We formulate and study a decentralized multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem. There are distributed players competing for independent arms. Each arm, when played, offers i.i.d. reward a...
Self-adjusting computation enables writing programs that can automatically and efficiently respond to changes to their data (e.g., inputs). The idea behind the approach is to stor...
Ricci flow is a powerful curvature flow method in geometric analysis. This work is the first application of surface Ricci flow in computer vision. We show that previous methods ba...
Xianfeng Gu, Sen Wang, Junho Kim, Yun Zeng, Yang W...
Contextual advertising on web pages has become very popular recently and it poses its own set of unique text mining challenges. Often advertisers wish to either target (or avoid) ...
Yi Zhang, Arun C. Surendran, John C. Platt, Mukund...
Correlation mining has gained great success in many application domains for its ability to capture the underlying dependency between objects. However, the research of correlation ...