We present a Bayesian search algorithm for learning the structure of latent variable models of continuous variables. We stress the importance of applying search operators designed...
RELIEF is considered one of the most successful algorithms for assessing the quality of features. In this paper, we propose a set of new feature weighting algorithms that perform s...
We extend Support Vector Machines to input spaces that are sets by ensuring that the classifier is invariant to permutations of subelements within each input. Such permutations in...
In medical diagnosis, doctors often have to order sets of medical tests in sequence in order to make an accurate diagnosis of patient diseases. While doing so they have to make a ...
Dimensionality reduction is an important pre-processing step for many applications. Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is one of the well known methods for supervised dimensionali...
We formalize the associative bandit problem framework introduced by Kaelbling as a learning-theory problem. The learning environment is modeled as a k-armed bandit where arm payof...
Alexander L. Strehl, Chris Mesterharm, Michael L. ...
There has been a recent, growing interest in classification and link prediction in structured domains. Methods such as conditional random fields and relational Markov networks sup...
For a Markov Decision Process with finite state (size S) and action spaces (size A per state), we propose a new algorithm--Delayed Q-Learning. We prove it is PAC, achieving near o...
Alexander L. Strehl, Lihong Li, Eric Wiewiora, Joh...
We investigate the problem of learning to predict moves in the board game of Go from game records of expert players. In particular, we obtain a probability distribution over legal...