Communications of the ACM
Research Archive
The Research archive provides access to all Research articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
June 2020
From Communications of the ACM
Data-Driven Algorithm Design
We model the problem of identifying a good algorithm from data as a statistical learning problem.
From Communications of the ACM
Technical Perspective: Algorithm Selection as a Learning Problem
"Data-Driven Algorithm Design," by Rishi Gupta and Tim Roughgarden, addresses the issue that the best algorithm to use for many problems depends on what the input "looks like."