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GECCO
2006
Springer
146views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
15 years 4 months ago
The dispersion metric and the CMA evolution strategy
An algorithm independent metric is introduced that measures the dispersion of a uniform random sample drawn from the top ranked percentiles of the search space. A low dispersion f...
Monte Lunacek, Darrell Whitley
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WEBI
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Estimating Size of Search Engines in an Uncooperative Environment
The number of documents that are indexed by a search engine is referred to as the size of the search engine. The information about the size of each underlying search engine is ess...
Surendra Karnatapu, Karthik Ramachandran, Zonghuan...
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KDD
2005
ACM
143views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
16 years 26 days ago
SVM selective sampling for ranking with application to data retrieval
Learning ranking (or preference) functions has been a major issue in the machine learning community and has produced many applications in information retrieval. SVMs (Support Vect...
Hwanjo Yu
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SEMWEB
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Sampling and Soundness: Can We Have Both?
Recent research on model counting in CNF formulas has shown that a certain sampling method can yield results that are sound with a provably high probability. The key idea is to ite...
Carla P. Gomes, Jörg Hoffmann, Ashish Sabharw...
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INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
15 years 16 days ago
Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs
With more than 250 million active users, Facebook (FB) is currently one of the most important online social networks. Our goal in this paper is to obtain a representative (unbiased...
Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Carter T. Butts, Athin...