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The Guided Improvement Algorithm for Exact, General-Purpose, Many-Objective Combinatorial Optimization
(2009-07-03)
This paper presents a new general-purpose algorithm for exact solving of combinatorial many-objective optimization problems. We call this new algorithm the guided improvement algorithm. The algorithm is implemented on top ...
CG2Real: Improving the Realism of Computer Generated Images using a Large Collection of Photographs
(2009-07-15)
Computer Graphics (CG) has achieved a high level of realism, producing strikingly vivid images. This realism, however, comes at the cost of long and often expensive manual modeling, and most often humans can still distinguish ...
Co-Clustering with Generative Models
(2009-11-03)
In this paper, we present a generative model for co-clustering and develop algorithms based on the mean field approximation for the corresponding modeling problem. These algorithms can be viewed as generalizations of the ...
Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for Computation
(2009-11-03)
I propose a shift in the foundations of computation. Practically all ideas of general-purpose computation today are founded either on execution of sequences of atomic instructions, i.e., assembly languages, or on evaluation ...
Smartlocks: Self-Aware Synchronization through Lock Acquisition Scheduling
(2009-11-09)
As multicore processors become increasingly prevalent, system complexity is skyrocketing. The advent of the asymmetric multicore compounds this -- it is no longer practical for an average programmer to balance the system ...
Sufficient Conditions for Uniform Stability of Regularization Algorithms
(2009-12-01)
In this paper, we study the stability and generalization properties of penalized empirical-risk minimization algorithms. We propose a set of properties of the penalty term that is sufficient to ensure uniform ?-stability: ...
Combined Static and Dynamic Mutability Analysis
(2007-03-23)
Knowing which method parameters may be mutated during a method's execution is useful for many software engineering tasks. We present an approach to discovering parameter immutability, in which several lightweight, scalable ...
Control and Estimation for Cooperative Manipulator Tasks
(2006-02-28)
The objective of this project is to achieve reliable transfer of an object from one robotic manipulator to another. This capability is useful for a number of applications, for instance robotic assembly, or robots with ...
Object Recognition with Pictorial Structures
(2001-05-01)
This thesis presents a statistical framework for object recognition. The framework is motivated by the pictorial structure models introduced by Fischler and Elschlager nearly 30 years ago. The basic idea is to model an ...
ADAM: A Decentralized Parallel Computer Architecture Featuring Fast Thread and Data Migration and a Uniform Hardware Abstraction
(2002-06-01)
The furious pace of Moore's Law is driving computer architecture into a realm where the the speed of light is the dominant factor in system latencies. The number of clock cycles to span a chip are increasing, while the ...