High dimensional data that lies on or near a low dimensional manifold can be described by a collection of local linear models. Such a description, however, does not provide a glob...
Sam T. Roweis, Lawrence K. Saul, Geoffrey E. Hinto...
Approximate policy iteration methods based on temporal differences are popular in practice, and have been tested extensively, dating to the early nineties, but the associated conve...
We study a novel problem of social context summarization for Web documents. Traditional summarization research has focused on extracting informative sentences from standard docume...
Zi Yang, Keke Cai, Jie Tang, Li Zhang, Zhong Su, J...
Eigenvectors of data matrices play an important role in many computational problems, ranging from signal processing to machine learning and control. For instance, algorithms that ...
Abstract. We consider the problem of estimating an unknown probability distribution from samples using the principle of maximum entropy (maxent). To alleviate overfitting with a v...