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WSC
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Stochastic trust region gradient-free method (strong): a new response-surface-based algorithm in simulation optimization
Response Surface Methodology (RSM) is a metamodelbased optimization method. Its strategy is to explore small subregions of the parameter space in succession instead of attempting ...
Kuo-Hao Chang, L. Jeff Hong, Hong Wan
MP
2007
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15 years 5 months ago
Power optimization for connectivity problems
Given a graph with costs on the edges, the power of a node is the maximum cost of an edge leaving it, and the power of the graph is the sum of the powers of the nodes of this graph...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Guy Kortsarz, Vahab S. ...
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A hierarchical approach to efficient reinforcement learning in deterministic domains
Factored representations, model-based learning, and hierarchies are well-studied techniques for improving the learning efficiency of reinforcement-learning algorithms in large-sca...
Carlos Diuk, Alexander L. Strehl, Michael L. Littm...
ICCAD
1998
IEEE
81views Hardware» more  ICCAD 1998»
15 years 10 months ago
A simultaneous routing tree construction and fanout optimization algorithm
- This paper presents an optimal algorithm for solving the problem of simultaneous fanout optimization and routing tree construction for an ordered set of critical sinks. The algor...
Amir H. Salek, Jinan Lou, Massoud Pedram
ICML
2008
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Efficiently solving convex relaxations for MAP estimation
The problem of obtaining the maximum a posteriori (map) estimate of a discrete random field is of fundamental importance in many areas of Computer Science. In this work, we build ...
M. Pawan Kumar, Philip H. S. Torr