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Feature subset selection, as a special case of the general subset selection problem, has been the topic of a considerable number of studies due to the growing importance of data-mining applications. In the feature subset selection problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Tofigh Naghibi , Sarah Hoffmann , Beat Pfister

Cell formation is a critical step in the design of cellular manufacturing systems. Recently, it was tackled using a cut-based-graph-partitioning model. This model meets real-life production systems requirements as it uses the actual amount…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Boulif Menouar

Anytime approximation algorithms that compute the probabilities of queries over probabilistic databases can be of great use to statistical learning tasks. Those approaches have been based so far on either (i) sampling or (ii)…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Maarten Van den Heuvel , Floris Geerts , Wolfgang Gatterbauer , Martin Theobald

A systematic study of the probability distribution of superimposed random codes is presented through the use of generating functions. Special attention is paid to the cases of either uniformly distributed but not necessarily independent or…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-06-19 Bernd Günther

Partition of unity methods (PUMs) on graphs are simple and highly adaptive auxiliary tools for graph signal processing. Based on a greedy-type metric clustering and augmentation scheme, we show how a partition of unity can be generated in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Roberto Cavoretto , Alessandra De Rossi , Wolfgang Erb

Diffusions are a successful technique to sample from high-dimensional distributions. The target distribution can be either explicitly given or learnt from a collection of samples. They implement a diffusion process whose endpoint is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Andrea Montanari

Particle filters are a frequent choice for inference tasks in nonlinear and non-Gaussian state-space models. They can either be used for state inference by approximating the filtering distribution or for parameter inference by approximating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Domonkos Csuzdi , Olivér Törő , Tamás Bécsi

In a distributed system, Task Assignment Problem (TAP) is a key factor for obtaining efficiency. TAP illustrates the appropriate allocation of tasks to the processor of each computer. In this problem, the proposed methods up to now try to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Mostafa Haghi Kashani

Network alignment aims to uncover topologically similar regions in the protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks of two or more species under the assumption that topologically similar regions tend to perform similar functions. Although…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-28 Wayne B. Hayes

Gibbs-type random probability measures and the exchangeable random partitions they induce represent an important framework both from a theoretical and applied point of view. In the present paper, motivated by species sampling problems, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-06 Stefano Favaro , Antonio Lijoi , Igor Prünster

In recent years, there has been an increasing demand on efficient algorithms for large scale change point detection problems. To this end, we propose seeded binary segmentation, an approach relying on a deterministic construction of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-13 Solt Kovács , Housen Li , Peter Bühlmann , Axel Munk

Many big-data clusters store data in large partitions that support access at a coarse, partition-level granularity. As a result, approximate query processing via row-level sampling is inefficient, often requiring reads of many partitions.…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Kexin Rong , Yao Lu , Peter Bailis , Srikanth Kandula , Philip Levis

A sequential importance sampling algorithm is developed for the distribution that results when a matrix of independent, but not identically distributed, Bernoulli random variables is conditioned on a given sequence of row and column sums.…

Computation · Statistics 2013-01-18 Matthew T. Harrison , Jeffrey W. Miller

We give a highly efficient "semi-agnostic" algorithm for learning univariate probability distributions that are well approximated by piecewise polynomial density functions. Let $p$ be an arbitrary distribution over an interval $I$ which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Siu-On Chan , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rocco A. Servedio , Xiaorui Sun

In this paper, the fractional differential matrices based on the Jacobi-Gauss points are derived with respect to the Caputo and Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative operators. The spectral radii of the fractional differential matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Fanhai Zeng , Changpin Li

Our aim is to construct high order approximation schemes for general semigroups of linear operators $P_{t},t\geq 0$. In order to do it, we fix a time horizon $T $ and the discretization steps $h_{l}=\frac{T}{n^{l}},l\in \mathbb{N}$ and we…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Aurélien Alfonsi , Vlad Bally

Configuration Optimization Problems (COPs), which involve minimizing a loss function over a set of discrete points $\boldsymbol{\gamma} \subset P$, are common in areas like Model Order Reduction, Active Learning, and Optimal Experimental…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Evie Nielen , Oliver Tse , Karen Veroy

Random partition distribution is a crucial tool for model-based clustering. This study advances the field of random partition in the context of functional spatial data, focusing on the challenges posed by hourly population data across…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-05 Tomoya Wakayama , Shonosuke Sugasawa , Genya Kobayashi

A method for the construction of approximate analytical expressions for the stationary marginal densities of general stochastic search processes is proposed. By the marginal densities, regions of the search space that with high probability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-01-30 Arturo Berrones

We consider a family of distributions on spatial random partitions that provide a coupling between different models of interest: the ideal Bose gas; the zero-range process; particle clustering; and spatial permutations. These distributions…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-15 Nicholas M. Ercolani , Sabine Jansen , Daniel Ueltschi