We consider the problem of embedding arbitrary objects (e.g., images, audio, documents) into Euclidean space subject to a partial order over pairwise distances. Partial order cons...
Most approaches to learn classifiers for structured objects (e.g., images) use generative models in a classical Bayesian framework. However, state-of-the-art classifiers for vecto...
We consider the problem of how to improve the efficiency of Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL). In literature, MKL is often solved by an alternating approach: (1) the minimization of ...
Zenglin Xu, Rong Jin, Haiqin Yang, Irwin King, Mic...
We design and analyze interacting online algorithms for multitask classification that perform better than independent learners whenever the tasks are related in a certain sense. W...
The problem of learning a transduction, that is a string-to-string mapping, is a common problem arising in natural language processing and computational biology. Previous methods ...