The fused Lasso penalty enforces sparsity in both the coefficients and their successive differences, which is desirable for applications with features ordered in some meaningful w...
In this paper an island model is described for the unconstrained Binary Quadratic Problem (BQP), which can be used with up to 2500 binary variables. Our island model uses a master...
Mechanical Turk provides an on-demand source of human computation. This provides a tremendous opportunity to explore algorithms which incorporate human computation as a function c...
Greg Little, Lydia B. Chilton, Max Goldman, Robert...
We evaluate three different relevance feedback (RF) algorithms, Rocchio, Robertson/Sparck-Jones (RSJ) and Bayesian, in the context of Web search. We use a target-testing experimen...
Vishwa Vinay, Kenneth R. Wood, Natasa Milic-Frayli...
Peer-to-peer systems rely on scalable overlay networks that enable efficient routing between its members. Hypercubic topologies facilitate such operations while each node only nee...