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ALT
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Inferring Social Networks from Outbreaks
We consider the problem of inferring the most likely social network given connectivity constraints imposed by observations of outbreaks within the network. Given a set of vertices ...
Dana Angluin, James Aspnes, Lev Reyzin
ALT
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Optimal Online Prediction in Adversarial Environments
: In many prediction problems, including those that arise in computer security and computational finance, the process generating the data is best modeled as an adversary with whom ...
Peter L. Bartlett
ALT
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Consistency of Feature Markov Processes
We are studying long term sequence prediction (forecasting). We approach this by investigating criteria for choosing a compact useful state representation. The state is supposed t...
Peter Sunehag, Marcus Hutter
ALT
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Lower Bound for Learning Distributions Generated by Probabilistic Automata
Known algorithms for learning PDFA can only be shown to run in time polynomial in the so-called distinguishability
Borja Balle, Jorge Castro, Ricard Gavaldà
ALT
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Online Multiple Kernel Learning: Algorithms and Mistake Bounds
Online learning and kernel learning are two active research topics in machine learning. Although each of them has been studied extensively, there is a limited effort in addressing ...
Rong Jin, Steven C. H. Hoi, Tianbao Yang
ALT
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Approximation Stability and Boosting
Stability has been explored to study the performance of learning algorithms in recent years and it has been shown that stability is sufficient for generalization and is sufficient ...
Wei Gao, Zhi-Hua Zhou
ALT
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Towards General Algorithms for Grammatical Inference
Many algorithms for grammatical inference can be viewed as instances of a more general algorithm which maintains a set of primitive elements, which distributionally define sets of ...
Alexander Clark
ALT
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Bayesian Active Learning Using Arbitrary Binary Valued Queries
We explore a general Bayesian active learning setting, in which the learner can ask arbitrary yes/no questions. We derive upper and lower bounds on the expected number of queries r...
Liu Yang, Steve Hanneke, Jaime G. Carbonell