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ICML
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Interactive Submodular Set Cover
We introduce a natural generalization of submodular set cover and exact active learning with a finite hypothesis class (query learning). We call this new problem interactive submo...
Andrew Guillory, Jeff Bilmes
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CSDA
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Simulation-based approach to estimation of latent variable models
We propose a simulation-based method for calculating maximum likelihood estimators in latent variable models. The proposed method integrates a recently developed sampling strategy...
Zhiguang Qian, Alexander Shapiro
JMLR
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Linear Programming Relaxations and Belief Propagation - An Empirical Study
The problem of finding the most probable (MAP) configuration in graphical models comes up in a wide range of applications. In a general graphical model this problem is NP hard, bu...
Chen Yanover, Talya Meltzer, Yair Weiss
INFOCOM
2005
IEEE
16 years 11 days ago
Low-state fairness: lower bounds and practical enforcement
— Providing approximate max-min fair bandwidth allocation among flows within a network or at a single router has been an important research problem. In this paper, we study the ...
Abhimanyu Das, Debojyoti Dutta, Ahmed Helmy, Ashis...
ICA
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
An Alternating Minimization Method for Sparse Channel Estimation
The problem of estimating a sparse channel, i.e. a channel with a few non-zero taps, appears in many fields of communication including acoustic underwater or wireless transmissions...
Rad Niazadeh, Massoud Babaie-Zadeh, Christian Jutt...