We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
The paper presents a method for generating solutions of a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) uniformly at random. The main idea is to express the CSP as a factored probability d...
This paper proposes the use of neural network ensembles to boost the performance of a neural network based surface reconstruction algorithm. Ensemble is a very popular and powerfu...
Ioannis P. Ivrissimtzis, Yunjin Lee, Seungyong Lee...
Classification trees are widely used in the machine learning and data mining communities for modeling propositional data. Recent work has extended this basic paradigm to probabili...
Jennifer Neville, David Jensen, Lisa Friedland, Mi...
We consider a supervised learning setting in which the main cost of learning is the number of training labels and one can obtain a single label for a bag of examples, indicating o...