Recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the quantity of image data collected, due to advances in fields such as medical imaging, reconnaissance, surveillance, astronomy...
Given a dataset, each element of which labeled by one of k labels, we construct by a very fast algorithm, a k-category proximal support vector machine (PSVM) classifier. Proximal s...
The success of "infinite-inventory" retailers such as Amazon.com and Netflix has been ascribed to a "long tail" phenomenon. To wit, while the majority of their...
Andrei Z. Broder, Bo Pang, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Sh...
Activity in social media such as blogs, micro-blogs, social networks, etc is manifested via interaction that involves text, images, links and other information items. Naturally, s...
A lot of the world’s knowledge is stored in books, which, as a result of recent mass-digitisation efforts, are increasingly available online. Search engines, such as Google Book...