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ICML
2005
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Bayesian hierarchical clustering
We present a novel algorithm for agglomerative hierarchical clustering based on evaluating marginal likelihoods of a probabilistic model. This algorithm has several advantages ove...
Katherine A. Heller, Zoubin Ghahramani
PODS
2010
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
An optimal algorithm for the distinct elements problem
We give the first optimal algorithm for estimating the number of distinct elements in a data stream, closing a long line of theoretical research on this problem begun by Flajolet...
Daniel M. Kane, Jelani Nelson, David P. Woodruff
SIAMJO
2010
246views more  SIAMJO 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
A Singular Value Thresholding Algorithm for Matrix Completion
This paper introduces a novel algorithm to approximate the matrix with minimum nuclear norm among all matrices obeying a set of convex constraints. This problem may be understood a...
Jian-Feng Cai, Emmanuel J. Candès, Zuowei S...
ECCV
2006
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
EMD-L1: An Efficient and Robust Algorithm for Comparing Histogram-Based Descriptors
We propose a fast algorithm, EMD-L1, for computing the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) between a pair of histograms. Compared to the original formulation, EMD-L1 has a largely si...
Haibin Ling, Kazunori Okada
DAGSTUHL
1997
14 years 11 months ago
Ray-Based Data Level Comparisons of Direct Volume Rendering Algorithms
This paper describes and demonstrates the e ectiveness of several metrics for data level comparison of direct volume rendering (DVR) algorithms. The focus is not on speed ups from...
Kwansik Kim, Alex Pang