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NIPS
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Machine Learning Applied to Perception: Decision Images for Gender Classification
We study gender discrimination of human faces using a combination of psychophysical classification and discrimination experiments together with methods from machine learning. We r...
Felix A. Wichmann, Arnulf B. A. Graf, Eero P. Simo...
NIPS
2003
15 years 8 months ago
Learning the k in k-means
When clustering a dataset, the right number k of clusters to use is often not obvious, and choosing k automatically is a hard algorithmic problem. In this paper we present an impr...
Greg Hamerly, Charles Elkan
JMLR
2008
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Using Markov Blankets for Causal Structure Learning
We show how a generic feature selection algorithm returning strongly relevant variables can be turned into a causal structure learning algorithm. We prove this under the Faithfuln...
Jean-Philippe Pellet, André Elisseeff
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with scratch
This paper describes Scratch, a visual, block-based programming language designed to facilitate media manipulation for novice programmers. We report on the Scratch programming exp...
John H. Maloney, Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai...
ICML
2000
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Learning Bayesian Networks for Diverse and Varying numbers of Evidence Sets
We introduce an expandable Bayesian network (EBN) to handle the combination of diverse multiple homogeneous evidence sets. An EBN is an augmented Bayesian network which instantiat...
Zu Whan Kim, Ramakant Nevatia