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PODS
2007
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
Monadic datalog over finite structures with bounded treewidth
Bounded treewidth and Monadic Second Order (MSO) logic have proved to be key concepts in establishing fixed-parameter tractability results. Indeed, by Courcelle's Theorem we ...
Georg Gottlob, Reinhard Pichler, Fang Wei
JMLR
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Considering Cost Asymmetry in Learning Classifiers
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves are a standard way to display the performance of a set of binary classifiers for all feasible ratios of the costs associated with fa...
Francis R. Bach, David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz
FOCS
1999
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Boosting and Hard-Core Sets
This paper connects two fundamental ideas from theoretical computer science: hard-core set construction, a type of hardness amplification from computational complexity, and boosti...
Adam Klivans, Rocco A. Servedio
APAL
2005
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Elementary arithmetic
Abstract. There is a very simple way in which the safe/normal variable discipline of Bellantoni-Cook recursion (1992) can be imposed on arithmetical theories like PA: quantify over...
Geoffrey E. Ostrin, Stanley S. Wainer
NIPS
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Consistent Minimization of Clustering Objective Functions
Clustering is often formulated as a discrete optimization problem. The objective is to find, among all partitions of the data set, the best one according to some quality measure....
Ulrike von Luxburg, Sébastien Bubeck, Stefa...