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2001
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Distribution of Mutual Information
Mutual information is widely used, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of categorical random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliabilit...
M. Hutter
NIPS
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Minimax Embeddings
Spectral methods for nonlinear dimensionality reduction (NLDR) impose a neighborhood graph on point data and compute eigenfunctions of a quadratic form generated from the graph. W...
Matthew Brand
NIPS
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Boosting versus Covering
We investigate improvements of AdaBoost that can exploit the fact that the weak hypotheses are one-sided, i.e. either all its positive (or negative) predictions are correct. In pa...
Kohei Hatano, Manfred K. Warmuth
NIPS
2003
14 years 11 months ago
AUC Optimization vs. Error Rate Minimization
The area under an ROC curve (AUC) is a criterion used in many applications to measure the quality of a classification algorithm. However, the objective function optimized in most...
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri
NIPS
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Max-Margin Markov Networks
In typical classification tasks, we seek a function which assigns a label to a single object. Kernel-based approaches, such as support vector machines (SVMs), which maximize the ...
Benjamin Taskar, Carlos Guestrin, Daphne Koller