This paper presents a general framework for adapting any generative (model-based) clustering algorithm to provide balanced solutions, i.e., clusters of comparable sizes. Partition...
Wepropose a method called Selection by Performance Prediction (SPP) which allows one, when faced with a particular problem instance, to select a Branch and Boundalgorithm from amo...
Collaborative filtering (CF) allows the preferences of multiple users to be pooled to make recommendations regarding unseen products. We consider in this paper the problem of onl...
Craig Boutilier, Richard S. Zemel, Benjamin M. Mar...
Modern classification applications necessitate supplementing the few available labeled examples with unlabeled examples to improve classification performance. We present a new tra...
The search problem, ACCESSIBILITY, asks whether a finite sequence of events can be found such that, starting with a specific initial event, a particular state can be reached. This...