Blocking is a technique commonly used in manual statistical analysis to account for confounding variables. However, blocking is not currently used in automated learning algorithms...
We propose a new matrix completion algorithm— Kernelized Probabilistic Matrix Factorization (KPMF), which effectively incorporates external side information into the matrix fac...
Identity management has arisen as a major and urgent challenge for internet-based communications and information services. Internet services involve complex networks of relationshi...
Entity information management (EIM) is a nascent IR research area that investigates the information management process about entities instead of documents. It is motivated by the ...
In many networks, vertices have hidden attributes that are correlated with the network's topology. For instance, in social networks, people are more likely to be friends if t...