This paper describes Pairwise Bisection: a nonparametric approach to optimizing a noisy function with few function evaluations. The algorithm uses nonparametric reasoning about si...
Abstract: We investigate the structure of model selection problems via the bias/variance decomposition. In particular, we characterize the essential structure of a model selection ...
All information exchange on the Internet ? whether through full text, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, or other mechanisms ? ultimately requires that that an information provi...
The primary purpose of news articles is to convey information about who, what, when and where. But learning and summarizing these relationships for collections of thousands to mil...
David Newman, Chaitanya Chemudugunta, Padhraic Smy...
Despite experience, many users do not make efficient use of complex computer applications. We argue that this is caused by a lack of strategic knowledge that is difficult to acqui...
Suresh K. Bhavnani, Frederick Reif, Bonnie E. John