Luc's articles in edited proceedings


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L. Devroye, "OMG: GW, CLT, CRT and CFTP (Flajolet Award Lecture),"
in: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms, ed. James Allen Fill, Mark Daniel Ward, pp. 1-1, 2018.


   


L. Devroye, G. Biau, "Cellular tree classifiers,"
in: Algorithmic Learning Theory, ed. Peter Auer, Alexander Clark, Thomas Zeugmann, Sandra Zilles, pp. 8-17, 2014.


   


L. Devroye, G. Lugosi, G. Neu, "Prediction by random walk perturbation,"
in: COLT 2013 - The 26th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, ed. Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Ingo Steinwart, pp. 460-473, 2013.


   


L. Devroye, X.S. Cai, "A probabilistic analysis of Kademlia networs,"
in: ISAAC 2013, pp. 0-0, 2013.


   


L. Devroye, P. Morin, "A note on interference in random networks,"
in: Proceedings of the 24th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, CCCG 2012, pp. 193-198, 2012.


   


L. Devroye, G. Biau, V. Dujmovic and A. Krzyzak, "An affine invariant k-nearest neighbor regression estimate,"
in: Proceeding is the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 1445-1447, IEEE, 2012.


   


L. Devroye, P. Bose, M. Loeffler, J. Snoeyink and V. Verma, "The spanning ratio of the Delaunay triangulation is greater than pi over 2,"
in: Proceedings of CCCG 2009, pp. 1-3, 2009.


   


L. Devroye, N. Broutin, "The height of list-tries and TST,"
in: International Conference on Analysis of Algorithms DMTCS Proceedings Series Volume XX, ed. Philippe Jacquet, pp. 0-0, 2007.


   


L. Devroye, G. Lugosi, G. Park, W. Szpankowski, "Multiple choice tries and distributed hash tables,"
in: Proceedings of th Eighteenth ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 07), pp. 891-899, 2007.




L. Devroye, "Random multivariate search trees,"
in: Learning Theory: Proceedings of COLT 2006, the 19th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, ed. Gabor Lugosi and Hans Ulrich Simon, pp. 1, Springer, 2006.




L. Devroye, "Formatting font formats,"
in: Proceedings of the Fourteenth EuroTEX Conference: Back to Typography, ed. Y. Haralambous, pp. 164, ENST, Bretagne, 2003.


   


L. Devroye, P. Bose and P. Morin, "Minimalist approximations for convex functions,"
in: JCDCG 2002: The Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry, Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, 2003.




L. Devroye, "Random tries,"
in: Algorithms and Computation: 13th International Symposium ISAAC 2002, ed. P. Bose and P. Morin, pp. 635, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002.


   


L. Devroye, R. Neininger, "A note on random suffix search trees,"
in: Mathematics and Computer Science II Algorithms, Trees, Combinatorics and Probability, ed. B. Chauvin, P. Flajolet, D. Gardy and A. Mokkadem, pp. 267-278, Birkh\"auser-Verlag, Basel, 2002.


   


L. Devroye, C. McDiarmid, B. Reed, "Giant components for two expanding graph processes,"
in: Mathematics and Computer Science II Algorithms, Trees, Combinatorics and Probability, ed. B. Chauvin, P. Flajolet, D. Gardy and A. Mokkadem, pp. 161-173, Birkh\"auser-Verlag, Basel, 2002.


   


L. Devroye, L. Gy\"orfi, "Distribution and density estimation,"
in: Principles of Nonparametric Learning, ed. L. Gy\"orfi, pp. 211-270, Springer-Verlag, Wien, cism.ps.


   


L. Devroye, "Branching processes (four invited talks),"
in: Probabilistic Methods for Algorithmic Discrete Mathematics, ed. M. Habib, C. McDiarmid, J. Ramirez-Alfonsin and B. Reed, pp. 249-314, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998.


   


L. Devroye, "Random variate generation in one line of code,"
in: 1996 Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings, ed. J.M. Charnes, D.J. Morrice, D.T. Brunner and J.J. Swain, pp. 265-272, ACM, 1996.




L. Devroye, "Sur l'estimation des densit\'es,"
in: Recueil des r\'esum\`es des communications des XXVIII\`emes Journ\'ees de statistique, pp. 44, Bureau de la statistique du Qu\'ebec, 1996.


   


L. Devroye, P. Kruszewski, "The botanical beauty of random binary trees,"
in: Graph Drawing 95, ed. F. Brandenburg, pp. 166-177, Springer-Verlag, 1995.


   


L. Devroye, "Random optimization methods,"
in: New Directions in Simulation for Manufacturing and Communications, ed. S. Morito, H. Sakasegawa, K. Yoneda, M. Fushimi and K. Nakano, pp. 20-31, Operations Research Society of Japan, 1994.




L. Devroye, Olivier Kamoun, "Probabilistic min-max trees,"
in: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on AI and Statistics, ed. P. Cheeseman, pp. 0-0, 0, 1993.


   


L. Devroye, "Generation of random objects,"
in: 1992 Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings, ed. J.J. Swain, D. Goldsman, R.C. Crain and J.R. Wilson, pp. 270-279, ACM, Baltimore, MD, 1992.


   


L. Devroye, "Exponential inequalities in nonparametric estimation,"
in: Nonparametric Functional Estimation and Related Topics, ed. G. Roussas, pp. 31-44, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1991.


   


L. Devroye, "Generating sums in constant average time,"
in: Proceedings of the 1988 Winter Simulation Conference, ed. M. A. Abrams, P. L. Haigh and J. C. Comfort, pp. 425-431, IEEE, 1988.


   


L. Devroye, "Sample-based non-uniform random variate generation,"
in: Proceedings of the 1986 Winter Simulation Conference, ed. J. Wilson, J. Henriksen, S. Roberts, pp. 260-265, IEEE, 1986.


   


L. Devroye, "Automatic selection of a discrimination rule based upon minimization of the empirical risk,"
in: Proceedings of the NASI Workshop on Pattern Recognition, NATO ASI Series, Vol. F30, ed. P. Devijver and J. Kittler, pp. 35-46, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1986.


   


L. Devroye, "Topics in global convergence of density estimates,"
in: Proceedings of the NASA Workshop on Density Estimation, ed. L.F. Guseman, pp. 9-19, Department of Mathematics, Texas A\&M University, 1982.


   


L. Devroye, "Recent results in non-uniform random variate generation,"
in: 1981 Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings, ed. T.I. Oren, C.M. Delfosse, C.M. Shub, pp. 517-521, IEEE, 1981.


   


L. Devroye, "Recent results on the average time behavior of some algorithms in computational geometry,"
in: Computer Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on the Interface, ed. W.F. Eddy, pp. 76-82, Springer-Verlag, 1981.


   


L. Devroye, "The strong convergence of empirical nearest neighbor estimates of integrals,"
in: Statistics and Related Topics, ed. M. Csorgo, D.A. Dawson, J.N.K. Rao, A.K.M.E. Saleh, pp. 243-252, North-Holland, 1981.


   


L. Devroye, "Some properties of the k-nearest neighbor rule,"
in: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 103-105, IEEE, 1980.


   


L. Devroye, "Distribution-free consistency results in discrimination,"
in: Proceedings AFOSR Workshop in Communication Theory and Applications, pp. 38-42, IEEE, 1978.


   


L. Devroye, T.J. Wagner, "The strong uniform convergence of kernel density estimates,"
in: Multivariate Analysis V, ed. P.R. Krishnaiah, pp. 59-77, North-Holland, 1980.


   


L. Devroye, "A universal k-nearest neighbor procedure in clustering and discrimination,"
in: Proceedings of the 1978 Computer Society Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, pp. 142-147, IEEE, 1978.


   


L. Devroye, G.L. Wise, "On the estimation of discrete probability densities from noisy measurements,"
in: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp. 211-220, 1977.


   


L. Devroye, G.L. Wise, "Nonparametric detection of changes in system characteristics,"
in: Proceedings of the 20th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1977.


   


L. Devroye, T.J. Wagner, "Asymptotic properties of clustering algorithms,"
in: Proceedings PRIP 77, pp. 321-322, IEEE, 1977.


   


L. Devroye, T.J. Wagner, "Distribution-free performance bounds with the resubstitution error estimate,"
in: Proceedings PRIP 77, pp. 323-326, IEEE, 1977.


   


L. Devroye, "On random search with a learning memory,"
in: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Society, pp. 704-711, IEEE, 1976.


   


L. Devroye, T.J. Wagner, "A distribution-free performance bound in error estimation,"
in: Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 267-272, IEEE, 1976.


   


L. Devroye, "On the properties of convergence of statistical search,"
in: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 250-255, IEEE, 1974.


   


L. Devroye, "A mixed stochastic optimization algorithm and its applications in pattern recognition,"
in: Proceedings of the 1973 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 356-360, IEEE, 1973.


   


L. Devroye, "The compound random search algorithm,"
in: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Systems Engineering, pp. 105-110, 1972.


  



Luc Devroye
School of Computer Science
McGill University
Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6
lucdevroye@gmail.ca
https://luc.devroye.org