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ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Kernel Autoassociator with Applications to Visual Classification
Autoassociator is an important issue in concept learning, and the learned concept of a particular class can be used to distinguish the class from the others. For nonlinear autoass...
Bailing Zhang, Haihong Zhang, Weimin Huang, Zhiyon...
ICML
2007
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Mixtures of hierarchical topics with Pachinko allocation
The four-level pachinko allocation model (PAM) (Li & McCallum, 2006) represents correlations among topics using a DAG structure. It does not, however, represent a nested hiera...
David M. Mimno, Wei Li, Andrew McCallum
ALT
2006
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Large-Margin Thresholded Ensembles for Ordinal Regression: Theory and Practice
Abstract. We propose a thresholded ensemble model for ordinal regression problems. The model consists of a weighted ensemble of confidence functions and an ordered vector of thres...
Hsuan-Tien Lin, Ling Li
UAI
2003
15 years 7 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
A probabilistic model based approach for blended search
In this paper, we propose to model the blended search problem by assuming conditional dependencies among queries, VSEs and search results. The probability distributions of this mo...
Ning Liu, Jun Yan, Zheng Chen