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EMMCVPR
2005
Springer
16 years 6 days ago
Optimizing the Cauchy-Schwarz PDF Distance for Information Theoretic, Non-parametric Clustering
This paper addresses the problem of efficient information theoretic, non-parametric data clustering. We develop a procedure for adapting the cluster memberships of the data pattern...
Robert Jenssen, Deniz Erdogmus, Kenneth E. Hild II...
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JCO
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
On optimal placement of relay nodes for reliable connectivity in wireless sensor networks
The paper addresses the relay node placement problem in two-tiered wireless sensor networks. Given a set of sensor nodes in Euclidean plane, our objective is to place minimum numbe...
Hai Liu, Peng-Jun Wan, Xiaohua Jia
CORR
2011
Springer
177views Education» more  CORR 2011»
15 years 1 months ago
A Truthful Randomized Mechanism for Combinatorial Public Projects via Convex Optimization
In Combinatorial Public Projects, there is a set of projects that may be undertaken, and a set of selfinterested players with a stake in the set of projects chosen. A public plann...
Shaddin Dughmi
AAAI
2011
14 years 6 months ago
Optimal Rewards versus Leaf-Evaluation Heuristics in Planning Agents
Planning agents often lack the computational resources needed to build full planning trees for their environments. Agent designers commonly overcome this finite-horizon approxima...
Jonathan Sorg, Satinder P. Singh, Richard L. Lewis
ML
2012
ACM
385views Machine Learning» more  ML 2012»
14 years 2 months ago
An alternative view of variational Bayes and asymptotic approximations of free energy
Bayesian learning, widely used in many applied data-modeling problems, is often accomplished with approximation schemes because it requires intractable computation of the posterio...
Kazuho Watanabe