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Bryan Silverthorn
Ph.D. Alumni
Graduated from Cornell University in 2005, and from The University of Texas at Austin in 2012. Focused on statistical approaches to search and optimization.
Email:
bsilvert [at] cs utexas edu
Homepage:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bsilvert/
Projects
Learning Strategic Behavior in Sequential Decision Tasks
2009 - 2014
Borg: A General-Purpose Algorithm Portfolio System
2009 - 2013
Demos
Model-Based Visualization of Solver Performance Data
Bryan Silverthorn
2011
Publications
Surviving Solver Sensitivity: An ASP Practitioner's Guide
Bryan Silverthorn, Yuliya Lierler and Marius Schneider
In
International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP)
, 2012.
2012
A Probabilistic Architecture for Algorithm Portfolios
Bryan Silverthorn
PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 2012.
2012
Learning Polarity from Structure in SAT
Bryan Silverthorn and Risto Miikkulainen
In
Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT)
, 2011. (extended abstract).
2011
Latent Class Models for Algorithm Portfolio Methods
Bryan Silverthorn and Risto Miikkulainen
In
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
, 2010.
2010
Spherical Topic Models
Joseph Reisinger, Austin Waters, Bryan Silverthorn, and Raymond J. Mooney
In
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2010)
, 2010.
2010
Spherical Topic Models
Joseph Reisinger, Austin Waters, Bryan Silverthorn, and Raymond Mooney
In
NIPS'09 workshop: Applications for Topic Models: Text and Beyond
, 2009.
2009
Software/Data
Borg
The borg project
includes a practical algorithm...
2011
Areas of Interest
Learning for Planning and Problem Solving
Unsupervised Learning, Clustering, and Self-Organization
Algorithm Portfolios
Satisfiability
Applications