Many classification techniques used for identifying spam emails, treat spam filtering as a binary classification problem. That is, the incoming email is either spam or non-spam....
We analyze a sequential game between a Gambler and a Casino. The Gambler allocates bets from a limited budget over a fixed menu of gambling events that are offered at equal time i...
We extend the well-known BFGS quasi-Newton method and its memory-limited variant LBFGS to the optimization of nonsmooth convex objectives. This is done in a rigorous fashion by ge...
The decision tree is one of the most fundamental ing abstractions. A commonly used type of decision tree is the alphabetic binary tree, which uses (without loss of generality) &quo...
– Building large software systems out of existing software components can save time and cost. These software components range from architectural and design components to binary c...