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stat.ML2014★ 2 cited
Weighted Classification Cascades for Optimizing Discovery Significance in the HiggsML Challenge
Lester Mackey, Jordan Bryan, Man Yue Mo
We introduce a minorization-maximization approach to optimizing common measures of discovery significance in high energy physics. The approach alternates between solving a weighted…
math.PR2014★ 2 cited
Efron-Stein Inequalities for Random Matrices
Daniel Paulin, Lester Mackey, Joel A. Tropp
This paper establishes new concentration inequalities for random matrices constructed from independent random variables. These results are analogous with the generalized Efron-Stei…