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ICIP
2009
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Monotone Operator Splitting For Optimization Problems In Sparse Recovery
This work focuses on several optimization problems involved in recovery of sparse solutions of linear inverse problems. Such problems appear in many fields including image and sig...
ICML
2009
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
A convex formulation for learning shared structures from multiple tasks
Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve generalization performance by learning multiple related tasks simultaneously. In this paper, we consider the problem of learning shared s...
Jianhui Chen, Lei Tang, Jun Liu, Jieping Ye
ICML
2009
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Predictive representations for policy gradient in POMDPs
We consider the problem of estimating the policy gradient in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) with a special class of policies that are based on Predictive ...
Abdeslam Boularias, Brahim Chaib-draa
ICML
2008
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Efficiently solving convex relaxations for MAP estimation
The problem of obtaining the maximum a posteriori (map) estimate of a discrete random field is of fundamental importance in many areas of Computer Science. In this work, we build ...
M. Pawan Kumar, Philip H. S. Torr
ICML
2003
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Modified Logistic Regression: An Approximation to SVM and Its Applications in Large-Scale Text Categorization
Logistic Regression (LR) has been widely used in statistics for many years, and has received extensive study in machine learning community recently due to its close relations to S...
Jian Zhang, Rong Jin, Yiming Yang, Alexander G. Ha...