Traditional boosting algorithms for the ranking problems usually employ the pairwise approach and convert the document rating preference into a binary-value label, like RankBoost....
Chenguang Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Gang...
Recent years have seen growth in the number of algorithms designed to solve challenging simulation-based nonlinear optimization problems. One such algorithm is the Trust-Region Par...
Semantic understanding of multimedia content is critical in enabling effective access to all forms of digital media data. By making large media repositories searchable, semantic ...
We present a novel method for globally optimal surface segmentation of multiple mutually interacting objects, incorporating both edge and shape knowledge in a 3-D graph-theoretic a...
Qi Song, Xiaodong Wu, Yunlong Liu, Mark Smith, Joh...
In this paper we propose a suite of techniques for planning with temporally extended preferences (TEPs). To this end, we propose a method for compiling TEP planning problems into ...
Jorge A. Baier, Fahiem Bacchus, Sheila A. McIlrait...