Ranking the best instances

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages 2671-2699

  Clémençon, Stéphan ^a   Vayatis, Nicolas ^b  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b Paris Descartes University   (France)

Author keywords

Empirical risk minimization; Fast rates; Ranking; ROC curve and AUC

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BIPARTITE RANKING PROBLEMS; EMPIRICAL RISKS; REAL VALUED SCORING FUNCTIONS;

STATISTICS;

EID: 37749025853     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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