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CCCG
2008
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Draining a Polygon - or - Rolling a Ball out of a Polygon
We introduce the problem of draining water (or balls representing water drops) out of a punctured polygon (or a polyhedron) by rotating the shape. For 2D polygons, we obtain combi...
Greg Aloupis, Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Coll...
FOGA
2007
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Saddles and Barrier in Landscapes of Generalized Search Operators
Barrier trees are a convenient way of representing the structure of complex combinatorial landscapes over graphs. Here we generalize the concept of barrier trees to landscapes deļ...
Christoph Flamm, Ivo L. Hofacker, Bärbel M. R...
IPCO
2008
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A Comparative Study of Linear and Semidefinite Branch-and-Cut Methods for Solving the Minimum Graph Bisection Problem
Abstract. Semidefinite relaxations are known to deliver good approximations for combinatorial optimization problems like graph bisection. Using the spectral bundle method it is pos...
Michael Armbruster, Marzena Fügenschuh, Chris...
NIPS
2007
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DIFFRAC: a discriminative and flexible framework for clustering
We present a novel linear clustering framework (DIFFRAC) which relies on a linear discriminative cost function and a convex relaxation of a combinatorial optimization problem. The...
Francis Bach, Zaïd Harchaoui
ICAI
2004
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Action Inhibition
An explicit exploration strategy is necessary in reinforcement learning (RL) to balance the need to reduce the uncertainty associated with the expected outcome of an action and the...
Myriam Abramson