Abstract— We develop a general framework for MAP estimation in discrete and Gaussian graphical models using Lagrangian relaxation techniques. The key idea is to reformulate an in...
Jason K. Johnson, Dmitry M. Malioutov, Alan S. Wil...
In this paper a new approach for computing Strong Backdoor sets of boolean formula in conjunctive normal form (CNF) is proposed. It makes an original use of local search technique...
Lionel Paris, Richard Ostrowski, Pierre Siegel, La...
Maintaining a semantic cache of materialized XPath views inside or outside the database, is a novel, feasible and efficient approach to accelerate XML query processing. However, th...
Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Na Ta, Yong Zhang, Lizh...
Structured output prediction is an important machine learning problem both in theory and practice, and the max-margin Markov network (M3 N) is an effective approach. All state-of-...
Open-ended spoken interactions are typically characterised by both structural complexity and high levels of uncertainty, making dialogue management in such settings a particularly...