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JMLR
2012
11 years 10 months ago
Adaptive MCMC with Bayesian Optimization
This paper proposes a new randomized strategy for adaptive MCMC using Bayesian optimization. This approach applies to nondifferentiable objective functions and trades off explor...
Nimalan Mahendran, Ziyu Wang, Firas Hamze, Nando d...
STOC
2002
ACM
149views Algorithms» more  STOC 2002»
14 years 8 months ago
The complexity of choosing an H-colouring (nearly) uniformly at random
Cooper, Dyer and Frieze studied the problem of sampling H-colourings (nearly) uniformly at random. Special cases of this problem include sampling colourings and independent sets a...
Leslie Ann Goldberg, Steven Kelk, Mike Paterson
GECCO
2007
Springer
177views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
On the behavioral diversity of random programs
Generating a random sampling of program trees with specified function and terminal sets is the initial step of many program evolution systems. I present a theoretical and experim...
Moshe Looks
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Experience sampling for building predictive user models: a comparative study
Experience sampling has been employed for decades to collect assessments of subjects' intentions, needs, and affective states. In recent years, investigators have employed au...
Ashish Kapoor, Eric Horvitz
PVLDB
2008
127views more  PVLDB 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Hashed samples: selectivity estimators for set similarity selection queries
We study selectivity estimation techniques for set similarity queries. A wide variety of similarity measures for sets have been proposed in the past. In this work we concentrate o...
Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Xiaohui Yu, Nick Koudas, ...