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CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Gaussian Process Bandits for Tree Search
We motivate and analyse a new Tree Search algorithm, based on recent advances in the use of Gaussian Processes for bandit problems. We assume that the function to maximise on the ...
Louis Dorard, John Shawe-Taylor
IUI
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Towards a reputation-based model of social web search
While web search tasks are often inherently collaborative in nature, many search engines do not explicitly support collaboration during search. In this paper, we describe HeyStaks...
Kevin KcNally, Michael P. O'Mahony, Barry Smyth, M...
CORR
2011
Springer
188views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 3 months ago
Towards Unbiased BFS Sampling
Abstract—Breadth First Search (BFS) is a widely used approach for sampling large unknown Internet topologies. Its main advantage over random walks and other exploration technique...
Maciej Kurant, Athina Markopoulou, Patrick Thiran
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Gaussian Adaptation as a unifying framework for continuous black-box optimization and adaptive Monte Carlo sampling
Abstract— We present a unifying framework for continuous optimization and sampling. This framework is based on Gaussian Adaptation (GaA), a search heuristic developed in the late...
Christian L. Müller, Ivo F. Sbalzarini
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Semantic Indexing for Recorded Educational Lecture Videos
In this paper, we present a general architecture and a new retrieval method for an educational system that is based on a knowledge base of existing recorded lectures. The extracti...
Stephan Repp, Christoph Meinel