We show a close relationship between the Expectation - Maximization (EM) algorithm and direct optimization algorithms such as gradientbased methods for parameter learning. We iden...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
Mining data streams of changing class distributions is important for real-time business decision support. The stream classifier must evolve to reflect the current class distributi...
Haixun Wang, Jian Yin, Jian Pei, Philip S. Yu, Jef...
Cold-start scenarios in recommender systems are situations in which no prior events, like ratings or clicks, are known for certain users or items. To compute predictions in such ca...
Zeno Gantner, Lucas Drumond, Christoph Freudenthal...
Abstract. Learning in a multiagent environment is complicated by the fact that as other agents learn, the environment effectively changes. Moreover, other agents’ actions are oft...
This paper describes a novel approach to generate an optimized schedule to run threads on distributed shared memory (DSM) systems. The approach relies upon a binary instrumentatio...