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CORR
2012
Springer
170views Education» more  CORR 2012»
12 years 2 months ago
What Cannot be Learned with Bethe Approximations
We address the problem of learning the parameters in graphical models when inference is intractable. A common strategy in this case is to replace the partition function with its B...
Uri Heinemann, Amir Globerson
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
142views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Cost-based variable-length-gram selection for string collections to support approximate queries efficiently
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Xiaochun Yang, Bin Wang, Chen Li
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Temporal collaborative filtering with adaptive neighbourhoods
Recommender Systems, based on collaborative filtering (CF), aim to accurately predict user tastes, by minimising the mean error achieved on hidden test sets of user ratings, afte...
Neal Lathia, Stephen Hailes, Licia Capra
AAAI
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Approximation Algorithms and Mechanism Design for Minimax Approval Voting
We consider approval voting elections in which each voter votes for a (possibly empty) set of candidates and the outcome consists of a set of k candidates for some parameter k, e....
Ioannis Caragiannis, Dimitris Kalaitzis, Evangelos...
WINE
2010
Springer
220views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
Threshold Models for Competitive Influence in Social Networks
The problem of influence maximization deals with choosing the optimal set of nodes in a social network so as to maximize the resulting spread of a technology (opinion, productowne...
Allan Borodin, Yuval Filmus, Joel Oren