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EMNLP
2008
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Complexity of Finding the BLEU-optimal Hypothesis in a Confusion Network
Confusion networks are a simple representation of multiple speech recognition or translation hypotheses in a machine translation system. A typical operation on a confusion network...
Gregor Leusch, Evgeny Matusov, Hermann Ney
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IPCO
2008
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The Stochastic Machine Replenishment Problem
We study the stochastic machine replenishment problem, which is a canonical special case of closed multiclass queuing systems in Markov decision theory. The problem models the sche...
Kamesh Munagala, Peng Shi
SIROCCO
2008
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Word of Mouth: Rumor Dissemination in Social Networks
In this paper we examine the diffusion of competing rumors in social networks. Two players select a disjoint subset of nodes as initiators of the rumor propagation, seeking to maxi...
Jan Kostka, Yvonne Anne Oswald, Roger Wattenhofer
NIPS
2007
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Topmoumoute Online Natural Gradient Algorithm
Guided by the goal of obtaining an optimization algorithm that is both fast and yields good generalization, we study the descent direction maximizing the decrease in generalizatio...
Nicolas Le Roux, Pierre-Antoine Manzagol, Yoshua B...
IJCAI
2003
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Active Probing Strategies for Problem Diagnosis in Distributed Systems
We address the task of problem determination in a distributed system using probes, or test transactions, which gather information about system components. Effective probing requir...
Mark Brodie, Irina Rish, Sheng Ma, Natalia Odintso...