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INFORMS
2008
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Solving the Capacitated Local Access Network Design Problem
We propose an exact solution method for a routing and capacity installation problem in networks. Given an input graph, the problem is to route traffic from a set of source nodes t...
F. Sibel Salman, R. Ravi, John N. Hooker
QUESTA
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
A queueing analysis of max-min fairness, proportional fairness and balanced fairness
We compare the performance of three usual allocations (max-min fairness, proportional fairness and balanced fairness) in a communication network whose resources are shared by a ra...
Thomas Bonald, Laurent Massoulié, Alexandre...
NIPS
2007
13 years 10 months ago
A Spectral Regularization Framework for Multi-Task Structure Learning
Learning the common structure shared by a set of supervised tasks is an important practical and theoretical problem. Knowledge of this structure may lead to better generalization ...
Andreas Argyriou, Charles A. Micchelli, Massimilia...
JGO
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Continuous GRASP with a local active-set method for bound-constrained global optimization
Abstract. Global optimization seeks a minimum or maximum of a multimodal function over a discrete or continuous domain. In this paper, we propose a hybrid heuristic – based on th...
Ernesto G. Birgin, Erico M. Gozzi, Mauricio G. C. ...
JMLR
2012
11 years 11 months ago
Adaptive MCMC with Bayesian Optimization
This paper proposes a new randomized strategy for adaptive MCMC using Bayesian optimization. This approach applies to nondifferentiable objective functions and trades off explor...
Nimalan Mahendran, Ziyu Wang, Firas Hamze, Nando d...