We consider the problem of incorporating end-user advice into reinforcement learning (RL). In our setting, the learner alternates between practicing, where learning is based on ac...
Kshitij Judah, Saikat Roy, Alan Fern, Thomas G. Di...
In order to improve the user search experience, Query Suggestion, a technique for generating alternative queries to Web users, has become an indispensable feature for commercial s...
Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) can be formulated as a convex-concave minmax optimization problem, whose saddle point corresponds to the optimal solution to MKL. Most MKL methods e...
Zenglin Xu, Rong Jin, Shenghuo Zhu, Michael R. Lyu...
Modeling human behavior requires vast quantities of accurately labeled training data, but for ubiquitous people-aware applications such data is rarely attainable. Even researchers...
Daniel Peebles, Hong Lu, Nicholas D. Lane, Tanzeem...
Many machine learning applications that involve relational databases incorporate first-order logic and probability. Markov Logic Networks (MLNs) are a prominent statistical relati...
Hassan Khosravi, Oliver Schulte, Tong Man, Xiaoyua...