Since the publication of Brin and Page's paper on PageRank, many in the Web community have depended on PageRank for the static (query-independent) ordering of Web pages. We s...
Background: Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Consequently, identification of clinically relevant biomarkers for the early detect...
Patients undergoing thoracic radiation therapy can develop radiation pneumonitis (RP), a potentially fatal inflammation of the lungs. Support vector machines (SVMs), a statistical...
Todd W. Schiller, Yixin Chen, Issam El-Naqa, Josep...
We investigate using gradient descent methods for learning ranking functions; we propose a simple probabilistic cost function, and we introduce RankNet, an implementation of these...
Christopher J. C. Burges, Tal Shaked, Erin Renshaw...
Often the best performing supervised learning models are ensembles of hundreds or thousands of base-level classifiers. Unfortunately, the space required to store this many classif...
Cristian Bucila, Rich Caruana, Alexandru Niculescu...