Complex Intelligent Systems

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Exemplar Programming

An interesting take on machine learning over at the machine learning theory blog:

Exemplar Programming

Here's a snip:
Machine learning can be thought of as exemplar programming. Exemplar programming is creating examples of a (input,output) pairs which are used by an algorithm to predict a function from input to output.

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Exemplar programming is a viewpoint of machine learning which (mostly) ignores statistics, prior information, and the possibility of overfitting. That’s a great deal to ignore, but there are gains as well.

jase.

Friday, October 13, 2006

NetflixPrize

Netflix the DVD rental company recently announced their NetflixPrize in which they will give away $1 million dollars for an algorithm that can out-perform their recommendation approach Cinematch by 10%. Given that this competition has caused a little bit of a stir in our research group I thought I would put this post together to capture a number of useful resources.
There are many many papers out there on collaborative filtering and recommendation systems. Here are a few good review and seminal CF works:
If/when you find any more useful resources, add them to the comments of this post!

jase.