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WSC
1998
14 years 11 months ago
Using ACCESSIBILITY to Assess the Performance of Generalized Hill Climbing Algorithms
The search problem, ACCESSIBILITY, asks whether a finite sequence of events can be found such that, starting with a specific initial event, a particular state can be reached. This...
Sheldon H. Jacobson, Enver Yücesan
IJCPOL
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Event Selection and Coercion of Two Verbs of Ingestion: a Marvs Perspective
Event semantics in general and event type coercion in particular have been a challenging yet rewarding topic in verbal semantics (Pustejovsky, 1995). However, there have been few ...
Jia-Fei Hong, Chu-Ren Huang, Kathleen Ahrens
VALUETOOLS
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Splitting with weight windows to control the likelihood ratio in importance sampling
Importance sampling (IS) is the most widely used efficiency improvement method for rare-event simulation. When estimating the probability of a rare event, the IS estimator is the ...
Pierre L'Ecuyer, Bruno Tuffin
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Has portfolio theory got any principles?
Recently, Portfolio Theory (PT) has been proposed for Information Retrieval. However, under non-trivial conditions PT violates the original Probability Ranking Principle (PRP). In...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
CORR
2010
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
A probabilistic and RIPless theory of compressed sensing
This paper introduces a simple and very general theory of compressive sensing. In this theory, the sensing mechanism simply selects sensing vectors independently at random from a ...
Emmanuel J. Candès, Yaniv Plan