Many learning algorithms rely on the curvature (in particular, strong convexity) of regularized objective functions to provide good theoretical performance guarantees. In practice...
Given a sample covariance matrix, we examine the problem of maximizing the variance explained by a particular linear combination of the input variables while constraining the numb...
Alexandre d'Aspremont, Francis R. Bach, Laurent El...
Dermoscopy is a technique used to better visualize pigmented skin lesion and aid the clinician in determining if a lesion is benign or malignant. Automated segmentation of dermosc...
Howard Zhou, Mei Chen, Le Zou, Richard Gass, Laura...
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach to query segmentation, an important task in Web search. We use a generative query model to recover a query's underlyin...
We present an algorithm for translating XSLT programs into SQL. Our context is that of virtual XML publishing, in which a single XML view is defined from a relational database, an...