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NIPS
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier C...
PKDD
2010
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Smarter Sampling in Model-Based Bayesian Reinforcement Learning
Abstract. Bayesian reinforcement learning (RL) is aimed at making more efficient use of data samples, but typically uses significantly more computation. For discrete Markov Decis...
Pablo Samuel Castro, Doina Precup
JMLR
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Considering Cost Asymmetry in Learning Classifiers
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves are a standard way to display the performance of a set of binary classifiers for all feasible ratios of the costs associated with fa...
Francis R. Bach, David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz
PKDD
2010
Springer
169views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Efficient and Numerically Stable Sparse Learning
We consider the problem of numerical stability and model density growth when training a sparse linear model from massive data. We focus on scalable algorithms that optimize certain...
Sihong Xie, Wei Fan, Olivier Verscheure, Jiangtao ...
JMLR
2012
11 years 10 months ago
Marginal Regression For Multitask Learning
Variable selection is an important and practical problem that arises in analysis of many high-dimensional datasets. Convex optimization procedures that arise from relaxing the NP-...
Mladen Kolar, Han Liu