In contextual advertising, estimating the number of impressions of an ad is critical in planning and budgeting advertising campaigns. However, producing this forecast, even within...
Xuerui Wang, Andrei Z. Broder, Marcus Fontoura, Va...
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a popular data-analytic tool for studying the class relationship between data points. A major disadvantage of LDA is that it fails to discove...
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Kun Zhou, Jiawei Han, Hujun ...
This paper presents a stagewise least square (SLS) loss function for classification. It uses a least square form within each stage to approximate a bounded monotonic nonconvex los...
The bias-variance decomposition is a very useful and widely-used tool for understanding machine-learning algorithms. It was originally developed for squared loss. In recent years,...
Uncertainty pervades many domains in our lives. Current real-life applications, e.g., location tracking using GPS devices or cell phones, multimedia feature extraction, and sensor...
George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas