We consider the problem of dealing with irrelevant votes when a multi-case classifier is built from an ensemble of binary classifiers. We show how run-off elections can be used to...
Estimating insurance premia from data is a difficult regression problem for several reasons: the large number of variables, many of which are discrete, and the very peculiar shape...
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, J...
We describe and analyze a simple and effective iterative algorithm for solving the optimization problem cast by Support Vector Machines (SVM). Our method alternates between stocha...
Note taking is a common way for physicians to collect information from their patients in medical inquiries and diagnoses. Many times, when describing the pathology in medical recor...
Rattapoom Waranusast, Peter Haddawy, Matthew N. Da...
We present a method for transferring knowledge learned in one task to a related task. Our problem solvers employ reinforcement learning to acquire a model for one task. We then tra...
Lisa Torrey, Trevor Walker, Jude W. Shavlik, Richa...