This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
Existing feature extraction methods explore either global statistical or local geometric information underlying the data. In this paper, we propose a general framework to learn fea...
Shuang-Hong Yang, Hongyuan Zha, Shaohua Kevin Zhou...
Utility or preference elicitation is a critical component in many recommender and decision support systems. However, most frameworks for elicitation assume a predefined set of fe...
— High performance and compliant robot control requires accurate dynamics models which cannot be obtained analytically for sufficiently complex robot systems. In such cases, mac...
—Reinforcement learning is a framework in which an agent can learn behavior without knowledge on a task or an environment by exploration and exploitation. Striking a balance betw...
Zhengqiao Ji, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Maher A. Sid-Ahme...