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ICML
2004
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2004
IEEE
Surrogate maximization (or minimization) (SM) algorithms are a family of algorithms that can be regarded as a generalization of expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms. There are...
ICML
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
Approximate MAP inference in graphical models is an important and challenging problem for many domains including computer vision, computational biology and natural language unders...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2007
ACM
This paper is concerned with rank aggregation, the task of combining the ranking results of individual rankers at meta-search. Previously, rank aggregation was performed mainly by...
JMLR
2010
13 years 3 days ago
2010
An exceedingly large number of scientific and engineering fields are confronted with the need for computer simulations to study complex, real world phenomena or solve challenging ...
COLT
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. In this paper we unify divergence minimization and statistical inference by means of convex duality. In the process of doing so, we prove that the dual of approximate max...