The stochastic approximation method is behind the solution to many important, actively-studied problems in machine learning. Despite its farreaching application, there is almost n...
Robust Optimization is a rapidly developing methodology for handling optimization problems affected by non-stochastic "uncertain-butbounded" data perturbations. In this p...
Abstract. We present a first constant performance guarantee for preemptive stochastic scheduling to minimize the sum of weighted completion times. For scheduling jobs with release ...
A segmentation algorithm, which can detect different regions of a handwritten document such as text lines, tables and sketches will be extremely useful in a variety of application...
There has been a lot of recent work on Bayesian methods for reinforcement learning exhibiting near-optimal online performance. The main obstacle facing such methods is that in most...