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GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Location disambiguation in local searches using gradient boosted decision trees
Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...
Ritesh Agrawal, James G. Shanahan
ETVC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Intrinsic Geometries in Learning
In a seminal paper, Amari (1998) proved that learning can be made more efficient when one uses the intrinsic Riemannian structure of the algorithms' spaces of parameters to po...
Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen
EELC
2006
118views Languages» more  EELC 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Lexicon Convergence in a Population With and Without Metacommunication
How does a shared lexicon arise in population of agents with differing lexicons, and how can this shared lexicon be maintained over multiple generations? In order to get some insig...
Zoran Macura, Jonathan Ginzburg
SODA
2004
ACM
104views Algorithms» more  SODA 2004»
13 years 8 months ago
Variable length path coupling
We present a new technique for constructing and analyzing couplings to bound the convergence rate of finite Markov chains. Our main theorem is a generalization of the path couplin...
Thomas P. Hayes, Eric Vigoda
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Convergence analysis for collective vocabulary development
We study how decentralized agents can develop a shared vocabulary without global coordination. Answering this question can help us understand the emergence of many communication s...
Jun Wang, Les Gasser, Jim Houk