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AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
A Search Algorithm for Latent Variable Models with Unbounded Domains
This paper concerns learning and prediction with probabilistic models where the domain sizes of latent variables have no a priori upper-bound. Current approaches represent prior d...
Michael Chiang, David Poole
CCE
2004
13 years 4 months ago
Improving convergence of the stochastic decomposition algorithm by using an efficient sampling technique
This work focuses on the basic stochastic decomposition (SD) algorithm of Higle and Sen [J.L. Higle, S. Sen, Stochastic Decomposition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996] for two-st...
José María Ponce-Ortega, Vicente Ric...
WSC
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Descriptive Sampling: An Improvement over Latin Hypercube Sampling
Descriptive Sampling (DS), a Monte Carlo sampling technique based on a deterministic selection of the input values and their random permutation, represents a deep conceptual chang...
Eduardo Saliby