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SAGA
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Bounds for Multistage Stochastic Programs Using Supervised Learning Strategies
We propose a generic method for obtaining quickly good upper bounds on the minimal value of a multistage stochastic program. The method is based on the simulation of a feasible dec...
Boris Defourny, Damien Ernst, Louis Wehenkel
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ML
2007
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Surrogate maximization/minimization algorithms and extensions
Abstract Surrogate maximization (or minimization) (SM) algorithms are a family of algorithms that can be regarded as a generalization of expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms. A...
Zhihua Zhang, James T. Kwok, Dit-Yan Yeung
ICCV
2007
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Globally Optimal Affine and Metric Upgrades in Stratified Autocalibration
We present a practical, stratified autocalibration algorithm with theoretical guarantees of global optimality. Given a projective reconstruction, the first stage of the algorithm ...
Manmohan Krishna Chandraker, Sameer Agarwal, David...
JMLR
2010
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14 years 4 months ago
Dual Averaging Methods for Regularized Stochastic Learning and Online Optimization
We consider regularized stochastic learning and online optimization problems, where the objective function is the sum of two convex terms: one is the loss function of the learning...
Lin Xiao
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SIAMJO
2010
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Optimal Portfolio Execution Strategies and Sensitivity to Price Impact Parameters
When liquidating a portfolio of large blocks of risky assets, an institutional investor wants to minimize the cost as well as the risk of execution. An optimal execution strategy ...
Somayeh Moazeni, Thomas F. Coleman, Yuying Li