Importance Sampling is a potentially powerful variance reduction technique to speed up simulations where the objective depends on the occurrence of rare events. However, it is cru...
Despite practical successes with the Futamura projections, it has been an open question whether target programs produced by specializing interpreters can always be as efficient as ...
In this paper, we propose a second order optimization method to learn models where both the dimensionality of the parameter space and the number of training samples is high. In ou...
The k q-flats algorithm is a generalization of the popular k-means algorithm where q dimensional best fit affine sets replace centroids as the cluster prototypes. In this work, a ...
We present a method which uses example pairs of equal or unequal class labels to select a subspace with near optimal metric properties in a kernel-induced Hilbert space. A represen...