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GECCO
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
On the performance effects of unbiased module encapsulation
A recent theoretical investigation of modular representations shows that certain modularizations can introduce a distance bias into a landscape. This was a static analysis, and em...
R. Paul Wiegand, Gautham Anil, Ivan I. Garibay, Oz...
OOPSLA
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Reimagining literate programming
In this paper we describe Ginger, a new language with first class support for literate programming. Literate programming refers to a philosophy that argues computer programs shou...
James Dean Palmer, Eddie Hillenbrand
COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Coresets for polytope distance
Following recent work of Clarkson, we translate the coreset framework to the problems of finding the point closest to the origin inside a polytope, finding the shortest distance...
Bernd Gärtner, Martin Jaggi
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Fast nonparametric matrix factorization for large-scale collaborative filtering
With the sheer growth of online user data, it becomes challenging to develop preference learning algorithms that are sufficiently flexible in modeling but also affordable in com...
Kai Yu, Shenghuo Zhu, John D. Lafferty, Yihong Gon...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Almost-Natural Proofs
Razborov and Rudich have shown that so-called natural proofs are not useful for separating P from NP unless hard pseudorandom number generators do not exist. This famous result is...
Timothy Y. Chow