Generating adequate recommendations for newcomers is a hard problem for a recommender system (RS) due to lack of detailed user profiles and social preference data. Empirical evide...
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Ankur Teredesai, ...
In many distributed applications, a party who wishes to make a transaction requires that it has a certain level of trust in the other party. It is frequently the case that the part...
This paper exploits the properties of the commute time for the purposes of graph matching. Our starting point is the random walk on the graph, which is determined by the heat-kern...
Tracking across non-overlapping camera views is still an unsolved problem. Appearance is a popular cue that does not work when the views are considerably different. This paper pro...
We prove that the hit-and-run random walk is rapidly mixing for an arbitrary logconcave distribution starting from any point in the support. This extends the work of [26], where t...