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2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
PageRank as a function of the damping factor
PageRank is defined as the stationary state of a Markov chain. The chain is obtained by perturbing the transition matrix induced by a web graph with a damping factor that spreads...
Paolo Boldi, Massimo Santini, Sebastiano Vigna
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
NIPS
2007
13 years 9 months ago
The Tradeoffs of Large Scale Learning
This contribution develops a theoretical framework that takes into account the effect of approximate optimization on learning algorithms. The analysis shows distinct tradeoffs for...
Léon Bottou, Olivier Bousquet
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GECCO
2008
Springer
145views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
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Memory with memory: soft assignment in genetic programming
Based in part on observations about the incremental nature of most state changes in biological systems, we introduce the idea of Memory with Memory in Genetic Programming (GP), wh...
Nicholas Freitag McPhee, Riccardo Poli
PE
2002
Springer
128views Optimization» more  PE 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Response times in a two-node queueing network with feedback
The study presented in this paper is motivated by the performance analysis of response times in distributed information systems, where transactions are handled by iterative server...
Robert D. van der Mei, Bart Gijsen, N. in't Veld, ...