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INVITED PAPERS

The Two Faces of Active Learning,
Abstract.
1 - 1
Sanjoy Dasgupta

Inference and Learning in Planning,
Abstract.
2 - 2
Hector Geffner

Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks by Exploring the Power of Links,
Abstract.
3 - 3
Jiawei Han.

Learning and Domain Adaptation,
Abstract.
4 - 6
Yishay Mansour,

Learning on the Web,
Abstract.
7 - 7
Fernando C. N. Pereira



REGULAR PAPERS

Online Learning

Prediction with Expert Evaluators' Advice,
Abstract.
8 - 22
Alexey Chernov and Vladimir Vovk.

Pure Exploration in Multi-armed Bandits Problems,
Abstract.
23 - 37
Sébastien Bubeck, Rémi Munos, and Gilles Stoltz.

The Follow Perturbed Leader Algorithm Protected from Unbounded One-Step Losses,
Abstract.
38 - 52
Vladimir V. V'yugin

Computable Bayesian Compression for Uniformly Discretizable Statistical Models,
Abstract.
53 - 67
Łukasz Dębowski.

Calibration and Internal No-Regret with Random Signals,
Abstract.
68 - 82
Vianney Perchet

St. Petersburg Portfolio Games,
Abstract.
83 - 96
László Györfi and Péter Kevei


Learning Graphs

Reconstructing Weighted Graphs with Minimal Query Complexity,
Abstract.
97 - 109
Nader H. Bshouty and Hanna Mazzawi

Learning Unknown Graphs,
Abstract.
110 - 125
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Claudio Gentile and Fabio Vitale

Completing Networks Using Observed Data,
Abstract.
126 - 140
Tatsuya Akutsu, Takeyuki Tamura, and Katsuhisa Horimoto.


Active Learning and Query Learning

Average-Case Active Learning with Costs,
Abstract.
141 - 155
Andrew Guillory and Jeff Bilmes.

Canonical Horn Representations and Query Learning,
Abstract.
156 - 170
Marta Arias and José L. Balcázar.

Learning Finite Automata Using Label Queries,
Abstract.
171 - 185
Dana Angluin, Leonor Becerra-Bonache, Adrian Horia Dediu, and Lev Reyzin.

Characterizing Statistical Query Learning: Simplified Notions and Proofs,
Abstract.
186 - 200
Balázs Szörényi.

An Algebraic Perspective on Boolean Function Learning,
Abstract.
201 - 215
Ricard Gavaldà and Denis Thérien.

Statistical Learning

Adaptive Estimation of the Optimal ROC Curve and a Bipartite Ranking Algorithm,
Abstract.
216 - 231
Stéphan Clémençon and Nicolas Vayatis.

Complexity versus Agreement for Many Views,
Abstract.
232 - 246
Odalric-Ambrym Maillard Nicolas Vayatis.

Error-Correcting Tournaments,
Abstract.
247 - 262
Alina Beygelzimer, John Langford and Pradeep Ravikumar.


Inductive Inference

Difficulties in Forcing Fairness of Polynomial Time Inductive Inference,
Abstract.
263 - 277
John Case and Timo Kötzing.

Learning Mildly Context-Sensitive Languages with
Multidimensional Substitutability from Positive Data
,
Abstract.
278 - 292
Ryo Yoshinaka.

Uncountable Automatic Classes and Learning,
Abstract.
293 - 307
Sanjay Jain, Qinglong Luo, Pavel Semukhin, and Frank Stephan.

Iterative Learning from Texts and Counterexamples Using Additional Information,
Abstract.
308 - 322
Sanjay Jain and Efim Kinber.

Incremental Learning with Ordinal Bounded Example Memory,
Abstract.
323 - 337
Lorenzo Carlucci.

Learning from Streams,
Abstract.
338 - 352
Sanjay Jain, Frank Stephan, and Nan Ye.


Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Learning

Smart PAC-Learners,
Abstract.
353 - 367
Hans Ulrich Simon.

Approximation Algorithms for Tensor Clustering,
Abstract.
368 - 383
Stefanie Jegelka, Suvrit Sra, and Arindam Banerjee.

Agnostic Clustering,
Abstract.
384 - 398
Maria Florina Balcan, Heiko Röglin and Shang-Hua Teng.

Author Index 399


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