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GECCO
2007
Springer
155views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
Solving the MAXSAT problem using a multivariate EDA based on Markov networks
Markov Networks (also known as Markov Random Fields) have been proposed as a new approach to probabilistic modelling in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs). An EDA employ...
Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John A. W. McCall, Deryc...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Capturing collection size for distributed non-cooperative retrieval
Modern distributed information retrieval techniques require accurate knowledge of collection size. In non-cooperative environments, where detailed collection statistics are not av...
Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel, Falk Scholer, Seyed ...
KDD
2010
ACM
287views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Designing efficient cascaded classifiers: tradeoff between accuracy and cost
We propose a method to train a cascade of classifiers by simultaneously optimizing all its stages. The approach relies on the idea of optimizing soft cascades. In particular, inst...
Vikas C. Raykar, Balaji Krishnapuram, Shipeng Yu
IJCAI
2007
15 years 6 months ago
Semantic Smoothing of Document Models for Agglomerative Clustering
In this paper, we argue that the agglomerative clustering with vector cosine similarity measure performs poorly due to two reasons. First, the nearest neighbors of a document belo...
Xiaohua Zhou, Xiaodan Zhang, Xiaohua Hu
ML
2000
ACM
150views Machine Learning» more  ML 2000»
15 years 4 months ago
Adaptive Retrieval Agents: Internalizing Local Context and Scaling up to the Web
This paper discusses a novel distributed adaptive algorithm and representation used to construct populations of adaptive Web agents. These InfoSpiders browse networked information ...
Filippo Menczer, Richard K. Belew