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STOC
1996
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
Towards an Analysis of Local Optimization Algorithms
We introduce a variant of Aldous and Vazirani's \Go with the winners" algorithm that can be used for search graphs that are not trees. We analyze the algorithm in terms ...
Tassos Dimitriou, Russell Impagliazzo
SPAA
1992
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Separator Based Parallel Divide and Conquer in Computational Geometry
An O(log n) time, n processor randomized algorithm for computing the k-nearest neighbor graph of n points in d dimensions, for fixed d and k is presented. The method is based on t...
Alan M. Frieze, Gary L. Miller, Shang-Hua Teng
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
A Lower Bound on the Bayesian MSE Based on the Optimal Bias Function
A lower bound on the minimum mean-squared error (MSE) in a Bayesian estimation problem is proposed in this paper. This bound utilizes a well-known connection to the deterministic e...
Zvika Ben-Haim, Yonina C. Eldar
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SPAA
1998
ACM
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Analyses of Load Stealing Models Based on Differential Equations
In this paper we develop models for and analyze several randomized work stealing algorithms in a dynamic setting. Our models represent the limiting behavior of systems as the numb...
Michael Mitzenmacher
COLING
2008
15 years 6 months ago
An Improved Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Language for Document Classification
This paper addresses the fundamental problem of document classification, and we focus attention on classification problems where the classes are mutually exclusive. In the course ...
Ben Allison