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MOR
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Risk Tuning with Generalized Linear Regression
A framework is set up in which linear regression, as a way of approximating a random variable by other random variables, can be carried out in a variety of ways, which moreover ca...
R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, Stan Uryasev, Michael Zaba...
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ICML
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
A new approach to data driven clustering
We consider the problem of clustering in its most basic form where only a local metric on the data space is given. No parametric statistical model is assumed, and the number of cl...
Arik Azran, Zoubin Ghahramani
STOC
2001
ACM
116views Algorithms» more  STOC 2001»
16 years 7 months ago
One line and n points
: We analyze a randomized pivoting process involving one line and n points in the plane. The process models the behavior of the RANDOM-EDGE simplex algorithm on simple polytopes wi...
Bernd Gärtner, József Solymosi, Falk T...
SODA
2010
ACM
173views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
16 years 4 months ago
Distributed Agreement with Optimal Communication Complexity
We consider the problem of fault-tolerant agreement in a crash-prone synchronous system. We present a new randomized consensus algorithm that achieves optimal communication effici...
Seth Gilbert, Dariusz Kowalski
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Secure image retrieval through feature protection
This paper addresses the problem of image retrieval from an encrypted database, where data confidentiality is preserved both in the storage and retrieval process. The paper focus...
Wenjun Lu, Avinash L. Varna, Ashwin Swaminathan, M...