Optimising area under the ROC curve using gradient descent

Proceedings, Twenty-First International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 385-392

  Herschtal, Alan ^a   Raskutti, Bhavani ^a  

^a TELSTRA RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CURVE FITTING; DATA ACQUISITION; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FUNCTIONS; GRADIENT METHODS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

DATASETS; GRADIENT DESCENT; LINEAR BINARY CLASSIFIERS; ROC CURVE;

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EID: 14344264748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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