When its human operator cannot continuously supervise (much less teleoperate) an agent, the agent should be able to recognize its limitations and ask for help when it risks making...
Robert Cohn, Michael Maxim, Edmund H. Durfee, Sati...
Selecting promising queries is the key to effective active learning. In this paper, we investigate selection techniques for the task of learning an equivalence relation where the ...
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
Recent technology advances have enabled mediated query processing with Internet accessible WebSources. A characteristic of WebSources is that their access costs exhibit transient ...
In many real-world classification problems the input contains a large number of potentially irrelevant features. This paper proposes a new Bayesian framework for determining the r...
Yuan (Alan) Qi, Thomas P. Minka, Rosalind W. Picar...