Fikret Sivrikaya

Internet of Smart City Objects: A Distributed Framework for Service Discovery and Composition

2019 · IEEE Access

Smart cities generally aim at efficiently organizing and managing city resources through a digital layer on top of the legacy infrastructure. As the digitalization trend goes on with an increasing pace and with the involvement …

Graduated Optimization of Black-Box Functions

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Motivated by the problem of tuning hyperparameters in machine learning, we present a new approach for gradually and adaptively optimizing an unknown function using estimated gradients. We validate the empirical performance of the proposed idea …