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CDC
2009
IEEE
138views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 11 months ago
Beyond local optimality: An improved approach to hybrid model learning
Abstract-- Local convergence is a limitation of many optimization approaches for multimodal functions. For hybrid model learning, this can mean a compromise in accuracy. We develop...
Stephanie Gil, Brian Williams
CORR
2011
Springer
200views Education» more  CORR 2011»
14 years 8 months ago
An Analysis of Optimal Link Bombs
We analyze the recent phenomenon termed a Link Bomb, and investigate the optimal attack pattern for a group of web pages attempting to link bomb a specific web page. The typical ...
Sibel Adali, Tina Liu, Malik Magdon-Ismail
98
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STOC
2006
ACM
152views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
16 years 1 months ago
Private approximation of search problems
Many approximation algorithms have been presented in the last decades for hard search problems. The focus of this paper is on cryptographic applications, where it is desired to de...
Amos Beimel, Paz Carmi, Kobbi Nissim, Enav Weinreb
125
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SIGMOD
2010
ACM
262views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
K-nearest neighbor search for fuzzy objects
The K-Nearest Neighbor search (kNN) problem has been investigated extensively in the past due to its broad range of applications. In this paper we study this problem in the contex...
Kai Zheng, Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung, Xiaofang Zhou
CORR
2007
Springer
106views Education» more  CORR 2007»
15 years 1 months ago
Bandit Algorithms for Tree Search
Bandit based methods for tree search have recently gained popularity when applied to huge trees, e.g. in the game of go [6]. Their efficient exploration of the tree enables to ret...
Pierre-Arnaud Coquelin, Rémi Munos