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IDA
2009
Springer
16 years 15 days ago
Estimating Squared-Loss Mutual Information for Independent Component Analysis
Abstract. Accurately evaluating statistical independence among random variables is a key component of Independent Component Analysis (ICA). In this paper, we employ a squared-loss ...
Taiji Suzuki, Masashi Sugiyama
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Reducing long queries using query quality predictors
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor R. Carvalho
ICAC
2008
IEEE
16 years 12 days ago
CARVE: A Cognitive Agent for Resource Value Estimation
Recently, industry has begun investigating and moving towards utility computing, where computational resources (processing, memory and I/O) are availably on demand at a market cos...
Jonathan Wildstrom, Peter Stone, Emmett Witchel
BLISS
2007
IEEE
16 years 9 days ago
Evolving the Face of a Criminal: How to Search a Face Space More Effectively
Witnesses and victims of serious crime are often required to construct a facial composite, a visual likeness of a suspect’s face. The traditional method is for them to select in...
Charlie D. Frowd, Vicki Bruce, Carol Gannon, Mark ...
UM
2007
Springer
16 years 2 days ago
Identifiability: A Fundamental Problem of Student Modeling
In this paper we show how model identifiability is an issue for student modeling: observed student performance corresponds to an infinite family of possible model parameter estimat...
Joseph E. Beck, Kai-min Chang