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SIGMOD
2012
ACM
253views Database» more  SIGMOD 2012»
13 years 9 months ago
Skew-aware automatic database partitioning in shared-nothing, parallel OLTP systems
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
Andrew Pavlo, Carlo Curino, Stanley B. Zdonik
ML
1998
ACM
101views Machine Learning» more  ML 1998»
15 years 6 months ago
Elevator Group Control Using Multiple Reinforcement Learning Agents
Recent algorithmic and theoretical advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have attracted widespread interest. RL algorithmshave appeared that approximatedynamic programming on an ...
Robert H. Crites, Andrew G. Barto
CORR
2010
Springer
167views Education» more  CORR 2010»
15 years 7 months ago
Network Flow Algorithms for Structured Sparsity
We consider a class of learning problems that involve a structured sparsityinducing norm defined as the sum of -norms over groups of variables. Whereas a lot of effort has been pu...
Julien Mairal, Rodolphe Jenatton, Guillaume Obozin...
CP
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Mini-bucket Elimination with Bucket Propagation
Many important combinatorial optimization problems can be expressed as constraint satisfaction problems with soft constraints. When problems are too difficult to be solved exactly,...
Emma Rollon, Javier Larrosa
GECCO
2010
Springer
207views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
15 years 12 months ago
Generalized crowding for genetic algorithms
Crowding is a technique used in genetic algorithms to preserve diversity in the population and to prevent premature convergence to local optima. It consists of pairing each offsp...
Severino F. Galán, Ole J. Mengshoel