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SIGMOD
2005
ACM
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Constrained Optimalities in Query Personalization
Personalization is a powerful mechanism that helps users to cope with the abundance of information on the Web. Database query personalization achieves this by dynamically construc...
Georgia Koutrika, Yannis E. Ioannidis
NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Multi-Agent Filtering with Infinitely Nested Beliefs
In partially observable worlds with many agents, nested beliefs are formed when agents simultaneously reason about the unknown state of the world and the beliefs of the other agen...
Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Brian Milch, Leslie Pack Kael...
NIPS
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Convex Relaxations of Latent Variable Training
We investigate a new, convex relaxation of an expectation-maximization (EM) variant that approximates a standard objective while eliminating local minima. First, a cautionary resu...
Yuhong Guo, Dale Schuurmans
ALGORITHMICA
2008
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Random Bichromatic Matchings
Given a graph with edges colored Red and Blue, we wish to sample and approximately count the number of perfect matchings with exactly k Red edges. We study a Markov chain on the sp...
Nayantara Bhatnagar, Dana Randall, Vijay V. Vazira...
TNN
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Deterministic Learning for Maximum-Likelihood Estimation Through Neural Networks
In this paper, a general method for the numerical solution of maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) problems is presented; it adopts the deterministic learning (DL) approach to find ...
Cristiano Cervellera, Danilo Macciò, Marco ...