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ICCV
2001
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
A Novel Modeling Algorithm for Shape Recovery of Unknown Topology
This paper presents a novel modeling algorithm that is capable of simultaneously recovering correct shape geometry as well as its unknown topology from arbitrarily complicated dat...
Ye Duan, Hong Qin
ACL
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Better Hypothesis Testing for Statistical Machine Translation: Controlling for Optimizer Instability
In statistical machine translation, a researcher seeks to determine whether some innovation (e.g., a new feature, model, or inference algorithm) improves translation quality in co...
Jonathan H. Clark, Chris Dyer, Alon Lavie, Noah A....
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Robust ranking models via risk-sensitive optimization
Many techniques for improving search result quality have been proposed. Typically, these techniques increase average effectiveness by devising advanced ranking features and/or by...
Lidan Wang, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompso...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Is Light-Tree Structure Optimal for Multicast Routing in Sparse Light Splitting WDM Networks?
To minimize the number of wavelengths required by a multicast session in sparse light splitting Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks, a light-hierarchy structure, which ...
Fen Zhou, Miklós Molnár, Bernard Cou...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Letting loose a SPIDER on a network of POMDPs: generating quality guaranteed policies
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (Distributed POMDPs) are a popular approach for modeling multi-agent systems acting in uncertain domains. Given the signi...
Pradeep Varakantham, Janusz Marecki, Yuichi Yabu, ...