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UAI
2003
15 years 4 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
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ESANN
2003
15 years 4 months ago
Approximately unbiased estimation of conditional variance in heteroscedastic kernel ridge regression
In this paper we extend a form of kernel ridge regression for data characterised by a heteroscedastic noise process (introduced in Foxall et al. [1]) in order to provide approxima...
Gavin C. Cawley, Nicola L. C. Talbot, Robert J. Fo...
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
A unified modeling framework for distributed resource allocation of general fork and join processing networks
This paper addresses the problem of distributed resource allocation in general fork and join processing networks. The problem is motivated by the complicated processing requiremen...
Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Cathy H. Xia, Zhen Liu, Dona...
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CP
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Simple Distribution-Free Approach to the Max k-Armed Bandit Problem
The max k-armed bandit problem is a recently-introduced online optimization problem with practical applications to heuristic search. Given a set of k slot machines, each yielding p...
Matthew J. Streeter, Stephen F. Smith
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CIC
2006
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The Impact of Clustering in Distributed Topology Control
Abstract-- Topology control is the problem of assigning power levels to the nodes of an ad hoc network so as to maintain a specified network topology while minimizing energy consum...
Liang Zhao, Errol L. Lloyd