This paper is about constructing confidence bands around ROC curves. We first introduce to the machine learning community three band-generating methods from the medical field, and...
Sofus A. Macskassy, Foster J. Provost, Saharon Ros...
We consider learning in a Markov decision process where we are not explicitly given a reward function, but where instead we can observe an expert demonstrating the task that we wa...
We investigate methods for planning in a Markov Decision Process where the cost function is chosen by an adversary after we fix our policy. As a running example, we consider a rob...
H. Brendan McMahan, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Avrim Blum
Based on the type of collaborative objects, a collaborative filtering (CF) system falls into one of two categories: item-based CF and user-based CF. Clustering is the basic idea i...
Many websites have a hierarchical organization of content. This organization may be quite different from the organization expected by visitors to the website. In particular, it is...