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ICCV
2001
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
A Novel Modeling Algorithm for Shape Recovery of Unknown Topology
This paper presents a novel modeling algorithm that is capable of simultaneously recovering correct shape geometry as well as its unknown topology from arbitrarily complicated dat...
Ye Duan, Hong Qin
ACL
2011
14 years 3 months ago
Better Hypothesis Testing for Statistical Machine Translation: Controlling for Optimizer Instability
In statistical machine translation, a researcher seeks to determine whether some innovation (e.g., a new feature, model, or inference algorithm) improves translation quality in co...
Jonathan H. Clark, Chris Dyer, Alon Lavie, Noah A....
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Robust ranking models via risk-sensitive optimization
Many techniques for improving search result quality have been proposed. Typically, these techniques increase average effectiveness by devising advanced ranking features and/or by...
Lidan Wang, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompso...
CORR
2010
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
Is Light-Tree Structure Optimal for Multicast Routing in Sparse Light Splitting WDM Networks?
To minimize the number of wavelengths required by a multicast session in sparse light splitting Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks, a light-hierarchy structure, which ...
Fen Zhou, Miklós Molnár, Bernard Cou...
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Letting loose a SPIDER on a network of POMDPs: generating quality guaranteed policies
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (Distributed POMDPs) are a popular approach for modeling multi-agent systems acting in uncertain domains. Given the signi...
Pradeep Varakantham, Janusz Marecki, Yuichi Yabu, ...