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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
A Probabilistic Architecture for Algorithm Portfolios
Bryan Silverthorn
PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 2012.
2012
Surviving Solver Sensitivity: An ASP Practitioner's Guide
Bryan Silverthorn, Yuliya Lierler and Marius Schneider
In
International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP)
, 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