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PODS
2009
ACM
130views Database» more  PODS 2009»
16 years 5 months ago
Secondary indexing in one dimension: beyond b-trees and bitmap indexes
Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...
Rasmus Pagh, Srinivasa Rao Satti
STOC
2009
ACM
150views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
16 years 5 months ago
Integrality gaps for Sherali-Adams relaxations
We prove strong lower bounds on integrality gaps of Sherali?Adams relaxations for MAX CUT, Vertex Cover, Sparsest Cut and other problems. Our constructions show gaps for Sherali?A...
Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makary...
CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Hybrid results merging
The problem of results merging in distributed information retrieval environments has been approached by two different directions in research. Estimation approaches attempt to cal...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satr...
GFKL
2007
Springer
163views Data Mining» more  GFKL 2007»
15 years 8 months ago
Fast Support Vector Machine Classification of Very Large Datasets
In many classification applications, Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have proven to be highly performing and easy to handle classifiers with very good generalization abilities. Howe...
Janis Fehr, Karina Zapien Arreola, Hans Burkhardt
CVPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
A discriminatively trained, multiscale, deformable part model
This paper describes a discriminatively trained, multiscale, deformable part model for object detection. Our system achieves a two-fold improvement in average precision over the b...
Pedro F. Felzenszwalb, David A. McAllester, Deva R...