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SIAMIS
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Global Interactions in Random Field Models: A Potential Function Ensuring Connectedness
Markov random field (MRF) models, including conditional random field models, are popular in computer vision. However, in order to be computationally tractable, they are limited to ...
Sebastian Nowozin, Christoph H. Lampert
PODS
2011
ACM
220views Database» more  PODS 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Maximizing conjunctive views in deletion propagation
In deletion propagation, tuples from the database are deleted in order to reflect the deletion of a tuple from the view. Such an operation may result in the (often necessary) del...
Benny Kimelfeld, Jan Vondrák, Ryan Williams
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
219views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
GSP auctions with correlated types
The Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction is the primary method by which sponsered search advertisements are sold. We study the performance of this auction in the Bayesian settin...
Brendan Lucier, Renato Paes Leme
CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
Improved Approximation Guarantees for Lower-Bounded Facility Location
d Abstract) Sara Ahmadian∗ Chaitanya Swamy∗ We consider the lower-bounded facility location (LBFL) problem (also sometimes called load-balanced facility location), which is a ...
Sara Ahmadian, Chaitanya Swamy
CORR
2006
Springer
140views Education» more  CORR 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Nearly optimal exploration-exploitation decision thresholds
While in general trading off exploration and exploitation in reinforcement learning is hard, under some formulations relatively simple solutions exist. Optimal decision thresholds ...
Christos Dimitrakakis