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UAI
2008
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Church: a language for generative models
Formal languages for probabilistic modeling enable re-use, modularity, and descriptive clarity, and can foster generic inference techniques. We introduce Church, a universal langu...
Noah Goodman, Vikash K. Mansinghka, Daniel M. Roy,...
AAAI
2006
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Functional Value Iteration for Decision-Theoretic Planning with General Utility Functions
We study how to find plans that maximize the expected total utility for a given MDP, a planning objective that is important for decision making in high-stakes domains. The optimal...
Yaxin Liu, Sven Koenig
ACL
1996
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Minimizing Manual Annotation Cost in Supervised Training from Corpora
Corpus-based methods for natural language processing often use supervised training, requiring expensive manual annotation of training corpora. This paper investigates methods for ...
Sean P. Engelson, Ido Dagan
JACM
2006
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15 years 3 months ago
Distribution sort with randomized cycling
Parallel independent disks can enhance the performance of external memory (EM) algorithms, but the programming task is often di cult. In this paper we develop randomized variants ...
Jeffrey Scott Vitter, David A. Hutchinson
JPDC
2008
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Stochastic robustness metric and its use for static resource allocations
This research investigates the problem of robust static resource allocation for distributed computing systems operating under imposed Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. Often, ...
Vladimir Shestak, Jay Smith, Anthony A. Maciejewsk...