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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
A Bayesian approach to empirical local linearization for robotics
— Local linearizations are ubiquitous in the control of robotic systems. Analytical methods, if available, can be used to obtain the linearization, but in complex robotics system...
Jo-Anne Ting, Aaron D'Souza, Sethu Vijayakumar, St...
UAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
UAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Variational Relevance Vector Machines
The Support Vector Machine (SVM) of Vapnik [9] has become widely established as one of the leading approaches to pattern recognition and machine learning. It expresses predictions...
Christopher M. Bishop, Michael E. Tipping
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Goal-directed decision making in prefrontal cortex: a computational framework
Research in animal learning and behavioral neuroscience has distinguished between two forms of action control: a habit-based form, which relies on stored action values, and a goal...
Matthew Botvinick, James An
AUSAI
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Character Recognition Using Hierarchical Vector Quantization and Temporal Pooling
In recent years, there has been a cross-fertilization of ideas between computational neuroscience models of the operation of the neocortex and artificial intelligence models of mac...
John Thornton, Jolon Faichney, Michael Blumenstein...