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ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
A Fast, Bottom-Up Decision Tree Pruning Algorithm with Near-Optimal Generalization
In this work, we present a new bottom-up algorithmfor decision tree pruning that is very e cient requiring only a single pass through the given tree, and prove a strong performanc...
Michael J. Kearns, Yishay Mansour
KDD
2009
ACM
191views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Improving data mining utility with projective sampling
Overall performance of the data mining process depends not just on the value of the induced knowledge but also on various costs of the process itself such as the cost of acquiring...
Mark Last
EDBT
2008
ACM
160views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Why go logarithmic if we can go linear?: Towards effective distinct counting of search traffic
Estimating the number of distinct elements in a large multiset has several applications, and hence has attracted active research in the past two decades. Several sampling and sket...
Ahmed Metwally, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
BMCBI
2010
97views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Biomarker discovery in heterogeneous tissue samples -taking the in-silico deconfounding approach
Background: For heterogeneous tissues, such as blood, measurements of gene expression are confounded by relative proportions of cell types involved. Conclusions have to rely on es...
Dirk Repsilber, Sabine Kern, Anna Telaar, Gerhard ...
IEICET
2010
207views more  IEICET 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
A Semi-Supervised Approach to Perceived Age Prediction from Face Images
We address the problem of perceived age estimation from face images, and propose a new semi-supervised approach involving two novel aspects. The first novelty is an efficient act...
Kazuya Ueki, Masashi Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Ihara