Matrix factorization has many applications in computer vision. Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is the standard algorithm for factorization. When there are outliers and missing ...
We investigate methods for planning in a Markov Decision Process where the cost function is chosen by an adversary after we fix our policy. As a running example, we consider a rob...
H. Brendan McMahan, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Avrim Blum
In many distributed computing systems that are prone to either induced or spontaneous node failures, the number of available computing resources is dynamically changing in a rando...
Sagar Dhakal, Majeed M. Hayat, Jorge E. Pezoa, Cha...
Although the strongest social relationships feature most prominently in our lives, we also maintain a multitude of much weaker connections: the distant colleagues that we share a ...
The interaction between recursion in XPATH and recursion in DTDs makes it challenging to answer XPATH queries on XML data that is stored in an RDBMS via schema-based shredding. We...