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We tackle the fundamental problem of Bayesian active learning with noise, where we need to adaptively select from a number of expensive tests in order to identify an unknown hypothesis sampled from a known prior distribution. In the case of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Daniel Golovin , Andreas Krause , Debajyoti Ray

This study develops a graph search algorithm to find the optimal discrimination path for the binary classification problem. The objective function is defined as the difference of variations between the true positive (TP) and false positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Qinwu Xu

The aim of this paper is to investigate an attempt to build a binary classification algorithm using principles of geometry such as vectors, planes, and vector algebra. The basic idea behind the proposed algorithm is that a hyperplane can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Vatsal Srivastava

Branch-and-Bound (B\&B) is an exact method in integer programming that recursively divides the search space into a tree. During the resolution process, determining the next subproblem to explore within the tree-known as the search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Gwen Maudet , Grégoire Danoy

Bayesian optimization is a popular formalism for global optimization, but its computational costs limit it to expensive-to-evaluate functions. A competing, computationally more efficient, global optimization framework is optimistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Julia Grosse , Cheng Zhang , Philipp Hennig

Consider the following generalization of the classic binary search problem: A searcher is required to find a hidden target vertex $x$ in a graph $G$. To do so, they iteratively perform queries to an oracle, each about a chosen vertex $v$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Michał Szyfelbein

The Binary Search Tree (BST) is average in computer science which supports a compact data structure in memory and oneself even conducts a row of quick algorithms, by which people often apply it in dynamical circumstance. Besides these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Yong Tan

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is a recently developed paradigm of quantum computing consisting of sending a Gaussian state through a linear interferometer and then counting the number of photons in each output mode. When the system encodes…

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have gained extensive attention for their superior inferencing efficiency and compression ratio compared to traditional full-precision networks. However, due to the unique characteristics of BNNs, designing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhihao Lin , Yongtao Wang , Jinhe Zhang , Xiaojie Chu , Haibin Ling

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is capable of solving certain classes of graph problems owing to the samples produced by such a device having a connection to the hafnian matrix function. In particular, a GBS device has been shown to provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Ewan Mer , Zhenghao Li , Shang Yu , Ian A. Walmsley , Raj B. Patel

Traditional neural architecture search (NAS) has a significant impact in computer vision by automatically designing network architectures for various tasks. In this paper, binarized neural architecture search (BNAS), with a search space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Hanlin Chen , Li'an Zhuo , Baochang Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jianzhuang Liu , Rongrong Ji , David Doermann , Guodong Guo

This paper proposes a new algorithm based on multi-scale stochastic local search with binary representation for training neural networks. In particular, we study the effects of neighborhood evaluation strategies, the effect of the number of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mauro Brunato , Roberto Battiti

Optimization methods are essential in solving complex problems across various domains. In this research paper, we introduce a novel optimization method called Gaussian Crunching Search (GCS). Inspired by the behaviour of particles in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Benny Wong

This paper addresses the problem of learning a task from demonstration. We adopt the framework of inverse reinforcement learning, where tasks are represented in the form of a reward function. Our contribution is a novel active learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-24 Francisco Melo , Manuel Lopes

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) generate random samples of photon-click patterns from a class of probability distributions that are hard for a classical computer to sample from. Despite heroic demonstrations for quantum supremacy using GBS,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Mushkan Sureka , Saikat Guha

Recently, there have been some breakthroughs in graph analysis by applying the graph neural networks (GNNs) following a neighborhood aggregation scheme, which demonstrate outstanding performance in many tasks. However, we observe that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Hanchen Wang , Defu Lian , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Xiangjian He , Yiguang Lin , Xuemin Lin

Binary search trees (BSTs) are one of the most basic and widely used data structures. The best static tree for serving a sequence of queries (searches) can be computed by dynamic programming. In contrast, when the BSTs are allowed to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yaniv Sadeh , Haim Kaplan

Biclustering is a problem in machine learning and data mining that seeks to group together rows and columns of a dataset according to certain criteria. In this work, we highlight the natural relation that quantum computing models like boson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Ajinkya Borle , Ameya Bhave

Efficient and robust data clustering remains a challenging task in the field of data analysis. Recent efforts have explored the integration of granular-ball (GB) computing with clustering algorithms to address this challenge, yielding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Zihang Jia , Zhen Zhang , Witold Pedrycz

Generalised planning (GP) refers to the task of synthesising programs that solve families of related planning problems. We introduce a novel, yet simple method for GP: given a set of training problems, for each problem, compute an optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Dillon Z. Chen , Till Hofmann , Toryn Q. Klassen , Sheila A. McIlraith