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COLT
2004
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
Performance Guarantees for Regularized Maximum Entropy Density Estimation
Abstract. We consider the problem of estimating an unknown probability distribution from samples using the principle of maximum entropy (maxent). To alleviate overfitting with a v...
Miroslav Dudík, Steven J. Phillips, Robert ...
GISCIENCE
2004
Springer
105views GIS» more  GISCIENCE 2004»
16 years 2 days ago
Effect of Category Aggregation on Map Comparison
This paper investigates the influence of category aggregation on measurement of land-use and land-cover change. To date, research concerning data aggregation has examined primarily...
Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr., Nicholas R. Malizia
ICDM
2003
IEEE
112views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2003»
15 years 12 months ago
Privacy-preserving Distributed Clustering using Generative Models
We present a framework for clustering distributed data in unsupervised and semi-supervised scenarios, taking into account privacy requirements and communication costs. Rather than...
Srujana Merugu, Joydeep Ghosh
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
A principled study of the design tradeoffs for autonomous trading agents
In this paper we present a methodology for deciding the bidding strategy of agents participating in a significant number of simultaneous auctions, when finding an analytical sol...
Ioannis A. Vetsikas, Bart Selman
ECML
1997
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Global Data Analysis and the Fragmentation Problem in Decision Tree Induction
We investigate an inherent limitation of top-down decision tree induction in which the continuous partitioning of the instance space progressively lessens the statistical support o...
Ricardo Vilalta, Gunnar Blix, Larry A. Rendell