Data sparsity is a major problem for collaborative filtering (CF) techniques in recommender systems, especially for new users and items. We observe that, while our target data are...
Weike Pan, Evan Wei Xiang, Nathan Nan Liu, Qiang Y...
Abstract. For every segmentation task, prior knowledge about the object that shall be segmented has to be incorporated. This is typically performed either automatically by using la...
Margret Keuper, Robert Bensch, Karsten Voigt, Alex...
While a user’s preference is directly reflected in the interactive choice process between her and the recommender, this wealth of information was not fully exploited for learni...
Shuang-Hong Yang, Bo Long, Alexander J. Smola, Hon...
On-line adaptation to nonstationary distributions is essential to good performance in image coding. Fixed-size contexts (with adaptive tables) are also widely used, in conjunction...
Patrice Simard, David Steinkraus, Henrique S. Malv...
Feature selection, as a preprocessing step to machine learning, has been effective in reducing dimensionality, removing irrelevant data, increasing learning accuracy, and improvin...