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2007
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Direct Importance Estimation with Model Selection and Its Application to Covariate Shift Adaptation
A situation where training and test samples follow different input distributions is called covariate shift. Under covariate shift, standard learning methods such as maximum likeli...
Masashi Sugiyama, Shinichi Nakajima, Hisashi Kashi...
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Boosting Algorithms for Maximizing the Soft Margin
We present a novel boosting algorithm, called SoftBoost, designed for sets of binary labeled examples that are not necessarily separable by convex combinations of base hypotheses....
Manfred K. Warmuth, Karen A. Glocer, Gunnar Rä...
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
TrueSkill Through Time: Revisiting the History of Chess
We extend the Bayesian skill rating system TrueSkill to infer entire time series of skills of players by smoothing through time instead of filtering. The skill of each participat...
Pierre Dangauthier, Ralf Herbrich, Tom Minka, Thor...
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
The Distribution Family of Similarity Distances
Assessing similarity between features is a key step in object recognition and scene categorization tasks. We argue that knowledge on the distribution of distances generated by sim...
Gertjan J. Burghouts, Arnold W. M. Smeulders, Jan-...
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Multiple-Instance Active Learning
We present a framework for active learning in the multiple-instance (MI) setting. In an MI learning problem, instances are naturally organized into bags and it is the bags, instea...
Burr Settles, Mark Craven, Soumya Ray