We formulate and study a decentralized multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem. There are distributed players competing for independent arms. Each arm, when played, offers i.i.d. reward a...
(The original conference version of this paper mischaracterizes the contributions of the current authors, relative to the contributions of Keogh et al. [11, 12]. We would like to ...
Suppose that we are given a set of n elements d of which are “defective”. A group test can check for any subset, called a pool, whether it contains a defective. It is well know...
We address the classic problems of detection, segmenta-
tion and pose estimation of people in images with a novel
definition of a part, a poselet. We postulate two criteria
(1) ...
We approach the problem of 2-D and 3-D puzzle solving by matching the geometric features of puzzle pieces three at a time. First, we define an affinity measure for a pair of piece...