Learning

Selected Publications:
  1. (2006) Victor Boyarshinov, Malik Magdon-Ismail,
    "Optimal Boosting of A Pair of Classifiers",
    (accepted to appear in) IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, November 2006.
    postscript, pdf.

  2. (2006) Sibel Adali, Brandeis Hill and Malik Magdon-Ismail,
    "The Impact of Ranker Quality on Ranker Aggregation Algorithms: Information vs. Robustness",
    ICDE Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration (WIRI), Atlanta, Georgia, April 3, 2006.
    postscript, pdf. Slides: postscript, pdf.

  3. (2005) Jonathan Purnell, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Heidi Newberg
    "A Probabilistic Approach to Finding Geometric Objects in Spatial Datasets of the Milky Way",
    15th International Symposium on Methodoligies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2005), May 25-28, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA.
    postscript, pdf.

  4. (2005) Mark Goldberg, David Hollinger, Malik Magdon-Ismail
    "Experimental Evaluation of the Greedy and Random Algorithms for Finding Independent Sets in Random Graphs",
    4th International Workshop on Efficient and Experimental Algorithms (WEA 2005), May 10-13, Santorini, Greece.
    postscript, pdf.

  5. (2004) Victor Boyarshinov, Malik Magdon-Ismail
    "Linear Time Isotonic and Unimodal Regression in the L1 and Linfinity Norms",
    (accepted to appear in) Journal of Discrete Algorithms.
    postscript , pdf.

  6. (2003) Malik Magdon-Ismail and Joseph Sill
    "Using a Linear Fit to Determine Monotonicity Directions",
    The 16th Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2003), Washington, DC, USA, August 24-27 2003.
    ps pdf
    Journal Version:
    "A Linear Model Gets the Correct Monotonicity Directions",
    submitted to Journal of Machine Learning.
    postscript , pdf.

  7. (2002) Malik Magdon-Ismail, Hung-Ching (Justin) Chen and Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa
    "The Multilevel Classification Problem and a Monotonicity Hint",
    Intelligent Data Engineering and Learning, Third International Conference, Manchester, UK, August, 2002. Springer.
    postscript, pdf.

  8. (2001) Mark K. Goldberg, Darren T. Lim and Malik Magdon-Ismail
    "A Learning Algorithm for String Assembly",
    BIOKDD01: Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (with SIGKDD01 Conference), August 2001.
    postscript, pdf.

  9. (2001) Eric Breimer, Mark K. Goldberg, Brian Kolstad and Malik Magdon-Ismail
    "On the Height of a Random Set of Points in a d-Dimensional Unit Cube",
    Journal of Experimental Mathematics, Volume 10, Number 4, pp 583-597, 2001.
    postscript , pdf, source code.

  10. (2000) Malik Magdon-Ismail and Amir F. Atiya
    "Density Estimation and Random Variate Generation Using Multi-Layer Networks",
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, (accepted to appear) December 2000.
    postscript , pdf.

  11. (2000) Malik Magdon-Ismail and Amir F. Atiya
    "The Early Restart Algorithm",
    Neural Computation, Volume 12, Number 6, pp 1303-1313, June 2000.
    postscript , pdf.

  12. (2000) Malik Magdon-Ismail
    "No Free Lunch for Noise Prediction",
    Neural Computation, Volume 12, Number 3, pp547-565, March 2000.
    postscript , pdf.

  13. (1999) Zehra Cataltepe, Yaser Abu-Mostafa and Malik Magdon-Ismail
    "No Free Lunch for Early Stopping",
    Neural Computation, Volume 11, Number 4, pp 995-1010, May 1998.
    postscript , pdf.

  14. (1999) Malik Magdon-Ismail and Amir F. Atiya
    "A Control Formulation for Random Variate Generation",
    Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP99) IX, Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Workshop, eds. Yu-Hen Hu, Jan Larsen, Elizabeth Wilson, Scott Douglas, August 1999.
    postscript, pdf.

  15. (1998) Malik Magdon-Ismail, Alexander Nicholson and Yaser Abu-Mostafa,
    "Financial Markets, Very Noisy Information Processing",
    Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Intelligent Signal Processing, Volume 86, Number 11, pp 2184-2195, November 1998.
    postscript , pdf.
    addendum to definition A.1, postcript , pdf.

  16. (1998) Malik Magdon-Ismail and Amir Atiya,
    "Neural Networks for Density Estimation",
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 11, Proceedings of the 1998 Conference, pp522-528, eds. Michael S. Kearns, Sara A. Solla and David A. Cohen, MIT Press, 1998.
    postscript, pdf.

  17. (1998) Malik Magdon-Ismail, Alexander Nicholson and Yaser Abu-Mostafa,
    "Estimating Model Limitation in Financial Markets",
    Intelligent Data Engineering and Learning (IDEAL), First International Symposium, pp 19-26, eds. L. Xu, L. W. Chan, I. King and A. Fu, Springer, October, 1998.
    postscript, pdf.