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UAI
2003
13 years 7 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...
ICML
2002
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Learning from Scarce Experience
Searching the space of policies directly for the optimal policy has been one popular method for solving partially observable reinforcement learning problems. Typically, with each ...
Leonid Peshkin, Christian R. Shelton
JCM
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Blind CFO Estimators for OFDM/OQAM Systems With Null Subcarriers
— This paper deals with the problem of blind carrier-frequency offset (CFO) estimation in OFDM systems based on offset quadrature amplitude modulation (OFDM/OQAM) with null subca...
Tilde Fusco, Mario Tanda
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Statistical analysis of sketch estimators
Sketching techniques can provide approximate answers to aggregate queries either for data-streaming or distributed computation. Small space summaries that have linearity propertie...
Florin Rusu, Alin Dobra
CORR
2012
Springer
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12 years 1 months ago
What Cannot be Learned with Bethe Approximations
We address the problem of learning the parameters in graphical models when inference is intractable. A common strategy in this case is to replace the partition function with its B...
Uri Heinemann, Amir Globerson