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real name	Yisong Yue
member since	Nov 04 '10 at 18:28
last seen	May 09 '12 at 00:56
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location	Carnegie Mellon University

Postdoc @ CMU

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Posterior tail bounds for bi-Gaussian latent factor models

May 22 '12 at 20:11 Yisong Yue586●3●10●20

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Sample Complexity or other learning theoretic results in quantile estimation

May 09 '12 at 17:17 Yisong Yue586●3●10●20

sample complexity quantile estimation

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Optimizing for variance.

Mar 03 '11 at 17:32 Alexandre Passos ♦25541●54●278●421 (asked by Yisong Yue586●3●10●20 )

variance optimization

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what is the state-of-the-art for learning to rank?

Solving AX = B for A

Which algorithm would fit optimization of somewhat-expensive, high-dimensional, gradient-free function?

F-measure: Why harmonic mean?

How to combine several weak classifier into one strong classifier with AdaBoost algorithm?

Role of LOSS function in acurracy of structured prediction

Practical evidence for gradient-free stochastic approximation

Why are SVMs so popular?

Quantifying the success of clustering

Ensemble Learning Methods

Fitting Gaussian scale mixture to data ? (one-dimensional)

Simple system for learning weights to rank results

Relationship between SVMs vs kNN

Empirical studies of Machine Learning algorithms

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structured-prediction × 1
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models × 1
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estimation × 1
f-measure × 1
labeling × 1
test-set × 1
machine-learning × 1
low-rank × 1

sparse × 1
tail × 1
community × 1
svd × 1
evaluation × 1
nonparametric × 1
factor × 1
loss-function × 1
algorithms × 1
statistics × 1

learning-to-rank × 1
boosting × 1
knn × 1
applications × 1
online-learning × 1
quantile × 1
survey × 1
sparse-coding × 1
logistic × 1

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3 Questions

Posterior tail bounds for bi-Gaussian latent factor models

Sample Complexity or other learning theoretic results in quantile estimation

Optimizing for variance.

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