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JMLR
2010
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On the Convergence Properties of Contrastive Divergence
Contrastive Divergence (CD) is a popular method for estimating the parameters of Markov Random Fields (MRFs) by rapidly approximating an intractable term in the gradient of the lo...
Ilya Sutskever, Tijmen Tieleman
COLT
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Composite Objective Mirror Descent
We present a new method for regularized convex optimization and analyze it under both online and stochastic optimization settings. In addition to unifying previously known firstor...
John Duchi, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Yoram Singer, Amb...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
A unified framework for high-dimensional analysis of $M$-estimators with decomposable regularizers
High-dimensional statistical inference deals with models in which the the number of parameters p is comparable to or larger than the sample size n. Since it is usually impossible ...
Sahand Negahban, Pradeep Ravikumar, Martin J. Wain...