Many applications require optimizing an unknown, noisy function that is expensive to evaluate. We formalize this task as a multiarmed bandit problem, where the payoff function is ...
Niranjan Srinivas, Andreas Krause, Sham Kakade, Ma...
Exponentially growing photo collections motivate the needs for automatic image annotation for effective manipulations (e.g., search, browsing). Most of the prior works rely on sup...
Bioinformatics aims at applying computer science methods to the wealth of data collected in a variety of experiments in life sciences (e.g. cell and molecular biology, biochemistry...
DryadLINQ is a system and a set of language extensions that enable a new programming model for large scale distributed computing. It generalizes previous execution environments su...
Yuan Yu, Michael Isard, Dennis Fetterly, Mihai Bud...
Emergence of the web and online computing applications gave rise to rich large scale social activity data. One of the principal challenges then is to build models and understandin...