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ML
2002
ACM
143views Machine Learning» more  ML 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
A Sparse Sampling Algorithm for Near-Optimal Planning in Large Markov Decision Processes
An issue that is critical for the application of Markov decision processes MDPs to realistic problems is how the complexity of planning scales with the size of the MDP. In stochas...
Michael J. Kearns, Yishay Mansour, Andrew Y. Ng
RSP
2008
IEEE
118views Control Systems» more  RSP 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Functional DIF for Rapid Prototyping
Dataflow formalisms have provided designers of digital signal processing systems with optimizations and guarantees to arrive at quality prototypes quickly. As system complexity in...
William Plishker, Nimish Sane, Mary Kiemb, Kapil A...
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Modeling Discriminative Global Inference
Many recent advances in complex domains such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) have taken a discriminative approach in conjunction with the global application of structural and...
Nicholas Rizzolo, Dan Roth
STOC
1998
ACM
111views Algorithms» more  STOC 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
A Deterministic Strongly Polynomial Algorithm for Matrix Scaling and Approximate Permanents
We present a deterministic strongly polynomial algorithm that computes the permanent of a nonnegative n × n matrix to within a multiplicative factor of en. To this end we develop...
Nathan Linial, Alex Samorodnitsky, Avi Wigderson
CGF
1998
73views more  CGF 1998»
13 years 7 months ago
Using Wavefront Tracing for the Visualization and Optimization of Progressive Lenses
Progressive addition lenses are a relatively new approach to compensate for defects of the human visual system. While traditional spectacles use rotationally symmetric lenses, pro...
Joachim Loos, Philipp Slusallek, Hans-Peter Seidel