— A key step in many statistical learning methods used in machine learning involves solving a convex optimization problem containing one or more hyper-parameters that must be sel...
Kristin P. Bennett, Jing Hu, Xiaoyun Ji, Gautam Ku...
A bayesian network is an appropriate tool for working with uncertainty and probability, that are typical of real-life applications. In literature we find different approaches for b...
Evelina Lamma, Fabrizio Riguzzi, Andrea Stambazzi,...
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
In this paper we are interested in describing Web pages by how users interact within their contents. Thus, an alternate but complementary way of labelling and classifying Web docu...
A serious problem in learning probabilistic models is the presence of hidden variables. These variables are not observed, yet interact with several of the observed variables. As s...
Gal Elidan, Noam Lotner, Nir Friedman, Daphne Koll...