We consider supervised learning of a ranking function, which is a mapping from instances to total orders over a set of labels (options). The training information consists of exampl...
With the growing use of distributed information networks, there is an increasing need for algorithmic and system solutions for data-driven knowledge acquisition using distributed,...
Doina Caragea, Jaime Reinoso, Adrian Silvescu, Vas...
Given a sample covariance matrix, we examine the problem of maximizing the variance explained by a linear combination of the input variables while constraining the number of nonze...
Alexandre d'Aspremont, Francis R. Bach, Laurent El...
The growth of the web has directly influenced the increase in the availability of relational data. One of the key problems in mining such data is computing the similarity between o...
Pradeep Muthukrishnan, Dragomir R. Radev, Qiaozhu ...
Finding recurring residue packing patterns, or spatial motifs, that characterize protein structural families is an important problem in bioinformatics. To this end, we apply a nov...
Jun Huan, Wei Wang 0010, Deepak Bandyopadhyay, Jac...