We investigate using gradient descent methods for learning ranking functions; we propose a simple probabilistic cost function, and we introduce RankNet, an implementation of these...
Christopher J. C. Burges, Tal Shaked, Erin Renshaw...
In non-cooperative multi-agent situations, there cannot exist a globally optimal, yet opponent-independent learning algorithm. Regret-minimization over a set of strategies optimiz...
Comparative evaluation of Machine Learning (ML) systems used for Information Extraction (IE) has suffered from various inconsistencies in experimental procedures. This paper repor...
Neil Ireson, Fabio Ciravegna, Mary Elaine Califf, ...
We examine the relationship between the predictions made by different learning algorithms and true posterior probabilities. We show that maximum margin methods such as boosted tre...
We present a new subgoal-based method for automatically creating useful skills in reinforcement learning. Our method identifies subgoals by partitioning local state transition gra...