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JMLR
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Noise-Contrastive Estimation of Unnormalized Statistical Models, with Applications to Natural Image Statistics
We consider the task of estimating, from observed data, a probabilistic model that is parameterized by a finite number of parameters. In particular, we are considering the situat...
Michael Gutmann, Aapo Hyvärinen
JMLR
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Max-Margin Min-Entropy Models
We propose a new family of latent variable models called max-margin min-entropy (m3e) models, which define a distribution over the output and the hidden variables conditioned on ...
Kevin Miller, M. Pawan Kumar, Benjamin Packer, Dan...
JMLR
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Active Clustering of Biological Sequences
Given a point set S and an unknown metric d on S, we study the problem of efficiently partitioning S into k clusters while querying few distances between the points. In our model...
Konstantin Voevodski, Maria-Florina Balcan, Heiko ...
JMLR
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Bayesian regularization of non-homogeneous dynamic Bayesian networks by globally coupling interaction parameters
To relax the homogeneity assumption of classical dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs), various recent studies have combined DBNs with multiple changepoint processes. The underlying as...
Marco Grzegorczyk, Dirk Husmeier
JMLR
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Universal Measurement Bounds for Structured Sparse Signal Recovery
Standard compressive sensing results state that to exactly recover an s sparse signal in Rp , one requires O(s · log p) measurements. While this bound is extremely useful in prac...
Nikhil S. Rao, Ben Recht, Robert D. Nowak
JMLR
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Approximate Inference in Additive Factorial HMMs with Application to Energy Disaggregation
This paper considers additive factorial hidden Markov models, an extension to HMMs where the state factors into multiple independent chains, and the output is an additive function...
J. Zico Kolter, Tommi Jaakkola
JMLR
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Globally Optimizing Graph Partitioning Problems Using Message Passing
Graph partitioning algorithms play a central role in data analysis and machine learning. Most useful graph partitioning criteria correspond to optimizing a ratio between the cut a...
Elad Mezuman, Yair Weiss
JMLR
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Lifted coordinate descent for learning with trace-norm regularization
We consider the minimization of a smooth loss with trace-norm regularization, which is a natural objective in multi-class and multitask learning. Even though the problem is convex...
Miroslav Dudík, Zaïd Harchaoui, J&eacu...
JMLR
2012
11 years 6 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