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CORR
2010
Springer
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Twenty Questions Games Always End With Yes
Huffman coding is often presented as the optimal solution to Twenty Questions. However, a caveat is that Twenty Questions games always end with a reply of "Yes," whereas ...
John T. Gill III, William Wu
ALT
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Average-Case Active Learning with Costs
Abstract. We analyze the expected cost of a greedy active learning algorithm. Our analysis extends previous work to a more general setting in which different queries have differe...
Andrew Guillory, Jeff A. Bilmes
DM
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Knights, spies, games and ballot sequences
This paper solves the Knights and Spies Problem: In a room there are n people, each labelled with a unique number between 1 and n. A person may either be a knight or a spy. Knights...
Mark Wildon