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FTML
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
The formalism of probabilistic graphical models provides a unifying framework for capturing complex dependencies among random variables, and building large-scale multivariate stat...
ECML
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. This paper studies a Bayesian framework for density modeling with mixture of exponential family distributions. Variational Bayesian Dirichlet-Multinomial allocation (VBDM...
UAI
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Recent research has made significant progress on the problem of bounding log partition functions for exponential family graphical models. Such bounds have associated dual paramete...
NIPS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Directed graphical models with one layer of observed random variables and one or more layers of hidden random variables have been the dominant modelling paradigm in many research ...
ICML
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
Given a model family and a set of unlabeled examples, one could either label specific examples or state general constraints--both provide information about the desired model. In g...