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ECML
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
U-Likelihood and U-Updating Algorithms: Statistical Inference in Latent Variable Models
Abstract. In this paper we consider latent variable models and introduce a new U-likelihood concept for estimating the distribution over hidden variables. One can derive an estimat...
JaeMo Sung, Sung Yang Bang, Seungjin Choi, Zoubin ...
ICML
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Topic modeling: beyond bag-of-words
Some models of textual corpora employ text generation methods involving n-gram statistics, while others use latent topic variables inferred using the "bag-of-words" assu...
Hanna M. Wallach
ICML
2009
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Independent factor topic models
Topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Correlated Topic Model (CTM) have recently emerged as powerful statistical tools for text document modeling. In this pap...
Duangmanee Putthividhya, Hagai Thomas Attias, Srik...
NIPS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
On Reversing Jensen's Inequality
Jensen's inequality is a powerful mathematical tool and one of the workhorses in statistical learning. Its applications therein include the EM algorithm, Bayesian estimation ...
Tony Jebara, Alex Pentland
FTCGV
2011
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12 years 7 months ago
Structured Learning and Prediction in Computer Vision
Powerful statistical models that can be learned efficiently from large amounts of data are currently revolutionizing computer vision. These models possess a rich internal structur...
Sebastian Nowozin, Christoph H. Lampert