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2008
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ICA based on a Smooth Estimation of the Differential Entropy
In this paper we introduce the MeanNN approach for estimation of main information theoretic measures such as differential entropy, mutual information and divergence. As opposed to...
Lev Faivishevsky, Jacob Goldberger
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Taxonomies by Dependence Maximization
We introduce a family of unsupervised algorithms, numerical taxonomy clustering, to simultaneously cluster data, and to learn a taxonomy that encodes the relationship between the ...
Matthew B. Blaschko, Arthur Gretton
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Skill Characterization Based on Betweenness
We present a characterization of a useful class of skills based on a graphical representation of an agent's interaction with its environment. Our characterization uses betwee...
Özgür Simsek, Andrew G. Barto
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
On the Generalization Ability of Online Strongly Convex Programming Algorithms
This paper examines the generalization properties of online convex programming algorithms when the loss function is Lipschitz and strongly convex. Our main result is a sharp bound...
Sham M. Kakade, Ambuj Tewari
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Non-parametric Regression Between Manifolds
This paper discusses non-parametric regression between Riemannian manifolds. This learning problem arises frequently in many application areas ranging from signal processing, comp...
Florian Steinke, Matthias Hein