Training principles for unsupervised learning are often derived from motivations that appear to be independent of supervised learning. In this paper we present a simple unificatio...
Suffix arrays are a simple and powerful data structure for text processing that can be used for full text indexes, data compression, and many other applications in particular in b...
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
We present the design, correctness, and analysis of SONDe, a simple fully decentralized object deployment algorithm for highly requested systems. Given an object (service or data)...
Vincent Gramoli, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Erwan Le Me...
Abstract--Large-margin methods, such as support vector machines (SVMs), have been very successful in classification problems. Recently, maximum margin discriminant analysis (MMDA) ...