A longstanding goal in planning research is the ability to generalize plans developed for some set of environments to a new but similar environment, with minimal or no replanning....
Carlos Guestrin, Daphne Koller, Chris Gearhart, Ne...
Learning to rank is a new statistical learning technology on creating a ranking model for sorting objects. The technology has been successfully applied to web search, and is becom...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
We consider efficient methods for the recovery of block-sparse signals--i.e., sparse signals that have nonzero entries occurring in clusters--from an underdetermined system of line...
This paper tackles an important aspect of the variational problem underlying active contours: optimization by gradient flows. Classically, the definition of a gradient depends d...
Guillaume Charpiat, Pierre Maurel, Jean-Philippe P...
Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...