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% iSplit LBI, Version 1.0
% Copyright(c) 2019 Qianqian Xu, Xinwei Sun, Zhiyong Yang, Xiaochun Cao, Qingming Huang, Yuan Yao
% All Rights Reserved.
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% Permission to use, copy, or modify this software and its documentation
% for educational and research purposes only and without fee is here
% granted, provided that this copyright notice and the original authors'
% names appear on all copies and supporting documentation. This program
% shall not be used, rewritten, or adapted as the basis of any commercial
% software or hardware product without first obtaining permission of the
% authors. The authors make no representations about the suitability of
% this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express
% or implied warranty.
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% This is the implementation of the algorithm for iSplit LBI.
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% Please refer to the following paper:
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% Qianqian Xu, Xinwei Sun, Zhiyong Yang, Xiaochun Cao, Qingming Huang and Yuan Yao, "iSplit LBI: Individualized Partial Ranking with Ties via Split LBI", Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2019.
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% Contact: xuqianqian@ict.ac.cn
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