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ICML
2008
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Exploration scavenging
We examine the problem of evaluating a policy in the contextual bandit setting using only observations collected during the execution of another policy. We show that policy evalua...
John Langford, Alexander L. Strehl, Jennifer Wortm...
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Learning to tag
Social tagging provides valuable and crucial information for large-scale web image retrieval. It is ontology-free and easy to obtain; however, irrelevant tags frequently appear, a...
Lei Wu, Linjun Yang, Nenghai Yu, Xian-Sheng Hua
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Rare item detection in e-commerce site
As the largest online marketplace in the world, eBay has a huge inventory where there are plenty of great rare items with potentially large, even rapturous buyers. These items are...
Dan Shen, Xiaoyuan Wu, Alvaro Bolivar
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Generative models for name disambiguation
Name ambiguity is a special case of identity uncertainty where one person can be referenced by multiple name variations in different situations or even share the same name with ot...
Yang Song, Jian Huang 0002, Isaac G. Councill, Jia...
WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A uniform approach to accelerated PageRank computation
In this note we consider a simple reformulation of the traditional power iteration algorithm for computing the stationary distribution of a Markov chain. Rather than communicate t...
Frank McSherry