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An Analytical Study on Behavior of Clusters Using K Means, EM and K* Means Algorithm
cs.LG
Clustering is an unsupervised learning method that constitutes a cornerstone of an intelligent data analysis process. It is used for the exploration of inter-relationships among a collection of patterns, by organizing them into homogeneous clusters. Clustering has been dynamically applied to a variety of tasks in the f...
computer science
40,411
Settling the Polynomial Learnability of Mixtures of Gaussians
cs.LG
Given data drawn from a mixture of multivariate Gaussians, a basic problem is to accurately estimate the mixture parameters. We give an algorithm for this problem that has a running time, and data requirement polynomial in the dimension and the inverse of the desired accuracy, with provably minimal assumptions on the G...
computer science
40,412
Polynomial Learning of Distribution Families
cs.LG
The question of polynomial learnability of probability distributions, particularly Gaussian mixture distributions, has recently received significant attention in theoretical computer science and machine learning. However, despite major progress, the general question of polynomial learnability of Gaussian mixture distri...
computer science
40,413
Machine Learning for Galaxy Morphology Classification
cs.LG
In this work, decision tree learning algorithms and fuzzy inferencing systems are applied for galaxy morphology classification. In particular, the CART, the C4.5, the Random Forest and fuzzy logic algorithms are studied and reliable classifiers are developed to distinguish between spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies o...
computer science
40,414
Estimating small moments of data stream in nearly optimal space-time
cs.DS
For each $p \in (0,2]$, we present a randomized algorithm that returns an $\epsilon$-approximation of the $p$th frequency moment of a data stream $F_p = \sum_{i = 1}^n \abs{f_i}^p$. The algorithm requires space $O(\epsilon^{-2} \log (mM)(\log n))$ and processes each stream update using time $O((\log n) (\log \epsilon^{...
computer science
40,415
On the Finite Time Convergence of Cyclic Coordinate Descent Methods
cs.LG
Cyclic coordinate descent is a classic optimization method that has witnessed a resurgence of interest in machine learning. Reasons for this include its simplicity, speed and stability, as well as its competitive performance on $\ell_1$ regularized smooth optimization problems. Surprisingly, very little is known about ...
computer science
40,416
A Short Introduction to Model Selection, Kolmogorov Complexity and Minimum Description Length (MDL)
cs.LG
The concept of overfitting in model selection is explained and demonstrated with an example. After providing some background information on information theory and Kolmogorov complexity, we provide a short explanation of Minimum Description Length and error minimization. We conclude with a discussion of the typical feat...
computer science
40,417
Eigenvectors for clustering: Unipartite, bipartite, and directed graph cases
cs.LG
This paper presents a concise tutorial on spectral clustering for broad spectrum graphs which include unipartite (undirected) graph, bipartite graph, and directed graph. We show how to transform bipartite graph and directed graph into corresponding unipartite graph, therefore allowing a unified treatment to all cases. ...
computer science
40,418
Structural Drift: The Population Dynamics of Sequential Learning
cs.LG
We introduce a theory of sequential causal inference in which learners in a chain estimate a structural model from their upstream teacher and then pass samples from the model to their downstream student. It extends the population dynamics of genetic drift, recasting Kimura's selectively neutral theory as a special case...
computer science
40,419
On Recursive Edit Distance Kernels with Application to Time Series Classification
cs.LG
This paper proposes some extensions to the work on kernels dedicated to string or time series global alignment based on the aggregation of scores obtained by local alignments. The extensions we propose allow to construct, from classical recursive definition of elastic distances, recursive edit distance (or time-warp) k...
computer science
40,420
Wirtinger's Calculus in general Hilbert Spaces
cs.LG
The present report, has been inspired by the need of the author and its colleagues to understand the underlying theory of Wirtinger's Calculus and to further extend it to include the kernel case. The aim of the present manuscript is twofold: a) it endeavors to provide a more rigorous presentation of the related materia...
computer science
40,421
Ranked bandits in metric spaces: learning optimally diverse rankings over large document collections
cs.LG
Most learning to rank research has assumed that the utility of different documents is independent, which results in learned ranking functions that return redundant results. The few approaches that avoid this have rather unsatisfyingly lacked theoretical foundations, or do not scale. We present a learning-to-rank formul...
