no code implementations • NeurIPS 2011 • Shulin Yang, Ali Rahimi
We describe a family of global optimization procedures that automatically decompose optimization problems into smaller loosely coupled problems, then combine the solutions of these with message passing algorithms.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2012 • Shulin Yang, Liefeng Bo, Jue Wang, Linda G. Shapiro
It differs from recognition of basic categories, such as humans, tables, and computers, in that there are global similarities in shape or structure shared within a category, and the differences are in the details of the object parts.
no code implementations • CVPR 2013 • Shulin Yang, Jue Wang, Linda Shapiro
This paper proposes a new supervised semantic edge and gradient extraction approach, which allows the user to roughly scribble over the desired region to extract semantically-dominant and coherent edges in it.
1 code implementation • 22 Oct 2018 • Malay Haldar, Mustafa Abdool, Prashant Ramanathan, Tao Xu, Shulin Yang, Huizhong Duan, Qing Zhang, Nick Barrow-Williams, Bradley C. Turnbull, Brendan M. Collins, Thomas Legrand
The application to search ranking is one of the biggest machine learning success stories at Airbnb.
no code implementations • 10 Feb 2020 • Malay Haldar, Mustafa Abdool, Prashant Ramanathan, Tyler Sax, Lanbo Zhang, Aamir Mansawala, Shulin Yang, Bradley Turnbull, Junshuo Liao
In this paper we describe the journey beyond, discussing what we refer to as the ABCs of improving search: A for architecture, B for bias and C for cold start.
no code implementations • 31 Mar 2020 • Mustafa Abdool, Malay Haldar, Prashant Ramanathan, Tyler Sax, Lanbo Zhang, Aamir Mansawala, Shulin Yang, Thomas Legrand
One of the long-standing questions in search systems is the role of diversity in results.