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The work in ICML'09 showed that the derivatives of the classical multi-class logistic regression loss function could be re-written in terms of a pre-chosen "base class" and applied the new derivatives in the popular boosting framework. In…
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Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) methods are standard tools for inferring parameters of complex models when the likelihood function is analytically intractable. A popular approach to improving the poor acceptance rate of the basic…
Community search has been extensively studied in the past decades. In recent years, there is a growing interest in attributed community search that aims to identify a community based on both the query nodes and query attributes. A set of…
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