We consider the supervised learning of a binary classifier from noisy observations. We use smooth boosting to linearly combine abstaining hypotheses, each of which maps a subcube...
The growth of Internet commerce has stimulated the use of collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms as recommender systems. Such systems leverage knowledge about the known preferenc...
David M. Pennock, Eric Horvitz, Steve Lawrence, C....
In this paper we present the common effort of Lear and XRCE for the ImageCLEF Visual Concept Detection and Annotation Task. We first sought to combine our individual state-of-the-a...
Thomas Mensink, Gabriela Csurka, Florent Perronnin...
Two-photon calcium imaging is an emerging experimental technique that enables the study of information processing within neural circuits in vivo. While the spatial resolution of th...
Eva L. Dyer, Marco F. Duarte, Don H. Johnson, Rich...
Background: The optimal score for ungapped local alignments of infinitely long random sequences is known to follow a Gumbel extreme value distribution. Less is known about the imp...
Stefan Wolfsheimer, Bernd Burghardt, Alexander K. ...