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AAAI
2012
13 years 9 months ago
Online Task Assignment in Crowdsourcing Markets
We explore the problem of assigning heterogeneous tasks to workers with different, unknown skill sets in crowdsourcing markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. We first formalize ...
Chien-Ju Ho, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
SODA
2008
ACM
110views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
Why simple hash functions work: exploiting the entropy in a data stream
Hashing is fundamental to many algorithms and data structures widely used in practice. For theoretical analysis of hashing, there have been two main approaches. First, one can ass...
Michael Mitzenmacher, Salil P. Vadhan
EP
1998
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Generating, Visualizing, and Evaluating High-Quality Clusters for Information Organization
We present and analyze the star clustering algorithm. We discuss an implementation of this algorithm that supports browsing and document retrieval through information organization...
Javed A. Aslam, Katya Pelekhov, Daniela Rus
ICML
2003
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Semi-Supervised Learning Using Gaussian Fields and Harmonic Functions
An approach to semi-supervised learning is proposed that is based on a Gaussian random field model. Labeled and unlabeled data are represented as vertices in a weighted graph, wit...
Xiaojin Zhu, Zoubin Ghahramani, John D. Lafferty
STOC
2001
ACM
138views Algorithms» more  STOC 2001»
16 years 7 months ago
Fast computation of low rank matrix
Given a matrix A, it is often desirable to find a good approximation to A that has low rank. We introduce a simple technique for accelerating the computation of such approximation...
Dimitris Achlioptas, Frank McSherry