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NIPS
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Topmoumoute Online Natural Gradient Algorithm
Guided by the goal of obtaining an optimization algorithm that is both fast and yields good generalization, we study the descent direction maximizing the decrease in generalizatio...
Nicolas Le Roux, Pierre-Antoine Manzagol, Yoshua B...
WSC
1998
15 years 7 months ago
Using ACCESSIBILITY to Assess the Performance of Generalized Hill Climbing Algorithms
The search problem, ACCESSIBILITY, asks whether a finite sequence of events can be found such that, starting with a specific initial event, a particular state can be reached. This...
Sheldon H. Jacobson, Enver Yücesan
ICML
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
A Simple Algorithm for Nuclear Norm Regularized Problems
Optimization problems with a nuclear norm regularization, such as e.g. low norm matrix factorizations, have seen many applications recently. We propose a new approximation algorit...
Martin Jaggi, Marek Sulovský
COLT
1995
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Comparison of New and Old Algorithms for a Mixture Estimation Problem
We investigate the problem of estimating the proportion vector which maximizes the likelihood of a given sample for a mixture of given densities. We adapt a framework developed for...
David P. Helmbold, Yoram Singer, Robert E. Schapir...
SASO
2007
IEEE
16 years 23 days ago
Desynchronization: The Theory of Self-Organizing Algorithms for Round-Robin Scheduling
The study of synchronization has received much attention in a variety of applications, ranging from coordinating sensors in wireless networks to models of fireflies flashing in...
Ankit Patel, Julius Degesys, Radhika Nagpal