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COLT
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Sketching Information Divergences
When comparing discrete probability distributions, natural measures of similarity are not p distances but rather are informationdivergences such as Kullback-Leibler and Hellinger. ...
Sudipto Guha, Piotr Indyk, Andrew McGregor
COLT
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
On-Line Estimation with the Multivariate Gaussian Distribution
We consider on-line density estimation with the multivariate Gaussian distribution. In each of a sequence of trials, the learner must posit a mean µ and covariance Σ; the learner...
Sanjoy Dasgupta, Daniel Hsu
COLT
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Property Testing: A Learning Theory Perspective
Property testing deals with tasks where the goal is to distinguish between the case that an object (e.g., function or graph) has a prespecified property (e.g., the function is li...
Dana Ron
CMMR
2007
Springer
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A Meta-analysis of Timbre Perception Using Nonlinear Extensions to CLASCAL
Abstract. Seeking to identify the constituent parts of the multidimensional auditory attribute that musicians know as timbre, music psychologists have made extensive use of multidi...
John Ashley Burgoyne, Stephen McAdams
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A framework for agent-based distributed machine learning and data mining
This paper proposes a framework for agent-based distributed machine learning and data mining based on (i) the exchange of meta-level descriptions of individual learning processes ...
Jan Tozicka, Michael Rovatsos, Michal Pechoucek
ALT
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
On Universal Transfer Learning
In transfer learning the aim is to solve new learning tasks using fewer examples by using information gained from solving related tasks. Existing transfer learning methods have be...
M. M. Hassan Mahmud
ALT
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Separating Models of Learning with Faulty Teachers
Vitaly Feldman, Shrenik Shah, Neal Wadhwa
ALT
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Online Regression Competitive with Changing Predictors
This paper deals with the problem of making predictions in the online mode of learning where the dependence of the outcome yt on the signal xt can change with time. The Aggregating...
Steven Busuttil, Yuri Kalnishkan
AIME
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Hierarchical Latent Class Models and Statistical Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an important avenue for disease prevention and treatment for the Chinese people and is gaining popularity among others. However, many remain s...
Nevin Lianwen Zhang, Shihong Yuan, Tao Chen, Yi Wa...