We propose a new method for comparing learning algorithms on multiple tasks which is based on a novel non-parametric test that we call the Poisson binomial test. The key aspect of...
Sampling methods are a direct approach to tackle the problem of class imbalance. These methods sample a data set in order to alter the class distributions. Usually these methods ar...
Ronaldo C. Prati, Gustavo E. A. P. A. Batista, Mar...
This paper stresses the contribution of the process of knowledge discovery in databases for the effective creation and sharing of organizational knowledge. The focus on the proces...
We describe anytime search procedures that (1) find disjoint subsets of recorded variables for which the members of each subset are d-separated by a single common unrecorded cause...
Ricardo Silva, Richard Scheines, Clark Glymour, Pe...
The maximum margin clustering approach is a recently proposed extension of the concept of support vector machines to the clustering problem. Briefly stated, it aims at finding a...