— Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) is often used to evaluate ranking performance in binary classification problems. Several researchers have approached AUC optimization by approxi...
As the Web continues to grow, it has become increasingly difficult to search for relevant information using traditional search engines. Topic-specific search engines provide an al...
The success of kernel methods including support vector machines (SVMs) strongly depends on the design of appropriate kernels. While initially kernels were designed in order to han...
In this paper we present a new scheme for detection and tracking of specific objects in a knowledge-based framework. The scheme uses a supervised learning method: Support Vector M...
Lionel Carminati, Jenny Benois-Pineau, Christian J...
We study functions with multiple output values, and use active sampling to identify an example for each of the possible output values. Our results for this setting include: (1) Eff...