WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
It is well known that trivariate reduction — a method to generate two dependent random variables from three independent random variables — can be used to generate Poisson rand...
AAAI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Lifted inference algorithms exploit repeated structure in probabilistic models to answer queries efficiently. Previous work such as de Salvo Braz et al.'s first-order variabl...
FGR
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
In the recent years particle filtering has been the dominant paradigm for tracking facial and body features, recognizing temporal events and reasoning in uncertainty. A major prob...
ISIPTA
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Uncertainty is a key issue in decision analysis and other kinds of applications. Researchers have developed a number of approaches to address computations on uncertain quantities....
RTAS
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
Stochastic analysis techniques for real-time systems model the execution time of tasks as random variables. These techniques constitute a very powerful tool to study the behaviour...
PG
2007
IEEE
2007
IEEE
Statistical Hypothesis Testing for Assessing Monte Carlo Estimators: Applications to Image Synthesis
13 years 10 months ago
Image synthesis algorithms are commonly compared on the basis of running times and/or perceived quality of the generated images. In the case of Monte Carlo techniques, assessment ...
ICC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
—Finding the distribution of the sum of lognormal We assume in this paper that the terms Yi are independent. The random variables is an important mathematical problem in probabil...
FOCS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Consider a collection of random variables attached to the vertices of a graph. The reconstruction problem requires to estimate one of them given ‘far away’ observations. Sever...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
A merger is a probabilistic procedure which extracts the randomness out of any (arbitrarily correlated) set of random variables, as long as one of them is uniform. Our main result...
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Majority of practical multivariate statistical analyses and optimizations model interdependence among random variables in terms of the linear correlation among them. Though linear...