Yet most such problems are NP-hard; unless P = NP, there are no efficient algorithms to find optimal solutions. This book shows how to design approximation algorithms: efficient algorithms that find ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. For many applications, a randomized algorithm is either the simplest or the ...

The expectation maximization algorithm enables parameter estimation ... can be thought of as 'maximization' of the expected log-likelihood of the data. As with most optimization methods for ...

Social media algorithms, in their commonly known form, are now 15 years old. They were born with Facebook’s introduction of ranked, personalised news feeds in 2009 and have transformed how we ...