Most of the existing approaches to collaborative filtering cannot handle very large data sets. In this paper we show how a class of two-layer undirected graphical models, called R...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Andriy Mnih, Geoffrey E. Hin...
A recent trend in exemplar based unsupervised learning is to formulate the learning problem as a convex optimization problem. Convexity is achieved by restricting the set of possi...
Computer games are tremendously successful and this is why the potential of using this medium for educational purposes is increasingly recognized and researched. However, as new le...
Christina M. Steiner, Michael D. Kickmeier-Rust, D...
This paper describes ActionStreams, a system for inducing task models from observations of user activity. The model can represent several task structures: hierarchy, variable sequ...
A basic question of instruction is how effective it is in promoting student learning. This paper presents a study determining the relative efficacy of different instructional conte...