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AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Aligning Mixed Manifolds
Current manifold alignment methods can effectively align data sets that are drawn from a non-intersecting set of manifolds. However, as data sets become increasingly high-dimensio...
Thomas Boucher, C. J. Carey, Sridhar Mahadevan, Me...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
A Convex Formulation for Spectral Shrunk Clustering
Spectral clustering is a fundamental technique in the field of data mining and information processing. Most existing spectral clustering algorithms integrate dimensionality reduc...
Xiaojun Chang, Feiping Nie, Zhigang Ma, Yi Yang, X...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Submodular Surrogates for Value of Information
How should we gather information to make effective decisions? A classical answer to this fundamental problem is given by the decision-theoretic value of information. Unfortunately...
Yuxin Chen, Shervin Javdani, Amin Karbasi, J. Andr...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Cooperating with Unknown Teammates in Complex Domains: A Robot Soccer Case Study of Ad Hoc Teamwork
Many scenarios require that robots work together as a team in order to effectively accomplish their tasks. However, precoordinating these teams may not always be possible given th...
Samuel Barrett, Peter Stone
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Risk Based Optimization for Improving Emergency Medical Systems
In emergency medical systems, arriving at the incident location a few seconds early can save a human life. Thus, this paper is motivated by the need to reduce the response time ...
Sandhya Saisubramanian, Pradeep Varakantham, Hoong...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Leveraging Common Structure to Improve Prediction across Related Datasets
In many applications, training data is provided in the form of related datasets obtained from several sources, which typically affects the sample distribution. The learned classi...
Matt Barnes, Nick Gisolfi, Madalina Fiterau, Artur...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Low-Rank Similarity Metric Learning in High Dimensions
Metric learning has become a widespreadly used tool in machine learning. To reduce expensive costs brought in by increasing dimensionality, low-rank metric learning arises as it c...
Wei Liu, Cun Mu, Rongrong Ji, Shiqian Ma, John R. ...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Toward Mobile Robots Reasoning Like Humans
Robots are increasingly becoming key players in human-robot teams. To become effective teammates, robots must possess profound understanding of an environment, be able to reason a...
Jean H. Oh, Arne Suppé, Felix Duvallet, Abd...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
FACES: Diversity-Aware Entity Summarization Using Incremental Hierarchical Conceptual Clustering
Semantic Web documents that encode facts about entities on the Web have been growing rapidly in size and evolving over time. Creating summaries on lengthy Semantic Web documents f...
Kalpa Gunaratna, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit ...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Factored MCTS for Large Scale Stochastic Planning
This paper investigates stochastic planning problems with large factored state and action spaces. We show that even with moderate increase in the size of existing challenge proble...
Hao Cui, Roni Khardon, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli