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JMLR
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
We consider the task of estimating, from observed data, a probabilistic model that is parameterized by a finite number of parameters. In particular, we are considering the situat...
JMLR
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
We present a new estimation principle for parameterized statistical models. The idea is to perform nonlinear logistic regression to discriminate between the observed data and some...
NECO
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
In the statistical approach for self-organizing maps (SOMs), learning is regarded as an estimation algorithm for a Gaussian mixture model with a Gaussian smoothing prior on the ce...
NECO
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
We consider a hierarchical two-layer model of natural signals in which both layers are learned from the data. Estimation is accomplished by Score Matching, a recently proposed est...
PODS
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the number of tuples returned by a query; it is a fundamentally important task in data management, used in query optimization, ...