Yang Song

According to our database, Yang Song authored at least 89 papers between 2005 and 2024.

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2024

Pyramidal Flow Matching for Efficient Video Generative Modeling.

Yang Jin, Zhicheng Sun, Ningyuan Li, Kun Xu, Hao Jiang, Nan Zhuang, Quzhe Huang, Yang Song, Yadong Mu, Zhouchen Lin

CoRR, 2024

Beyond Relevance: Improving User Engagement by Personalization for Short-Video Search.

Wentian Bao, Hu Liu, Kai Zheng, Chao Zhang, Shunyu Zhang, Enyun Yu, Wenwu Ou, Yang Song

CoRR, 2024

DimeRec: A Unified Framework for Enhanced Sequential Recommendation via Generative Diffusion Models.

Wuchao Li, Rui Huang, Haijun Zhao, Chi Liu, Kai Zheng, Qi Liu, Na Mou, Guorui Zhou, Defu Lian, Yang Song, Wentian Bao, Enyun Yu, Wenwu Ou

CoRR, 2024

RectifID: Personalizing Rectified Flow with Anchored Classifier Guidance.

Zhicheng Sun, Zhenhao Yang, Yang Jin, Haozhe Chi, Kun Xu, Kun Xu, Liwei Chen, Hao Jiang, Di Zhang, Yang Song, Kun Gai, Yadong Mu

CoRR, 2024

Full Stage Learning to Rank: A Unified Framework for Multi-Stage Systems.

Kai Zheng, Haijun Zhao, Rui Huang, Beichuan Zhang, Na Mou, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Hongning Wang, Kun Gai

Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, 2024

The 2nd Workshop on Recommendation with Generative Models.

Wenjie Wang, Yang Zhang, Xinyu Lin, Fuli Feng, Weiwen Liu, Yong Liu, Xiangyu Zhao, Wayne Xin Zhao, Yang Song, Xiangnan He

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, 2024

Inverse Learning with Extremely Sparse Feedback for Recommendation.

Guanyu Lin, Chen Gao, Yu Zheng, Yinfeng Li, Jianxin Chang, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Kun Gai, Zhiheng Li, Depeng Jin, Yong Li

Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2024

Mixed Attention Network for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation.

Guanyu Lin, Chen Gao, Yu Zheng, Jianxin Chang, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Kun Gai, Zhiheng Li, Depeng Jin, Yong Li, Meng Wang

Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2024

LabelCraft: Empowering Short Video Recommendations with Automated Label Crafting.

Yimeng Bai, Yang Zhang, Jing Lu, Jianxin Chang, Xiaoxue Zang, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Fuli Feng

Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2024

To Search or to Recommend: Predicting Open-App Motivation with Neural Hawkes Process.

Zhongxiang Sun, Zihua Si, Xiao Zhang, Xiaoxue Zang, Yang Song, Hongteng Xu, Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024

UniSAR: Modeling User Transition Behaviors between Search and Recommendation.

Teng Shi, Zihua Si, Jun Xu, Xiao Zhang, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Dewei Leng, Yanan Niu, Yang Song

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024

A Self-boosted Framework for Calibrated Ranking.

Shunyu Zhang, Hu Liu, Wentian Bao, Enyun Yu, Yang Song

Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2024

Contextual Distillation Model for Diversified Recommendation.

Fan Li, Xu Si, Shisong Tang, Dingmin Wang, Kunyan Han, Bing Han, Guorui Zhou, Yang Song, Hechang Chen

Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2024

GradCraft: Elevating Multi-task Recommendations through Holistic Gradient Crafting.

Yimeng Bai, Yang Zhang, Fuli Feng, Jing Lu, Xiaoxue Zang, Chenyi Lei, Yang Song

Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2024

Video-LaVIT: Unified Video-Language Pre-training with Decoupled Visual-Motional Tokenization.

Yang Jin, Zhicheng Sun, Kun Xu, Kun Xu, Liwei Chen, Hao Jiang, Quzhe Huang, Chengru Song, Yuliang Liu, Di Zhang, Yang Song, Kun Gai, Yadong Mu

Proceedings of the Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024

Incorporating Dynamic Temperature Estimation into Contrastive Learning on Graphs.

Ziyang Liu, Chaokun Wang, Liqun Yang, Yunkai Lou, Hao Feng, Cheng Wu, Kai Zheng, Yang Song

Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2024

SAQRec: Aligning Recommender Systems to User Satisfaction via Questionnaire Feedback.

Kepu Zhang, Teng Shi, Sunhao Dai, Xiao Zhang, Yinfeng Li, Jing Lu, Xiaoxue Zang, Yang Song, Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2024

Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering.

Zhongxiang Sun, Zihua Si, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Yang Song, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2024

TWIN V2: Scaling Ultra-Long User Behavior Sequence Modeling for Enhanced CTR Prediction at Kuaishou.

