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GECCO
2009
Springer
162views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 7 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 4 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 2 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 4 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
14 years 11 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