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DL
1998
Springer
110views Digital Library» more  DL 1998»
13 years 12 months ago
Failure Analysis in Query Construction: Data and Analysis from a Large Sample of Web Queries
This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Tefko Saracevic
NIPS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Sampling Methods for Unsupervised Learning
We present an algorithm to overcome the local maxima problem in estimating the parameters of mixture models. It combines existing approaches from both EM and a robust fitting algo...
Robert Fergus, Andrew Zisserman, Pietro Perona
PRL
2006
106views more  PRL 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Invariances in kernel methods: From samples to objects
This paper presents a general method for incorporating prior knowledge into kernel methods such as Support Vector Machines. It applies when the prior knowledge can be formalized b...
Alexei Pozdnoukhov, Samy Bengio
ICDE
2002
IEEE
146views Database» more  ICDE 2002»
14 years 9 months ago
Query Estimation by Adaptive Sampling
The ability to provide accurate and efficient result estimations of user queries is very important for the query optimizer in database systems. In this paper, we show that the tra...
Yi-Leh Wu, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
ICRA
2005
IEEE
118views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Planning with Continuous Actions in Partially Observable Environments
Abstract— We present a simple randomized POMDP algorithm for planning with continuous actions in partially observable environments. Our algorithm operates on a set of reachable b...
Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Nikos A. Vlassis