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FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Beating the Random Ordering is Hard: Inapproximability of Maximum Acyclic Subgraph
We prove that approximating the Max Acyclic Subgraph problem within a factor better than 1/2 is Unique-Games hard. Specifically, for every constant ε > 0 the following holds:...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Rajsekar Manokaran, Prasad R...
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ICRA
2008
IEEE
150views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
A Bayesian approach to empirical local linearization for robotics
— Local linearizations are ubiquitous in the control of robotic systems. Analytical methods, if available, can be used to obtain the linearization, but in complex robotics system...
Jo-Anne Ting, Aaron D'Souza, Sethu Vijayakumar, St...
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IMR
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
A fews snags in mesh adaptation loops
The first stage in an adaptive finite element scheme (cf. [CAS95, bor1]) consists in creating an initial mesh of a given domain Ω, which is used to perform an initial computati...
Frédéric Hecht
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CIKM
2003
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
High dimensional reverse nearest neighbor queries
Reverse Nearest Neighbor (RNN) queries are of particular interest in a wide range of applications such as decision support systems, profile based marketing, data streaming, docum...
Amit Singh, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ali Saman Tosun
ICML
2004
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Predictive automatic relevance determination by expectation propagation
In many real-world classification problems the input contains a large number of potentially irrelevant features. This paper proposes a new Bayesian framework for determining the r...
Yuan (Alan) Qi, Thomas P. Minka, Rosalind W. Picar...