Low-rank matrix decompositions are essential tools in the application of kernel methods to large-scale learning problems. These decompositions have generally been treated as black...
Graph matching is an important problem in computer
vision. It is used in 2D and 3D object matching and recognition.
Despite its importance, there is little literature on
learnin...
For many machine learning solutions to complex applications, there are significant performance advantages to decomposing the overall task into several simpler sequential stages, c...
Discovering rare categories and classifying new instances of them is an important data mining issue in many fields, but fully supervised learning of a rare class classifier is pr...
Markov decision processes (MDPs) with discrete and continuous state and action components can be solved efficiently by hybrid approximate linear programming (HALP). The main idea ...