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As an immune-inspired algorithm, the Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DCA), produces promising performances in the field of anomaly detection. This paper presents the application of the DCA to a standard data set, the KDD 99 data set. The results…
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Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) are a family of probabilistic models that have a repulsive behavior, and lend themselves naturally to many tasks in machine learning where returning a diverse set of objects is important. While there are…
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