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ML
2006
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Universal parameter optimisation in games based on SPSA
Most game programs have a large number of parameters that are crucial for their performance. While tuning these parameters by hand is rather difficult, efficient and easy to use ge...
Levente Kocsis, Csaba Szepesvári
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SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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13 years 5 months ago
SkewTune: mitigating skew in mapreduce applications
We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...
102
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SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Permissive interfaces
A modular program analysis considers components independently and provides succinct summaries for each component, which can be used when checking the rest of the system. Consider ...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Ranjit Jhala, Rupak Majumdar
OSDI
2006
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
From Uncertainty to Belief: Inferring the Specification Within
Automatic tools for finding software errors require a set of specifications before they can check code: if they do not know what to check, they cannot find bugs. This paper presen...
Ted Kremenek, Paul Twohey, Godmar Back, Andrew Y. ...
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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Reducing the risk of query expansion via robust constrained optimization
We introduce a new theoretical derivation, evaluation methods, and extensive empirical analysis for an automatic query expansion framework in which model estimation is cast as a r...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson