We propose an unsupervised “local learning” algorithm for learning a metric in the input space. Geometrically, for a given query point, the algorithm finds the minimum volume ...
Existing work shows that classic decision trees have inherent deficiencies in obtaining a good probability-based ranking (e.g. AUC). This paper aims to improve the ranking perfor...
A critical problem in clustering research is the definition of a proper metric to measure distances between points. Semi-supervised clustering uses the information provided by the ...