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Feature selection has been recently used in the area of software engineering for improving the accuracy and robustness of software cost models. The idea behind selecting the most informative subset of features from a pool of available cost…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Efi Papatheocharous , Harris Papadopoulos , Andreas S. Andreou

This paper presents the HiPart package, an open-source native python library that provides efficient and interpret-able implementations of divisive hierarchical clustering algorithms. HiPart supports interactive visualizations for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-02 Panagiotis Anagnostou , Sotiris Tasoulis , Vassilis Plagianakos , Dimitris Tasoulis

Automatic prompt optimization (APO) hinges on the quality of its evaluation signal, yet scoring every prompt candidate on the full training set is prohibitively expensive. Existing methods either fix a single evaluation subset before…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaoyu Ma , Yiwen Li , Haoyue Liu , Zhichao Wang , Ye Chen , Yongxin Guo , Xiaoying Tang

Bayesian coresets have emerged as a promising approach for implementing scalable Bayesian inference. The Bayesian coreset problem involves selecting a (weighted) subset of the data samples, such that the posterior inference using the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-01 Jacky Y. Zhang , Rajiv Khanna , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

In this paper, we present InfoMax, a novel data pruning method, also known as coreset selection, designed to maximize the information content of selected samples while minimizing redundancy. By doing so, InfoMax enhances the overall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Haoru Tan , Sitong Wu , Wei Huang , Shizhen Zhao , Xiaojuan Qi

We propose a general approach to compute the seed sensitivity, that can be applied to different definitions of seeds. It treats separately three components of the seed sensitivity problem - a set of target alignments, an associated…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-01-18 Gregory Kucherov , Laurent Noe , Mikhail Roytberg

ABCpy is a highly modular scientific library for Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) written in Python. The main contribution of this paper is to document a software engineering effort that enables domain scientists to easily apply ABC…

Subset selection with cost constraints aims to select a subset from a ground set to maximize a monotone objective function without exceeding a given budget, which has various applications such as influence maximization and maximum coverage.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Dan-Xuan Liu , Chao Qian

We extend the work of Narasimhan and Bilmes [30] for minimizing set functions representable as a difference between submodular functions. Similar to [30], our new algorithms are guaranteed to monotonically reduce the objective function at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Rishabh Iyer , Jeff Bilmes

We establish a broad methodological foundation for mixed-integer optimization with learned constraints. We propose an end-to-end pipeline for data-driven decision making in which constraints and objectives are directly learned from data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Donato Maragno , Holly Wiberg , Dimitris Bertsimas , S. Ilker Birbil , Dick den Hertog , Adejuyigbe Fajemisin

Pseudocode in a scholarly paper provides a concise way to express the algorithms implemented therein. Pseudocode can also be thought of as an intermediary representation that helps bridge the gap between programming languages and natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Levent Toksoz , Gang Tan , C. Lee Giles

We address the problem of maximizing an unknown submodular function that can only be accessed via noisy evaluations. Our work is motivated by the task of summarizing content, e.g., image collections, by leveraging users' feedback in form of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Adish Singla , Sebastian Tschiatschek , Andreas Krause

Faced with massive data, subsampling is a commonly used technique to improve computational efficiency, and using nonuniform subsampling probabilities is an effective approach to improve estimation efficiency. For computational efficiency,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Jing Wang , Jiahui Zou , HaiYing Wang

We study a fundamental problem in Bayesian learning, where the goal is to select a set of data sources with minimum cost while achieving a certain learning performance based on the data streams provided by the selected data sources. First,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Lintao Ye , Aritra Mitra , Shreyas Sundaram

Finding an informative subset of a large collection of data points or models is at the center of many problems in computer vision, recommender systems, bio/health informatics as well as image and natural language processing. Given pairwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Ehsan Elhamifar , Guillermo Sapiro , S. Shankar Sastry

Deep neural networks have seen great success in recent years; however, training a deep model is often challenging as its performance heavily depends on the hyper-parameters used. In addition, finding the optimal hyper-parameter…

Expert prior elicitation plays a critical role in Bayesian analysis by enabling the specification of prior distributions that reflect domain knowledge. However, expert knowledge often refers to observable quantities rather than directly to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-23 Florence Bockting , Paul-Christian Bürkner

COMET is a single-pass MapReduce algorithm for learning on large-scale data. It builds multiple random forest ensembles on distributed blocks of data and merges them into a mega-ensemble. This approach is appropriate when learning from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-06 Justin D. Basilico , M. Arthur Munson , Tamara G. Kolda , Kevin R. Dixon , W. Philip Kegelmeyer

Motivated by applications in machine learning, such as subset selection and data summarization, we consider the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to mixed packing and covering constraints. We present a tight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Eyal Mizrachi , Roy Schwartz , Joachim Spoerhase , Sumedha Uniyal

We present Cryptomite, a Python library of randomness extractor implementations. The library offers a range of two-source, seeded and deterministic randomness extractors, together with parameter calculation modules, making it easy to use…

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