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2002
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13 years 8 months ago
Conditioning of convex piecewise linear stochastic programs
In this paper we consider stochastic programming problems where the objective function is given as an expected value of a convex piecewise linear random function. With an optimal s...
Alexander Shapiro, Tito Homem-de-Mello, Joocheol K...
ICMLA
2009
13 years 6 months ago
ECON: A Kernel Basis Pursuit Algorithm with Automatic Feature Parameter Tuning, and its Application to Photometric Solids Approx
This paper introduces a new algorithm, namely the EquiCorrelation Network (ECON), to perform supervised classification, and regression. ECON is a kernelized LARS-like algorithm, b...
Manuel Loth, Philippe Preux, Samuel Delepoulle, Ch...
FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
How to Pay, Come What May: Approximation Algorithms for Demand-Robust Covering Problems
Robust optimization has traditionally focused on uncertainty in data and costs in optimization problems to formulate models whose solutions will be optimal in the worstcase among ...
Kedar Dhamdhere, Vineet Goyal, R. Ravi, Mohit Sing...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Symmetry and Approximability of Submodular Maximization Problems
Abstract— A number of recent results on optimization problems involving submodular functions have made use of the ”multilinear relaxation” of the problem [3], [8], [24], [14]...
Jan Vondrák
AAAI
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Applying Online Search Techniques to Continuous-State Reinforcement Learning
In this paper, we describe methods for e ciently computing better solutions to control problems in continuous state spaces. We provide algorithms that exploit online search to boo...
Scott Davies, Andrew Y. Ng, Andrew W. Moore