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We consider interactive learning and covering problems, in a setting where actions may incur different costs, depending on the response to the action. We propose a natural greedy algorithm for response-dependent costs. We bound the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Sivan Sabato

The taxing computational effort that is involved in solving some high-dimensional statistical problems, in particular problems involving non-convex optimization, has popularized the development and analysis of algorithms that run…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Guy Holtzman , Adam Soffer , Dan Vilenchik

Test-time data augmentation$-$averaging the predictions of a machine learning model across multiple augmented samples of data$-$is a widely used technique that improves the predictive performance. While many advanced learnable data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-23 Dmitry Molchanov , Alexander Lyzhov , Yuliya Molchanova , Arsenii Ashukha , Dmitry Vetrov

We consider the exploration problem: an agent equipped with a depth sensor must map out a previously unknown environment using as few sensor measurements as possible. We propose an approach based on supervised learning of a greedy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Louis Ly , Yen-Hsi Richard Tsai

Recently, greedy algorithm has received much attention as a cost-effective means to reconstruct the sparse signals from compressed measurements. Much of previous work has focused on the investigation of a single candidate to identify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Jaeseok Lee , Suhyuk Kwon , Jun Won Choi , Byonghyo Shim

A greedy algorithm is proposed for sparse-sensor selection in reduced-order sensing that contains correlated noise in measurement. The sensor selection is carried out by maximizing the determinant of the Fisher information matrix in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Keigo Yamada , Yuji Saito , Koki Nankai , Taku Nonomura , Keisuke Asai , Daisuke Tsubakino

Motivated by recent developments in designing algorithms based on individual item scores for solving utility maximization problems, we study the framework of using test scores, defined as a statistic of observed individual item performance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Dabeen Lee , Milan Vojnovic , Se-Young Yun

Several recent deep neural networks experiments leverage the generalist-specialist paradigm for classification. However, no formal study compared the performance of different clustering algorithms for class assignment. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Sébastien Arnold

The problem of column subset selection has recently attracted a large body of research, with feature selection serving as one obvious and important application. Among the techniques that have been applied to solve this problem, the greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jason Altschuler , Aditya Bhaskara , Gang Fu , Vahab Mirrokni , Afshin Rostamizadeh , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We demonstrate that the greedy algorithm for reduction of divisors on metric graphs need not terminate by modeling the Euclidean algorithm in this context. We observe that any infinite reduction has a well defined limit allowing us to treat…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-17 Spencer Backman

Partial differential equation parameter estimation is a mathematical and computational process used to estimate the unknown parameters in a partial differential equation model from observational data. This paper employs a greedy sampling…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Ali Forootani , Harshit Kapadia , Sridhar Chellappa , Pawan Goyal , Peter Benner

Nonlinear kernels can be approximated using finite-dimensional feature maps for efficient risk minimization. Due to the inherent trade-off between the dimension of the (mapped) feature space and the approximation accuracy, the key problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Shahin Shahrampour , Vahid Tarokh

We consider the problem of dynamically scheduling J jobs on N processors for non-preemptive execution where the value of each job (or the reward garnered upon completion) decays over time. All jobs are initially available in a buffer and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-07-22 Carri W. Chan , Nick Bambos

We show for several computational problems how classical greedy algorithms for special cases can be derived in a simple way from dynamic programs for the general case: interval scheduling (restricted to unit weights), knapsack (restricted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Dieter van Melkebeek

In this paper we present a greedy algorithm for solving the problem of the maximum partitioning of graphs with supply and demand (MPGSD). The goal of the method is to solve the MPGSD for large graphs in a reasonable time limit. This is done…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Raka Jovanovic , Abdelkader Bousselham , Stefan Voss

Compressed sensing (CS) is a technique which uses fewer measurements than dictated by the Nyquist sampling theorem. The traditional CS with linear measurements achieves efficient recovery performances, but it suffers from the large bit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Ching-Lun Tai , Sung-Hsien Hsieh , Chun-Shien Lu

We propose a Greedy strategy to solve the problem of Graph Cut, called GGC. It starts from the state where each data sample is regarded as a cluster and dynamically merges the two clusters which reduces the value of the global objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Feiping Nie , Shenfei Pei , Zengwei Zheng , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li

The submodular maximization problem is widely applicable in many engineering problems where objectives exhibit diminishing returns. While this problem is known to be NP-hard for certain subclasses of objective functions, there is a greedy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Haoyuan Sun , David Grimsman , Jason R Marden

Despite significant advances in optimizers for training, most research works use common scheduler choices like Cosine or exponential decay. In this paper, we study \emph{GreedyLR}, a novel scheduler that adaptively adjusts the learning rate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Shreyas Subramanian , Bala Krishnamoorthy , Pranav Murthy

Predictive models are often used for real-time decision making. However, typical machine learning techniques ignore feature evaluation cost, and focus solely on the accuracy of the machine learning models obtained utilizing all the features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Leilani Battle , Edward Benson , Aditya Parameswaran , Eugene Wu