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JMLR
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Contrastive Divergence (CD) is a popular method for estimating the parameters of Markov Random Fields (MRFs) by rapidly approximating an intractable term in the gradient of the lo...
NIPS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
This paper analyses the Contrastive Divergence algorithm for learning statistical parameters. We relate the algorithm to the stochastic approximation literature. This enables us t...
JMLR
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Composite likelihood methods provide a wide spectrum of computationally efficient techniques for statistical tasks such as parameter estimation and model selection. In this paper,...
SAC
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
We investigate the universal characteristics of the simulated time horizon of the basic conservative parallel algorithm when implemented on regular lattices. This technique [1, 2]...
JSAC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
In this paper, a theoretical framework of divergence minimization (DM) is applied to derive iterative receiver algorithms for coded CDMA systems. The DM receiver obtained performs ...