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ICML
2007
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Information-theoretic metric learning
In this paper, we present an information-theoretic approach to learning a Mahalanobis distance function. We formulate the problem as that of minimizing the differential relative e...
Jason V. Davis, Brian Kulis, Prateek Jain, Suvrit ...
CORR
2006
Springer
101views Education» more  CORR 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Metric State Space Reinforcement Learning for a Vision-Capable Mobile Robot
We address the problem of autonomously learning controllers for visioncapable mobile robots. We extend McCallum's (1995) Nearest-Sequence Memory algorithm to allow for genera...
Viktor Zhumatiy, Faustino J. Gomez, Marcus Hutter,...
BMCBI
2006
173views more  BMCBI 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Kernel-based distance metric learning for microarray data classification
Background: The most fundamental task using gene expression data in clinical oncology is to classify tissue samples according to their gene expression levels. Compared with tradit...
Huilin Xiong, Xue-wen Chen
ICDE
2009
IEEE
140views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 11 months ago
Predicting Multiple Metrics for Queries: Better Decisions Enabled by Machine Learning
One of the most challenging aspects of managing a very large data warehouse is identifying how queries will behave before they start executing. Yet knowing their performance charac...
Archana Ganapathi, Harumi A. Kuno, Umeshwar Dayal,...
WSDM
2010
ACM
261views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Learning Similarity Metrics for Event Identification in Social Media
Social media sites (e.g., Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook) are a popular distribution outlet for users looking to share their experiences and interests on the Web. These sites host ...
Hila Becker, Mor Naaman, Luis Gravano