We present an algorithm, called the offset tree, for learning in situations where a loss associated with different decisions is not known, but was randomly probed. The algorithm i...
Abstract. A central task when integrating data from different sources is to detect identical items. For example, price comparison websites have to identify offers for identical p...
Abstract We present an active learning framework that predicts the tradeoff between the effort and information gain associated with a candidate image annotation, thereby ranking un...
Active learning strategies can be useful when manual labeling
effort is scarce, as they select the most informative
examples to be annotated first. However, for visual category
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Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan (University of Texas a...
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...