This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...
The ellipse Hough transform (EHT) is a widely-used technique. Most of the previous modifications to the standard EHT improved either the voting procedure that computes the absolut...
This paper addresses the important tradeoff between privacy and learnability, when designing algorithms for learning from private databases. We focus on privacy-preserving logisti...
Real-time dynamic programming (RTDP) is a heuristic search algorithm for solving MDPs. We present a modified algorithm called Focused RTDP with several improvements. While RTDP ma...
We have developed a new algorithm and software for graph coloring by systematically combining several algorithm and software development ideas that had crucial impact on the algor...