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GECCO
2009
Springer
162views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Uncertainty handling CMA-ES for reinforcement learning
The covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMAES) has proven to be a powerful method for reinforcement learning (RL). Recently, the CMA-ES has been augmented with an ada...
Verena Heidrich-Meisner, Christian Igel
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A general magnitude-preserving boosting algorithm for search ranking
Traditional boosting algorithms for the ranking problems usually employ the pairwise approach and convert the document rating preference into a binary-value label, like RankBoost....
Chenguang Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Gang...
IBPRIA
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Large Scale Online Learning of Image Similarity through Ranking
ent abstract presents OASIS, an Online Algorithm for Scalable Image Similarity learning that learns a bilinear similarity measure over sparse representations. OASIS is an online du...
Gal Chechik, Varun Sharma, Uri Shalit, Samy Bengio
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A machine learning approach for improved BM25 retrieval
Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...
Krysta Marie Svore, Christopher J. C. Burges
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Using RankBoost to compare retrieval systems
This paper presents a new pooling method for constructing the assessment sets used in the evaluation of retrieval systems. Our proposal is based on RankBoost, a machine learning v...
Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari