The set k‐covering problem, an extension of the classical set covering problem, is an important NP‐hard combinatorial optimization problem with extensive applications, including computational biology and wireless network. The aim of this paper is to design a new local search algorithm to solve this problem. First, to overcome the cycling problem in local search, the set k‐covering configuration checking (SKCC) strategy is proposed. Second, we use the cost scheme of elements to define the scoring mechanism so that our algorithm can find different possible good‐quality solutions. Having combined the SKCC strategy with the scoring mechanism, a subset selection strategy is designed to decide which subset should be selected as a candidate solution component. After that, a novel local search framework, as we call DLLccsm (diversion local search based on configuration checking and scoring mechanism), is proposed. DLLccsm is evaluated against two state‐of‐the‐art algorithms. The experimental results show that DLLccsm performs better than its competitors in terms of solution quality in most classical instances.
Distant supervision for neural relation extraction is an efficient approach to extracting massive relations with reference to plain texts. However, the existing neural methods fail to capture the critical words in sentence encoding and meanwhile lack useful sentence information for some positive training instances. To address the above issues, we propose a novel neural relation extraction model. First, we develop a word-level attention mechanism to distinguish the importance of each individual word in a sentence, increasing the attention weights for those critical words. Second, we investigate the semantic information from word embeddings of target entities, which can be developed as a supplementary feature for the extractor. Experimental results show that our model outperforms previous state-of-the-art baselines.
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