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ECTEL
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Using MotSaRT to Support On-Line Teachers in Student Motivation
Motivation to learn is affected by a student’s self-efficacy, goal orientation, locus of control and perceived task difficulty. In the classroom, teachers know how to motivate th...
Teresa Hurley, Stephan Weibelzahl
COLT
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
DNF Are Teachable in the Average Case
We study the average number of well-chosen labeled examples that are required for a helpful teacher to uniquely specify a target function within a concept class. This "average...
Homin K. Lee, Rocco A. Servedio, Andrew Wan
KDD
2007
ACM
132views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
A scalable modular convex solver for regularized risk minimization
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 different r...
Choon Hui Teo, Alex J. Smola, S. V. N. Vishwanatha...
EMMCVPR
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Increasing Efficiency of SVM by Adaptively Penalizing Outliers
In this paper, a novel training method is proposed to increase the classification efficiency of support vector machine (SVM). The efficiency of the SVM is determined by the number ...
Yiqiang Zhan, Dinggang Shen
ICASSP
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Protein Fold Recognition using Residue-Based Alignments of Sequence and Secondary Structure
Protein structure prediction aims to determine the three-dimensional structure of proteins form their amino acid sequences. When a protein does not have similarity (homology) to a...
Zafer Aydin, Hakan Erdogan, Yucel Altunbasak