High dimensional data that lies on or near a low dimensional manifold can be described by a collection of local linear models. Such a description, however, does not provide a glob...
Sam T. Roweis, Lawrence K. Saul, Geoffrey E. Hinto...
This paper is concerned with rank aggregation, the task of combining the ranking results of individual rankers at meta-search. Previously, rank aggregation was performed mainly by...
Yu-Ting Liu, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, Han...
The rise of convex programming has changed the face of many research fields in recent years, machine learning being one of the ones that benefitted the most. A very recent develop...
In this paper we consider the problem of describing the action being performed by human figures in still images. We will attack this problem using an unsupervised learning approac...
Greg Mori, Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew, Yang Wang 0003...
Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is an excellent tool for unsupervised parts-based learning, but proves to be ineffective when parts of a whole follow a specific pattern. ...