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CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Metaheuristics such as Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and the Cross-Entropy method use probabilistic modelling and inference to generate candidate solutions in optimizat...
ACL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
2006
We propose a new hierarchical Bayesian n-gram model of natural languages. Our model makes use of a generalization of the commonly used Dirichlet distributions called Pitman-Yor pr...
WSC
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Combinatorial auctions, where buyers can bid on bundles of items rather than bidding them sequentially, often lead to more economically efficient allocations of financial resource...
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper aims to conduct a study on the listwise approach to learning to rank. The listwise approach learns a ranking function by taking individual lists as instances and minimi...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. This paper presents an empirical study on four techniques of language model adaptation, including a maximum a posteriori (MAP) method and three discriminative training mo...