The overwhelming success of the Web as a mechanism for facilitating information retrieval and for conducting business transactions has led to an increase in the deployment of comp...
Bowei Xi, Zhen Liu, Mukund Raghavachari, Cathy H. ...
We examine linear program (LP) approaches to boosting and demonstrate their efficient solution using LPBoost, a column generation based simplex method. We formulate the problem as...
Ayhan Demiriz, Kristin P. Bennett, John Shawe-Tayl...
Recently, models based on conditional random fields (CRF) have produced promising results on labeling sequential data in several scientific fields. However, in the vision task of c...
Huazhong Ning, Wei Xu, Yihong Gong, Thomas S. Huan...
Bayesian inference is an appealing approach for leveraging prior knowledge in reinforcement learning (RL). In this paper we describe an algorithm for discovering different classes...
Abstract. Censored quantile regressions (CQR) are a valuable tool in economics and engineering. The computation of estimators is highly complex and the performance of standard meth...