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This paper introduces an algorithm to select demonstration examples for in-context learning of a query set. Given a set of $n$ examples, how can we quickly select $k$ out of $n$ to best serve as the conditioning for downstream inference?…

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We consider the standard message passing model; we assume the system is fully synchronous: all processes start at the same time and time proceeds in synchronised rounds. In each round each vertex can transmit a different message of size…

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We propose a scalable algorithmic framework for exact Bayesian variable selection and model averaging in linear models under the assumption that the Gram matrix is block-diagonal, and as a heuristic for exploring the model space for general…

Computation · Statistics 2017-01-04 Omiros Papaspiliopoulos , David Rossell

The block maximum method, which is widely used in extreme value analysis, uses a generalized extreme value distribution to approximate that of the maximum of m observations. The quality of this approximation depends on the value of m and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-14 Léo R. Belzile , Anthony C. Davison

Semantic image segmentation is an important computer vision task that is difficult because it consists of both recognition and segmentation. The task is often cast as a structured output problem on an exponentially large output-space, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Payman Yadollahpour

Many real-world problems can be formulated as geometric optimization problems in high dimensions, especially in the fields of machine learning and data mining. Moreover, we often need to take into account of outliers when optimizing the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Hu Ding

Finding a large set of optima in a multimodal optimization landscape is a challenging task. Classical population-based evolutionary algorithms typically converge only to a single solution. While this can be counteracted by applying niching…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Benjamin Doerr , Martin S. Krejca

We introduce an extension of the Difference of Convex Algorithm (DCA) in the form of a randomized block coordinate approach for problems with separable structure. For $n$ coordinate-blocks and $k$ iterations, our main result proves a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Hoomaan Maskan , Paniz Halvachi , Suvrit Sra , Alp Yurtsever

We present algorithms for length-constrained maximum sum segment and maximum density segment problems, in particular, and the problem of finding length-constrained heaviest segments, in general, for a sequence of real numbers. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Md. Shafiul Alam , Asish Mukhopadhyay

A framework previously introduced in [3] for solving a sequence of stochastic optimization problems with bounded changes in the minimizers is extended and applied to machine learning problems such as regression and classification. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Craig Wilson , Yuheng Bu , Venugopal Veeravalli

This paper proposes a method of segmenting temporal data into ordered classes. It is based on mixture models and a discrete latent process, which enables to successively activates the classes. The classification can be performed by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-30 Faicel Chamroukhi , Allou Samé , Gérard Govaert , Patrice Aknin

We consider stochastic approximation with block-coordinate stepsizes and propose adaptive stepsize rules that aim to minimize the expected distance from the next iterate to an (unknown) target point. These stepsize rules employ online…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Tao Jiang , Lin Xiao

Classification is one of the most important tasks in Machine Learning (ML) and with recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) it is important to find efficient ways to implement it. Generally, the choice of classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Anuja Dixit , Shreya Byreddy , Guanqun Song , Ting Zhu

In this study, we consider unsupervised clustering of categorical vectors that can be of different size using mixture. We use likelihood maximization to estimate the parameters of the underlying mixture model and a penalization technique to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Esther Derman , Erwan Le Pennec

In a mixture of linear regression model, the regression coefficients are treated as random vectors that may follow either a continuous or discrete distribution. We propose two Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithms to estimate this prior…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-17 Andrew Welbaum , Wanli Qiao

We study the problem of estimating the one-point specification probabilities in non-necessary finite discrete random fields from partially observed independent samples. Our procedures are based on model selection by minimization of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-18 Matthieu Lerasle , Daniel Y. Takahashi

There is an increasing need for algorithms that can accurately detect changepoints in long time-series, or equivalent, data. Many common approaches to detecting changepoints, for example based on penalised likelihood or minimum description…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-08 Robert Maidstone , Toby Hocking , Guillem Rigaill , Paul Fearnhead

Probability estimation is essential for every statistical data compression algorithm. In practice probability estimation should be adaptive, recent observations should receive a higher weight than older observations. We present a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-12 Christopher Mattern

We consider learning problems over training sets in which both, the number of training examples and the dimension of the feature vectors, are large. To solve these problems we propose the random parallel stochastic algorithm (RAPSA). We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Aryan Mokhtari , Alec Koppel , Alejandro Ribeiro