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COLT
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Best Arm Identification in Multi-Armed Bandits
We consider the problem of finding the best arm in a stochastic multi-armed bandit game. The regret of a forecaster is here defined by the gap between the mean reward of the optim...
Jean-Yves Audibert, Sébastien Bubeck, R&eac...
GECCO
2009
Springer
146views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Analyzing the landscape of a graph based hyper-heuristic for timetabling problems
Hyper-heuristics can be thought of as “heuristics to choose heuristics”. They are concerned with adaptively finding solution methods, rather than directly producing a solutio...
Gabriela Ochoa, Rong Qu, Edmund K. Burke
BMCBI
2004
208views more  BMCBI 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
Using 3D Hidden Markov Models that explicitly represent spatial coordinates to model and compare protein structures
Background: Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) have proven very useful in computational biology for such applications as sequence pattern matching, gene-finding, and structure prediction...
Vadim Alexandrov, Mark Gerstein
PODC
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Geometric ad-hoc routing: of theory and practice
All too often a seemingly insurmountable divide between theory and practice can be witnessed. In this paper we try to contribute to narrowing this gap in the field of ad-hoc rout...
Fabian Kuhn, Roger Wattenhofer, Yan Zhang, Aaron Z...
BMCBI
2010
178views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Selecting high-dimensional mixed graphical models using minimal AIC or BIC forests
Background: Chow and Liu showed that the maximum likelihood tree for multivariate discrete distributions may be found using a maximum weight spanning tree algorithm, for example K...
David Edwards, Gabriel C. G. de Abreu, Rodrigo Lab...