3 papers
cs.SI2025
Constructing Political Coordinates: Aggregating Over the Opposition for Diverse News Recommendation
Eamon Earl, Chen Ding, Richard Valenzano +1
In the past two decades, open access to news and information has increased rapidly, empowering educated political growth within democratic societies. News recommender systems (NRSs…
cs.AI2025
Breadth-First Search vs. Restarting Random Walks for Escaping Uninformed Heuristic Regions
Daniel Platnick, Dawson Tomasz, Eamon Earl +2
Greedy search methods like Greedy Best-First Search (GBFS) and Enforced Hill-Climbing (EHC) often struggle when faced with Uninformed Heuristic Regions (UHRs) like heuristic local…
cs.AI2024
Expected Runtime Comparisons Between Breadth-First Search and Constant-Depth Restarting Random Walks
Daniel Platnick, Richard Anthony Valenzano
When greedy search algorithms encounter a local minima or plateau, the search typically devolves into a breadth-first search (BrFS), or a local search technique is used in an attem…