Gradient Boosted Regression Trees (GBRT) are the current state-of-the-art learning paradigm for machine learned websearch ranking — a domain notorious for very large data sets. ...
Stephen Tyree, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Kunal Agrawal...
We examine linear program (LP) approaches to boosting and demonstrate their efficient solution using LPBoost, a column generation based simplex method. We formulate the problem as...
Ayhan Demiriz, Kristin P. Bennett, John Shawe-Tayl...
Selection of an optimal estimator typically relies on either supervised training samples (pairs of measurements and their associated true values), or a prior probability model for...
TCP throughput prediction is an important capability in wide area overlay and multi-homed networks where multiple paths may exist between data sources and receivers. In this paper...
Mariyam Mirza, Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Xiaojin...