In the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem there are k distributions associated with the rewards of playing each of k strategies (slot machine arms). The reward distributions are ini...
Abstract. Principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-known classical data analysis technique. There are a number of algorithms for solving the problem, some scaling better than o...
Cross-validation is an established technique for estimating the accuracy of a classifier and is normally performed either using a number of random test/train partitions of the dat...
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
The kernel function plays a central role in kernel methods. In this paper, we consider the automated learning of the kernel matrix over a convex combination of pre-specified kerne...