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ICML
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient Selection of Multiple Bandit Arms: Theory and Practice
We consider the general, widely applicable problem of selecting from n real-valued random variables a subset of size m of those with the highest means, based on as few samples as ...
Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Peter Stone
SADM
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Fast Projection-Based Methods for the Least Squares Nonnegative Matrix Approximation Problem
: Nonnegative matrix approximation (NNMA) is a popular matrix decomposition technique that has proven to be useful across a diverse variety of fields with applications ranging from...
Dongmin Kim, Suvrit Sra, Inderjit S. Dhillon
PODS
2003
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Maintaining variance and k-medians over data stream windows
The sliding window model is useful for discounting stale data in data stream applications. In this model, data elements arrive continually and only the most recent N elements are ...
Brian Babcock, Mayur Datar, Rajeev Motwani, Liadan...
ECML
2006
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
An Efficient Approximation to Lookahead in Relational Learners
Abstract. Greedy machine learning algorithms suffer from shortsightedness, potentially returning suboptimal models due to limited exploration of the search space. Greedy search mis...
Jan Struyf, Jesse Davis, C. David Page Jr.
MP
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Approximation algorithms for homogeneous polynomial optimization with quadratic constraints
In this paper, we consider approximation algorithms for optimizing a generic multi-variate homogeneous polynomial function, subject to homogeneous quadratic constraints. Such opti...
Simai He, Zhening Li, Shuzhong Zhang