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NIPS
2003
13 years 11 months ago
AUC Optimization vs. Error Rate Minimization
The area under an ROC curve (AUC) is a criterion used in many applications to measure the quality of a classification algorithm. However, the objective function optimized in most...
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Learning to rank relational objects and its application to web search
Learning to rank is a new statistical learning technology on creating a ranking model for sorting objects. The technology has been successfully applied to web search, and is becom...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
CGO
2011
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Language and compiler support for auto-tuning variable-accuracy algorithms
—Approximating ideal program outputs is a common technique for solving computationally difficult problems, for adhering to processing or timing constraints, and for performance ...
Jason Ansel, Yee Lok Wong, Cy P. Chan, Marek Olsze...
CORR
2011
Springer
177views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 5 months ago
Tuffy: Scaling up Statistical Inference in Markov Logic Networks using an RDBMS
Markov Logic Networks (MLNs) have emerged as a powerful framework that combines statistical and logical reasoning; they have been applied to many data intensive problems including...
Feng Niu, Christopher Ré, AnHai Doan, Jude ...
GECCO
2006
Springer
161views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
An empirical investigation of how and why neutrality affects evolutionary search
The effects of neutrality on evolutionary search have been considered in a number of interesting studies, the results of which, however, have been contradictory. Some researchers ...
Edgar Galván López, Riccardo Poli