Compiling Bayesian networks has proven an effective approach for inference that can utilize both global and local network structure. In this paper, we define a new method of comp...
We provide a worst-case analysis of selective sampling algorithms for learning linear threshold functions. The algorithms considered in this paper are Perceptron-like algorithms, ...
: Question answering systems have proven to be helpful to users because they can provide succinct answers that do not require users to wade through a large number of documents. How...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
For the legal track we used the Wumpus search engine and investigated several methods that have proven successful in other domains, including cover density ranking and Okapi BM25 ...
Ambient occlusion has proven to be a useful tool for producing realistic images, both in offline rendering and interactive applications. In production rendering, ambient occlusion...