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ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Exploiting qualitative domain knowledge for learning Bayesian network parameters with incomplete data
When a large amount of data are missing, or when multiple hidden nodes exist, learning parameters in Bayesian networks (BNs) becomes extremely difficult. This paper presents a lea...
Qiang Ji, Wenhui Liao
ICONIP
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Natural Conjugate Gradient in Variational Inference
Variational methods for approximate inference in machine learning often adapt a parametric probability distribution to optimize a given objective function. This view is especially ...
Antti Honkela, Matti Tornio, Tapani Raiko, Juha Ka...
ICML
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Incomplete-data classification using logistic regression
A logistic regression classification algorithm is developed for problems in which the feature vectors may be missing data (features). Single or multiple imputation for the missing...
David Williams, Xuejun Liao, Ya Xue, Lawrence Cari...
ICDM
2005
IEEE
109views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Triple Jump Acceleration for the EM Algorithm
This paper presents the triple jump framework for accelerating the EM algorithm and other bound optimization methods. The idea is to extrapolate the third search point based on th...
Han-Shen Huang, Bou-Ho Yang, Chun-Nan Hsu
UAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Qualitative Knowledge in the Learning of Conditional Probabilities of Bayesian Networks
Algorithms for learning the conditional probabilities of Bayesian networks with hidden variables typically operate within a high-dimensional search space and yield only locally op...
Frank Wittig, Anthony Jameson