Finite mixture model is a powerful tool in many statistical learning problems. In this paper, we propose a general, structure-preserving approach to reduce its model complexity, w...
Re-ranking for Information Retrieval aims to elevate relevant feedbacks and depress negative ones in initial retrieval result list. Compared to relevance feedback-based re-ranking...
Yu Hong, Qing-qing Cai, Song Hua, Jian-Min Yao, Qi...
The disparity between data collected in rural and urban counties is often detrimental in the appropriate analysis of cancer care statistics. Low counts drastically affect the inci...
Ross Maciejewski, Travis Drake, Stephen Rudolph, A...
Given data drawn from a mixture of multivariate Gaussians, a basic problem is to accurately estimate the mixture parameters. We provide a polynomial-time algorithm for this proble...
Adam Tauman Kalai, Ankur Moitra, and Gregory Valia...
Many social Web sites allow users to annotate the content with descriptive metadata, such as tags, and more recently to organize content hierarchically. These types of structured ...
Anon Plangprasopchok, Kristina Lerman, Lise Getoor