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WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A smart hill-climbing algorithm for application server configuration
The overwhelming success of the Web as a mechanism for facilitating information retrieval and for conducting business transactions has led to an increase in the deployment of comp...
Bowei Xi, Zhen Liu, Mukund Raghavachari, Cathy H. ...
ML
2002
ACM
167views Machine Learning» more  ML 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Linear Programming Boosting via Column Generation
We examine linear program (LP) approaches to boosting and demonstrate their efficient solution using LPBoost, a column generation based simplex method. We formulate the problem as...
Ayhan Demiriz, Kristin P. Bennett, John Shawe-Tayl...
ECCV
2008
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Latent Pose Estimator for Continuous Action Recognition
Recently, models based on conditional random fields (CRF) have produced promising results on labeling sequential data in several scientific fields. However, in the vision task of c...
Huazhong Ning, Wei Xu, Yihong Gong, Thomas S. Huan...
AAAI
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Bayesian Policy Search for Multi-Agent Role Discovery
Bayesian inference is an appealing approach for leveraging prior knowledge in reinforcement learning (RL). In this paper we describe an algorithm for discovering different classes...
Aaron Wilson, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
CSDA
2007
109views more  CSDA 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Improving the computation of censored quantile regressions
Abstract. Censored quantile regressions (CQR) are a valuable tool in economics and engineering. The computation of estimators is highly complex and the performance of standard meth...
Bernd Fitzenberger, Peter Winker