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SODA
2004
ACM
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13 years 6 months ago
Fast mixing for independent sets, colorings and other models on trees
We study the mixing time of the Glauber dynamics for general spin systems on bounded-degree trees, including the Ising model, the hard-core model (independent sets) and the antife...
Fabio Martinelli, Alistair Sinclair, Dror Weitz
CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Region Classification with Markov Field Aspect Models
Considerable advances have been made in learning to recognize and localize visual object classes. Simple bag-offeature approaches label each pixel or patch independently. More adv...
Jakob J. Verbeek, Bill Triggs
FOCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Randomness Recycler: A New Technique for Perfect Sampling
For many probability distributions of interest, it is quite difficult to obtain samples efficiently. Often, Markov chains are employed to obtain approximately random samples fro...
James Allen Fill, Mark Huber