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PODS
2010
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Understanding cardinality estimation using entropy maximization
Cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the number of tuples returned by a query; it is a fundamentally important task in data management, used in query optimization, ...
Christopher Ré, Dan Suciu
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Multi-Armed Bandits in Metric Spaces
In a multi-armed bandit problem, an online algorithm chooses from a set of strategies in a sequence of n trials so as to maximize the total payoff of the chosen strategies. While ...
Robert Kleinberg, Aleksandrs Slivkins, Eli Upfal
SIAMJO
2010
79views more  SIAMJO 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Theta Bodies for Polynomial Ideals
Inspired by a question of Lov´asz, we introduce a hierarchy of nested semidefinite relaxations of the convex hull of real solutions to an arbitrary polynomial ideal, called theta...
João Gouveia, Pablo A. Parrilo, Rekha R. Th...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Beating the Random Ordering is Hard: Inapproximability of Maximum Acyclic Subgraph
We prove that approximating the Max Acyclic Subgraph problem within a factor better than 1/2 is Unique-Games hard. Specifically, for every constant ε > 0 the following holds:...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Rajsekar Manokaran, Prasad R...
ICML
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Comparisons of sequence labeling algorithms and extensions
In this paper, we survey the current state-ofart models for structured learning problems, including Hidden Markov Model (HMM), Conditional Random Fields (CRF), Averaged Perceptron...
Nam Nguyen, Yunsong Guo