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AAAI
2007
15 years 2 months ago
Restart Schedules for Ensembles of Problem Instances
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...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
148views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Body schema acquisition through active learning
— 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...
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UM
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Eye-Tracking Study of User Behavior in Recommender Interfaces
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...
Li Chen, Pearl Pu
ICIP
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Towards computational models of kinship verification
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...
SODA
2012
ACM
249views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
13 years 2 months ago
Improved competitive ratio for the matroid secretary problem
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...
Sourav Chakraborty, Oded Lachish