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JCP
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Noisy K Best-Paths for Approximate Dynamic Programming with Application to Portfolio Optimization
Abstract— We describe a general method to transform a non-Markovian sequential decision problem into a supervised learning problem using a K-bestpaths algorithm. We consider an a...
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Provably good and practically efficient algorithms for CMP dummy fill
Abstract--To reduce chip-scale topography variation in Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process, dummy fill is widely used to improve the layout density uniformity. Previous res...
Chunyang Feng, Hai Zhou, Changhao Yan, Jun Tao, Xu...
FOCS
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Paths, Trees, and Minimum Latency Tours
We give improved approximation algorithms for a variety of latency minimization problems. In particular, we give a 3.591 -approximation to the minimum latency problem, improving o...
Kamalika Chaudhuri, Brighten Godfrey, Satish Rao, ...
ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A double oracle algorithm for zero-sum security games on graphs
In response to the Mumbai attacks of 2008, the Mumbai police have started to schedule a limited number of inspection checkpoints on the road network throughout the city. Algorithm...
Manish Jain, Dmytro Korzhyk, Ondrej Vanek, Vincent...
STACS
2009
Springer
16 years 26 days ago
On Approximating Multi-Criteria TSP
Abstract. We present approximation algorithms for almost all variants of the multicriteria traveling salesman problem (TSP), whose performances are independent of the number k of c...
Bodo Manthey