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ICML
2000
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Nonparametric Approach to Noisy and Costly Optimization
This paper describes Pairwise Bisection: a nonparametric approach to optimizing a noisy function with few function evaluations. The algorithm uses nonparametric reasoning about si...
Brigham S. Anderson, Andrew W. Moore, David Cohn
ICML
1997
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Characterizing the generalization performance of model selection strategies
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 ...
Dale Schuurmans, Lyle H. Ungar, Dean P. Foster
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Emergence of terminological conventions as an author-searcher coordination game
All information exchange on the Internet ? whether through full text, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, or other mechanisms ? ultimately requires that that an information provi...
David Bodoff, Sheizaf Rafaeli
KDD
2006
ACM
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Statistical entity-topic models
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...
CHI
2001
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Beyond command knowledge: identifying and teaching strategic knowledge for using complex computer applications
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