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AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Exact Lifted Inference with Distinct Soft Evidence on Every Object
The presence of non-symmetric evidence has been a barrier for the application of lifted inference since the evidence destroys the symmetry of the first-order probabilistic model....
Hung B. Bui, Tuyen N. Huynh, Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
JMLR
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Low rank continuous-space graphical models
Constructing tractable dependent probability distributions over structured continuous random vectors is a central problem in statistics and machine learning. It has proven diffic...
Carl Smith, Frank Wood, Liam Paninski
ALDT
2011
Springer
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12 years 5 months ago
Learning Complex Concepts Using Crowdsourcing: A Bayesian Approach
Abstract. We develop a Bayesian approach to concept learning for crowdsourcing applications. A probabilistic belief over possible concept definitions is maintained and updated acc...
Paolo Viappiani, Sandra Zilles, Howard J. Hamilton...
UAI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Improving the Accuracy and Efficiency of MAP Inference for Markov Logic
In this work we present Cutting Plane Inference (CPI), a Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) inference method for Statistical Relational Learning. Framed in terms of Markov Logic and inspi...
Sebastian Riedel