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PODS
2007
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Monadic datalog over finite structures with bounded treewidth
Bounded treewidth and Monadic Second Order (MSO) logic have proved to be key concepts in establishing fixed-parameter tractability results. Indeed, by Courcelle's Theorem we ...
Georg Gottlob, Reinhard Pichler, Fang Wei
JMLR
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Considering Cost Asymmetry in Learning Classifiers
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves are a standard way to display the performance of a set of binary classifiers for all feasible ratios of the costs associated with fa...
Francis R. Bach, David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz
FOCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Boosting and Hard-Core Sets
This paper connects two fundamental ideas from theoretical computer science: hard-core set construction, a type of hardness amplification from computational complexity, and boosti...
Adam Klivans, Rocco A. Servedio
APAL
2005
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13 years 5 months ago
Elementary arithmetic
Abstract. There is a very simple way in which the safe/normal variable discipline of Bellantoni-Cook recursion (1992) can be imposed on arithmetical theories like PA: quantify over...
Geoffrey E. Ostrin, Stanley S. Wainer
NIPS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Consistent Minimization of Clustering Objective Functions
Clustering is often formulated as a discrete optimization problem. The objective is to find, among all partitions of the data set, the best one according to some quality measure....
Ulrike von Luxburg, Sébastien Bubeck, Stefa...