: With the emergence of the Web 2.0 phenomena, technology-assisted social networking has become the norm. The potential of social software for collaborative learning purposes is cl...
In this paper we address the problem of pool based active learning, and provide an algorithm, called UPAL, that works by minimizing the unbiased estimator of the risk of a hypothe...
Distance metric learning has been widely investigated in machine learning and information retrieval. In this paper, we study a particular content-based image retrieval application ...
Learning agents can improve performance cooperating with other agents, particularly learning agents forming a committee outperform individual agents. This "ensemble effect&qu...
We extend our recent work on relevant subtask learning, a new variant of multitask learning where the goal is to learn a good classifier for a task-of-interest with too few train...