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NIPS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Discovering Hidden Variables: A Structure-Based Approach
A serious problem in learning probabilistic models is the presence of hidden variables. These variables are not observed, yet interact with several of the observed variables. As s...
Gal Elidan, Noam Lotner, Nir Friedman, Daphne Koll...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Modeling hidden topics on document manifold
Topic modeling has been a key problem for document analysis. One of the canonical approaches for topic modeling is Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing, which maximizes the join...
Deng Cai, Qiaozhu Mei, Jiawei Han, Chengxiang Zhai
ICONIP
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Discovery of Linear Non-Gaussian Acyclic Models in the Presence of Latent Classes
Abstract. An effective way to examine causality is to conduct an experiment with random assignment. However, in many cases it is impossible or too expensive to perform controlled ...
Shohei Shimizu, Aapo Hyvärinen
NIPS
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Human Motion Models
This paper presents an unsupervised learning algorithm that can derive the probabilistic dependence structure of parts of an object (a moving human body in our examples) automatic...
Yang Song, Luis Goncalves, Pietro Perona
ICML
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Statistical predicate invention
We propose statistical predicate invention as a key problem for statistical relational learning. SPI is the problem of discovering new concepts, properties and relations in struct...
Stanley Kok, Pedro Domingos