Self-adaptation of the mutation strengths is a powerful mechanism in evolution strategies (ES), but it can fail. As a consequence premature convergence or ending up in a local opt...
We investigate four hierarchical clustering methods (single-link, complete-link, groupwise-average, and single-pass) and two linguistically motivated text features (noun phrase he...
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Luis Gravano, Ankineed...
This paper presents multi-conditional learning (MCL), a training criterion based on a product of multiple conditional likelihoods. When combining the traditional conditional proba...
Andrew McCallum, Chris Pal, Gregory Druck, Xuerui ...
Heuristics used by search algorithms are usually composed of more primitive functions which we call "features". A method for combining features is presented which is bas...
We show that the set Bn of balanced parenthesis strings with n left and n right parentheses can be generated by prefix shifts. If b1, b2, . . . , b2n is a member of Bn, then the k...