Selective sampling, a form of active learning, reduces the cost of labeling training data by asking only for the labels of the most informative unlabeled examples. We introduce a ...
Solomonoff unified Occam’s razor and Epicurus’ principle of multiple explanations to one elegant, formal, universal theory of inductive inference, which initiated the field...
Many data mining applications involve the task of building a model for predictive classification. The goal of such a model is to classify examples (records or data instances) into...
Elon S. Correa, Alex Alves Freitas, Colin G. Johns...
Viral marketing takes advantage of networks of influence among customers to inexpensively achieve large changes in behavior. Our research seeks to put it on a firmer footing by mi...
This paper describes a successful but challenging application of data mining in the railway industry. The objective is to optimize maintenance and operation of trains through prog...