This paper is about constructing confidence bands around ROC curves. We first introduce to the machine learning community three band-generating methods from the medical field, and...
Sofus A. Macskassy, Foster J. Provost, Saharon Ros...
The scenarization of educational activities, especially those that are going to take place within elearning platforms, has for a number of years represented a major challenge for ...
Christian Martel, Laurence Vignollet, Christine Fe...
A new algorithm for training Restricted Boltzmann Machines is introduced. The algorithm, named Persistent Contrastive Divergence, is different from the standard Contrastive Diverg...
The problem of automatically tuning multiple parameters for pattern recognition Support Vector Machines (SVMs) is considered. This is done by minimizing some estimates of the gener...
Olivier Chapelle, Vladimir Vapnik, Olivier Bousque...
In the absence of explicit queries, an alternative is to try to infer users' interests from implicit feedback signals, such as clickstreams or eye tracking. The interests, fo...