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CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
MDL Convergence Speed for Bernoulli Sequences
The Minimum Description Length principle for online sequence estimation/prediction in a proper learning setup is studied. If the underlying model class is discrete, then the total...
Jan Poland, Marcus Hutter
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 7 months ago
Unsupervised Discovery of Persian Morphemes
This paper reports the present results of a research on unsupervised Persian morpheme discovery. In this paper we present a method for discovering the morphemes of Persian languag...
Mohsen Arabsorkhi, Mehrnoush Shamsfard
EMMCVPR
1999
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On Fitting Mixture Models
Consider the problem of tting a nite Gaussian mixture, with an unknown number of components, to observed data. This paper proposes a new minimum description length (MDL) type crite...
Mário A. T. Figueiredo, José M. N. L...
ICPR
2000
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Unsupervised Segmentation of Poisson Data
This paper describes a new approach to the analysis of Poisson point processes, in time (1D) or space (2D), which is based on the minimum description length (MDL) framework. Speci...
Robert D. Nowak, Mário A. T. Figueiredo
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language
Abstract. Recent work in the field of computational evolutionary linguistics suggests that the dynamics arising from the cultural evolution of language can explain the emergence o...
Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby
ISMDA
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Model Selection and Adaptation for Biochemical Pathways
In bioinformatics, biochemical signal pathways can be modeled by many differential equations. It is still an open problem how to fit the huge amount of parameters of the equations...
Rüdiger W. Brause
COLT
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Convergence of Discrete MDL for Sequential Prediction
We study the properties of the Minimum Description Length principle for sequence prediction, considering a two-part MDL estimator which is chosen from a countable class of models....
Jan Poland, Marcus Hutter
MLDM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Kernel MDL to Determine the Number of Clusters
In this paper we propose a new criterion, based on Minimum Description Length (MDL), to estimate an optimal number of clusters. This criterion, called Kernel MDL (KMDL), is particu...
Ivan O. Kyrgyzov, Olexiy O. Kyrgyzov, Henri Ma&ici...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 days ago
MDL region-based image registration
We propose a new image registration criterion that uses segmented versions of the images to exploit both the geometric and photometric characteristics of the distinct regions they...
Maria-João Rendas, Adrien Barral
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 6 days ago
Compressing tags to find interesting media groups
On photo sharing websites like Flickr and Zooomr, users are offered the possibility to assign tags to their uploaded pictures. Using these tags to find interesting groups of sem...
Matthijs van Leeuwen, Francesco Bonchi, Börku...