The area of approximation algorithms is aimed at giving provable guarantees on the performance of heuristics for hard problems. The course will present general techniques (such as convex ...

Figure 5: Nine different weighting functions. The Gaussian function used by Vizier is the leftmost function in the middle row. Then a prediction is made with the weighted average: Figure 6: Kernel ...

GiRaF is a computational tool for identification of reassortments in influenza viruses from sequence databases of isolates. Reassortments in influenza - a process where strains exchange genetic ...

Lectures notes and slides from the SIGGRAPH '97 course, ...

You are organizing a conference in social choice theory, with a festive dinner on the first day. The catering service has 1024 different dinner choices they know how to make, out of which you need to ...

The lowest level of auditing in Scientology consists of what are called the "objective processes." These are often programmed for a newcomer to Scientology after he has completed the introductory ...

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Job and intern opportunities are available at R&D Center Singapore, Alibaba DAMO Academy. Job descriptions: NLP Engineer/Researcher, and MT Engineer/Researcher. Send your CV to l.bing [at] alibaba-inc ...

While at DARPA, I was unable to write for my blog. But watch this space for new posts, as soon as I get settled at Microsoft.

Overall Approach: The programmable headlight is a co-located imaging and illumination system consisting of a camera, processor, and spatial light modulator (SLM). The camera captures images of the ...

We present an approach that uses a multi-camera system to train fine-grained detectors for keypoints that are prone to occlusion, such as the joints of a hand. We call this procedure multiview ...

Nested data parallelism: this feature offers the benefits of data parallelism, concise code that is easy to understand and debug, while being well suited for irregular algorithms, such as algorithms ...