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NIPS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Message Errors in Belief Propagation
Belief propagation (BP) is an increasingly popular method of performing approximate inference on arbitrary graphical models. At times, even further approximations are required, wh...
Alexander T. Ihler, John W. Fisher III, Alan S. Wi...
NIPS
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Sampling Techniques for Kernel Methods
We propose randomized techniques for speeding up Kernel Principal Component Analysis on three levels: sampling and quantization of the Gram matrix in training, randomized rounding...
Dimitris Achlioptas, Frank McSherry, Bernhard Sch&...
STOC
2009
ACM
87views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Randomly supported independence and resistance
We prove that for any positive integer k, there is a constant ck such that a randomly selected set of cknk log n Boolean vectors with high probability supports a balanced k-wise i...
Per Austrin, Johan Håstad
EUROCOLT
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Query by Committee, Linear Separation and Random Walks
Abstract. Recent works have shown the advantage of using Active Learning methods, such as the Query by Committee (QBC) algorithm, to various learning problems. This class of Algori...
Ran Bachrach, Shai Fine, Eli Shamir
WEA
2005
Springer
97views Algorithms» more  WEA 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Multiple-Winners Randomized Tournaments with Consensus for Optimization Problems in Generic Metric Spaces
Abstract. Extensions of the randomized tournaments techniques introduced in [6, 7] to approximate solutions of 1-median and diameter computation of finite subsets of general metri...
Domenico Cantone, Alfredo Ferro, Rosalba Giugno, G...