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NIPS
1997
15 years 1 months ago
Learning to Order Things
There are many applications in which it is desirable to order rather than classify instances. Here we consider the problem of learning how to order, given feedback in the form of ...
William W. Cohen, Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer
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ISITA
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Approximating discrete probability distributions with causal dependence trees
Abstract--Chow and Liu considered the problem of approximating discrete joint distributions with dependence tree distributions where the goodness of the approximations were measure...
Christopher J. Quinn, Todd P. Coleman, Negar Kiyav...
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
135views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
15 years 5 months ago
Playing large games using simple strategies
We prove the existence of -Nash equilibrium strategies with support logarithmic in the number of pure strategies. We also show that the payoffs to all players in any (exact) Nash...
Richard J. Lipton, Evangelos Markakis, Aranyak Meh...
AAIM
2010
Springer
219views Algorithms» more  AAIM 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
Approximating Maximum Edge 2-Coloring in Simple Graphs
We present a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for legally coloring as many edges of a given simple graph as possible using two colors. It achieves an approximation ratio of...
Zhi-Zhong Chen, Sayuri Konno, Yuki Matsushita
DAM
1999
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Approximating the Weight of Shallow Steiner Trees
This paper deals with the problem of constructing Steiner trees of minimum weight with diameter bounded by d, spanning a given set of vertices in a graph. Exact solutions or logar...
Guy Kortsarz, David Peleg