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COLT
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
How Good Is a Kernel When Used as a Similarity Measure?
Recently, Balcan and Blum [1] suggested a theory of learning based on general similarity functions, instead of positive semi-definite kernels. We study the gap between the learnin...
Nathan Srebro
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
How to Select a Good Alternate Path in Large Peer-to-Peer Systems?
Abstract— When multiple paths are available between communicating hosts, application quality can be improved by switching among them to always use the best one. The key to such a...
Teng Fei, Shu Tao, Lixin Gao, Roch Guérin
EUROCRYPT
2001
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Priced Oblivious Transfer: How to Sell Digital Goods
Abstract. We consider the question of protecting the privacy of customers buying digital goods. More specifically, our goal is to allow a buyer to purchase digital goods from a ve...
William Aiello, Yuval Ishai, Omer Reingold
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
NN
2000
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
How good are support vector machines?
Support vector (SV) machines are useful tools to classify populations characterized by abrupt decreases in density functions. At least for one class of Gaussian data model the SV ...
Sarunas Raudys