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ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Sparse reconstruction by separable approximation
Finding sparse approximate solutions to large underdetermined linear systems of equations is a common problem in signal/image processing and statistics. Basis pursuit, the least a...
Stephen J. Wright, Robert D. Nowak, Mário A...
JMLR
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Maximum Likelihood in Cost-Sensitive Learning: Model Specification, Approximations, and Upper Bounds
The presence of asymmetry in the misclassification costs or class prevalences is a common occurrence in the pattern classification domain. While much interest has been devoted to ...
Jacek P. Dmochowski, Paul Sajda, Lucas C. Parra
STOC
2007
ACM
146views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Playing games with approximation algorithms
In an online linear optimization problem, on each period t, an online algorithm chooses st S from a fixed (possibly infinite) set S of feasible decisions. Nature (who may be adve...
Sham M. Kakade, Adam Tauman Kalai, Katrina Ligett
MP
1998
109views more  MP 1998»
13 years 7 months ago
Rounding algorithms for covering problems
In the last 25 years approximation algorithms for discrete optimization problems have been in the center of research in the fields of mathematical programming and computer science...
Dimitris Bertsimas, Rakesh V. Vohra
UAI
1997
13 years 9 months ago
A Scheme for Approximating Probabilistic Inference
This paper describes a class ofprobabilistic approximation algorithms based on bucket elimination which o er adjustable levels of accuracy ande ciency. We analyzethe approximation...
Rina Dechter, Irina Rish