Abstract. This paper presents a new stochastic preconditioning approach for large sparse matrices. For the class of matrices that are row-wise and column-wise irreducibly diagonall...
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Generating interest in specialized areas of Computer Science (CS) is one of the goals of the department of Computer and Information Science at Spelman College as with most departm...
In most previous work on personalized search algorithms, the results for all queries are personalized in the same manner. However, as we show in this paper, there is a lot of vari...