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ECCC
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Estimating the unseen: A sublinear-sample canonical estimator of distributions
We introduce a new approach to characterizing the unobserved portion of a distribution, which provides sublinear-sample additive estimators for a class of properties that includes...
Gregory Valiant, Paul Valiant
EUROPAR
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On-Line Adaptive Parallel Prefix Computation
Abstract. We consider parallel prefix computation on processors of different and possibly changing speeds. Extending previous works on identical processors, we provide a lower boun...
Jean-Louis Roch, Daouda Traoré, Julien Bern...
VMCAI
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Best Probabilistic Transformers
This paper investigates relative precision and optimality of analyses for concurrent probabilistic systems. Aiming at the problem at the heart of probabilistic model checking ? com...
Björn Wachter, Lijun Zhang
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Reducing the run-time of MCMC programs by multithreading on SMP architectures
The increasing availability of multi-core and multiprocessor architectures provides new opportunities for improving the performance of many computer simulations. Markov Chain Mont...
Jonathan M. R. Byrd, Stephen A. Jarvis, A. H. Bhal...
CDC
2008
IEEE
130views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Stochastic multiscale approaches to consensus problems
Abstract— While peer-to-peer consensus algorithms have enviable robustness and locality for distributed estimation and computation problems, they have poor scaling behavior with ...
Jong-Han Kim, Matthew West, Sanjay Lall, Eelco Sch...