The mean running time of a Las Vegas algorithm can often be dramatically reduced by periodically restarting it with a fresh random seed. The optimal restart schedule depends on th...
Matthew J. Streeter, Daniel Golovin, Stephen F. Sm...
— We present an active learning algorithm for the problem of body schema learning, i.e. estimating a kinematic model of a serial robot. The learning process is done online using ...
Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Manuel Lopes, Luis Montesan...
Recommender systems, as a type of Web personalized service to support users’ online product searching, have been widely developed in recent years but with primary emphasis on alg...
We tackle the challenge of kinship verification using novel feature extraction and selection methods, automatically classifying pairs of face images as "related" or &quo...
Ruogu Fang, Kevin D. Tang, Noah Snavely, Tsuhan Ch...
The Matroid Secretary Problem, introduced by Babaioff et al. (2007), is a generalization of the Classical Secretary Problem. In this problem, elements from a matroid are presente...