Variable selection for cluster analysis is a difficult problem. The difficulty originates not only from the lack of class information but also the fact that high-dimensional data ...
Leonard K. M. Poon, Nevin Lianwen Zhang, Tao Chen,...
Many applications require optimizing an unknown, noisy function that is expensive to evaluate. We formalize this task as a multiarmed bandit problem, where the payoff function is ...
Niranjan Srinivas, Andreas Krause, Sham Kakade, Ma...
Learning undirected graphical models such as Markov random fields is an important machine learning task with applications in many domains. Since it is usually intractable to learn...
Arthur Asuncion, Qiang Liu, Alexander T. Ihler, Pa...
We consider the problem of how to improve the efficiency of Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL). In literature, MKL is often solved by an alternating approach: (1) the minimization of ...
Zenglin Xu, Rong Jin, Haiqin Yang, Irwin King, Mic...
After a stroke or brain injury, it may be more difficult to understand language and communicate with others. Speechlanguage therapy may help an individual regain language and cope...