The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
Improving the sample efficiency of reinforcement learning algorithms to scale up to larger and more realistic domains is a current research challenge in machine learning. Model-ba...
Learning the user’s semantics for CBIR involves two different sources of information: the similarity relations entailed by the content-based features, and the relevance relatio...
The ranking function used by search engines to order results is learned from labeled training data. Each training point is a (query, URL) pair that is labeled by a human judge who...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alan Halverson, Krishnaram Kenthap...