A great jump towards the advent of the Semantic Web will take place when a critical mass of web resources is available for use in a semantic way. This goal can be reached by the c...
We formulate and study a decentralized multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem. There are distributed players competing for independent arms. Each arm, when played, offers i.i.d. reward a...
Abstract— Automatic pattern classifiers that allow for incremental learning can adapt internal class models efficiently in response to new information, without having to retrai...
This paper presents a general framework for building classifiers that deal with short and sparse text & Web segments by making the most of hidden topics discovered from larges...
Presence of duplicate documents in the World Wide Web adversely affects crawling, indexing and relevance, which are the core building blocks of web search. In this paper, we pres...
Hema Swetha Koppula, Krishna P. Leela, Amit Agarwa...