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COLT
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
An Efficient Reduction of Ranking to Classification
This paper describes an efficient reduction of the learning problem of ranking to binary classification. The reduction guarantees an average pairwise misranking regret of at most t...
Nir Ailon, Mehryar Mohri
ESA
2008
Springer
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15 years 8 months ago
Collusion-Resistant Mechanisms with Verification Yielding Optimal Solutions
A truthful mechanism consists of an algorithm augmented with a suitable payment function which guarantees that the "players" cannot improve their utilities by "chea...
Paolo Penna, Carmine Ventre
APPROX
2010
Springer
176views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2010»
15 years 8 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for Min-Max Generalization Problems
Abstract. We provide improved approximation algorithms for the minmax generalization problems considered by Du, Eppstein, Goodrich, and Lueker [1]. In min-max generalization proble...
Piotr Berman, Sofya Raskhodnikova
NIPS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Unlabeled data: Now it helps, now it doesn't
Empirical evidence shows that in favorable situations semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms can capitalize on the abundance of unlabeled training data to improve the performan...
Aarti Singh, Robert D. Nowak, Xiaojin Zhu
COR
2010
146views more  COR 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
A search space "cartography" for guiding graph coloring heuristics
We present a search space analysis and its application in improving local search algorithms for the graph coloring problem. Using a classical distance measure between colorings, w...
Daniel Cosmin Porumbel, Jin-Kao Hao, Pascale Kuntz