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COLT
2004
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Suboptimal Behavior of Bayes and MDL in Classification Under Misspecification
We show that forms of Bayesian and MDL inference that are often applied to classification problems can be inconsistent. This means that there exists a learning problem such that fo...
Peter Grünwald, John Langford
NIPS
2000
15 years 5 months ago
On Reversing Jensen's Inequality
Jensen's inequality is a powerful mathematical tool and one of the workhorses in statistical learning. Its applications therein include the EM algorithm, Bayesian estimation ...
Tony Jebara, Alex Pentland
ECCC
2008
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15 years 4 months ago
The complexity of learning SUBSEQ(A)
Higman essentially showed that if A is any language then SUBSEQ(A) is regular, where SUBSEQ(A) is the language of all subsequences of strings in A. Let s1, s2, s3, . . . be the sta...
Stephen A. Fenner, William I. Gasarch, Brian Posto...
ESWA
2006
99views more  ESWA 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Assessing a knowledge-based approach to commercial loan underwriting
We discuss the challenges in developing decision support tools for commercial underwriting and describe how several different approaches to the underwriting problem have been addr...
Roger Kumra, Roger M. Stein, Ian Assersohn
JUCS
2008
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15 years 3 months ago
Stacked Dependency Networks for Layout Document Structuring
: We address the problems of structuring and annotation of layout-oriented documents. We model the annotation problems as the collective classification on graph-like structures wit...
Boris Chidlovskii, Loïc Lecerf