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CORR
2008
Springer
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Estimating divergence functionals and the likelihood ratio by convex risk minimization
We develop and analyze M-estimation methods for divergence functionals and the likelihood ratios of two probability distributions. Our method is based on a non-asymptotic variatio...
XuanLong Nguyen, Martin J. Wainwright, Michael I. ...
DAM
2010
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On the sum minimization version of the online bin covering problem
Given a set of m identical bins of size 1, the online input consists of a (potentially, infinite) stream of items in (0, 1]. Each item is to be assigned to a bin upon arrival. The ...
János Csirik, Leah Epstein, Csanád I...
DEBU
2010
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Weighted Set-Based String Similarity
Consider a universe of tokens, each of which is associated with a weight, and a database consisting of strings that can be represented as subsets of these tokens. Given a query st...
Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Divesh Srivastava
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DAM
2008
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Partition into cliques for cubic graphs: Planar case, complexity and approximation
Given a graph G = (V, E) and a positive integer k, the PARTITION INTO CLIQUES (PIC) decision problem consists of deciding whether there exists a partition of V into k disjoint sub...
Márcia R. Cerioli, L. Faria, T. O. Ferreira...
ENTCS
2008
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Programming Languages For Interactive Computing
Traditional programming languages are algorithmic: they are best suited to writing programs that acquire all their inputs before executing and only produce a result on termination...
Roly Perera