Zihua Si, Lin Guan, Zhongxiang Sun, Xiaoxue Zang, Jing Lu, Yiqun Hui, Xingchao Cao, Zeyu Yang, Yichen Zheng, Dewei Leng, Kai Zheng, Chenbin Zhang, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Kun Gai

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2024

2023

Enhancing Recommendation with Search Data in a Causal Learning Manner.

Zihua Si, Zhongxiang Sun, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu, Yang Song, Xiaoxue Zang, Ji-Rong Wen

ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., October, 2023

Generative Retrieval with Semantic Tree-Structured Item Identifiers via Contrastive Learning.

Zihua Si, Zhongxiang Sun, Jiale Chen, Guozhang Chen, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Yang Song, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu

CoRR, 2023

PANE-GNN: Unifying Positive and Negative Edges in Graph Neural Networks for Recommendation.

Ziyang Liu, Chaokun Wang, Jingcao Xu, Cheng Wu, Kai Zheng, Yang Song, Na Mou, Kun Gai

CoRR, 2023

Dual-interest Factorization-heads Attention for Sequential Recommendation.

Guanyu Lin, Chen Gao, Yu Zheng, Jianxin Chang, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Zhiheng Li, Depeng Jin, Yong Li

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 2023

Multi-behavior Self-supervised Learning for Recommendation.

Jingcao Xu, Chaokun Wang, Cheng Wu, Yang Song, Kai Zheng, Xiaowei Wang, Changping Wang, Guorui Zhou, Kun Gai

Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023

When Search Meets Recommendation: Learning Disentangled Search Representation for Recommendation.

Zihua Si, Zhongxiang Sun, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu, Xiaoxue Zang, Yang Song, Kun Gai, Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023

Understanding and Modeling Passive-Negative Feedback for Short-video Sequential Recommendation.

Yunzhu Pan, Chen Gao, Jianxin Chang, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Kun Gai, Depeng Jin, Yong Li

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2023

Graph Contrastive Learning with Generative Adversarial Network.

Cheng Wu, Chaokun Wang, Jingcao Xu, Ziyang Liu, Kai Zheng, Xiaowei Wang, Yang Song, Kun Gai

Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2023

PEPNet: Parameter and Embedding Personalized Network for Infusing with Personalized Prior Information.

Jianxin Chang, Chenbin Zhang, Yiqun Hui, Dewei Leng, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Kun Gai

Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2023

TWIN: TWo-stage Interest Network for Lifelong User Behavior Modeling in CTR Prediction at Kuaishou.

Jianxin Chang, Chenbin Zhang, Zhiyi Fu, Xiaoxue Zang, Lin Guan, Jing Lu, Yiqun Hui, Dewei Leng, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Kun Gai

Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2023

Instant Representation Learning for Recommendation over Large Dynamic Graphs.

Cheng Wu, Chaokun Wang, Jingcao Xu, Ziwei Fang, Tiankai Gu, Changping Wang, Yang Song, Kai Zheng, Xiaowei Wang, Guorui Zhou

Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2023

Leveraging Watch-time Feedback for Short-Video Recommendations: A Causal Labeling Framework.

Yang Zhang, Yimeng Bai, Jianxin Chang, Xiaoxue Zang, Song Lu, Jing Lu, Fuli Feng, Yanan Niu, Yang Song

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2023

KuaiSAR: A Unified Search And Recommendation Dataset.

Zhongxiang Sun, Zihua Si, Xiaoxue Zang, Dewei Leng, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2023

Learning and Optimization of Implicit Negative Feedback for Industrial Short-video Recommender System.

Yunzhu Pan, Nian Li, Chen Gao, Jianxin Chang, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Depeng Jin, Yong Li

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2023

SHARK: A Lightweight Model Compression Approach for Large-scale Recommender Systems.

Beichuan Zhang, Chenggen Sun, Jianchao Tan, Xinjun Cai, Jun Zhao, Mengqi Miao, Kang Yin, Chengru Song, Na Mou, Yang Song

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2023

2022

HybridGNN: Learning Hybrid Representation in Multiplex Heterogeneous Networks.

Tiankai Gu, Chaokun Wang, Cheng Wu, Jingcao Xu, Yunkai Lou, Changping Wang, Kai Xu, Can Ye, Yang Song

CoRR, 2022

Disentangling Long and Short-Term Interests for Recommendation.

Yu Zheng, Chen Gao, Jianxin Chang, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Depeng Jin, Yong Li

Proceedings of the WWW '22: The ACM Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event, Lyon, France, April 25, 2022

A Model-Agnostic Causal Learning Framework for Recommendation using Search Data.

