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ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Fast solvers and efficient implementations for distance metric learning
In this paper we study how to improve nearest neighbor classification by learning a Mahalanobis distance metric. We build on a recently proposed framework for distance metric lear...
Kilian Q. Weinberger, Lawrence K. Saul
ICML
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Constructing informative priors using transfer learning
Many applications of supervised learning require good generalization from limited labeled data. In the Bayesian setting, we can try to achieve this goal by using an informative pr...
Rajat Raina, Andrew Y. Ng, Daphne Koller
STOC
2006
ACM
132views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Near-optimal algorithms for unique games
Unique games are constraint satisfaction problems that can be viewed as a generalization of Max-Cut to a larger domain size. The Unique Games Conjecture states that it is hard to ...
Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makary...
ICC
2007
IEEE
116views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 13 days ago
Robust Power Allocation for Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks
Relay power allocation has been shown to provide substantial performance gain in wireless relay networks when perfect global channel state information (CSI) is available. In this p...
Tony Q. S. Quek, Moe Z. Win, Hyundong Shin, Marco ...
DCOSS
2006
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Optimal Placement and Selection of Camera Network Nodes for Target Localization
The paper studies the optimal placement of multiple cameras and the selection of the best subset of cameras for single target localization in the framework of sensor networks. The ...
Ali Ozer Ercan, Danny B. Yang, Abbas El Gamal, Leo...