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KDD
2006
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Beyond classification and ranking: constrained optimization of the ROI
Classification has been commonly used in many data mining projects in the financial service industry. For instance, to predict collectability of accounts receivable, a binary clas...
Lian Yan, Patrick Baldasare
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Recurrent Neural Networks and Pitch Representations for Music Tasks
We present results from experiments in using several pitch representations for jazz-oriented musical tasks performed by a recurrent neural network. We have run experiments with se...
Judy A. Franklin
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
A maximum likelihood framework for protein design
Background: The aim of protein design is to predict amino-acid sequences compatible with a given target structure. Traditionally envisioned as a purely thermodynamic question, thi...
Claudia L. Kleinman, Nicolas Rodrigue, Céci...
UAI
2003
13 years 7 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A smart hill-climbing algorithm for application server configuration
The overwhelming success of the Web as a mechanism for facilitating information retrieval and for conducting business transactions has led to an increase in the deployment of comp...
Bowei Xi, Zhen Liu, Mukund Raghavachari, Cathy H. ...