computer science
40,422
GraphLab: A New Framework for Parallel Machine Learning
cs.LG
Designing and implementing efficient, provably correct parallel machine learning (ML) algorithms is challenging. Existing high-level parallel abstractions like MapReduce are insufficiently expressive while low-level tools like MPI and Pthreads leave ML experts repeatedly solving the same design challenges. By targeting...
computer science
40,423
Data Stream Clustering: Challenges and Issues
cs.DB
Very large databases are required to store massive amounts of data that are continuously inserted and queried. Analyzing huge data sets and extracting valuable pattern in many applications are interesting for researchers. We can identify two main groups of techniques for huge data bases mining. One group refers to stre...
computer science
40,424
A Survey Paper on Recommender Systems
cs.IR
Recommender systems apply data mining techniques and prediction algorithms to predict users' interest on information, products and services among the tremendous amount of available items. The vast growth of information on the Internet as well as number of visitors to websites add some key challenges to recommender syst...
computer science
40,425
The Link Prediction Problem in Bipartite Networks
cs.LG
We define and study the link prediction problem in bipartite networks, specializing general link prediction algorithms to the bipartite case. In a graph, a link prediction function of two vertices denotes the similarity or proximity of the vertices. Common link prediction functions for general graphs are defined using ...
computer science
40,426
Safe Feature Elimination in Sparse Supervised Learning
cs.LG
We investigate fast methods that allow to quickly eliminate variables (features) in supervised learning problems involving a convex loss function and a $l_1$-norm penalty, leading to a potentially substantial reduction in the number of variables prior to running the supervised learning algorithm. The methods are not he...
computer science
40,427
A Fast Audio Clustering Using Vector Quantization and Second Order Statistics
cs.SD
This paper describes an effective unsupervised speaker indexing approach. We suggest a two stage algorithm to speed-up the state-of-the-art algorithm based on the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). In the first stage of the merging process a computationally cheap method based on the vector quantization (VQ) is used....
computer science
40,428
Speaker Identification using MFCC-Domain Support Vector Machine
cs.LG
Speech recognition and speaker identification are important for authentication and verification in security purpose, but they are difficult to achieve. Speaker identification methods can be divided into text-independent and text-dependent. This paper presents a technique of text-dependent speaker identification using M...
computer science
40,429
Approximate Maximum A Posteriori Inference with Entropic Priors
cs.SD
In certain applications it is useful to fit multinomial distributions to observed data with a penalty term that encourages sparsity. For example, in probabilistic latent audio source decomposition one may wish to encode the assumption that only a few latent sources are active at any given time. The standard heuristic o...
computer science
40,430
Multiarmed Bandit Problems with Delayed Feedback
cs.DS
In this paper we initiate the study of optimization of bandit type problems in scenarios where the feedback of a play is not immediately known. This arises naturally in allocation problems which have been studied extensively in the literature, albeit in the absence of delays in the feedback. We study this problem in th...
computer science
40,431
Blackwell Approachability and Low-Regret Learning are Equivalent
cs.LG
We consider the celebrated Blackwell Approachability Theorem for two-player games with vector payoffs. We show that Blackwell's result is equivalent, via efficient reductions, to the existence of "no-regret" algorithms for Online Linear Optimization. Indeed, we show that any algorithm for one such problem can be effici...
computer science
40,432
Robust Distributed Online Prediction
cs.LG
The standard model of online prediction deals with serial processing of inputs by a single processor. However, in large-scale online prediction problems, where inputs arrive at a high rate, an increasingly common necessity is to distribute the computation across several processors. A non-trivial challenge is to design ...
computer science
40,433
Context Aware End-to-End Connectivity Management
cs.LG
In a dynamic heterogeneous environment, such as pervasive and ubiquitous computing, context-aware adaptation is a key concept to meet the varying requirements of different users. Connectivity is an important context source that can be utilized for optimal management of diverse networking resources. Application QoS (Qua...
computer science
40,434
Refinement of Operator-valued Reproducing Kernels
cs.LG
This paper studies the construction of a refinement kernel for a given operator-valued reproducing kernel such that the vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert space of the refinement kernel contains that of the given one as a subspace. The study is motivated from the need of updating the current operator-valued repro...
computer science
40,435
Online Learning of Rested and Restless Bandits
math.OC
In this paper we study the online learning problem involving rested and restless multiarmed bandits with multiple plays. The system consists of a single player/user and a set of K finite-state discrete-time Markov chains (arms) with unknown state spaces and statistics. At each time step the player can play M arms. The ...
computer science
40,436
Privacy Preserving Spam Filtering
cs.LG
Email is a private medium of communication, and the inherent privacy constraints form a major obstacle in developing effective spam filtering methods which require access to a large amount of email data belonging to multiple users. To mitigate this problem, we envision a privacy preserving spam filtering system, where ...
computer science
40,437
Sparse neural networks with large learning diversity
cs.LG
Coded recurrent neural networks with three levels of sparsity are introduced. The first level is related to the size of messages, much smaller than the number of available neurons. The second one is provided by a particular coding rule, acting as a local constraint in the neural activity. The third one is a characteris...
computer science
40,438
Link Prediction by De-anonymization: How We Won the Kaggle Social Network Challenge
cs.CR
This paper describes the winning entry to the IJCNN 2011 Social Network Challenge run by Kaggle.com. The goal of the contest was to promote research on real-world link prediction, and the dataset was a graph obtained by crawling the popular Flickr social photo sharing website, with user identities scrubbed. By de-anony...
computer science
40,439
Fast and Faster: A Comparison of Two Streamed Matrix Decomposition Algorithms
cs.NA
With the explosion of the size of digital dataset, the limiting factor for decomposition algorithms is the \emph{number of passes} over the input, as the input is often stored out-of-core or even off-site. Moreover, we're only interested in algorithms that operate in \emph{constant memory} w.r.t. to the input size, so ...
computer science
40,440
Named Entity Recognition Using Web Document Corpus
cs.IR
This paper introduces a named entity recognition approach in textual corpus. This Named Entity (NE) can be a named: location, person, organization, date, time, etc., characterized by instances. A NE is found in texts accompanied by contexts: words that are left or right of the NE. The work mainly aims at identifying co...
computer science
40,441
A Gentle Introduction to the Kernel Distance
cs.CG
This document reviews the definition of the kernel distance, providing a gentle introduction tailored to a reader with background in theoretical computer science, but limited exposure to technology more common to machine learning, functional analysis and geometric measure theory. The key aspect of the kernel distance d...
computer science
40,442
Data-Distributed Weighted Majority and Online Mirror Descent
cs.LG
In this paper, we focus on the question of the extent to which online learning can benefit from distributed computing. We focus on the setting in which $N$ agents online-learn cooperatively, where each agent only has access to its own data. We propose a generic data-distributed online learning meta-algorithm. We then i...
computer science
40,443
A Note on the Entropy/Influence Conjecture
math.CO
The entropy/influence conjecture, raised by Friedgut and Kalai in 1996, seeks to relate two different measures of concentration of the Fourier coefficients of a Boolean function. Roughly saying, it claims that if the Fourier spectrum is "smeared out", then the Fourier coefficients are concentrated on "high" levels. In ...
computer science
40,444
Complexity Analysis of Vario-eta through Structure
cs.LG
Graph-based representations of images have recently acquired an important role for classification purposes within the context of machine learning approaches. The underlying idea is to consider that relevant information of an image is implicitly encoded into the relationships between more basic entities that compose by ...
computer science
40,445
Learning, investments and derivatives
cs.LG
The recent crisis and the following flight to simplicity put most derivative businesses around the world under considerable pressure. We argue that the traditional modeling techniques must be extended to include product design. We propose a quantitative framework for creating products which meet the challenge of being ...
computer science
40,446
Learning XML Twig Queries
cs.DB
We investigate the problem of learning XML queries, path queries and tree pattern queries, from examples given by the user. A learning algorithm takes on the input a set of XML documents with nodes annotated by the user and returns a query that selects the nodes in a manner consistent with the annotation. We study two ...
computer science
40,447
On the Inclusion Relation of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
math.FA
To help understand various reproducing kernels used in applied sciences, we investigate the inclusion relation of two reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Characterizations in terms of feature maps of the corresponding reproducing kernels are established. A full table of inclusion relations among widely-used translation ...
computer science
40,448
HOGWILD!: A Lock-Free Approach to Parallelizing Stochastic Gradient Descent
math.OC
Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is a popular algorithm that can achieve state-of-the-art performance on a variety of machine learning tasks. Several researchers have recently proposed schemes to parallelize SGD, but all require performance-destroying memory locking and synchronization. This work aims to show using no...
computer science
40,449
Generating a Diverse Set of High-Quality Clusterings
cs.LG
We provide a new framework for generating multiple good quality partitions (clusterings) of a single data set. Our approach decomposes this problem into two components, generating many high-quality partitions, and then grouping these partitions to obtain k representatives. The decomposition makes the approach extremely...
computer science
40,450
Efficient Multicore Collaborative Filtering
cs.LG
This paper describes the solution method taken by LeBuSiShu team for track1 in ACM KDD CUP 2011 contest (resulting in the 5th place). We identified two main challenges: the unique item taxonomy characteristics as well as the large data set size.To handle the item taxonomy, we present a novel method called Matrix Factor...
computer science
40,451
The fuzzy gene filter: A classifier performance assesment
cs.LG
The Fuzzy Gene Filter (FGF) is an optimised Fuzzy Inference System designed to rank genes in order of differential expression, based on expression data generated in a microarray experiment. This paper examines the effectiveness of the FGF for feature selection using various classification architectures. The FGF is comp...
computer science
40,452
Improving the performance of the ripper in insurance risk classification : A comparitive study using feature selection
cs.LG
The Ripper algorithm is designed to generate rule sets for large datasets with many features. However, it was shown that the algorithm struggles with classification performance in the presence of missing data. The algorithm struggles to classify instances when the quality of the data deteriorates as a result of increas...
computer science
40,453
Probability Ranking in Vector Spaces
cs.IR
The Probability Ranking Principle states that the document set with the highest values of probability of relevance optimizes information retrieval effectiveness given the probabilities are estimated as accurately as possible. The key point of the principle is the separation of the document set into two subsets with a g...
computer science
40,454
No Internal Regret via Neighborhood Watch
cs.LG
We present an algorithm which attains O(\sqrt{T}) internal (and thus external) regret for finite games with partial monitoring under the local observability condition. Recently, this condition has been shown by (Bartok, Pal, and Szepesvari, 2011) to imply the O(\sqrt{T}) rate for partial monitoring games against an i.i...
computer science
40,455
Infinite Tucker Decomposition: Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Multiway Data Analysis
cs.LG
Tensor decomposition is a powerful computational tool for multiway data analysis. Many popular tensor decomposition approaches---such as the Tucker decomposition and CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP)---amount to multi-linear factorization. They are insufficient to model (i) complex interactions between data entities, (ii) various...
computer science
40,456
Blackwell Approachability and Minimax Theory
cs.GT
This manuscript investigates the relationship between Blackwell Approachability, a stochastic vector-valued repeated game, and minimax theory, a single-play scalar-valued scenario. First, it is established in a general setting --- one not permitting invocation of minimax theory --- that Blackwell's Approachability Theo...
computer science
40,457
A Study of Unsupervised Adaptive Crowdsourcing
cs.LG
We consider unsupervised crowdsourcing performance based on the model wherein the responses of end-users are essentially rated according to how their responses correlate with the majority of other responses to the same subtasks/questions. In one setting, we consider an independent sequence of identically distributed cr...
computer science
40,458
A Behavior-based Approach for Multi-agent Q-learning for Autonomous Exploration
cs.RO
The use of mobile robots is being popular over the world mainly for autonomous explorations in hazardous/ toxic or unknown environments. This exploration will be more effective and efficient if the explorations in unknown environment can be aided with the learning from past experiences. Currently reinforcement learning...
computer science
40,459
A Variant of Azuma's Inequality for Martingales with Subgaussian Tails
cs.LG
We provide a variant of Azuma's concentration inequality for martingales, in which the standard boundedness requirement is replaced by the milder requirement of a subgaussian tail.
computer science
40,460
Issues,Challenges and Tools of Clustering Algorithms
cs.IR
Clustering is an unsupervised technique of Data Mining. It means grouping similar objects together and separating the dissimilar ones. Each object in the data set is assigned a class label in the clustering process using a distance measure. This paper has captured the problems that are faced in real when clustering alg...
computer science
40,461
Analysis of Heart Diseases Dataset using Neural Network Approach
cs.LG
One of the important techniques of Data mining is Classification. Many real world problems in various fields such as business, science, industry and medicine can be solved by using classification approach. Neural Networks have emerged as an important tool for classification. The advantages of Neural Networks helps for ...
computer science
40,462
A tail inequality for quadratic forms of subgaussian random vectors
math.PR
We prove an exponential probability tail inequality for positive semidefinite quadratic forms in a subgaussian random vector. The bound is analogous to one that holds when the vector has independent Gaussian entries.
computer science
40,463
Randomized Dimensionality Reduction for k-means Clustering
cs.DS
We study the topic of dimensionality reduction for $k$-means clustering. Dimensionality reduction encompasses the union of two approaches: \emph{feature selection} and \emph{feature extraction}. A feature selection based algorithm for $k$-means clustering selects a small subset of the input features and then applies $k...
computer science
40,464
Step size adaptation in first-order method for stochastic strongly convex programming
math.OC
We propose a first-order method for stochastic strongly convex optimization that attains $O(1/n)$ rate of convergence, analysis show that the proposed method is simple, easily to implement, and in worst case, asymptotically four times faster than its peers. We derive this method from several intuitive observations that...
computer science
40,465
A critical evaluation of network and pathway based classifiers for outcome prediction in breast cancer
cs.LG
Recently, several classifiers that combine primary tumor data, like gene expression data, and secondary data sources, such as protein-protein interaction networks, have been proposed for predicting outcome in breast cancer. In these approaches, new composite features are typically constructed by aggregating the express...
computer science
40,466
How to Evaluate Dimensionality Reduction? - Improving the Co-ranking Matrix
cs.LG
The growing number of dimensionality reduction methods available for data visualization has recently inspired the development of quality assessment measures, in order to evaluate the resulting low-dimensional representation independently from a methods' inherent criteria. Several (existing) quality measures can be (re)...
computer science
40,467
Aspiration Learning in Coordination Games
cs.GT
We consider the problem of distributed convergence to efficient outcomes in coordination games through dynamics based on aspiration learning. Under aspiration learning, a player continues to play an action as long as the rewards received exceed a specified aspiration level. Here, the aspiration level is a fading memory...
computer science
40,468
Optimal discovery with probabilistic expert advice
math.OC
We consider an original problem that arises from the issue of security analysis of a power system and that we name optimal discovery with probabilistic expert advice. We address it with an algorithm based on the optimistic paradigm and the Good-Turing missing mass estimator. We show that this strategy uniformly attains...
computer science
40,469
Computing a Nonnegative Matrix Factorization -- Provably
cs.DS
In the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) problem we are given an $n \times m$ nonnegative matrix $M$ and an integer $r > 0$. Our goal is to express $M$ as $A W$ where $A$ and $W$ are nonnegative matrices of size $n \times r$ and $r \times m$ respectively. In some applications, it makes sense to ask instead for the...
computer science
40,470
Tight Bounds on Proper Equivalence Query Learning of DNF
cs.LG
We prove a new structural lemma for partial Boolean functions $f$, which we call the seed lemma for DNF. Using the lemma, we give the first subexponential algorithm for proper learning of DNF in Angluin's Equivalence Query (EQ) model. The algorithm has time and query complexity $2^{(\tilde{O}{\sqrt{n}})}$, which is opt...
computer science
40,471
Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation of Periodic Functions
cs.LG
Many real world problems exhibit patterns that have periodic behavior. For example, in astrophysics, periodic variable stars play a pivotal role in understanding our universe. An important step when analyzing data from such processes is the problem of identifying the period: estimating the period of a periodic function...
computer science
40,472
Analysis of Thompson Sampling for the multi-armed bandit problem
cs.LG
The multi-armed bandit problem is a popular model for studying exploration/exploitation trade-off in sequential decision problems. Many algorithms are now available for this well-studied problem. One of the earliest algorithms, given by W. R. Thompson, dates back to 1933. This algorithm, referred to as Thompson Samplin...
computer science
40,473
Pushing Your Point of View: Behavioral Measures of Manipulation in Wikipedia
cs.SI
As a major source for information on virtually any topic, Wikipedia serves an important role in public dissemination and consumption of knowledge. As a result, it presents tremendous potential for people to promulgate their own points of view; such efforts may be more subtle than typical vandalism. In this paper, we in...
computer science
40,474
Generic Multiplicative Methods for Implementing Machine Learning Algorithms on MapReduce
cs.DS
In this paper we introduce a generic model for multiplicative algorithms which is suitable for the MapReduce parallel programming paradigm. We implement three typical machine learning algorithms to demonstrate how similarity comparison, gradient descent, power method and other classic learning techniques fit this model...
computer science
40,475
Improved Bound for the Nystrom's Method and its Application to Kernel Classification
cs.LG
We develop two approaches for analyzing the approximation error bound for the Nystr\"{o}m method, one based on the concentration inequality of integral operator, and one based on the compressive sensing theory. We show that the approximation error, measured in the spectral norm, can be improved from $O(N/\sqrt{m})$ to ...
computer science
40,476
A Collaborative Mechanism for Crowdsourcing Prediction Problems
cs.LG
Machine Learning competitions such as the Netflix Prize have proven reasonably successful as a method of "crowdsourcing" prediction tasks. But these competitions have a number of weaknesses, particularly in the incentive structure they create for the participants. We propose a new approach, called a Crowdsourced Learni...
computer science
40,477
Using Contextual Information as Virtual Items on Top-N Recommender Systems
cs.LG
Traditionally, recommender systems for the Web deal with applications that have two dimensions, users and items. Based on access logs that relate these dimensions, a recommendation model can be built and used to identify a set of N items that will be of interest to a certain user. In this paper we propose a method to c...
computer science
40,478
The No-U-Turn Sampler: Adaptively Setting Path Lengths in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
stat.CO
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm that avoids the random walk behavior and sensitivity to correlated parameters that plague many MCMC methods by taking a series of steps informed by first-order gradient information. These features allow it to converge to high-dimensional targe...
computer science
40,479
Learning with Submodular Functions: A Convex Optimization Perspective
cs.LG
Submodular functions are relevant to machine learning for at least two reasons: (1) some problems may be expressed directly as the optimization of submodular functions and (2) the lovasz extension of submodular functions provides a useful set of regularization functions for supervised and unsupervised learning. In this...
computer science
40,480
A Learning Framework for Self-Tuning Histograms
cs.DB
In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating self-tuning histograms using query workloads. To this end, we propose a general learning theoretic formulation. Specifically, we use query feedback from a workload as training data to estimate a histogram with a small memory footprint that minimizes the expected erro...
computer science
40,481
Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python
cs.LG
Scikit-learn is a Python module integrating a wide range of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for medium-scale supervised and unsupervised problems. This package focuses on bringing machine learning to non-specialists using a general-purpose high-level language. Emphasis is put on ease of use, performance, d...
computer science
40,482
Joint Approximation of Information and Distributed Link-Scheduling Decisions in Wireless Networks
cs.LG
For a large multi-hop wireless network, nodes are preferable to make distributed and localized link-scheduling decisions with only interactions among a small number of neighbors. However, for a slowly decaying channel and densely populated interferers, a small size neighborhood often results in nontrivial link outages ...
computer science
40,483
Combining Heterogeneous Classifiers for Relational Databases
cs.LG
Most enterprise data is distributed in multiple relational databases with expert-designed schema. Using traditional single-table machine learning techniques over such data not only incur a computational penalty for converting to a 'flat' form (mega-join), even the human-specified semantic information present in the rel...
computer science
40,484
Adaptive Shortest-Path Routing under Unknown and Stochastically Varying Link States
cs.NI
We consider the adaptive shortest-path routing problem in wireless networks under unknown and stochastically varying link states. In this problem, we aim to optimize the quality of communication between a source and a destination through adaptive path selection. Due to the randomness and uncertainties in the network dy...
computer science
40,485
A Bayesian Approach to Discovering Truth from Conflicting Sources for Data Integration
cs.DB
In practical data integration systems, it is common for the data sources being integrated to provide conflicting information about the same entity. Consequently, a major challenge for data integration is to derive the most complete and accurate integrated records from diverse and sometimes conflicting sources. We term ...
computer science
40,486
Graph partitioning advance clustering technique
cs.LG
Clustering is a common technique for statistical data analysis, Clustering is the process of grouping the data into classes or clusters so that objects within a cluster have high similarity in comparison to one another, but are very dissimilar to objects in other clusters. Dissimilarities are assessed based on the attr...
computer science
40,487
Mining Education Data to Predict Student's Retention: A comparative Study
cs.LG
The main objective of higher education is to provide quality education to students. One way to achieve highest level of quality in higher education system is by discovering knowledge for prediction regarding enrolment of students in a course. This paper presents a data mining project to generate predictive models for s...
computer science
40,488
Distributed Cooperative Q-learning for Power Allocation in Cognitive Femtocell Networks
cs.LG
In this paper, we propose a distributed reinforcement learning (RL) technique called distributed power control using Q-learning (DPC-Q) to manage the interference caused by the femtocells on macro-users in the downlink. The DPC-Q leverages Q-Learning to identify the sub-optimal pattern of power allocation, which strive...
computer science
40,489
Parallel Matrix Factorization for Binary Response
cs.LG
Predicting user affinity to items is an important problem in applications like content optimization, computational advertising, and many more. While bilinear random effect models (matrix factorization) provide state-of-the-art performance when minimizing RMSE through a Gaussian response model on explicit ratings data, ...
computer science
40,490
A Bayesian Model Committee Approach to Forecasting Global Solar Radiation
stat.AP
This paper proposes to use a rather new modelling approach in the realm of solar radiation forecasting. In this work, two forecasting models: Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) and Neural Network (NN) models are combined to form a model committee. The Bayesian inference is used to affect a probability to each model i...
computer science
40,491
Near-Optimal Algorithms for Online Matrix Prediction
cs.LG
In several online prediction problems of recent interest the comparison class is composed of matrices with bounded entries. For example, in the online max-cut problem, the comparison class is matrices which represent cuts of a given graph and in online gambling the comparison class is matrices which represent permutati...
computer science
40,492
A New Approach to Speeding Up Topic Modeling
cs.LG
Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is a widely-used probabilistic topic modeling paradigm, and recently finds many applications in computer vision and computational biology. In this paper, we propose a fast and accurate batch algorithm, active belief propagation (ABP), for training LDA. Usually batch LDA algorithms requ...
computer science
40,493
Learning Fuzzy β-Certain and β-Possible rules from incomplete quantitative data by rough sets
cs.DS
The rough-set theory proposed by Pawlak, has been widely used in dealing with data classification problems. The original rough-set model is, however, quite sensitive to noisy data. Tzung thus proposed deals with the problem of producing a set of fuzzy certain and fuzzy possible rules from quantitative data with a prede...
computer science
40,494
Minimal model of associative learning for cross-situational lexicon acquisition
cs.LG
An explanation for the acquisition of word-object mappings is the associative learning in a cross-situational scenario. Here we present analytical results of the performance of a simple associative learning algorithm for acquiring a one-to-one mapping between $N$ objects and $N$ words based solely on the co-occurrence ...
computer science
40,495
A technical study and analysis on fuzzy similarity based models for text classification
cs.IR
In this new and current era of technology, advancements and techniques, efficient and effective text document classification is becoming a challenging and highly required area to capably categorize text documents into mutually exclusive categories. Fuzzy similarity provides a way to find the similarity of features amon...
computer science
40,496
A Fuzzy Similarity Based Concept Mining Model for Text Classification
cs.IR
Text Classification is a challenging and a red hot field in the current scenario and has great importance in text categorization applications. A lot of research work has been done in this field but there is a need to categorize a collection of text documents into mutually exclusive categories by extracting the concepts...
