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SODA
1996
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Optimal Placement of Convex Polygons to Maximize Point Containment
Given a convex polygon P with m vertices and a set S of n points in the plane, we consider the problem of nding a placement of P that contains the maximum number of points in S. W...
Matthew Dickerson, Daniel Scharstein
ENGL
2008
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15 years 3 months ago
Design Optimization for Robustness Considering the Gear Transmission Error
Transmission error in gearing system is a critical index for product quality. Gears with appropriate tooth modification can always behave well in transmission error, i.e. the doubl...
Shinn-Liang Chang, Jia-Hung Liu, Kai-Wei Jin, Chin...
ACL
2009
15 years 1 months ago
Optimizing Language Model Information Retrieval System with Expectation Maximization Algorithm
Statistical language modeling (SLM) has been used in many different domains for decades and has also been applied to information retrieval (IR) recently. Documents retrieved using...
Justin Liang-Te Chiu, Jyun-Wei Huang
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SAC
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A quasi-Newton acceleration for high-dimensional optimization algorithms
Abstract In many statistical problems, maximum likelihood estimation by an EM or MM algorithm suffers from excruciatingly slow convergence. This tendency limits the application of ...
Hua Zhou, David Alexander, Kenneth Lange
FSTTCS
2004
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Improved Approximation Algorithms for Maximum Graph Partitioning Problems
Abstract Abstract. In this paper we improve the analysis of approximation algorithms based on semidefinite programming for the maximum graph partitioning problems MAX-k-CUT, MAX-k...
Gerold Jäger, Anand Srivastav