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JACM
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Finding a maximum likelihood tree is hard
Abstract. Maximum likelihood (ML) is an increasingly popular optimality criterion for selecting evolutionary trees [Felsenstein 1981]. Finding optimal ML trees appears to be a very...
Benny Chor, Tamir Tuller
CORR
2007
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Hard constraint satisfaction problems have hard gaps at location 1
An instance of the maximum constraint satisfaction problem (Max CSP) is a nite collection of constraints on a set of variables, and the goal is to assign values to the variables ...
Peter Jonsson, Andrei A. Krokhin, Fredrik Kuivinen
ECCV
2006
Springer
16 years 8 months ago
Efficient Belief Propagation with Learned Higher-Order Markov Random Fields
Belief propagation (BP) has become widely used for low-level vision problems and various inference techniques have been proposed for loopy graphs. These methods typically rely on a...
Xiangyang Lan, Stefan Roth, Daniel P. Huttenlocher...
PODC
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Concurrent imitation dynamics in congestion games
Imitating successful behavior is a natural and frequently applied approach to trust in when facing scenarios for which we have little or no experience upon which we can base our d...
Heiner Ackermann, Petra Berenbrink, Simon Fischer,...
COCOS
2003
Springer
148views Optimization» more  COCOS 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
Convex Programming Methods for Global Optimization
We investigate some approaches to solving nonconvex global optimization problems by convex nonlinear programming methods. We assume that the problem becomes convex when selected va...
John N. Hooker