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CDC
2009
IEEE
285views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
13 years 5 months ago
Adaptive randomized algorithm for finding eigenvector of stochastic matrix with application to PageRank
Abstract-- The problem of finding the eigenvector corresponding to the largest eigenvalue of a stochastic matrix has numerous applications in ranking search results, multi-agent co...
Alexander V. Nazin, Boris T. Polyak
CSC
2009
13 years 9 months ago
An Empirical Analysis of Approximation Algorithms for Euclidean TSP
- The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is perhaps the most famous optimization problem in the set NP-hard. Many problems that are natural applications in computer science and engin...
Bárbara Rodeker, M. Virginia Cifuentes, Lil...
CEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A contour method in population-based stochastic algorithms
—Inspired by the contours in topography, this paper proposes a contour method for the population-based stochastic algorithms to solve the problems with continuous variables. Rely...
Ying Lin, Jun Zhang, Lu-kai Lan
ICML
2009
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Model-free reinforcement learning as mixture learning
We cast model-free reinforcement learning as the problem of maximizing the likelihood of a probabilistic mixture model via sampling, addressing both the infinite and finite horizo...
Nikos Vlassis, Marc Toussaint
CPM
2005
Springer
116views Combinatorics» more  CPM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Exact and Approximation Algorithms for DNA Tag Set Design
In this paper we propose new solution methods for designing tag sets for use in universal DNA arrays. First, we give integer linear programming formulations for two previous formal...
Ion I. Mandoiu, Dragos Trinca