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MASCOTS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Modeling Software Contention using Colored Petri Nets
Commercial servers, such as database or application servers, often attempt to improve performance via multithreading. Improper multi-threading architectures can incur contention, ...
Nilabja Roy, Akshay Dabholkar, Nathan Hamm, Lawren...
NIPS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Inferring rankings under constrained sensing
Motivated by applications like elections, web-page ranking, revenue maximization etc., we consider the question of inferring popular rankings using constrained data. More specific...
Srikanth Jagabathula, Devavrat Shah
NIPS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Signal-to-Noise Ratio Analysis of Policy Gradient Algorithms
Policy gradient (PG) reinforcement learning algorithms have strong (local) convergence guarantees, but their learning performance is typically limited by a large variance in the e...
John W. Roberts, Russ Tedrake
NIPS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Kernel Change-point Analysis
We introduce a kernel-based method for change-point analysis within a sequence of temporal observations. Change-point analysis of an unlabelled sample of observations consists in,...
Zaïd Harchaoui, Francis Bach, Eric Moulines
OPODIS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Computing and Updating the Process Number in Trees
The process number is the minimum number of requests that have to be simultaneously disturbed during a routing reconfiguration phase of a connection oriented network. From a graph ...
David Coudert, Florian Huc, Dorian Mazauric