PuppetCast is a protocol for secure peer sampling in large-scale distributed systems. A peer sampling protocol continuously provides each node in the system with a uniform random ...
Gian Paolo Jesi, Alberto Montresor, Maarten van St...
Model selection is an important ingredient of many machine learning algorithms, in particular when the sample size in small, in order to strike the right trade-off between overfitt...
Importance sampling is a popular approach to estimate rare event failures of SRAM cells. We propose to improve importance sampling by probability collectives. First, we use “Kul...
Fang Gong, Sina Basir-Kazeruni, Lara Dolecek, Lei ...
Star-shaped bodies are an important nonconvex generalization of convex bodies (e.g., linear programming with violations). Here we present an efficient algorithm for sampling a giv...
Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, Daniel Dadush, Santosh...
This paper presents a simple and effective image retargeting method that preserves visually important parts while reducing unwanted distortions of an image. Our approach is based ...