This paper develops the concept of usefulness in the context of supervised learning. We argue that usefulness can be used to improve the performance of classification rules (as me...
Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh, Charles Taylor, Carsten L...
We explore dynamic shaping to integrate our prior beliefs of the final policy into a conventional reinforcement learning system. Shaping provides a positive or negative artificial...
We propose a method for estimating the pose of a human body using its approximate 3D volume (visual hull) obtained in real time from synchronized videos. Our method can cope with ...
Many techniques in the social sciences and graph theory deal with the problem of examining and analyzing patterns found in the underlying structure and associations of a group of ...
Jeremy Kubica, Andrew W. Moore, David Cohn, Jeff G...
-- Publishing person specific data while protecting privacy is an important problem. Existing algorithms that enforce the privacy principle called l-diversity are heuristic based d...