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FOCS
1995
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs and Non-Approximability - Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on prov...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan
TSP
2008
115views more  TSP 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Approximation Bounds for Semidefinite Relaxation of Max-Min-Fair Multicast Transmit Beamforming Problem
Consider a downlink multicast scenario where a base station equipped with multiple antennas wishes to simultaneously broadcast a number of signals to some given groups of users ove...
Tsung-Hui Chang, Zhi-Quan Luo, Chong-Yung Chi
CORR
2012
Springer
170views Education» more  CORR 2012»
14 years 2 months ago
What Cannot be Learned with Bethe Approximations
We address the problem of learning the parameters in graphical models when inference is intractable. A common strategy in this case is to replace the partition function with its B...
Uri Heinemann, Amir Globerson
ATAL
2005
Springer
16 years 10 days ago
Improving reinforcement learning function approximators via neuroevolution
Reinforcement learning problems are commonly tackled with temporal difference methods, which use dynamic programming and statistical sampling to estimate the long-term value of ta...
Shimon Whiteson
ATMOS
2007
177views Optimization» more  ATMOS 2007»
15 years 8 months ago
Approximate dynamic programming for rail operations
Abstract. Approximate dynamic programming offers a new modeling and algorithmic strategy for complex problems such as rail operations. Problems in rail operations are often modeled...
Warren B. Powell, Belgacem Bouzaïene-Ayari