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MP
2011
13 years 22 days ago
Null space conditions and thresholds for rank minimization
Minimizing the rank of a matrix subject to constraints is a challenging problem that arises in many applications in machine learning, control theory, and discrete geometry. This c...
Benjamin Recht, Weiyu Xu, Babak Hassibi
KDD
2006
ACM
153views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 6 months ago
Spatial scan statistics: approximations and performance study
Spatial scan statistics are used to determine hotspots in spatial data, and are widely used in epidemiology and biosurveillance. In recent years, there has been much effort invest...
Deepak Agarwal, Andrew McGregor, Jeff M. Phillips,...
UAI
2003
13 years 7 months ago
A Linear Belief Function Approach to Portfolio Evaluation
We show how to use linear belief functions to represent market information and financial knowledge, including complete ignorance, statistical observations, subjective speculations...
Liping Liu, Catherine Shenoy, Prakash P. Shenoy
ICML
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Optimising area under the ROC curve using gradient descent
This paper introduces RankOpt, a linear binary classifier which optimises the area under the ROC curve (the AUC). Unlike standard binary classifiers, RankOpt adopts the AUC stat...
Alan Herschtal, Bhavani Raskutti
CDC
2008
IEEE
145views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Necessary and sufficient conditions for success of the nuclear norm heuristic for rank minimization
Minimizing the rank of a matrix subject to constraints is a challenging problem that arises in many applications in control theory, machine learning, and discrete geometry. This c...
Benjamin Recht, Weiyu Xu, Babak Hassibi