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COLT
1999
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Beating the Hold-Out: Bounds for K-fold and Progressive Cross-Validation
The empirical error on a test set, the hold-out estimate, often is a more reliable estimate of generalization error than the observed error on the training set, the training estim...
Avrim Blum, Adam Kalai, John Langford
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Trada: tree based ranking function adaptation
Machine Learned Ranking approaches have shown successes in web search engines. With the increasing demands on developing effective ranking functions for different search domains, ...
Keke Chen, Rongqing Lu, C. K. Wong, Gordon Sun, La...
NIPS
1993
15 years 7 months ago
Using Local Trajectory Optimizers to Speed Up Global Optimization in Dynamic Programming
Dynamic programming provides a methodology to develop planners and controllers for nonlinear systems. However, general dynamic programming is computationally intractable. We have ...
Christopher G. Atkeson
CORR
2010
Springer
114views Education» more  CORR 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Settling the Polynomial Learnability of Mixtures of Gaussians
Given data drawn from a mixture of multivariate Gaussians, a basic problem is to accurately estimate the mixture parameters. We give an algorithm for this problem that has running ...
Ankur Moitra, Gregory Valiant
KDD
2005
ACM
163views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
16 years 6 months ago
Data Sparsity Issues in the Collaborative Filtering Framework
Abstract. With the amount of available information on the Web growing rapidly with each day, the need to automatically filter the information in order to ensure greater user effici...
Miha Grcar, Dunja Mladenic, Blaz Fortuna, Marko Gr...