computer science
40,497
Plug-in martingales for testing exchangeability on-line
cs.LG
A standard assumption in machine learning is the exchangeability of data, which is equivalent to assuming that the examples are generated from the same probability distribution independently. This paper is devoted to testing the assumption of exchangeability on-line: the examples arrive one by one, and after receiving ...
computer science
40,498
Distributed Learning, Communication Complexity and Privacy
cs.LG
We consider the problem of PAC-learning from distributed data and analyze fundamental communication complexity questions involved. We provide general upper and lower bounds on the amount of communication needed to learn well, showing that in addition to VC-dimension and covering number, quantities such as the teaching-...
computer science
40,499
Learning to Predict the Wisdom of Crowds
cs.SI
The problem of "approximating the crowd" is that of estimating the crowd's majority opinion by querying only a subset of it. Algorithms that approximate the crowd can intelligently stretch a limited budget for a crowdsourcing task. We present an algorithm, "CrowdSense," that works in an online fashion to dynamically sa...
computer science
40,500
Learning From An Optimization Viewpoint
cs.LG
In this dissertation we study statistical and online learning problems from an optimization viewpoint.The dissertation is divided into two parts : I. We first consider the question of learnability for statistical learning problems in the general learning setting. The question of learnability is well studied and fully...
computer science
40,501
Designing generalisation evaluation function through human-machine dialogue
cs.HC
Automated generalisation has known important improvements these last few years. However, an issue that still deserves more study concerns the automatic evaluation of generalised data. Indeed, many automated generalisation systems require the utilisation of an evaluation function to automatically assess generalisation o...
computer science
40,502
Quantitative Concept Analysis
cs.LG
Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) begins from a context, given as a binary relation between some objects and some attributes, and derives a lattice of concepts, where each concept is given as a set of objects and a set of attributes, such that the first set consists of all objects that satisfy all attributes in the second,...
computer science
40,503
Geometry of Online Packing Linear Programs
cs.DS
We consider packing LP's with $m$ rows where all constraint coefficients are normalized to be in the unit interval. The n columns arrive in random order and the goal is to set the corresponding decision variables irrevocably when they arrive so as to obtain a feasible solution maximizing the expected reward. Previous (...
computer science
40,504
Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning in the Cloud
cs.DB
While high-level data parallel frameworks, like MapReduce, simplify the design and implementation of large-scale data processing systems, they do not naturally or efficiently support many important data mining and machine learning algorithms and can lead to inefficient learning systems. To help fill this critical void,...
computer science
40,505
Feature Selection for Generator Excitation Neurocontroller Development Using Filter Technique
cs.SY
Essentially, motive behind using control system is to generate suitable control signal for yielding desired response of a physical process. Control of synchronous generator has always remained very critical in power system operation and control. For certain well known reasons power generators are normally operated well...
computer science
40,506
CELL: Connecting Everyday Life in an archipeLago
cs.HC
We explore the design of a seamless broadcast communication system that brings together the distributed community of remote secondary education schools. In contrast to higher education, primary and secondary education establishments should remain distributed, in order to maintain a balance of urban and rural life in th...
computer science
40,507
Residual Belief Propagation for Topic Modeling
cs.LG
Fast convergence speed is a desired property for training latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), especially in online and parallel topic modeling for massive data sets. This paper presents a novel residual belief propagation (RBP) algorithm to accelerate the convergence speed for training LDA. The proposed RBP uses an info...
computer science
40,508
Detection of Deviations in Mobile Applications Network Behavior
cs.CR
In this paper a novel system for detecting meaningful deviations in a mobile application's network behavior is proposed. The main goal of the proposed system is to protect mobile device users and cellular infrastructure companies from malicious applications. The new system is capable of: (1) identifying malicious attac...
computer science
40,509
A Random Walk Based Model Incorporating Social Information for Recommendations
cs.IR
Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most popular approaches to build a recommendation system. In this paper, we propose a hybrid collaborative filtering model based on a Makovian random walk to address the data sparsity and cold start problems in recommendation systems. More precisely, we construct a directed gr...
computer science