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NIPS
2007
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Fixing Max-Product: Convergent Message Passing Algorithms for MAP LP-Relaxations
We present a novel message passing algorithm for approximating the MAP problem in graphical models. The algorithm is similar in structure to max-product but unlike max-product it ...
Amir Globerson, Tommi Jaakkola
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SPLC
2008
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Filtered Cartesian Flattening: An Approximation Technique for Optimally Selecting Features while Adhering to Resource Constraint
Software Product-lines (SPLs) use modular software components that can be reconfigured into different variants for different requirements sets. Feature modeling is a common method...
Jules White, B. Doughtery, Douglas C. Schmidt
UAI
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Dyna-Style Planning with Linear Function Approximation and Prioritized Sweeping
We consider the problem of efficiently learning optimal control policies and value functions over large state spaces in an online setting in which estimates must be available afte...
Richard S. Sutton, Csaba Szepesvári, Alborz...
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ACL
2006
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Minimum Risk Annealing for Training Log-Linear Models
When training the parameters for a natural language system, one would prefer to minimize 1-best loss (error) on an evaluation set. Since the error surface for many natural languag...
David A. Smith, Jason Eisner
CASCON
2001
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A Pareto model for OLAP view size estimation
On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) aims at gaining useful information quickly from large amounts of data residing in a data warehouse. To improve the quickness of response to qu...
Thomas P. Nadeau, Toby J. Teorey