Zihua Si, Xueran Han, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu, Yue Yin, Yang Song, Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the WWW '22: The ACM Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event, Lyon, France, April 25, 2022

When Multi-Level Meets Multi-Interest: A Multi-Grained Neural Model for Sequential Recommendation.

Yu Tian, Jianxin Chang, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Chenliang Li

Proceedings of the SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 2022

Query Prior Matters: A MRC Framework for Multimodal Named Entity Recognition.

Meihuizi Jia, Xin Shen, Lei Shen, Jinhui Pang, Lejian Liao, Yang Song, Meng Chen, Xiaodong He

Proceedings of the MM '22: The 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Lisboa, Portugal, October 10, 2022

E-ConvRec: A Large-Scale Conversational Recommendation Dataset for E-Commerce Customer Service.

Meihuizi Jia, Ruixue Liu, Peiying Wang, Yang Song, Zexi Xi, Haobin Li, Xin Shen, Meng Chen, Jinhui Pang, Xiaodong He

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

HybridGNN: Learning Hybrid Representation for Recommendation in Multiplex Heterogeneous Networks.

Tiankai Gu, Chaokun Wang, Cheng Wu, Yunkai Lou, Jingcao Xu, Changping Wang, Kai Xu, Can Ye, Yang Song

Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2022

Billion-user Customer Lifetime Value Prediction: An Industrial-scale Solution from Kuaishou.

Kunpeng Li, Guangcui Shao, Naijun Yang, Xiao Fang, Yang Song

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, 2022

2021

Sequential Recommendation with Graph Neural Networks.

Jianxin Chang, Chen Gao, Yu Zheng, Yiqun Hui, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Depeng Jin, Yong Li

Proceedings of the SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021

Concept-Aware Denoising Graph Neural Network for Micro-Video Recommendation.

Yiyu Liu, Qian Liu, Yu Tian, Changping Wang, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Chenliang Li

Proceedings of the CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1, 2021

2020

Enhancing Multi-turn Dialogue Modeling with Intent Information for E-Commerce Customer Service.

Ruixue Liu, Meng Chen, Hang Liu, Lei Shen, Yang Song, Xiaodong He

Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, 2020

2019

Automated Thematic and Emotional Modern Chinese Poetry Composition.

Xiaoyu Guo, Meng Chen, Yang Song, Xiaodong He, Bowen Zhou

Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, 2019

2016

Query-Less: Predicting Task Repetition for NextGen Proactive Search and Recommendation Engines.

Yang Song, Qi Guo

Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2016

Multi-Rate Deep Learning for Temporal Recommendation.

Yang Song, Ali Mamdouh Elkahky, Xiaodong He

Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

Modeling User Interests for Zero-Query Ranking.

Liu Yang, Qi Guo, Yang Song, Sha Meng, Milad Shokouhi, Kieran McDonald, W. Bruce Croft

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2016

Large-Scale Analysis of Viewing Behavior: Towards Measuring Satisfaction with Mobile Proactive Systems.

Qi Guo, Yang Song

Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016

Exploring Multiple Feature Spaces for Novel Entity Discovery.

Zhaohui Wu, Yang Song, C. Lee Giles

Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016

2015

An Overview of Microsoft Academic Service (MAS) and Applications.

Arnab Sinha, Zhihong Shen, Yang Song, Hao Ma, Darrin Eide, Bo-June Paul Hsu, Kuansan Wang

Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, 2015

A Multi-View Deep Learning Approach for Cross Domain User Modeling in Recommendation Systems.

Ali Mamdouh Elkahky, Yang Song, Xiaodong He

Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2015

Robust and distributed web-scale near-dup document conflation in microsoft academic service.

Chieh-Han Wu, Yang Song

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2015), Santa Clara, CA, USA, October 29, 2015

2014

Task Trail: An Effective Segmentation of User Search Behavior.

Zhen Liao, Yang Song, Yalou Huang, Li-wei He, Qi He

IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2014

Online behavioral genome sequencing from usage logs: decoding the search behaviors.

Yang Song, Weiwei Cui, Shixia Liu, Kuansan Wang

Proceedings of the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference, 2014

Adapting deep RankNet for personalized search.

Yang Song, Hongning Wang, Xiaodong He

Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2014

Modeling action-level satisfaction for search task satisfaction prediction.

Hongning Wang, Yang Song, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen W. White

Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

Context-aware web search abandonment prediction.

Yang Song, Xiaolin Shi, Ryen White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2014

2013

Enhancing personalized search by mining and modeling task behavior.

Ryen W. White, Wei Chu, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Xiaodong He, Yang Song, Hongning Wang

Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, 2013

Learning to extract cross-session search tasks.

Hongning Wang, Yang Song, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He, Ryen W. White, Wei Chu

Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, 2013

Evaluating and predicting user engagement change with degraded search relevance.

Yang Song, Xiaolin Shi, Xin Fu

Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, 2013

Exploring and exploiting user search behavior on mobile and tablet devices to improve search relevance.

