NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Accurate and efficient inference in evolutionary trees is a central problem in computational biology. While classical treatments have made unrealistic site independence assumption...
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Language comprehension in humans is significantly constrained by memory, yet rapid, highly incremental, and capable of utilizing a wide range of contextual information to resolve ...
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Probabilistic topic models have become popular as methods for dimensionality reduction in collections of text documents or images. These models are usually treated as generative m...
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Abstract: Structure learning of dynamic Bayesian networks provide a principled mechanism for identifying conditional dependencies in time-series data. This learning procedure assum...
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
We present a characterization of a useful class of skills based on a graphical representation of an agent's interaction with its environment. Our characterization uses betwee...
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
We develop a statistical framework for the simultaneous, unsupervised segmentation and discovery of visual object categories from image databases. Examining a large set of manuall...
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
We consider the problem of binary classification where the classifier may abstain instead of classifying each observation. The Bayes decision rule for this setup, known as Chow�...
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper addresses the problem of sparsity pattern detection for unknown ksparse n-dimensional signals observed through m noisy, random linear measurements. Sparsity pattern rec...
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Metric learning algorithms can provide useful distance functions for a variety of domains, and recent work has shown good accuracy for problems where the learner can access all di...
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
The inverse dynamics problem for a robotic manipulator is to compute the torques needed at the joints to drive it along a given trajectory; it is beneficial to be able to learn th...