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AAAI
2007
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Using Expectation Maximization to Find Likely Assignments for Solving CSP's
We present a new probabilistic framework for finding likely variable assignments in difficult constraint satisfaction problems. Finding such assignments is key to efficient sea...
Eric I. Hsu, Matthew Kitching, Fahiem Bacchus, She...
FAST
2010
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I/O Deduplication: Utilizing Content Similarity to Improve I/O Performance
Duplication of data in storage systems is becoming increasingly common. We introduce I/O Deduplication, a storage optimization that utilizes content similarity for improving I/O p...
Ricardo Koller, Raju Rangaswami
AAAI
2008
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A Reductive Semantics for Counting and Choice in Answer Set Programming
In a recent paper, Ferraris, Lee and Lifschitz conjectured that the concept of a stable model of a first-order formula can be used to treat some answer set programming expressions...
Joohyung Lee, Vladimir Lifschitz, Ravi Palla
AAAI
2008
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CRF-OPT: An Efficient High-Quality Conditional Random Field Solver
Conditional random field (CRF) is a popular graphical model for sequence labeling. The flexibility of CRF poses significant computational challenges for training. Using existing o...
Minmin Chen, Yixin Chen, Michael R. Brent