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Publications

Sébastien Giguère, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Lacoste, Mario Marchand, Jacques Corbeil, François Laviolette. MHC-NP : Predicting Peptides Naturally Processed by the MHC. Journal of Immunological Methods, vol 400, pp. 30---36, (2013)

 

Sébastien Giguère, François Laviolette, Mario Marchand, and Khadidja Sylla. Risk bounds and learning algorithms for the regression approach to structured output prediction, Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Machine Learning, Atlanta, Georgia 2013. Journal of Machine Learning Research W&CP, vol. 28, (2013).

 

Sébastien Giguère, Mario Marchand, François Laviolette, Alexandre Drouin, and Jacques Corbeil. Learning a peptide-protein binding affinity predictor with kernel ridge regression, BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 14 (1), pp. 82—97, (2013).

 

Alexandre Lacoste, Francois Laviolette, Mario Marchand. Bayesian Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms on Single and Multiple Datasets, JMLR W&CP 22: 665-675, 2012
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François Laviolette, Mario Marchand, and Jean-Francis Roy. From PAC-Bayes Bounds to Quadratic Programs for Majority Votes. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning, Bellevue, WA, USA, June 2011. bib | .pdf | Extended Version | Source Code ]

Pascal Germain, Alexandre Lacoste, François Laviolette, Mario Marchand, and Sara Shanian. A PAC-Bayes Sample Compression Approach to Kernel Methods. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning, Bellevue, WA, USA, June 2011. bib | .pdf | Supplementary Material | Source Code ]

Mohak Shah, Mario Marchand, Jacques Corbeil, Feature Selection with Conjunctions of Decision Stumps and Learning from Microarray Data. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 34(1): 174-186 (2012). For the preliminary version see also: http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0530 .

A. Lacasse, F. Laviolette, M. Marchand, and F. Turgeon-Boutin. Learning with Randomized Majority Votes. Springer LNCS vol. 6322, pages 162-177, (2010). bib | .pdf ]

François Laviolette, Mario Marchand, Mohak Shah, and Sara Shanian. Learning the set covering machine by bound minimization and margin-sparsity trade-off. Machine Learning, Vol. 78, pp. 175—201 (2010).

Pascal Germain, Alexandre Lacasse, Francois Laviolette, Mario Marchand and Sara Shanian. From PAC-Bayes Bounds to KL Regularization, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, Y. Bengio, D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C. K. I. Williams, A. Culotta editors, pp. 603—610 (2009).

Pascal Germain, Alexandre Lacasse, François Laviolette, and Mario Marchand. PAC-Bayesian Learning of Linear Classifiers. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009), (2009).

Sébastien Boisvert, Mario Marchand, François Laviolette, and Jacques Corbeil, HIV-1 coreceptor usage prediction without multiple alignments: an application of string kernels. Retrovirology, doi:10.1186/1742-4690-5-110, vol 5:11, 14 pages (2008).

François Laviolette, Mario Marchand, and Sara Shanian. Selective Sampling for Classification. Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Springer LNAI vol. 5032,  pp. 191--202 (2008).

Sébastien Quirion, Chantale Duchesne, Denis Laurendeau and Mario Marchand, Comparing GPLVM Approaches for Dimensionality Reduction in Character Animation. Journal of WSCG, vol. 16, no 1-3, pp. 41-48, 2008.

Zakria Hussain, François Laviolette and Mario Marchand, John Shawe-Taylor, Spencer Charles Brubaker, Matthew D. Mullin. Revised Loss Bounds for the Set Covering Machine and Sample-Compression Loss Bounds for Imbalanced Data, Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 8, pp. 2533--2549 (2007).

François Laviolette and Mario Marchand. PAC-Bayes Risk Bounds for Stochastic Averages and Majority Votes of Sample-Compressed Classifiers, Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 8, pp. 1461--1487 (2007).

Pascal Germain, Alexandre Lacasse, François Laviolette, and Mario Marchand. PAC-Bayes Risk Bounds for General Loss Functions, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19 (Proceedings of NIPS 2006), B. Schölkopf, J. Platt, and T. Hoffman editors, MIT-Press, pp. 449--456, Cambridge MA (2007).

Alexandre Lacasse, François Laviolette, Mario Marchand, Pascal Germain and Nicolas Usunier. PAC-Bayes Bounds for the Risk of the Majority Vote and the Variance of the Gibbs Classifier, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19 (Proceedings of NIPS 2006), B. Schölkopf, J. Platt, and T. Hoffman editors, MIT-Press, pp. 769--776, Cambridge MA (2007).

François Laviolette, Mario Marchand and Mohak Shah. A PAC-Bayes Approach to the Set Covering Machine. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18  (Proceedings of NIPS 2005). pp. 731--738, MIT-Press (2006).

François Laviolette, Mario Marchand, and Mohak Shah. Margin-Sparsity Trade-off for the Set Covering Machine. Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'05).  Springer LNAI vol. 3720,  pp. 206--217 (2005).

François Laviolette and Mario Marchand. PAC-Bayes Risk Bounds for Sample-Compressed Gibbs Classifiers. Proceedings of the Twenty Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'05), pp. 481--488, ACM Press (2005).

