Abstract. A crucial problem in machine learning is to choose an appropriate representation of data, in a way that emphasizes the relations we are interested in. In many cases this ...
In this paper, we present an information-theoretic approach to learning a Mahalanobis distance function. We formulate the problem as that of minimizing the differential relative e...
Jason V. Davis, Brian Kulis, Prateek Jain, Suvrit ...
Heuristic search effectiveness depends directly upon the quality of heuristic evaluations of states in the search space. We show why ordinal correlation is relevant to heuristic se...
We consider the problem of computing the Euclidean projection of a vector of length n onto a closed convex set including the 1 ball and the specialized polyhedra employed in (Shal...
We describe a novel family of PAC model algorithms for learning linear threshold functions. The new algorithms work by boosting a simple weak learner and exhibit complexity bounds...