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CORR
2008
Springer
133views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Estimating divergence functionals and the likelihood ratio by convex risk minimization
We develop and analyze M-estimation methods for divergence functionals and the likelihood ratios of two probability distributions. Our method is based on a non-asymptotic variatio...
XuanLong Nguyen, Martin J. Wainwright, Michael I. ...
STOC
2006
ACM
180views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Pricing for fairness: distributed resource allocation for multiple objectives
In this paper, we present a simple distributed algorithm for resource allocation which simultaneously approximates the optimum value for a large class of objective functions. In p...
Sung-woo Cho, Ashish Goel
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Recommending random walks
We improve on previous recommender systems by taking advantage of the layered structure of software. We use a random-walk approach, mimicking the more focused behavior of a develo...
Zachary M. Saul, Vladimir Filkov, Premkumar T. Dev...
WINE
2007
Springer
124views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Stochastic Models for Budget Optimization in Search-Based Advertising
Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users’ search queries via an auction. Advertisers have to solve a complex optimization problem of how to place bids o...
S. Muthukrishnan, Martin Pál, Zoya Svitkina
CVPR
2001
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Affine Arithmetic Based Estimation of Cue Distributions in Deformable Model Tracking
In this paper we describe a statistical method for the integration of an unlimited number of cues within a deformable model framework. We treat each cue as a random variable, each...
Siome Goldenstein, Christian Vogler, Dimitris N. M...