Abstract. The much-publicized Netflix competition has put the spotlight on the application domain of collaborative filtering and has sparked interest in machine learning algorithms...
Privacy is a huge problem for users of social networking sites. While sites like Facebook allow individual users to personalize fine-grained privacy settings, this has proven quit...
Lujun Fang, Heedo Kim, Kristen LeFevre, Aaron Tami
Feature ranking is a fundamental machine learning task with various applications, including feature selection and decision tree learning. We describe and analyze a new feature ran...
Kernels are two-placed functions that can be interpreted as inner products in some Hilbert space. It is this property which makes kernels predestinated to carry linear models of l...
Clustering is a central unsupervised learning task with a wide variety of applications. Not surprisingly, there exist many clustering algorithms. However, unlike classification ta...