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2007
ACM
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On the submodularity of influence in social networks
We prove and extend a conjecture of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (KKT) on the spread of influence in social networks. A social network can be represented by a directed graph where...
Elchanan Mossel, Sébastien Roch
SIROCCO
2008
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Remembering without Memory: Tree Exploration by Asynchronous Oblivious Robots
In the effort to understand the algorithmic limitations of computing by a swarm of robots, the research has focused on the minimal capabilities that allow a problem to be solved. ...
Paola Flocchini, David Ilcinkas, Andrzej Pelc, Nic...
BMCBI
2010
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Selecting high-dimensional mixed graphical models using minimal AIC or BIC forests
Background: Chow and Liu showed that the maximum likelihood tree for multivariate discrete distributions may be found using a maximum weight spanning tree algorithm, for example K...
David Edwards, Gabriel C. G. de Abreu, Rodrigo Lab...
ICML
1996
IEEE
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Learning Evaluation Functions for Large Acyclic Domains
Some of the most successful recent applications of reinforcement learning have used neural networks and the TD algorithm to learn evaluation functions. In this paper, we examine t...
Justin A. Boyan, Andrew W. Moore
STOC
2009
ACM
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MaxMin allocation via degree lower-bounded arborescences
We consider the problem of MaxMin allocation of indivisible goods. There are m items to be distributed among n players. Each player i has a nonnegative valuation pij for an item j...
MohammadHossein Bateni, Moses Charikar, Venkatesan...