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ICML
2003
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Optimizing Classifier Performance via an Approximation to the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Statistic
When the goal is to achieve the best correct classification rate, cross entropy and mean squared error are typical cost functions used to optimize classifier performance. However,...
Lian Yan, Robert H. Dodier, Michael Mozer, Richard...
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ICML
2001
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Direct Policy Search using Paired Statistical Tests
Direct policy search is a practical way to solve reinforcement learning problems involving continuous state and action spaces. The goal becomes finding policy parameters that maxi...
Malcolm J. A. Strens, Andrew W. Moore
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COLT
1997
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Estimation of Time-Varying Parameters in Statistical Models: An Optimization Approach
Abstract. We propose a convex optimization approach to solving the nonparametric regression estimation problem when the underlying regression function is Lipschitz continuous. This...
Dimitris Bertsimas, David Gamarnik, John N. Tsitsi...
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CMMR
2004
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Methods for Combining Statistical Models of Music
Abstract. The paper concerns the use of multiple viewpoint representation schemes for prediction with statistical models of monophonic music. We present an experimental comparison ...
Marcus Pearce, Darrell Conklin, Geraint A. Wiggins
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NAACL
2003
15 years 3 months ago
Automatic Evaluation of Summaries Using N-gram Co-occurrence Statistics
Following the recent adoption by the machine translation community of automatic evaluation using the BLEU/NIST scoring process, we conduct an in-depth study of a similar idea for ...
Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard H. Hovy