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IJDAR
2006
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15 years 5 months ago
Genetic engineering of hierarchical fuzzy regional representations for handwritten character recognition
This paper presents a genetic programming based approach for optimizing the feature extraction step of a handwritten character recognizer. This recognizer uses a simple multilayer ...
Christian Gagné, Marc Parizeau
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EDM
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Developing a Log-based Motivation Measuring Tool
The purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual framework and a tool for measuring motivation of online learners. The study was carried out in three phases, the first of which...
Arnon Hershkovitz, Rafi Nachmias
ICML
2004
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Approximate inference by Markov chains on union spaces
A standard method for approximating averages in probabilistic models is to construct a Markov chain in the product space of the random variables with the desired equilibrium distr...
Max Welling, Michal Rosen-Zvi, Yee Whye Teh
ICML
2007
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Learning a meta-level prior for feature relevance from multiple related tasks
In many prediction tasks, selecting relevant features is essential for achieving good generalization performance. Most feature selection algorithms consider all features to be a p...
Su-In Lee, Vassil Chatalbashev, David Vickrey, Dap...
ICML
2008
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Fast solvers and efficient implementations for distance metric learning
In this paper we study how to improve nearest neighbor classification by learning a Mahalanobis distance metric. We build on a recently proposed framework for distance metric lear...
Kilian Q. Weinberger, Lawrence K. Saul