The two-terminal reliability, known as the pair connectedness or connectivity function in percolation theory, may actually be expressed as a product of transfer matrices in which t...
: Some intuitive normative principles raise vexing „detaching problems‟ by their failure to license modus ponens. I examine three such principles (a self-reliance principle and...
A random geometric graph G(n, r) is a graph resulting from placing n points uniformly at random on the unit area disk, and connecting two points iff their Euclidean distance is at ...
We propose a framework to extend Markov random walks (Szummer and Jaakkola, 2001) to a continuum of points. In this framework, the transition probability between two points is the...
We address the problem of learning the parameters in graphical models when inference is intractable. A common strategy in this case is to replace the partition function with its B...