—We propose a unified graphical model that can represent both the causal and noncausal relationships among random variables and apply it to the image segmentation problem. Specif...
Matrix factorization (MF) models have proved efficient and well scalable for collaborative filtering (CF) problems. Many researchers also present the probabilistic interpretation o...
: We consider a game played between a hider, who hides a static object in one of several possible positions in a bounded planar region, and a searcher who wishes to reach the objec...
Viral marketing takes advantage of networks of influence among customers to inexpensively achieve large changes in behavior. Our research seeks to put it on a firmer footing by mi...
Abstract. This text is an informal review of several randomized algorithms that have appeared over the past two decades and have proved instrumental in extracting efficiently quant...