Censored targets, such as the time to events in survival analysis, can generally be represented by intervals on the real line. In this paper, we propose a novel support vector tec...
Pannagadatta K. Shivaswamy, Wei Chu, Martin Jansch...
The problem of transfer learning, where information gained in one learning task is used to improve performance in another related task, is an important new area of research. While...
Kernel methods have been shown to be very effective for applications requiring the modeling of structured objects. However kernels for structures usually are too computational dem...
Fabio Aiolli, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alessandro ...
How to effectively protect against spam on search ranking results is an important issue for contemporary web search engines. This paper addresses the problem of combating one majo...
Guoyang Shen, Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Guang Feng, Sh...
In this paper, we propose and develop a novel approach to the problem of optimally managing the tax, and more generally debt, collections processes at financial institutions. Our...
Naoki Abe, Prem Melville, Cezar Pendus, Chandan K....