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RAS
2002
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15 years 5 months ago
Exploration method using harmonic functions
Harmonic functions provide optimal potential maps for robot navigation in a previously explored static environment. Here we investigate the performance of an algorithm for explora...
Edson Prestes e Silva Jr., Paulo Martins Engel, Ma...
SIAMJO
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
A Trust Region Spectral Bundle Method for Nonconvex Eigenvalue Optimization
We present a nonsmooth optimization technique for nonconvex maximum eigenvalue functions and for nonsmooth functions which are infinite maxima of eigenvalue functions. We prove glo...
Pierre Apkarian, Dominikus Noll, O. Prot
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
16 years 18 days ago
Parsing-based objective functions for speech recognition in translation applications
This paper looks at a parsing-based alternative to word error rate (WER) for optimizing recognition, SParseval, hypothesizing that it may be a better objective for applications su...
Dustin Hillard, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Mary P. Harper, Mar...
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EUROGP
1999
Springer
166views Optimization» more  EUROGP 1999»
15 years 10 months ago
Adapting the Fitness Function in GP for Data Mining
In this paper we describe how the Stepwise Adaptation of Weights (saw) technique can be applied in genetic programming. The saw-ing mechanism has been originally developed for and ...
Jeroen Eggermont, A. E. Eiben, Jano I. van Hemert
AAAI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Strategyproof Classification under Constant Hypotheses: A Tale of Two Functions
We consider the following setting: a decision maker must make a decision based on reported data points with binary labels. Subsets of data points are controlled by different selfi...
Reshef Meir, Ariel D. Procaccia, Jeffrey S. Rosens...