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SAC
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Adaptive importance sampling in general mixture classes
In this paper, we propose an adaptive algorithm that iteratively updates both the weights and component parameters of a mixture importance sampling density so as to optimise the p...
Olivier Cappé, Randal Douc, Arnaud Guillin,...
CVPR
2011
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Importance Filtering for Image Retargeting
Content-aware image retargeting has attracted a lot of interests recently. The key and most challenging issue for this task is how to balance the tradeoff between preserving the i...
Yuanyuan Ding, Jing Xiao
UAI
2003
14 years 11 months ago
An Importance Sampling Algorithm Based on Evidence Pre-propagation
Precision achieved by stochastic sampling algorithms for Bayesian networks typically deteriorates in face of extremely unlikely evidence. To address this problem, we propose the E...
Changhe Yuan, Marek J. Druzdzel
RTCSA
2000
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Using importance of transactions and optimistic concurrency control in firm real-time databases
In a real-time database system, it is difficult to meet all timing constraints due to the consistency requirements of the underlying database. However, when the transactions in t...
Jan Lindström, Kimmo E. E. Raatikainen
TREC
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Word Importance Discrimination Using Context Information
Word importance discrimination is a task deserving attention when one treats a topic from TREC where a topic is quite long. The goal of the process is to estimate importance of wo...
Danil Nemirovsky, Vladimir Dobrynin