Nearest neighbor forecasting models are attractive with their simplicity and the ability to predict complex nonlinear behavior. They rely on the assumption that observations simila...
Semi-supervised clustering uses the limited background knowledge to aid unsupervised clustering algorithms. Recently, a kernel method for semi-supervised clustering has been introd...
A critical problem in clustering research is the definition of a proper metric to measure distances between points. Semi-supervised clustering uses the information provided by the ...
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a new method for learning to rank. `Ranking SVM' is a method for performing the task. It formulizes the problem as that of binary classific...
This paper presents a decoupled two stage solution to the multiple-instance learning (MIL) problem. With a constructed affinity matrix to reflect the instance relations, a modified...
We present a new class of perceptron-like algorithms with margin in which the "effective" learning rate, defined as the ratio of the learning rate to the length of the we...
We describe a reinforcement learning system that transfers skills from a previously learned source task to a related target task. The system uses inductive logic programming to ana...
Lisa Torrey, Jude W. Shavlik, Trevor Walker, Richa...
Abstract. Greedy machine learning algorithms suffer from shortsightedness, potentially returning suboptimal models due to limited exploration of the search space. Greedy search mis...
In many graph-based semi-supervised learning algorithms, edge weights are assumed to be fixed and determined by the data points' (often symmetric) relationships in input space...