In this paper we provide a fast, data-driven solution to the failing query problem: given a query that returns an empty answer, how can one relax the query's constraints so t...
Learning theory has largely focused on two main learning scenarios. The first is the classical statistical setting where instances are drawn i.i.d. from a fixed distribution and...
Alexander Rakhlin, Karthik Sridharan, Ambuj Tewari
Since the emergence of extensive multimedia data, feature fusion has been more and more important for image and video retrieval, indexing and annotation. Existing feature fusion t...
Yun Fu, Liangliang Cao, Guodong Guo, Thomas S. Hua...
It is important yet hard to identify navigational queries in Web search due to a lack of sufficient information in Web queries, which are typically very short. In this paper we st...
Learning to cope with domain change has been known
as a challenging problem in many real-world applications.
This paper proposes a novel and efficient approach, named
domain ada...
Yu-Gang Jiang, Jun Wang, Shih-Fu Chang, Chong-Wah ...