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...
We consider the estimation problem in Gaussian graphical models with arbitrary structure. We analyze the Embedded Trees algorithm, which solves a sequence of problems on tractable...
Venkat Chandrasekaran, Jason K. Johnson, Alan S. W...
We consider the problem of structured classification, where the task is to predict a label y from an input x, and y has meaningful internal structure. Our framework includes super...
Peter L. Bartlett, Michael Collins, Benjamin Taska...
Abstract One of the goals envisioned by Grid computing is to make the execution of both computational and data-intensive problems possible. A key problem is finding the optimal set...
Marc De Leenheer, Pieter Thysebaert, Bruno Volckae...
d Abstract] Robert Krauthgamer James R. Lee We present a simple deterministic data structure for maintaining a set S of points in a general metric space, while supporting proximit...