Locality of reference is a phenomenon exhibited by programs and computer systems in general, and refers to the tendency to localize operations to a small subset of the available resources. In the past, this phenomenon has ...

Tropical geometry is an area of mathematics that interfaces algebraic geometry and combinatorics. The main object of study in tropical geometry is the tropical variety, which is the combinatorial counterpart of a classical ...

In recent decades, scientific data has become available in increasing sizes and precision. Therefore techniques to analyze and summarize the ever increasing datasets are of vital importance. A common form of scientific ...

Multi-Armed Bandits (MAB) is a popular framework for modelling sequential decision-making problems under uncertainty. This thesis is a compilation of two independent works on MABs. 1. In the first work, we study a ...

This thesis presents six novel works involving several research domains, such as reinforcement learning (RL)– both with or without function approximators including deep neural networks, multi-agent RL, stochastic optimization, ...

In recent years, deep neural network models have shown to outperform many state of the art algorithms. The reason for this is, unsupervised pretraining with multi-layered deep neural networks have shown to learn better ...

The on-line advertising market involving displaying of Ads against search results by a search engine is growing at a fast rate. A majority of the search engine companies sell their advertising space through auctions which ...

Study of complex networks by researchers from many disciplines has provided penetrating insights on various complex systems. A study of the world wide web from a network theoretic perspective has led to the design of new ...

During software development, developers need to ensure that the developed code is bug-free and the best coding practices are followed during the code development process. To guarantee this, the developers require answers ...