The Chernoff-Hoeffding bounds are fundamental probabilistic tools. An elementary approach is presented to obtain a Chernoff-type upper-tail bound for the number of prime factors o...
The two major Markov Random Fields (MRF) based algorithms for image segmentation are the Simulated Annealing (SA) and Iterated Conditional Modes (ICM). In practice, compared to the...
In this paper we present efficient deterministic and randomized algorithms for selection on any interconnection network when the number of input keys (n) is the number of processo...
Consider a game in which edges of a graph are provided a pair at a time, and the player selects one edge from each pair, attempting to construct a graph with a component as large ...
Abraham Flaxman, David Gamarnik, Gregory B. Sorkin
The present paper mainly studies the expected teaching time of memoryless randomized learners without feedback. First, a characterization of optimal randomized learners is provided...