In the context of large databases, data preparation takes a greater importance : instances and explanatory attributes have to be carefully selected. In supervised learning, instanc...
Tagging systems have become major infrastructures on the Web. They allow users to create tags that annotate and categorize content and share them with other users, very helpful in...
—Web-scale image search engines (e.g. Google Image Search, Bing Image Search) mostly rely on surrounding text features. It is difficult for them to interpret users’ search int...
Xiaoou Tang, Ke Liu, Jingyu Cui, Fang Wen, Xiaogan...
We present a probabilistic model-based framework for distributed learning that takes into account privacy restrictions and is applicable to scenarios where the different sites ha...
generally meta-data, so that documents on any specific subject can be transparently retrieved. While quality control can in principle still rely on the traditional methods of peer-...