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KDD
2009
ACM
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Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds"
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based “crowd-sourcing” mo...
Winter A. Mason, Duncan J. Watts
KDD
2009
ACM
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Online allocation of display advertisements subject to advanced sales contracts
In this paper we propose a utility model that accounts for both sales and branding advertisers. We first study the computational complexity of optimization problems related to bo...
Saeed Alaei, Esteban Arcaute, Samir Khuller, Wenji...
ICDM
2009
IEEE
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Discriminative Mixed-Membership Models
Although mixed-membership models have achieved great success in unsupervised learning, they have not been widely applied to classification problems. In this paper, we propose a f...
Hanhuai Shan, Arindam Banerjee, Nikunj C. Oza
INCDM
2009
Springer
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Computer-Aided Diagnosis in Brain Computed Tomography Screening
Currently, interpretation of medical images is almost exclusively made by specialized physicians. Although, the next decades will most certainly be of change and computer-aided dia...
Hugo Peixoto, Victor Alves
PKDD
2009
Springer
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Feature Selection for Value Function Approximation Using Bayesian Model Selection
Abstract. Feature selection in reinforcement learning (RL), i.e. choosing basis functions such that useful approximations of the unkown value function can be obtained, is one of th...
Tobias Jung, Peter Stone