NIPS
2007
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2007
Electrical power management in large-scale IT systems such as commercial datacenters is an application area of rapidly growing interest from both an economic and ecological perspe...
NIPS
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
This paper introduces kernels on attributed pointsets, which are sets of vectors embedded in an euclidean space. The embedding gives the notion of neighborhood, which is used to d...
NIPS
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Automatic relevance determination (ARD) and the closely-related sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) framework are effective tools for pruning large numbers of irrelevant features leadi...
NIPS
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
In this paper, we show that classical survival analysis involving censored data can naturally be cast as a ranking problem. The concordance index (CI), which quantifies the quali...
NIPS
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
We consider the estimation problem in Gaussian graphical models with arbitrary structure. We analyze the Embedded Trees algorithm, which solves a sequence of problems on tractable...
NIPS
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
NIPS
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
This contribution develops a theoretical framework that takes into account the effect of approximate optimization on learning algorithms. The analysis shows distinct tradeoffs for...
NIPS
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
We combine three threads of research on approximate dynamic programming: sparse random sampling of states, value function and policy approximation using local models, and using lo...
NIPS
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Semi-supervised methods use unlabeled data in addition to labeled data to construct predictors. While existing semi-supervised methods have shown some promising empirical performa...
NIPS
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
We present a new class of models for high-dimensional nonparametric regression and classification called sparse additive models (SpAM). Our methods combine ideas from sparse line...