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ECCV
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
From a Set of Shapes to Object Discovery
Abstract. This paper presents an approach to object discovery in a given unlabeled image set, based on mining repetitive spatial configurations of image contours. Contours that si...
FOCS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda
STOC
2009
ACM
160views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
CSP gaps and reductions in the lasserre hierarchy
We study integrality gaps for SDP relaxations of constraint satisfaction problems, in the hierarchy of SDPs defined by Lasserre. Schoenebeck [25] recently showed the first integra...
Madhur Tulsiani
SWAT
2004
Springer
98views Algorithms» more  SWAT 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Tight Approximability Results for Test Set Problems in Bioinformatics
In this paper, we investigate the test set problem and its variations that appear in a variety of applications. In general, we are given a universe of objects to be “distinguish...
Piotr Berman, Bhaskar DasGupta, Ming-Yang Kao
SODA
2001
ACM
87views Algorithms» more  SODA 2001»
13 years 6 months ago
Steiner points in tree metrics don't (really) help
Consider an edge-weighted tree T = (V, E, w : E R+ ), in which a subset R of the nodes (called the required nodes) are colored red and the remaining nodes in S = V \R are colored ...
Anupam Gupta