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WSDM
2012
ACM
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12 years 1 months ago
Learning recommender systems with adaptive regularization
Many factorization models like matrix or tensor factorization have been proposed for the important application of recommender systems. The success of such factorization models dep...
Steffen Rendle
GANDC
2011
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12 years 5 months ago
Bayesian spatial modeling and interpolation using copulas
Copulas have attracted much attention in spatial statistics over the past few years. They are used as a flexible alternative to traditional methods for nonGaussian spatial modelin...
Hannes Kazianka, Jürgen Pilz
ICCV
2011
IEEE
12 years 5 months ago
Strong Supervision From Weak Annotation: Interactive Training of Deformable Part Models
We propose a framework for large scale learning and annotation of structured models. The system interleaves interactive labeling (where the current model is used to semiautomate t...
Steven Branson, Pietro Perona, Serge Belongie
DSS
2011
12 years 9 months ago
How much to spend on flexibility? Determining the value of information system flexibility
In the current paper, we outline several approaches to determine the value of information system (IS) flexibility, defined as the extent to which an IS can be modified and upgrade...
Franz Schober, Judith Gebauer
CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 9 months ago
ATC Taskload Inherent to the Geometry of Stochastic 4-D Trajectory Flows with Flight Technical Errors
—A method to quantify the probabilistic controller taskload inherent to maintaining aircraft adherence to 4-D trajectories within flow corridors is presented. Taskload is here d...
Vlad Popescu, John-Paul Clarke, Karen M. Feigh, Er...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
Constrained discriminative mapping transforms for unsupervised speaker adaptation
Discriminative mapping transforms (DMTs) is an approach to robustly adding discriminative training to unsupervised linear adaptation transforms. In unsupervised adaptation DMTs ar...
Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, K. K. Chin
CVPR
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
Multiscale Geometric and Spectral Analysis of Plane Arrangements
Modeling data by multiple low-dimensional planes is an important problem in many applications such as computer vision and pattern recognition. In the most general setting where on...
Guangliang Chen, Mauro Maggioni
IHI
2010
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13 years 19 days ago
Modeling and estimating the spatial distribution of healthcare workers
This paper describes a spatial model for healthcare workers' location in a large hospital facility. Such models have many applications in healthcare, such as supporting timea...
Donald Ephraim Curtis, Christopher S. Hlady, Srira...
CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 24 days ago
Commutative Algebra of Statistical Ranking
A model for statistical ranking is a family of probability distributions whose states are orderings of a xed nite set of items. We represent the orderings as maximal chains in a ...
Bernd Sturmfels, Volkmar Welker
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Design Compact Recognizers of Handwritten Chinese Characters Using Precision Constrained Gaussian Models, Minimum Classification
In our previous work, a precision constrained Gaussian model (PCGM) was proposed for character modeling to design compact recognizers of handwritten Chinese characters. A maximum ...
Yongqiang Wang, Qiang Huo