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KI
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Springer
The key task in probabilistic reasoning is to appropriately update one’s beliefs as one obtains new information in the form of evidence. In many application settings, however, th...
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
This paper presents two Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for Bayesian inference of probabilistic context free grammars (PCFGs) from terminal strings, providing an altern...
BIOINFORMATICS
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
CISS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— We propose an implementable new universal lossy source coding algorithm. The new algorithm utilizes two wellknown tools from statistical physics and computer science: Gibbs sam...
STOC
1997
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
1997
ACM
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...