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IDEAL
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Quantization of Continuous Input Variables for Binary Classification
Quantization of continuous variables is important in data analysis, especially for some model classes such as Bayesian networks and decision trees, which use discrete variables. Of...
Michal Skubacz, Jaakko Hollmén
UAI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
PEGASUS: A policy search method for large MDPs and POMDPs
We propose a new approach to the problem of searching a space of policies for a Markov decision process (MDP) or a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP), given a mo...
Andrew Y. Ng, Michael I. Jordan
AAAI
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Incorporating Boosted Regression Trees into Ecological Latent Variable Models
Important ecological phenomena are often observed indirectly. Consequently, probabilistic latent variable models provide an important tool, because they can include explicit model...
Rebecca A. Hutchinson, Li-Ping Liu, Thomas G. Diet...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Functional matrix factorizations for cold-start recommendation
A key challenge in recommender system research is how to effectively profile new users, a problem generally known as cold-start recommendation. Recently the idea of progressivel...
Ke Zhou, Shuang-Hong Yang, Hongyuan Zha
NIPS
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Estimating Car Insurance Premia: a Case Study in High-Dimensional Data Inference
Estimating insurance premia from data is a difficult regression problem for several reasons: the large number of variables, many of which are discrete, and the very peculiar shape...
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, J...