021 ) . Racist or Sexist Meme? Classifying Memes beyond Hateful . Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2021) . Conference: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2021) from: 08/2021 to: 08/2021 , 215 - 219 .

Tajiki MM, Petroudi SHG, Salsano S, Uhlig S, Castro I ( 2020 ) . Optimal Estimation of Link Delays based on End-to-End Active Measurements .

Javed RT, Shuja ME, Usama M, Qadir J, Iqbal W, Tyson G, Castro I, Garimella K ( 2020 ) . A First Look at COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan . 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) . Conference: 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) from: 07/12/2020 to: 10/12/2020 , 118 - 125 .

Javed RT, Shuja ME, Usama M, Qadir J, Iqbal W, Tyson G, Castro I, Garimella K ( 2020 ) . A First Look at COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan .

Latif S, Usman M, Manzoor S, Iqbal W, Qadir J, Tyson G, Castro I, Razi A et al. ( 2020 ) . Leveraging Data Science To Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review .

Latif S, Usman M, Manzoor S, Iqbal W, Qadir J, Tyson G, Castro I, Razi A et al. ( 2020 ) . Leveraging Data Science to Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review . IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence vol. 1 , ( 1 ) 85 - 103 .

Hu Y, Wang H, He R, Li L, Tyson G, Castro I, Guo Y, Wu L et al. ( 2020 ) . Mobile App Squatting . Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 . Conference: WWW '20: The Web Conference 20201727 - 1738 .

Tajiki MM, Petroudi SHG, Salsano S, Uhlig S, Castro I ( 2020 ) . Optimal Estimation of Link Delays based on End-to-End Active Measurements . CoRR vol. abs/2012.13178 ,

Boettger T, Cuadrado F, Antichi G, Fernandes EL, Tyson G, Castro I, Uhlig S ( 2019 ) . An Empirical Study of the Cost of DNS-over-HTTPS .

Ibosiola D, Castro I, Stringhini G, Uhlig S, Tyson G ( 2019 ) . Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web .

Böttger T, Cuadrado F, Antichi G, Fernandes EL, Tyson G, Castro I, Uhlig S ( 2019 ) . An Empirical Study of the Cost of DNS-over-HTTPS . Internet Measurement Conference15 - 21 .

Fernandes EL, Antichi G, Böttger T, Castro I, Uhlig S ( 2019 ) . Faster Control Plane Experimentation with Horse . SIGCOMM Posters and Demos . 51 - 53 .

Ibosiola D, Castro I, Stringhini G, Uhlig S, Tyson G ( 2019 ) . Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web . CoRR vol. abs/1902.05796 ,

Böttger T, Antichi G, Fernandes EL, Lallo RD, Bruyere M, Uhlig S, Tyson G, Castro I ( 2018 ) . Shaping the Internet: 10 Years of IXP Growth .

Fernandes EL, Antichi G, Castro I, Uhlig S ( 2018 ) . An SDN-inspired Model for Faster Network Experimentation . SIGSIM-PADS . 29 - 32 .

Bruyere M, Antichi G, Fernandes EL, Lapeyrade R, Uhlig S, Owezarski P, Moore AW, Castro I ( 2018 ) . Rethinking IXPs' Architecture in the Age of SDN . IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. vol. 36 , Article 12 , 2667 - 2674 .

Bruyere M, Lapeyrade R, Fernandes EL, Castro I, Uhlig S, Moore AW, Antichi G ( 2018 ) . Umbrella: a deployable SDN-enabled IXP Switching Fabric . SOSR . 24:1 - 24:1 .

Dietzel C, Antichi G, Castro I, Fernandes EL, Chiesa M, Kopp D ( 2017 ) . SDN-enabled Traffic Engineering and Advanced Blackholing at IXPs . Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research . Conference: SOSR '17: Symposium on SDN Research181 - 182 .

Antichi G, Castro I, Chiesa M, Fernandes EL, Lapeyrade R, Kopp D, Han JH, Bruyere M et al. ( 2017 ) . ENDEAVOUR: A Scalable SDN Architecture For Real-World IXPs . IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. vol. 35 , Article 11 , 2553 - 2562 .

Tyson G, Huang S, Cuadrado F, Castro I, Perta VC, Sathiaseelan A, Uhlig S ( 2017 ) . Exploring HTTP Header Manipulation In-The-Wild . WWW . 451 - 458 .

Böttger T, Cuadrado F, Tyson G, Castro I, Uhlig S ( 2016 ) . Open Connect Everywhere: A Glimpse at the Internet Ecosystem through the Lens of the Netflix CDN .

Castro I, Gorinsky S ( 2016 ) . Estimating the real with the virtual: How does the accuracy relate to the internet penetration? . 2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS) . Conference: 2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS) from: 05/01/2016 to: 10/01/2016 , 1 - 8 .

Fernandes EL, Antichi G, Castro I, Uhlig S ( 2016 ) . Horse: towards an SDN traffic dynamics simulator for large scale networks . SIGCOMM . 577 - 578 .

Chiesa M, Dietzel C, Antichi G, Bruyere M, Castro I, Gusat M, King T, Moore AW et al. ( 2016 ) . Inter-domain networking innovation on steroids: empowering ixps with SDN capabilities . IEEE Commun. Mag. vol. 54 , Article 10 , 102 - 108 .

Böttger T, Cuadrado F, Tyson G, Castro I, Uhlig S ( 2016 ) . Open Connect Everywhere: A Glimpse at the Internet Ecosystem through the Lens of the Netflix CDN . CoRR vol. abs/1606.05519 ,

Castro I, Panda A, Raghavan B, Shenker S, Gorinsky S ( 2015 ) . Route bazaar: Automatic interdomain contract negotiation . 15th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems Hotos 2015 .

Castro I, Cardona JC, Gorinsky S, Francois P ( 2014 ) . Remote Peering . Proceedings of the 10th ACM International on Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies . Conference: CoNEXT '14: Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies185 - 198 .

Castro I, Stanojevic R, Gorinsky S ( 2014 ) . Using Tuangou to Reduce IP Transit Costs . IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking vol. 22 , ( 5 ) 1415 - 1428 .

Castro I, Gorinsky S ( 2012 ) . T4P: Hybrid interconnection for cost reduction . 2012 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM Workshops . Conference: IEEE INFOCOM 2012 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops from: 25/03/2012 to: 30/03/2012 , 178 - 183 .

Stanojevic R, Castro I, Gorinsky S ( 2011 ) . CIPT . Proceedings of the Seventh COnference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies . Conference: Co-NEXT '11: Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies1 - 12 .

Iqbal W, Tyson G, Castro I . Looking on Efficiency of Content Moderation Systems from the Lens of Reddit's Content Moderation Experience During COVID-19 .