A new family of boosting algorithms, denoted TaylorBoost, is proposed. It supports any combination of loss function and first or second order optimization, and includes classical...
Mohammad Saberian, Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi, Nuno Vas...
The Dirichlet compound multinomial (DCM) distribution, also called the multivariate Polya distribution, is a model for text documents that takes into account burstiness: the fact ...
We study the issue of convergence of user rates and resource prices under a family of rate control schemes called dual algorithms with arbitrary communication delays. We first con...
Background: Structural genomics initiatives were established with the aim of solving protein structures on a large-scale. For many initiatives, such as the Protein Structure Initi...
Russell L. Marsden, Tony A. Lewis, Christine A. Or...
—Biasing properly the hypothesis space of a learner has been shown to improve generalization performance. Methods for achieving this goal have been proposed, that range from desi...