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ICMLA
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Transformation Learning Via Kernel Alignment
This article proposes an algorithm to automatically learn useful transformations of data to improve accuracy in supervised classification tasks. These transformations take the for...
Andrew Howard, Tony Jebara
ICMLA
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Conditional Prediction Intervals for Linear Regression
Peter McCullagh, Vladimir Vovk, Ilia Nouretdinov, ...
ICMLA
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Parameters for Relational Probabilistic Models with Noisy-Or Combining Rule
Languages that combine predicate logic with probabilities are needed to succinctly represent knowledge in many real-world domains. We consider a formalism based on universally qua...
Sriraam Natarajan, Prasad Tadepalli, Gautam Kunapu...
ICMLA
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Regularizing the Local Similarity Discriminant Analysis Classifier
Abstract--We investigate parameter-based and distributionbased approaches to regularizing the generative, similarity-based classifier called local similarity discriminant analysis ...
Luca Cazzanti, Maya R. Gupta
ICMLA
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A Syllable-Level Probabilistic Framework for Bird Species Identification
In this paper, we present new probabilistic models for identifying bird species from audio recordings. We introduce the independent syllable model and consider two ways of aggregat...
Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Raviv Raich, Xiaoli Fern
ICMLA
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Discovering Rules from Disk Events for Predicting Hard Drive Failures
Detecting impending failure of hard disks is an important prediction task which might help computer systems to prevent loss of data and performance degradation. Currently most of t...
Vipul Agarwal, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Thirumale ...
ICMLA
2009
13 years 9 months ago
All-Monotony: A Generalization of the All-Confidence Antimonotony
Abstract--Many studies have shown the limits of support/confidence framework used in Apriori-like algorithms to mine association rules. One solution to cope with this limitation is...
Yannick Le Bras, Philippe Lenca, Sorin Moga, St&ea...
ICMLA
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Mahalanobis Distance Based Non-negative Sparse Representation for Face Recognition
Sparse representation for machine learning has been exploited in past years. Several sparse representation based classification algorithms have been developed for some application...
Yangfeng Ji, Tong Lin, Hongbin Zha
ICMLA
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Knowledge Transfer for Feature Generation in Document Classification
One important problem in machine learning is how to extract knowledge from prior experience, then transfer and apply this knowledge in new learning tasks. To address this problem, ...
Jian Zhang, Shobhit S. Shakya
ICMLA
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Exploring Scale-Induced Feature Hierarchies in Natural Images
Recently there has been considerable interest in topic models based on the bag-of-features representation of images. The strong independence assumption inherent in the bag-of-feat...
Jukka Perkiö, Tinne Tuytelaars, Wray L. Bunti...