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Learning Rankings via Convex Hull Separation
Glenn Fung,Romer Rosales,Balaji Krishnapuram +2 more
- Vol. 18, pp 395-402
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Experiments indicate that the proposed algorithm for learning ranking functions from order constraints between sets—i.e. classes—of training samples is at least as accurate as the current state-of-the-art and several orders of magnitude faster than current methods.Abstract:
We propose efficient algorithms for learning ranking functions from order constraints between sets—i.e. classes—of training samples. Our algorithms may be used for maximizing the generalized Wilcoxon Mann Whitney statistic that accounts for the partial ordering of the classes: special cases include maximizing the area under the ROC curve for binary classification and its generalization for ordinal regression. Experiments on public benchmarks indicate that: (a) the proposed algorithm is at least as accurate as the current state-of-the-art; (b) computationally, it is several orders of magnitude faster and—unlike current methods—it is easily able to handle even large datasets with over 20,000 samples.read more
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Learning with Taxonomies: Classifying Documents and Words
Thomas Hofmann,Lijuan Cai +1 more
TL;DR: To extent, this paper presents an extension of multiclass SupportVector Machine learning which can incorporate prior knowledge about class relationships which can be encoded in the form of class attributes, similarities between classes or even a kernel func-tion over the set of classes.