— A key step in many statistical learning methods used in machine learning involves solving a convex optimization problem containing one or more hyper-parameters that must be sel...
Kristin P. Bennett, Jing Hu, Xiaoyun Ji, Gautam Ku...
We present and solve a path optimization problem on programs. Given a set of program nodes, called critical nodes, we find a shortest path through the program's control flow g...
Akash Lal, Junghee Lim, Marina Polishchuk, Ben Lib...
Existing value function approximation methods have been successfully used in many applications, but they often lack useful a priori error bounds. We propose a new approximate bili...
We consider a regression problem where target values are given as intervals, and propose a statistical approach to it. Although it is hard to solve the optimization problem direct...
This paper presents a novel prototype hierarchy based clustering (PHC) framework for the organization of web collections. It solves simultaneously the problem of categorizing web ...