Abstract— Autonomous robot navigation in unstructured outdoor environments is a challenging and largely unsolved area of active research. The navigation task requires identifying...
Michael J. Procopio, Jane Mulligan, Gregory Z. Gru...
Web image search using text queries has received considerable attention. However, current state-of-the-art approaches require training models for every new query, and are therefore...
Josip Krapac, Moray Allan, Jakob Verbeek, Frédér...
Abstract. The standard business model in the sponsored search marketplace is to sell click-throughs to the advertisers. This involves running an auction that allocates advertisemen...
Sai-Ming Li, Mohammad Mahdian, Randolph Preston Mc...
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
Learning-to-rank algorithms, which can automatically adapt ranking functions in web search, require a large volume of training data. A traditional way of generating training examp...