We describe a new variational lower-bound on the minimum energy configuration of a planar binary Markov Random Field (MRF). Our method is based on adding auxiliary nodes to every...
Julian Yarkony, Alexander T. Ihler, Charless C. Fo...
We describe a simple randomized construction for generating pairs of hash functions h1, h2 from a universe U to ranges V = [m] = {0, 1, . . . , m - 1} and W = [m] so that for ever...
—A novel formulation for optimal sensor selection and in-network fusion for distributed inference known as the prizecollecting data fusion (PCDF) is proposed in terms of optimal ...
Animashree Anandkumar, Meng Wang, Lang Tong, Anant...
We study the Steiner Tree problem in the model of two-stage stochastic optimization with non-uniform inflation factors, and give a poly-logarithmic approximation factor for this pr...
Anupam Gupta, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Amit Kumar
Graphs are increasingly used to model a variety of loosely structured data such as biological or social networks and entityrelationships. Given this profusion of large-scale graph ...
Stephan Seufert, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Juliá...