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40,510
Self-Organizing Time Map: An Abstraction of Temporal Multivariate Patterns
cs.LG
This paper adopts and adapts Kohonen's standard Self-Organizing Map (SOM) for exploratory temporal structure analysis. The Self-Organizing Time Map (SOTM) implements SOM-type learning to one-dimensional arrays for individual time units, preserves the orientation with short-term memory and arranges the arrays in an asce...
computer science
40,511
Scaling Multiple-Source Entity Resolution using Statistically Efficient Transfer Learning
cs.DB
We consider a serious, previously-unexplored challenge facing almost all approaches to scaling up entity resolution (ER) to multiple data sources: the prohibitive cost of labeling training data for supervised learning of similarity scores for each pair of sources. While there exists a rich literature describing almost ...
computer science
40,512
Analysis of a Statistical Hypothesis Based Learning Mechanism for Faster crawling
cs.LG
The growth of world-wide-web (WWW) spreads its wings from an intangible quantities of web-pages to a gigantic hub of web information which gradually increases the complexity of crawling process in a search engine. A search engine handles a lot of queries from various parts of this world, and the answers of it solely de...
computer science
40,513
Metric distances derived from cosine similarity and Pearson and Spearman correlations
stat.ME
We investigate two classes of transformations of cosine similarity and Pearson and Spearman correlations into metric distances, utilising the simple tool of metric-preserving functions. The first class puts anti-correlated objects maximally far apart. Previously known transforms fall within this class. The second class...
computer science
40,514
A Learning Theoretic Approach to Energy Harvesting Communication System Optimization
cs.LG
A point-to-point wireless communication system in which the transmitter is equipped with an energy harvesting device and a rechargeable battery, is studied. Both the energy and the data arrivals at the transmitter are modeled as Markov processes. Delay-limited communication is considered assuming that the underlying ch...
computer science
40,515
Identification of Probabilities of Languages
cs.LG
We consider the problem of inferring the probability distribution associated with a language, given data consisting of an infinite sequence of elements of the languge. We do this under two assumptions on the algorithms concerned: (i) like a real-life algorothm it has round-off errors, and (ii) it has no round-off error...
computer science
40,516
Fixed-rank matrix factorizations and Riemannian low-rank optimization
cs.LG
Motivated by the problem of learning a linear regression model whose parameter is a large fixed-rank non-symmetric matrix, we consider the optimization of a smooth cost function defined on the set of fixed-rank matrices. We adopt the geometric framework of optimization on Riemannian quotient manifolds. We study the und...
computer science
40,517
Design of Spectrum Sensing Policy for Multi-user Multi-band Cognitive Radio Network
cs.LG
Finding an optimal sensing policy for a particular access policy and sensing scheme is a laborious combinatorial problem that requires the system model parameters to be known. In practise the parameters or the model itself may not be completely known making reinforcement learning methods appealing. In this paper a non-...
computer science
40,518
Securing Your Transactions: Detecting Anomalous Patterns In XML Documents
cs.CR
XML transactions are used in many information systems to store data and interact with other systems. Abnormal transactions, the result of either an on-going cyber attack or the actions of a benign user, can potentially harm the interacting systems and therefore they are regarded as a threat. In this paper we address th...
computer science
40,519
Active Learning for Crowd-Sourced Databases
cs.LG
Crowd-sourcing has become a popular means of acquiring labeled data for a wide variety of tasks where humans are more accurate than computers, e.g., labeling images, matching objects, or analyzing sentiment. However, relying solely on the crowd is often impractical even for data sets with thousands of items, due to tim...
computer science
40,520
On the Sensitivity of Shape Fitting Problems
cs.CG
In this article, we study shape fitting problems, $\epsilon$-coresets, and total sensitivity. We focus on the $(j,k)$-projective clustering problems, including $k$-median/$k$-means, $k$-line clustering, $j$-subspace approximation, and the integer $(j,k)$-projective clustering problem. We derive upper bounds of total se...
computer science
40,521
Locality-Sensitive Hashing with Margin Based Feature Selection
cs.LG
We propose a learning method with feature selection for Locality-Sensitive Hashing. Locality-Sensitive Hashing converts feature vectors into bit arrays. These bit arrays can be used to perform similarity searches and personal authentication. The proposed method uses bit arrays longer than those used in the end for simi...
computer science
40,522
Learning Robust Low-Rank Representations
cs.LG
In this paper we present a comprehensive framework for learning robust low-rank representations by combining and extending recent ideas for learning fast sparse coding regressors with structured non-convex optimization techniques. This approach connects robust principal component analysis (RPCA) with dictionary learnin...
computer science
40,523
Gene selection with guided regularized random forest
cs.LG
The regularized random forest (RRF) was recently proposed for feature selection by building only one ensemble. In RRF the features are evaluated on a part of the training data at each tree node. We derive an upper bound for the number of distinct Gini information gain values in a node, and show that many features can s...
computer science
40,524
CloudSVM : Training an SVM Classifier in Cloud Computing Systems
cs.LG
In conventional method, distributed support vector machines (SVM) algorithms are trained over pre-configured intranet/internet environments to find out an optimal classifier. These methods are very complicated and costly for large datasets. Hence, we propose a method that is referred as the Cloud SVM training mechanism...
computer science
40,525
An Efficient Algorithm for Upper Bound on the Partition Function of Nucleic Acids
cs.LG
It has been shown that minimum free energy structure for RNAs and RNA-RNA interaction is often incorrect due to inaccuracies in the energy parameters and inherent limitations of the energy model. In contrast, ensemble based quantities such as melting temperature and equilibrium concentrations can be more reliably predi...
computer science
40,526
Symmetric Collaborative Filtering Using the Noisy Sensor Model
cs.IR
Collaborative filtering is the process of making recommendations regarding the potential preference of a user, for example shopping on the Internet, based on the preference ratings of the user and a number of other users for various items. This paper considers collaborative filtering based on explicitmulti-valued ratin...
computer science
40,527
A comparison of SVM and RVM for Document Classification
cs.IR
Document classification is a task of assigning a new unclassified document to one of the predefined set of classes. The content based document classification uses the content of the document with some weighting criteria to assign it to one of the predefined classes. It is a major task in library science, electronic doc...
computer science
40,528
The Diagonalized Newton Algorithm for Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
cs.NA
Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a popular machine learning approach to many problems in text mining, speech and image processing, bio-informatics and seismic data analysis to name a few. In NMF, a matrix of non-negative data is approximated by the low-rank product of two matrices with non-negative en...
computer science
40,529
Block Coordinate Descent for Sparse NMF
cs.LG
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a ubiquitous tool for data analysis. An important variant is the sparse NMF problem which arises when we explicitly require the learnt features to be sparse. A natural measure of sparsity is the L$_0$ norm, however its optimization is NP-hard. Mixed norms, such as L$_1$...
computer science
40,530
Revisiting Natural Gradient for Deep Networks
cs.LG
We evaluate natural gradient, an algorithm originally proposed in Amari (1997), for learning deep models. The contributions of this paper are as follows. We show the connection between natural gradient and three other recently proposed methods for training deep models: Hessian-Free (Martens, 2010), Krylov Subspace Desc...
computer science
40,531
Empirical Analysis of Predictive Algorithms for Collaborative Filtering
cs.IR
Collaborative filtering or recommender systems use a database about user preferences to predict additional topics or products a new user might like. In this paper we describe several algorithms designed for this task, including techniques based on correlation coefficients, vector-based similarity calculations, and stat...
computer science
40,532
Generalization Bounds for Domain Adaptation
cs.LG
In this paper, we provide a new framework to obtain the generalization bounds of the learning process for domain adaptation, and then apply the derived bounds to analyze the asymptotical convergence of the learning process. Without loss of generality, we consider two kinds of representative domain adaptation: one is wi...
computer science
40,533
Image Retrieval based on Bag-of-Words model
cs.IR
This article gives a survey for bag-of-words (BoW) or bag-of-features model in image retrieval system. In recent years, large-scale image retrieval shows significant potential in both industry applications and research problems. As local descriptors like SIFT demonstrate great discriminative power in solving vision pro...
computer science
40,534
North Atlantic Right Whale Contact Call Detection
cs.LG
The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is an endangered species. These whales continuously suffer from deadly vessel impacts alongside the eastern coast of North America. There have been countless efforts to save the remaining 350 - 400 of them. One of the most prominent works is done by Marinexplore and ...
computer science
40,535
Dynamic Ad Allocation: Bandits with Budgets
cs.LG
We consider an application of multi-armed bandits to internet advertising (specifically, to dynamic ad allocation in the pay-per-click model, with uncertainty on the click probabilities). We focus on an important practical issue that advertisers are constrained in how much money they can spend on their ad campaigns. Th...
computer science
40,536
KERT: Automatic Extraction and Ranking of Topical Keyphrases from Content-Representative Document Titles
cs.LG
We introduce KERT (Keyphrase Extraction and Ranking by Topic), a framework for topical keyphrase generation and ranking. By shifting from the unigram-centric traditional methods of unsupervised keyphrase extraction to a phrase-centric approach, we are able to directly compare and rank phrases of different lengths. We c...
computer science
40,537
Identifying Pairs in Simulated Bio-Medical Time-Series
cs.LG
The paper presents a time-series-based classification approach to identify similarities in pairs of simulated human-generated patterns. An example for a pattern is a time-series representing a heart rate during a specific time-range, wherein the time-series is a sequence of data points that represent the changes in the...
computer science
40,538
Highly Scalable, Parallel and Distributed AdaBoost Algorithm using Light Weight Threads and Web Services on a Network of Multi-Core Machines
cs.DC
AdaBoost is an important algorithm in machine learning and is being widely used in object detection. AdaBoost works by iteratively selecting the best amongst weak classifiers, and then combines several weak classifiers to obtain a strong classifier. Even though AdaBoost has proven to be very effective, its learning exe...
computer science
40,539
Predicting Risk-of-Readmission for Congestive Heart Failure Patients: A Multi-Layer Approach
cs.LG
Mitigating risk-of-readmission of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patients within 30 days of discharge is important because such readmissions are not only expensive but also critical indicator of provider care and quality of treatment. Accurately predicting the risk-of-readmission may allow hospitals to identify high-ri...
computer science
40,540
A Novel Approach for Single Gene Selection Using Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction
cs.CE
We extend the standard rough set-based approach to deal with huge amounts of numeric attributes versus small amount of available objects. Here, a novel approach of clustering along with dimensionality reduction; Hybrid Fuzzy C Means-Quick Reduct (FCMQR) algorithm is proposed for single gene selection. Gene selection is...
computer science
40,541
Large Margin Low Rank Tensor Analysis
cs.LG
Other than vector representations, the direct objects of human cognition are generally high-order tensors, such as 2D images and 3D textures. From this fact, two interesting questions naturally arise: How does the human brain represent these tensor perceptions in a "manifold" way, and how can they be recognized on the ...
computer science
40,542
R3MC: A Riemannian three-factor algorithm for low-rank matrix completion
math.OC
We exploit the versatile framework of Riemannian optimization on quotient manifolds to develop R3MC, a nonlinear conjugate-gradient method for low-rank matrix completion. The underlying search space of fixed-rank matrices is endowed with a novel Riemannian metric that is tailored to the least-squares cost. Numerical co...
computer science
40,543
Approximation Algorithms for Bayesian Multi-Armed Bandit Problems
cs.DS
In this paper, we consider several finite-horizon Bayesian multi-armed bandit problems with side constraints which are computationally intractable (NP-Hard) and for which no optimal (or near optimal) algorithms are known to exist with sub-exponential running time. All of these problems violate the standard exchange pro...
computer science
40,544
Online Alternating Direction Method (longer version)
cs.LG
Online optimization has emerged as powerful tool in large scale optimization. In this pa- per, we introduce efficient online optimization algorithms based on the alternating direction method (ADM), which can solve online convex optimization under linear constraints where the objective could be non-smooth. We introduce ...
computer science
40,545
Cluster coloring of the Self-Organizing Map: An information visualization perspective
cs.LG
This paper takes an information visualization perspective to visual representations in the general SOM paradigm. This involves viewing SOM-based visualizations through the eyes of Bertin's and Tufte's theories on data graphics. The regular grid shape of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM), while being a virtue for linking vi...
computer science
40,546
Parallel Coordinate Descent Newton Method for Efficient $\ell_1$-Regularized Minimization
cs.LG
The recent years have witnessed advances in parallel algorithms for large scale optimization problems. Notwithstanding demonstrated success, existing algorithms that parallelize over features are usually limited by divergence issues under high parallelism or require data preprocessing to alleviate these problems. In th...
computer science
40,547
A Fuzzy Based Approach to Text Mining and Document Clustering
cs.LG
Fuzzy logic deals with degrees of truth. In this paper, we have shown how to apply fuzzy logic in text mining in order to perform document clustering. We took an example of document clustering where the documents had to be clustered into two categories. The method involved cleaning up the text and stemming of words. Th...
computer science
40,548
From-Below Approximations in Boolean Matrix Factorization: Geometry and New Algorithm
cs.NA
We present new results on Boolean matrix factorization and a new algorithm based on these results. The results emphasize the significance of factorizations that provide from-below approximations of the input matrix. While the previously proposed algorithms do not consider the possibly different significance of differen...
computer science
40,549
An efficient reduction of ranking to classification
cs.LG
This paper describes an efficient reduction of the learning problem of ranking to binary classification. The reduction guarantees an average pairwise misranking regret of at most that of the binary classifier regret, improving a recent result of Balcan et al which only guarantees a factor of 2. Moreover, our reduction ...
computer science
40,550
Bias-Variance Techniques for Monte Carlo Optimization: Cross-validation for the CE Method
cs.NA
In this paper, we examine the CE method in the broad context of Monte Carlo Optimization (MCO) and Parametric Learning (PL), a type of machine learning. A well-known overarching principle used to improve the performance of many PL algorithms is the bias-variance tradeoff. This tradeoff has been used to improve PL algor...
computer science
40,551
Blind Cognitive MAC Protocols
cs.NI
We consider the design of cognitive Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols enabling an unlicensed (secondary) transmitter-receiver pair to communicate over the idle periods of a set of licensed channels, i.e., the primary network. The objective is to maximize data throughput while maintaining the synchronization between...
computer science
40,552
A Simple Linear Ranking Algorithm Using Query Dependent Intercept Variables
cs.IR
The LETOR website contains three information retrieval datasets used as a benchmark for testing machine learning ideas for ranking. Algorithms participating in the challenge are required to assign score values to search results for a collection of queries, and are measured using standard IR ranking measures (NDCG, prec...
computer science
40,553
Median topographic maps for biomedical data sets
cs.LG
Median clustering extends popular neural data analysis methods such as the self-organizing map or neural gas to general data structures given by a dissimilarity matrix only. This offers flexible and robust global data inspection methods which are particularly suited for a variety of data as occurs in biomedical domains...
computer science
40,554
Sailing the Information Ocean with Awareness of Currents: Discovery and Application of Source Dependence
cs.DB
The Web has enabled the availability of a huge amount of useful information, but has also eased the ability to spread false information and rumors across multiple sources, making it hard to distinguish between what is true and what is not. Recent examples include the premature Steve Jobs obituary, the second bankruptcy...
computer science
40,555
Distribution-Specific Agnostic Boosting
cs.LG
We consider the problem of boosting the accuracy of weak learning algorithms in the agnostic learning framework of Haussler (1992) and Kearns et al. (1992). Known algorithms for this problem (Ben-David et al., 2001; Gavinsky, 2002; Kalai et al., 2008) follow the same strategy as boosting algorithms in the PAC model: th...
computer science
40,556
Bounding the Sensitivity of Polynomial Threshold Functions
cs.CC
We give the first non-trivial upper bounds on the average sensitivity and noise sensitivity of polynomial threshold functions. More specifically, for a Boolean function f on n variables equal to the sign of a real, multivariate polynomial of total degree d we prove 1) The average sensitivity of f is at most O(n^{1-1/...
computer science
40,557
"Memory foam" approach to unsupervised learning
nlin.AO
We propose an alternative approach to construct an artificial learning system, which naturally learns in an unsupervised manner. Its mathematical prototype is a dynamical system, which automatically shapes its vector field in response to the input signal. The vector field converges to a gradient of a multi-dimensional ...
computer science
40,558
Data Stability in Clustering: A Closer Look
cs.LG
We consider the model introduced by Bilu and Linial (2010), who study problems for which the optimal clustering does not change when distances are perturbed. They show that even when a problem is NP-hard, it is sometimes possible to obtain efficient algorithms for instances resilient to certain multiplicative perturbat...
computer science
40,559
Private Data Release via Learning Thresholds
cs.CC
This work considers computationally efficient privacy-preserving data release. We study the task of analyzing a database containing sensitive information about individual participants. Given a set of statistical queries on the data, we want to release approximate answers to the queries while also guaranteeing different...
computer science
40,560
Optimal Adaptive Learning in Uncontrolled Restless Bandit Problems
math.OC
In this paper we consider the problem of learning the optimal policy for uncontrolled restless bandit problems. In an uncontrolled restless bandit problem, there is a finite set of arms, each of which when pulled yields a positive reward. There is a player who sequentially selects one of the arms at each time step. The...
computer science
40,561
Performance and Convergence of Multi-user Online Learning
cs.MA
We study the problem of allocating multiple users to a set of wireless channels in a decentralized manner when the channel quali- ties are time-varying and unknown to the users, and accessing the same channel by multiple users leads to reduced quality due to interference. In such a setting the users not only need to le...
computer science
40,562
Using Incomplete Information for Complete Weight Annotation of Road Networks -- Extended Version
cs.LG
We are witnessing increasing interests in the effective use of road networks. For example, to enable effective vehicle routing, weighted-graph models of transportation networks are used, where the weight of an edge captures some cost associated with traversing the edge, e.g., greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or travel ti...
computer science
40,563
MonoStream: A Minimal-Hardware High Accuracy Device-free WLAN Localization System
cs.NI
Device-free (DF) localization is an emerging technology that allows the detection and tracking of entities that do not carry any devices nor participate actively in the localization process. Typically, DF systems require a large number of transmitters and receivers to achieve acceptable accuracy, which is not available...
computer science
40,564
Theoretical Issues for Global Cumulative Treatment Analysis (GCTA)
stat.AP
Adaptive trials are now mainstream science. Recently, researchers have taken the adaptive trial concept to its natural conclusion, proposing what we call "Global Cumulative Treatment Analysis" (GCTA). Similar to the adaptive trial, decision making and data collection and analysis in the GCTA are continuous and integrat...
computer science
40,565
OFF-Set: One-pass Factorization of Feature Sets for Online Recommendation in Persistent Cold Start Settings
cs.LG
One of the most challenging recommendation tasks is recommending to a new, previously unseen user. This is known as the 'user cold start' problem. Assuming certain features or attributes of users are known, one approach for handling new users is to initially model them based on their features. Motivated by an ad targ...
computer science
40,566
Normalized Google Distance of Multisets with Applications
cs.IR
Normalized Google distance (NGD) is a relative semantic distance based on the World Wide Web (or any other large electronic database, for instance Wikipedia) and a search engine that returns aggregate page counts. The earlier NGD between pairs of search terms (including phrases) is not sufficient for all applications. ...
computer science
40,567
Fast Stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
cs.LG
In this paper, we propose a new stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm, which incrementally approximates the full gradient in the linearized ADMM formulation. Besides having a low per-iteration complexity as existing stochastic ADMM algorithms, the proposed algorithm improves the conver...
computer science
40,568
Nested Nonnegative Cone Analysis
stat.ME
Motivated by the analysis of nonnegative data objects, a novel Nested Nonnegative Cone Analysis (NNCA) approach is proposed to overcome some drawbacks of existing methods. The application of traditional PCA/SVD method to nonnegative data often cause the approximation matrix leave the nonnegative cone, which leads to no...
computer science
40,569
Decentralized Online Big Data Classification - a Bandit Framework
cs.LG
Distributed, online data mining systems have emerged as a result of applications requiring analysis of large amounts of correlated and high-dimensional data produced by multiple distributed data sources. We propose a distributed online data classification framework where data is gathered by distributed data sources and...
computer science
40,570
Considering users' behaviours in improving the responses of an information base
cs.LG
In this paper, our aim is to propose a model that helps in the efficient use of an information system by users, within the organization represented by the IS, in order to resolve their decisional problems. In other words we want to aid the user within an organization in obtaining the information that corresponds to his...
computer science
40,571
Using state space differential geometry for nonlinear blind source separation
cs.LG
Given a time series of multicomponent measurements of an evolving stimulus, nonlinear blind source separation (BSS) seeks to find a "source" time series, comprised of statistically independent combinations of the measured components. In this paper, we seek a source time series with local velocity cross correlations tha...
computer science
40,572
Statistical Mechanics of On-line Learning when a Moving Teacher Goes around an Unlearnable True Teacher
cs.LG
In the framework of on-line learning, a learning machine might move around a teacher due to the differences in structures or output functions between the teacher and the learning machine. In this paper we analyze the generalization performance of a new student supervised by a moving machine. A model composed of a fixed...
computer science
40,573
Privacy Preserving ID3 over Horizontally, Vertically and Grid Partitioned Data
cs.DB
We consider privacy preserving decision tree induction via ID3 in the case where the training data is horizontally or vertically distributed. Furthermore, we consider the same problem in the case where the data is both horizontally and vertically distributed, a situation we refer to as grid partitioned data. We give an...
computer science
40,574
Approximation Algorithms for Bregman Co-clustering and Tensor Clustering
cs.DS
In the past few years powerful generalizations to the Euclidean k-means problem have been made, such as Bregman clustering [7], co-clustering (i.e., simultaneous clustering of rows and columns of an input matrix) [9,18], and tensor clustering [8,34]. Like k-means, these more general problems also suffer from the NP-har...
computer science
40,575
Decision trees are PAC-learnable from most product distributions: a smoothed analysis
cs.LG
We consider the problem of PAC-learning decision trees, i.e., learning a decision tree over the n-dimensional hypercube from independent random labeled examples. Despite significant effort, no polynomial-time algorithm is known for learning polynomial-sized decision trees (even trees of any super-constant size), even w...
computer science
40,576
Uncovering protein interaction in abstracts and text using a novel linear model and word proximity networks
cs.IR
We participated in three of the protein-protein interaction subtasks of the Second BioCreative Challenge: classification of abstracts relevant for protein-protein interaction (IAS), discovery of protein pairs (IPS) and text passages characterizing protein interaction (ISS) in full text documents. We approached the abst...
computer science
40,577
Decomposition Principles and Online Learning in Cross-Layer Optimization for Delay-Sensitive Applications
cs.MM
In this paper, we propose a general cross-layer optimization framework in which we explicitly consider both the heterogeneous and dynamically changing characteristics of delay-sensitive applications and the underlying time-varying network conditions. We consider both the independently decodable data units (DUs, e.g. pa...
computer science
40,578
Comparison of Binary Classification Based on Signed Distance Functions with Support Vector Machines
cs.LG
We investigate the performance of a simple signed distance function (SDF) based method by direct comparison with standard SVM packages, as well as K-nearest neighbor and RBFN methods. We present experimental results comparing the SDF approach with other classifiers on both synthetic geometric problems and five benchmar...
computer science
40,579
Quantum Predictive Learning and Communication Complexity with Single Input
cs.LG
We define a new model of quantum learning that we call Predictive Quantum (PQ). This is a quantum analogue of PAC, where during the testing phase the student is only required to answer a polynomial number of testing queries. We demonstrate a relational concept class that is efficiently learnable in PQ, while in any "...
computer science
40,580
A New Local Distance-Based Outlier Detection Approach for Scattered Real-World Data
cs.LG
Detecting outliers which are grossly different from or inconsistent with the remaining dataset is a major challenge in real-world KDD applications. Existing outlier detection methods are ineffective on scattered real-world datasets due to implicit data patterns and parameter setting issues. We define a novel "Local Dis...
computer science
40,581
Optimal Policies Search for Sensor Management
cs.LG
This paper introduces a new approach to solve sensor management problems. Classically sensor management problems can be well formalized as Partially-Observed Markov Decision Processes (POMPD). The original approach developped here consists in deriving the optimal parameterized policy based on a stochastic gradient esti...
computer science
40,582
Graph polynomials and approximation of partition functions with Loopy Belief Propagation
cs.DM
The Bethe approximation, or loopy belief propagation algorithm is a successful method for approximating partition functions of probabilistic models associated with a graph. Chertkov and Chernyak derived an interesting formula called Loop Series Expansion, which is an expansion of the partition function. The main term o...
computer science
40,583
Bayesian Forecasting of WWW Traffic on the Time Varying Poisson Model
cs.NI
Traffic forecasting from past observed traffic data with small calculation complexity is one of important problems for planning of servers and networks. Focusing on World Wide Web (WWW) traffic as fundamental investigation, this paper would deal with Bayesian forecasting of network traffic on the time varying Poisson m...
computer science
40,584
Rough Set Model for Discovering Hybrid Association Rules
cs.DB
In this paper, the mining of hybrid association rules with rough set approach is investigated as the algorithm RSHAR.The RSHAR algorithm is constituted of two steps mainly. At first, to join the participant tables into a general table to generate the rules which is expressing the relationship between two or more domain...
computer science
40,585
Learning with Spectral Kernels and Heavy-Tailed Data
cs.LG
Two ubiquitous aspects of large-scale data analysis are that the data often have heavy-tailed properties and that diffusion-based or spectral-based methods are often used to identify and extract structure of interest. Perhaps surprisingly, popular distribution-independent methods such as those based on the VC dimension...
computer science
40,586
Statistical Analysis of Privacy and Anonymity Guarantees in Randomized Security Protocol Implementations
cs.CR
Security protocols often use randomization to achieve probabilistic non-determinism. This non-determinism, in turn, is used in obfuscating the dependence of observable values on secret data. Since the correctness of security protocols is very important, formal analysis of security protocols has been widely studied in l...
computer science
40,587
Online Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Multimedia Systems
cs.LG
In our previous work, we proposed a systematic cross-layer framework for dynamic multimedia systems, which allows each layer to make autonomous and foresighted decisions that maximize the system's long-term performance, while meeting the application's real-time delay constraints. The proposed solution solved the cross-...
computer science
40,588
Learning Gaussian Mixtures with Arbitrary Separation
cs.LG
In this paper we present a method for learning the parameters of a mixture of $k$ identical spherical Gaussians in $n$-dimensional space with an arbitrarily small separation between the components. Our algorithm is polynomial in all parameters other than $k$. The algorithm is based on an appropriate grid search over th...
computer science
40,589
Learning Equilibria in Games by Stochastic Distributed Algorithms
cs.GT
We consider a class of fully stochastic and fully distributed algorithms, that we prove to learn equilibria in games. Indeed, we consider a family of stochastic distributed dynamics that we prove to converge weakly (in the sense of weak convergence for probabilistic processes) towards their mean-field limit, i.e an o...
computer science
40,590
Network-aware Adaptation with Real-Time Channel Statistics for Wireless LAN Multimedia Transmissions in the Digital Home
cs.NI
This paper suggests the use of intelligent network-aware processing agents in wireless local area network drivers to generate metrics for bandwidth estimation based on real-time channel statistics to enable wireless multimedia application adaptation. Various configurations in the wireless digital home are studied and t...
computer science
40,591
Contextual Bandits with Similarity Information
cs.DS
In a multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem, an online algorithm makes a sequence of choices. In each round it chooses from a time-invariant set of alternatives and receives the payoff associated with this alternative. While the case of small strategy sets is by now well-understood, a lot of recent work has focused on MAB pr...
computer science
40,592
Prediction of Zoonosis Incidence in Human using Seasonal Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA)
cs.LG
Zoonosis refers to the transmission of infectious diseases from animal to human. The increasing number of zoonosis incidence makes the great losses to lives, including humans and animals, and also the impact in social economic. It motivates development of a system that can predict the future number of zoonosis occurren...
computer science
40,593
Low-rank Matrix Completion with Noisy Observations: a Quantitative Comparison
cs.LG
We consider a problem of significant practical importance, namely, the reconstruction of a low-rank data matrix from a small subset of its entries. This problem appears in many areas such as collaborative filtering, computer vision and wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we focus on the matrix completion problem i...
computer science
40,594
Strategies for online inference of model-based clustering in large and growing networks
stat.AP
In this paper we adapt online estimation strategies to perform model-based clustering on large networks. Our work focuses on two algorithms, the first based on the SAEM algorithm, and the second on variational methods. These two strategies are compared with existing approaches on simulated and real data. We use the met...
computer science
40,595
On Learning Finite-State Quantum Sources
cs.LG
We examine the complexity of learning the distributions produced by finite-state quantum sources. We show how prior techniques for learning hidden Markov models can be adapted to the quantum generator model to find that the analogous state of affairs holds: information-theoretically, a polynomial number of samples suff...
computer science
40,596
A Gradient Descent Algorithm on the Grassman Manifold for Matrix Completion
cs.NA
We consider the problem of reconstructing a low-rank matrix from a small subset of its entries. In this paper, we describe the implementation of an efficient algorithm called OptSpace, based on singular value decomposition followed by local manifold optimization, for solving the low-rank matrix completion problem. It h...
computer science
40,597
Multi-path Probabilistic Available Bandwidth Estimation through Bayesian Active Learning
cs.NI
Knowing the largest rate at which data can be sent on an end-to-end path such that the egress rate is equal to the ingress rate with high probability can be very practical when choosing transmission rates in video streaming or selecting peers in peer-to-peer applications. We introduce probabilistic available bandwidth,...
computer science
40,598
Online Learning in Opportunistic Spectrum Access: A Restless Bandit Approach
math.OC
We consider an opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) problem where the time-varying condition of each channel (e.g., as a result of random fading or certain primary users' activities) is modeled as an arbitrary finite-state Markov chain. At each instance of time, a (secondary) user probes a channel and collects a certain...
computer science
40,599
Converged Algorithms for Orthogonal Nonnegative Matrix Factorizations
cs.LG
This paper proposes uni-orthogonal and bi-orthogonal nonnegative matrix factorization algorithms with robust convergence proofs. We design the algorithms based on the work of Lee and Seung [1], and derive the converged versions by utilizing ideas from the work of Lin [2]. The experimental results confirm the theoretica...
computer science
40,600
Resource-bounded Dimension in Computational Learning Theory
cs.CC
This paper focuses on the relation between computational learning theory and resource-bounded dimension. We intend to establish close connections between the learnability/nonlearnability of a concept class and its corresponding size in terms of effective dimension, which will allow the use of powerful dimension techniq...
computer science
40,601
Efficient Minimization of Decomposable Submodular Functions
cs.LG
Many combinatorial problems arising in machine learning can be reduced to the problem of minimizing a submodular function. Submodular functions are a natural discrete analog of convex functions, and can be minimized in strongly polynomial time. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art algorithms for general submodular minimizat...
computer science
40,602
A Primal-Dual Convergence Analysis of Boosting
cs.LG
Boosting combines weak learners into a predictor with low empirical risk. Its dual constructs a high entropy distribution upon which weak learners and training labels are uncorrelated. This manuscript studies this primal-dual relationship under a broad family of losses, including the exponential loss of AdaBoost and th...
computer science
40,603
File Transfer Application For Sharing Femto Access
cs.NI
In wireless access network optimization, today's main challenges reside in traffic offload and in the improvement of both capacity and coverage networks. The operators are interested in solving their localized coverage and capacity problems in areas where the macro network signal is not able to serve the demand for mob...
computer science
40,604
Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data
cs.LG
We consider Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) with pattern-based potentials defined on a chain. In this model the energy of a string (labeling) $x_1...x_n$ is the sum of terms over intervals $[i,j]$ where each term is non-zero only if the substring $x_i...x_j$ equals a prespecified pattern $\alpha$. Such CRFs can be nat...
computer science
40,605
Learning from Collective Intelligence in Groups
cs.SI
Collective intelligence, which aggregates the shared information from large crowds, is often negatively impacted by unreliable information sources with the low quality data. This becomes a barrier to the effective use of collective intelligence in a variety of applications. In order to address this issue, we propose a ...
computer science
40,606
Sensory Anticipation of Optical Flow in Mobile Robotics
cs.RO
In order to anticipate dangerous events, like a collision, an agent needs to make long-term predictions. However, those are challenging due to uncertainties in internal and external variables and environment dynamics. A sensorimotor model is acquired online by the mobile robot using a state-of-the-art method that learn...
computer science
40,607
A Benchmark to Select Data Mining Based Classification Algorithms For Business Intelligence And Decision Support Systems
cs.DB
DSS serve the management, operations, and planning levels of an organization and help to make decisions, which may be rapidly changing and not easily specified in advance. Data mining has a vital role to extract important information to help in decision making of a decision support system. Integration of data mining an...
computer science
40,608
Deterministic MDPs with Adversarial Rewards and Bandit Feedback
cs.GT
We consider a Markov decision process with deterministic state transition dynamics, adversarially generated rewards that change arbitrarily from round to round, and a bandit feedback model in which the decision maker only observes the rewards it receives. In this setting, we present a novel and efficient online decisio...
computer science
40,609
A Novel Learning Algorithm for Bayesian Network and Its Efficient Implementation on GPU
cs.DC
Computational inference of causal relationships underlying complex networks, such as gene-regulatory pathways, is NP-complete due to its combinatorial nature when permuting all possible interactions. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) has been introduced to sample only part of the combinations while still guaranteeing con...
computer science