Yang Song, Hao Ma, Hongning Wang, Kuansan Wang

Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, 2013

Personalized ranking model adaptation for web search.

Hongning Wang, Xiaodong He, Ming-Wei Chang, Yang Song, Ryen W. White, Wei Chu

Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

2012

Hierarchical Online Problem Classification for IT Support Services.

Yang Song, Anca Sailer, Hidayatullah Shaikh

IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput., 2012

Evaluating the effectiveness of search task trails.

Zhen Liao, Yang Song, Li-wei He, Yalou Huang

Proceedings of the 21st World Wide Web Conference 2012, 2012

Query suggestion by constructing term-transition graphs.

Yang Song, Dengyong Zhou, Li-wei He

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 2012

2011

Automatic tag recommendation algorithms for social recommender systems.

Yang Song, Lu Zhang, C. Lee Giles

ACM Trans. Web, 2011

Searchable web sites recommendation.

Yang Song, Nam Nguyen, Li-wei He, Scott Imig, Robert Rounthwaite

Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 2011

Post-ranking query suggestion by diversifying search results.

Yang Song, Dengyong Zhou, Li-wei He

Proceedings of the Proceeding of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2011

Hierarchical tag visualization and application for tag recommendations.

Yang Song, Baojun Qiu, Umer Farooq

Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

A task level metric for measuring web search satisfaction and its application on improving relevance estimation.

Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Yang Song, Li-wei He

Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

2010

Optimal rare query suggestion with implicit user feedback.

Yang Song, Li-wei He

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2010

2009

Better Naive Bayes classification for high-precision spam detection.

Yang Song, Aleksander Kolcz, C. Lee Giles

Softw. Pract. Exp., 2009

ERMIS: Designing, developing, and delivering a remote managed infrastructure services solution.

Mahesh Viswanathan, Hidayatullah Shaikh, Anca Sailer, Yang Song, Xing Fang, Yu Hui Wu, Zhi Le Zou, Kishore P. Reddy, Abhijit Deshmukh, Manish Gupta, Bharat Krishnamurthy, Manish Sethi, Balaji Viswanathan, Joseph G. Gulla, Fouad Matar

IBM J. Res. Dev., 2009

Problem classification method to enhance the ITIL incident and problem.

Yang Song, Anca Sailer, Hidayatullah Shaikh

Proceedings of the Integrated Network Management, 2009

2008

Real-time automatic tag recommendation.

Yang Song, Ziming Zhuang, Huajing Li, Qiankun Zhao, Jia Li, Wang-Chien Lee, C. Lee Giles

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

Efficient user preference predictions using collaborative filtering.

Yang Song, C. Lee Giles

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008), 2008

A Non-parametric Approach to Pair-Wise Dynamic Topic Correlation Detection.

Yang Song, Lu Zhang, C. Lee Giles

Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008), 2008

A sparse gaussian processes classification framework for fast tag suggestions.

Yang Song, Lu Zhang, C. Lee Giles

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2008

2007

Social Bookmarking for Scholarly Digital Libraries.

Umer Farooq, Yang Song, John M. Carroll, C. Lee Giles

IEEE Internet Comput., 2007

Generative models for name disambiguation.

Yang Song, Jian Huang, Isaac G. Councill, Jia Li, C. Lee Giles

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2007

Efficient Multiclass Boosting Classification with Active Learning.

Jian Huang, Seyda Ertekin, Yang Song, Hongyuan Zha, C. Lee Giles

Proceedings of the Seventh SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2007

IKNN: Informative K-Nearest Neighbor Pattern Classification.

Yang Song, Jian Huang, Ding Zhou, Hongyuan Zha, C. Lee Giles

Proceedings of the Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2007, 2007

Efficient topic-based unsupervised name disambiguation.

Yang Song, Jian Huang, Isaac G. Councill, Jia Li, C. Lee Giles

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2007

Evaluating tagging behavior in social bookmarking systems: metrics and design heuristics.

Umer Farooq, Thomas George Kannampallil, Yang Song, Craig H. Ganoe, John M. Carroll, C. Lee Giles

Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work, 2007

2006

CiteSeer^chi: a scalable autonomous scientific digital library.

Huajing Li, Isaac G. Councill, Levent Bolelli, Ding Zhou, Yang Song, Wang-Chien Lee, Anand Sivasubramaniam, C. Lee Giles

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, 2006

Boosting the Feature Space: Text Classification for Unstructured Data on the Web.

Yang Song, Ding Zhou, Jian Huang, Isaac G. Councill, Hongyuan Zha, C. Lee Giles

Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2006), 2006

2005

Towards discovering organizational structure from email corpus.

Ding Zhou, Yang Song, Hongyuan Zha, Ya Zhang

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2005