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WSC
2004
15 years 4 months ago
Portfolio Credit Risk Analysis Involving CDO Tranches
Credit risk analysis for portfolios containing CDO tranches is a challenging task for risk managers. We propose here a basis function approach for CDO tranche valuation and portfo...
Menghui Cao, William J. Morokoff
METMBS
2003
138views Mathematics» more  METMBS 2003»
15 years 4 months ago
A Stochastic Method for Solving Inverse Problems in Epidemic Modelling
— We describe a stochastic optimization method that can be used to solve inverse problems in epidemic modelling. Although in general it cannot be expected that these inverse prob...
Dominik Novotni, Andreas Weber 0004
MP
2002
93views more  MP 2002»
15 years 3 months ago
Conditioning of convex piecewise linear stochastic programs
In this paper we consider stochastic programming problems where the objective function is given as an expected value of a convex piecewise linear random function. With an optimal s...
Alexander Shapiro, Tito Homem-de-Mello, Joocheol K...
ICML
2007
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Trust region Newton methods for large-scale logistic regression
Large-scale logistic regression arises in many applications such as document classification and natural language processing. In this paper, we apply a trust region Newton method t...
Chih-Jen Lin, Ruby C. Weng, S. Sathiya Keerthi
STACS
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Semi-Online Preemptive Scheduling: One Algorithm for All Variants
We present a unified optimal semi-online algorithm for preemptive scheduling on uniformly related machines with the objective to minimize the makespan. This algorithm works for a...
Tomás Ebenlendr, Jiri Sgall