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IAT
2006
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Using Prior Knowledge to Improve Distributed Hill Climbing
The Distributed Probabilistic Protocol (DPP) is a new, approximate algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSPs) that exploits prior knowledge to impr...
Roger Mailler
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COLT
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Boosting Based on a Smooth Margin
Abstract. We study two boosting algorithms, Coordinate Ascent Boosting and Approximate Coordinate Ascent Boosting, which are explicitly designed to produce maximum margins. To deri...
Cynthia Rudin, Robert E. Schapire, Ingrid Daubechi...
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JMLR
2010
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15 years 2 months ago
Message-passing for Graph-structured Linear Programs: Proximal Methods and Rounding Schemes
The problem of computing a maximum a posteriori (MAP) configuration is a central computational challenge associated with Markov random fields. There has been some focus on “tr...
Pradeep Ravikumar, Alekh Agarwal, Martin J. Wainwr...
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IOR
2011
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14 years 10 months ago
Finite Disjunctive Programming Characterizations for General Mixed-Integer Linear Programs
In this paper, we give a finite disjunctive programming procedure to obtain the convex hull of general mixed-integer linear programs (MILP) with bounded integer variables. We prop...
Binyuan Chen, Simge Küçükyavuz, S...
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SDM
2012
SIAM
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13 years 6 months ago
Robust Reputation-Based Ranking on Bipartite Rating Networks
With the growth of the Internet and E-commerce, bipartite rating networks are ubiquitous. In such bipartite rating networks, there exist two types of entities: the users and the o...
Rong-Hua Li, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Xin Huang, Hong Cheng