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WSC
2007
15 years 6 months ago
Ant-based approach for determining the change of measure in importance sampling
Importance Sampling is a potentially powerful variance reduction technique to speed up simulations where the objective depends on the occurrence of rare events. However, it is cru...
Poul E. Heegaard, Werner Sandmann
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
A generative retrieval model for structured documents
Structured documents contain elements defined by the author(s) and annotations assigned by other people or processes. Structured documents pose challenges for probabilistic retrie...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
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ESA
2008
Springer
195views Algorithms» more  ESA 2008»
15 years 5 months ago
A Characterization of 2-Player Mechanisms for Scheduling
We study the mechanism design problem of scheduling unrelated machines and we completely characterize the decisive truthful mechanisms for two players when the domain contains bot...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Angelina ...
ISLPED
2007
ACM
97views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2007»
15 years 5 months ago
Detailed placement for leakage reduction using systematic through-pitch variation
We present a novel detailed placement technique that accounts for systematic through-pitch variations to reduce leakage. Leakage depends nearly exponentially on linewidth (gate le...
Andrew B. Kahng, Swamy Muddu, Puneet Sharma
NIPS
2008
15 years 5 months ago
Privacy-preserving logistic regression
This paper addresses the important tradeoff between privacy and learnability, when designing algorithms for learning from private databases. We focus on privacy-preserving logisti...
Kamalika Chaudhuri, Claire Monteleoni