Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
05
2013

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Learning from positive examples
10:30am|West Bldg. Lect. Hall

We introduce and study a new type of learning problem for probability distributions over the Boolean hypercube \(\{-1,1\}^n\). As in the standard PAC learning model, a learning problem in our framework is defined by a class \(C\) of Boolean...

Nov
04
2013

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Approximating large frequency moments with pick-and-drop sampling
Vladimir Braverman
11:15am|West Bldg. Lect. Hall

Given data stream \(D = \{p_1,p_2,...,p_m\}\) of size \(m\) of numbers from \(\{1,..., n\}\), the frequency of \(i\) is defined as \(f_i = |\{j: p_j = i\}|\). The \(k\)-th frequency moment of \(D\) is defined as \(F_k = \sum_{i=1}^n f_i^k\). We...