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MM
2005
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Formulating context-dependent similarity functions
Tasks of information retrieval depend on a good distance function for measuring similarity between data instances. The most effective distance function must be formulated in a con...
Gang Wu, Edward Y. Chang, Navneet Panda
ICCV
2009
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Local distance functions: A taxonomy, new algorithms, and an evaluation
We present a taxonomy for local distance functions where most existing algorithms can be regarded as approximations of the geodesic distance defined by a metric tensor. We categor...
Deva Ramanan, Simon Baker
IJCAI
1997
13 years 11 months ago
Learning to Improve both Efficiency and Quality of Planning
Most research in learning for planning has concentrated on efficiency gains. Another important goal is improving the quality of final plans. Learning to improve plan quality has b...
Tara A. Estlin, Raymond J. Mooney
SDM
2012
SIAM
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12 years 2 days ago
Learning Hierarchical Relationships among Partially Ordered Objects with Heterogeneous Attributes and Links
Objects linking with many other objects in an information network may imply various semantic relationships. Uncovering such knowledge is essential for role discovery, data cleanin...
Chi Wang, Jiawei Han, Qi Li, Xiang Li, Wen-Pin Lin...
CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Effects of experience bias when seeding with prior results
Abstract- Seeding the population of an evolutionary algorithm with solutions from previous runs has proved to be useful when learning control strategies for agents operating in a c...
Mitchell A. Potter, R. Paul Wiegand, H. Joseph Blu...