Mario Marchand and Marina Sokolova. Learning with Decision Lists of Data-Dependent Features, Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 6, pp. 427-451 (2005).

Mario Marchand and Mohak Shah. PAC-Bayes Learning of Conjunctions and Classification of Gene-Expression Data, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17  (Proceedings of NIPS 2004), pp. 881-888, MIT-Press, Cambridge, MA, (2005).

Mario Marchand, Mohak Shah, John Shawe-Taylor, and Marina Sokolova The Set Covering Machine with Data-Dependent Half-Spaces, Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'2003), pp. 520--527, AAAI Press, Menlo Park CA, (2003).

Marina Sokolova, Mario Marchand, Nathalie Japkowicz, and John Shawe-Taylor, The Decision List Machine, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15,  pp. 921--928, MIT-Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, (2003).

Mario Marchand and John Shawe-Taylor, The Set Covering Machine, Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 3, pp. 723-746 (2002).

Mario Marchand and John Shawe-Taylor, Learning with the Set Covering Machine, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'2001), pp. 345--352, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco CA, (2001).

Pal Rujan and Mario Marchand, Computing the Bayes Kernel Classifier, in A. J. Smola, P. L. Bartlett, B. Schoelkopf, D. E. Schuurmans eds., Advances in Large Margin Classifiers, pp. 329--347, MIT Press, Cambridge MA (2000).

Mario Marchand and Saeed Hadjifaradji, Strong Unimodality and Exact Learning of mu-Perceptron Networks  in D. S. Touretzky, M. C. Mozer,  M. E. Hasselmo, eds., Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8, pp. 288--294, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, (1996).

Mostefa Golea, Mario Marchand and Thomas Hancock, On Learning mu-Perceptron Networks On the Uniform Distribution, Neural Networks, vol. 9, pp. 67--82 (1996).

Mario Marchand and Saeed Hadjifaradji, Learning Stochastic Perceptrons under k-Blocking Distribution, in G. Tesauro, D. S. Touretzky and T. K. Leen, eds., Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, pp. 279--286, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, (1995).

Thomas Hancock, Mostefa Golea and Mario Marchand. Learning Nonoverlapping Perceptron Networks from Examples and Membership Queries, Machine Learning, vol. 16, pp. 161--183 (1994).

Mostefa Golea and Mario Marchand, On Learning Simple Deterministic and Probabilistic Neural Concepts, in Shawe-Talor John , Anthony Martin, eds., Computational Learning Theory: EuroCOLT'93, pp. 47--60, Oxford University Press, (1994).

Mostefa Golea and Mario Marchand, Average Case Analysis of the Clipped Hebb Rule for Nonoverlapping Perceptron Networks, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual ACM Conference on Computational Learning Theory, pp. 151--157, ACM press, (1993).

Mario Marchand and Mostefa Golea, An Approximation Algorithm to Find the Largest Linearly Separable Subset of Training Examples, World Congress on Neural Networks'93: Proceedings of the 1993 Annual Meeting of the International Neural Network Society, vol. 3, pp. 556--559, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, (1993).

Mario Marchand and Mostefa Golea, A Constructive Algorithm for Neural Decision Lists, World Congress on Neural Networks'93: Proceedings of the 1993 Annual Meeting of the International Neural Network Society, vol. 3, pp. 560--563, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, (1993).

Mostefa Golea, Mario Marchand and Thomas Hancock, On Learning mu-Perceptron Networks with Binary Weights, in Giles C.L., Hanson S.J. and Cowan J.D. (eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems~5, pp. 591--598, San Mateo CA, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, (1993).

Mostefa Golea and Mario Marchand, Learning Curves of the Clipped Hebb Rule for Networks with Binary Weights, Journal of Physics A, vol. 26, pp 5751--5766 (1993).

Mostefa Golea and Mario Marchand, On Learning Perceptrons with Binary Weights, Neural Computation, vol. 5, pp. 767--782 (1993).

Mario Marchand and Mostefa Golea. On Learning Simple Neural Concepts: from Halfspace Intersections to Neural Decision Lists, Network: Computation in Neural Systems, vol. 4, pp. 67--85 (1993)

Mostefa Golea and Mario Marchand, Polynomial Time Algorithms for Learning Neural Nets of Nonoverlapping Perceptrons, Computational Intelligence, vol. 9, pp. 155--170 (1993).

Mostefa Golea and Mario Marchand, A Growth Algorithm for Neural Network Decision Trees, Europhysics Letters, vol. 12, pp. 205--210 (1990).

Mario Marchand, Mostefa Golea and Pal Rujan, A Convergence Theorem for Sequential Learning in Two Layer Perceptrons, Europhysics Letters, vol. 11, pp. 487--492 (1990).

Pal Rujan and Mario Marchand. A Geometric Approach to Learning in Neural Networks, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks II, IEEE TAB Neural Network Committee, pp. 105--109 (1989).

Pal Rujan and Mario Marchand. Learning by Minimizing Resources in Neural Network, Complex Systems, vol. 3, pp 229--242 (1989).