We examine the underlying structure of popular algorithms for variational methods used in image processing. We focus here on operator splittings and Bregman methods based on a uniļ...
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...
We consider reinforcement learning as solving a Markov decision process with unknown transition distribution. Based on interaction with the environment, an estimate of the transit...
When learning a mixture model, we suffer from the local optima and model structure determination problems. In this paper, we present a method for simultaneously solving these prob...
We show how and why using genetic operators that are applied with probabilities that depend on the ļ¬tness rank of a genotype or phenotype oļ¬ers a robust alternative to the Sim...