Occam’s razor is the principle that, given two hypotheses consistent with the observed data, the simpler one should be preferred. Many machine learning algorithms follow this pr...
A conic integer program is an integer programming problem with conic constraints. Conic integer programming has important applications in finance, engineering, statistical learnin...
We propose a novel HMM-based framework to accurately transliterate unseen named entities. The framework leverages features in letteralignment and letter n-gram pairs learned from ...
Bing Zhao, Nguyen Bach, Ian R. Lane, Stephan Vogel
We study the problem of aggregating partial rankings. This problem is motivated by applications such as meta-searching and information retrieval, search engine spam fighting, e-c...
While computers have defeated the best human players in many classic board games, progress in Go remains elusive. The large branching factor in the game makes traditional adversar...
Christopher Fellows, Yuri Malitsky, Gregory Wojtas...