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FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Submodular Approximation: Sampling-based Algorithms and Lower Bounds
We introduce several generalizations of classical computer science problems obtained by replacing simpler objective functions with general submodular functions. The new problems i...
Zoya Svitkina, Lisa Fleischer
FOCS
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Learning a Hidden Matching
We consider the problem of learning a matching (i.e., a graph in which all vertices have degree 0 or 1) in a model where the only allowed operation is to query whether a set of ve...
Noga Alon, Richard Beigel, Simon Kasif, Steven Rud...
JCSS
2007
85views more  JCSS 2007»
13 years 5 months ago
A general dimension for query learning
We introduce a combinatorial dimension that characterizes the number of queries needed to exactly (or approximately) learn concept classes in various models. Our general dimension...
José L. Balcázar, Jorge Castro, Davi...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 days ago
Extracting structured information from user queries with semi-supervised conditional random fields
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
STOC
1994
ACM
128views Algorithms» more  STOC 1994»
13 years 9 months ago
Weakly learning DNF and characterizing statistical query learning using Fourier analysis
We present new results on the well-studied problem of learning DNF expressions. We prove that an algorithm due to Kushilevitz and Mansour [13] can be used to weakly learn DNF form...
Avrim Blum, Merrick L. Furst, Jeffrey C. Jackson, ...