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WSC
1998
15 years 3 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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15 years 1 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 8 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
15 years 2 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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15 years 2 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