The paper introduces a new framework for feature learning in classification motivated by information theory. We first systematically study the information structure and present a n...
We propose a fast algorithm, EMD-L1, for computing the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) between a pair of histograms. Compared to the original formulation, EMD-L1 has a largely si...
Abstract-- Inspired by the great success of information retrieval (IR) style keyword search on the web, keyword search on XML has emerged recently. The difference between text data...
Given a set of points P and a query point q, the reverse furthest neighbor (RFN) query fetches the set of points p P such that q is their furthest neighbor among all points in P {...
Abstract-- Multi-tenant data management is a form of Software as a Service (SaaS), whereby a third party service provider hosts databases as a service and provides its customers wi...