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SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
XEdge: clustering homogeneous and heterogeneous XML documents using edge summaries
In this paper we propose a unified clustering algorithm for both homogeneous and heterogeneous XML documents. Depending on the type of the XML documents, the proposed algorithm mo...
Panagiotis Antonellis, Christos Makris, Nikos Tsir...
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Fast self-healing gradients
We present CRF-Gradient, a self-healing gradient algorithm that provably reconfigures in O(diameter) time. Selfhealing gradients are a frequently used building block for distribut...
Jacob Beal, Jonathan Bachrach, Daniel Vickery, Mar...
PVLDB
2008
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Mining search engine query logs via suggestion sampling
Many search engines and other web applications suggest auto-completions as the user types in a query. The suggestions are generated from hidden underlying databases, such as query...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Maxim Gurevich
OL
2008
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An approximation algorithm for network design problems with downwards-monotone demand functions
Building on an existing 2-approximate algorithm for the class of network design problems with downwards-monotone demand functions, many of which are NP-hard, we present an algorith...
Michael Laszlo, Sumitra Mukherjee
PRL
2007
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Neighbor number, valley seeking and clustering
This paper proposes a novel nonparametric clustering algorithm capable of identifying shape-free clusters. This algorithm is based on a nonparametric estimation of the normalized ...
Chaolin Zhang, Xuegong Zhang, Michael Q. Zhang, Ya...
PR
2007
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Face recognition using a kernel fractional-step discriminant analysis algorithm
Feature extraction is among the most important problems in face recognition systems. In this paper, we propose an enhanced kernel discriminant analysis (KDA) algorithm called kern...
Guang Dai, Dit-Yan Yeung, Yuntao Qian
PC
2007
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Data distribution for dense factorization on computers with memory heterogeneity
In this paper, we study the problem of optimal matrix partitioning for parallel dense factorization on heterogeneous processors. First, we outline existing algorithms solving the ...
Alexey L. Lastovetsky, Ravi Reddy
PAMI
2007
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Registration of Challenging Image Pairs: Initialization, Estimation, and Decision
—Our goal is an automated 2D-image-pair registration algorithm capable of aligning images taken of a wide variety of natural and man-made scenes as well as many medical images. T...
Gehua Yang, Charles V. Stewart, Michal Sofka, Chia...
PAMI
2007
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Approximate Labeling via Graph Cuts Based on Linear Programming
A new framework is presented for both understanding and developing graph-cut based combinatorial algorithms suitable for the approximate optimization of a very wide class of MRFs ...
Nikos Komodakis, Georgios Tziritas
PAMI
2007
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Learning to Transform Time Series with a Few Examples
We describe a semi-supervised regression algorithm that learns to transform one time series into another time series given examples of the transformation. This algorithm is applie...
Ali Rahimi, Ben Recht, Trevor Darrell