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MLDM
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
A Grouping Method for Categorical Attributes Having Very Large Number of Values
In supervised machine learning, the partitioning of the values (also called grouping) of a categorical attribute aims at constructing a new synthetic attribute which keeps the info...
Marc Boullé
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ICML
2003
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Optimization with EM and Expectation-Conjugate-Gradient
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...
ICONIP
2007
15 years 3 months ago
Natural Conjugate Gradient in Variational Inference
Variational methods for approximate inference in machine learning often adapt a parametric probability distribution to optimize a given objective function. This view is especially ...
Antti Honkela, Matti Tornio, Tapani Raiko, Juha Ka...
113
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UAI
2003
15 years 3 months ago
Locally Weighted Naive Bayes
Despite its simplicity, the naive Bayes classifier has surprised machine learning researchers by exhibiting good performance on a variety of learning problems. Encouraged by thes...
Eibe Frank, Mark Hall, Bernhard Pfahringer
101
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KDD
2009
ACM
156views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
16 years 2 months ago
Multi-focal learning and its application to customer service support
In this study, we formalize a multi-focal learning problem, where training data are partitioned into several different focal groups and the prediction model will be learned within...
Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Wenjun Zhou, Ramendra K. Sahoo...