Classes of graphs with bounded expansion have been introduced in [15], [12]. They generalize both proper minor closed classes and classes with bounded degree. For any class with b...
Clustering is often formulated as a discrete optimization problem. The objective is to find, among all partitions of the data set, the best one according to some quality measure....
Recent research has made significant progress on the problem of bounding log partition functions for exponential family graphical models. Such bounds have associated dual paramete...
Functional decomposition is a process of splitting a complex circuit into smaller sub-circuits. This paper deals with the problem of determining the set of best free and bound var...
We consider probabilistic constrained linear programs with general distributions for the uncertain parameters. These problems generally involve non-convex feasible sets. We develo...