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

The borg project includes a practical algorithm...

2011
Demos
Model-Based Visualization of Solver Performance DataBryan Silverthorn2011
Labs
Formerly affiliated with Neural Networks