Generalization bounds depending on the margin of a classifier are a relatively recent development. They provide an explanation of the performance of state-of-the-art learning syste...
Prosodic information has been successfully used for speaker recognition for more than a decade. The best-performing prosodic system to date has been one based on features extracte...
Luciana Ferrer, Nicolas Scheffer, Elizabeth Shribe...
We attack the task of predicting which news-stories are more appealing to a given audience by comparing ‘most popular stories’, gathered from various online news outlets, over ...
Elena Hensinger, Ilias N. Flaounas, Nello Cristian...
A wide variety of machine learning problems can be described as minimizing a regularized risk functional, with different algorithms using different notions of risk and differen...
Choon Hui Teo, S. V. N. Vishwanathan, Alex J. Smol...
Abstract--Imbalanced data sets present a particular challenge to the data mining community. Often, it is the rare event that is of interest and the cost of misclassifying the rare ...