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NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Clusters and Coarse Partitions in LP Relaxations
We propose a new class of consistency constraints for Linear Programming (LP) relaxations for finding the most probable (MAP) configuration in graphical models. Usual cluster-base...
David Sontag, Amir Globerson, Tommi Jaakkola
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Structure Learning in Human Sequential Decision-Making
We use graphical models and structure learning to explore how people learn policies in sequential decision making tasks. Studies of sequential decision-making in humans frequently...
Daniel Acuña, Paul R. Schrater
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Using Bayesian Dynamical Systems for Motion Template Libraries
Motor primitives or motion templates have become an important concept for both modeling human motor control as well as generating robot behaviors using imitation learning. Recent ...
Silvia Chiappa, Jens Kober, Jan Peters
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A spatially varying two-sample recombinant coalescent, with applications to HIV escape response
Statistical evolutionary models provide an important mechanism for describing and understanding the escape response of a viral population under a particular therapy. We present a ...
Alexander Braunstein, Zhi Wei, Shane T. Jensen, Jo...
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Robust Regression and Lasso
We consider robust least-squares regression with feature-wise disturbance. We show that this formulation leads to tractable convex optimization problems, and we exhibit a particul...
Huan Xu, Constantine Caramanis, Shie Mannor
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Measures of Clustering Quality: A Working Set of Axioms for Clustering
Aiming towards the development of a general clustering theory, we discuss abstract axiomatization for clustering. In this respect, we follow up on the work of Kleinberg, ([1]) tha...
Shai Ben-David, Margareta Ackerman
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Localized Sliced Inverse Regression
Qiang Wu, Sayan Mukherjee, Feng Liang
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Correlated Bigram LSA for Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation
We present a correlated bigram LSA approach for unsupervised LM adaptation for automatic speech recognition. The model is trained using efficient variational EM and smoothed using...
Yik-Cheung Tam, Tanja Schultz
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Spike Feature Extraction Using Informative Samples
This paper presents a new spike feature extraction algorithm that targets real-time spike sorting and facilitates miniaturized microchip implementation. The proposed algorithm has...
Zhi Yang, Qi Zhao, Wentai Liu
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Continuously-adaptive discretization for message-passing algorithms
Continuously-Adaptive Discretization for Message-Passing (CAD-MP) is a new message-passing algorithm for approximate inference. Most message-passing algorithms approximate continu...
Michael Isard, John MacCormick, Kannan Achan