— The application of Qualitative Reasoning to Learning Algorithms can provide these models with the capability of automate common-sense and expert reasoning. Learning algorithms ...
We investigate the problem of learning a widely-used latent-variable model – the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or “topic” model – using distributed computation, where ...
David Newman, Arthur Asuncion, Padhraic Smyth, Max...
We examine data collected from on-line assessments of the numeracy and literacy skills of young students in order to construct probabilistic agent-based controllers. We demonstrat...
Elizabeth Sklar, Jordan Salvit, Christopher Camach...
Current peer-review software lacks intelligence for responding to students' reviewing performance. As an example of an additional intelligent assessment component to such soft...
Wenting Xiong, Diane J. Litman, Christian D. Schun...
Abstract. We present a new method for voting exponential (in the number of attributes) size sets of Bayesian classifiers in polynomial time with polynomial memory requirements. Tra...