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JMLR
2011
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Online Learning in Case of Unbounded Losses Using Follow the Perturbed Leader Algorithm
In this paper the sequential prediction problem with expert advice is considered for the case where losses of experts suffered at each step cannot be bounded in advance. We presen...
Vladimir V. V'yugin
JMLR
2011
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Posterior Sparsity in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing
A strong inductive bias is essential in unsupervised grammar induction. In this paper, we explore a particular sparsity bias in dependency grammars that encourages a small number ...
Jennifer Gillenwater, Kuzman Ganchev, João ...
JMLR
2011
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A Bayesian Approximation Method for Online Ranking
This paper describes a Bayesian approximation method to obtain online ranking algorithms for games with multiple teams and multiple players. Recently for Internet games large onli...
Ruby C. Weng, Chih-Jen Lin
JMLR
2011
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Multitask Sparsity via Maximum Entropy Discrimination
A multitask learning framework is developed for discriminative classification and regression where multiple large-margin linear classifiers are estimated for different predictio...
Tony Jebara
JMLR
2011
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Approximate Marginals in Latent Gaussian Models
We consider the problem of improving the Gaussian approximate posterior marginals computed by expectation propagation and the Laplace method in latent Gaussian models and propose ...
Botond Cseke, Tom Heskes
JMLR
2011
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CARP: Software for Fishing Out Good Clustering Algorithms
This paper presents the CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS’ REFEREE PACKAGE or CARP, an open source GNU GPL-licensed C package for evaluating clustering algorithms. Calibrating performance o...
Volodymyr Melnykov, Ranjan Maitra
JMLR
2011
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Minimum Description Length Penalization for Group and Multi-Task Sparse Learning
We propose a framework MIC (Multiple Inclusion Criterion) for learning sparse models based on the information theoretic Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle. MIC provides an...
Paramveer S. Dhillon, Dean P. Foster, Lyle H. Unga...
JMLR
2011
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Parameter Screening and Optimisation for ILP using Designed Experiments
Reports of experiments conducted with an Inductive Logic Programming system rarely describe how specific values of parameters of the system are arrived at when constructing model...
Ashwin Srinivasan, Ganesh Ramakrishnan
JMLR
2011
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Exploitation of Machine Learning Techniques in Modelling Phrase Movements for Machine Translation
We propose a distance phrase reordering model (DPR) for statistical machine translation (SMT), where the aim is to learn the grammatical rules and context dependent changes using ...
Yizhao Ni, Craig Saunders, Sándor Szedm&aac...
JMLR
2011
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Training SVMs Without Offset
We develop, analyze, and test a training algorithm for support vector machine classifiers without offset. Key features of this algorithm are a new, statistically motivated stoppi...
Ingo Steinwart, Don R. Hush, Clint Scovel