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ICMLA
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Discovering Rules from Disk Events for Predicting Hard Drive Failures
Detecting impending failure of hard disks is an important prediction task which might help computer systems to prevent loss of data and performance degradation. Currently most of t...
Vipul Agarwal, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Thirumale ...
ICMLA
2009
13 years 2 months ago
All-Monotony: A Generalization of the All-Confidence Antimonotony
Abstract--Many studies have shown the limits of support/confidence framework used in Apriori-like algorithms to mine association rules. One solution to cope with this limitation is...
Yannick Le Bras, Philippe Lenca, Sorin Moga, St&ea...
ICMLA
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Mahalanobis Distance Based Non-negative Sparse Representation for Face Recognition
Sparse representation for machine learning has been exploited in past years. Several sparse representation based classification algorithms have been developed for some application...
Yangfeng Ji, Tong Lin, Hongbin Zha
ICMLA
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Knowledge Transfer for Feature Generation in Document Classification
One important problem in machine learning is how to extract knowledge from prior experience, then transfer and apply this knowledge in new learning tasks. To address this problem, ...
Jian Zhang, Shobhit S. Shakya
ICMLA
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Exploring Scale-Induced Feature Hierarchies in Natural Images
Recently there has been considerable interest in topic models based on the bag-of-features representation of images. The strong independence assumption inherent in the bag-of-feat...
Jukka Perkiö, Tinne Tuytelaars, Wray L. Bunti...
ICMLA
2009
13 years 2 months ago
An Ordinal Data Method for the Classification with Reject Option
In this work we consider the problem of binary classification where the classifier may abstain instead of classifying each observation, leaving the critical items for human evaluat...
Ricardo Sousa, Beatriz Mora, Jaime S. Cardoso
ICMLA
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic Feature Selection for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning in Factored MDPs
Abstract--Feature selection is an important challenge in machine learning. Unfortunately, most methods for automating feature selection are designed for supervised learning tasks a...
Mark Kroon, Shimon Whiteson
ICMLA
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Improving Clinical Relevance in Ensemble Support Vector Machine Models of Radiation Pneumonitis Risk
Patients undergoing thoracic radiation therapy can develop radiation pneumonitis (RP), a potentially fatal inflammation of the lungs. Support vector machines (SVMs), a statistical...
Todd W. Schiller, Yixin Chen, Issam El-Naqa, Josep...
ICMLA
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Learning Probabilistic Structure Graphs for Classification and Detection of Object Structures
Abstract--This paper presents a novel and domainindependent approach for graph-based structure learning. The approach is based on solving the Maximum Common SubgraphIsomorphism pro...
Johannes Hartz
ICMLA
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Structured Prediction Models for Chord Transcription of Music Audio
Chord sequences are a compact and useful description of music, representing each beat or measure in terms of a likely distribution over individual notes without specifying the not...
Adrian Weller, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Tony Jebara