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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2013
The Trustees of Columbia University IN the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Tony Jebara, New York, NY (US);
Bert Huang, New York, NY (US);
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, computer program product and computer readable media for matching using degree distribution information are disclosed. An embodiment of the method can include performing b-matching on a graph data structure expanded using degree distribution information in order to identify neighbors of a selected input node. The b-matching can be performed using belief propagation. The belief propagation method is adapted to use a compressed message update rule and to be suitable for use with distributed processing systems. An embodiment can also include enhancing a matching result by applying degree distribution information to a first matching result to generate a second matching result. Embodiments for online advertisement/search term matching, product recommendation, dating service and social network matching, auction buyer/seller matching and resource allocation, among other, are disclosed.