As a culture, object-orientation encourages programmers to create objects, both short- and long-lived, without concern for cost. Excessive object creation and initialization can ca...
A union-find data structure maintains a collection of disjoint sets under makeset, union and find operations. Kaplan, Shafrir and Tarjan [SODA 2002] designed data structures for ...
Finding latent patterns in high dimensional data is an important research problem with numerous applications. Existing approaches can be summarized into 3 categories: feature selec...
A natural representation of data is given by the parameters which generated the data. If the space of parameters is continuous, then we can regard it as a manifold. In practice, w...
Abstract. Given an arbitrary data set, to which no particular parametrical, statistical or geometrical structure can be assumed, different clustering algorithms will in general pr...