Various supervised inference methods can be analyzed as convex duals of the generalized maximum entropy (MaxEnt) framework. Generalized MaxEnt aims to find a distribution that max...
We present a variational Bayesian framework for performing inference, density estimation and model selection in a special class of graphical models--Hidden Markov Random Fields (H...
Li Cheng, Feng Jiao, Dale Schuurmans, Shaojun Wang
We investigate the problem of estimating the proportion vector which maximizes the likelihood of a given sample for a mixture of given densities. We adapt a framework developed for...
David P. Helmbold, Yoram Singer, Robert E. Schapir...
We study an interesting and challenging problem, online streaming feature selection, in which the size of the feature set is unknown, and not all features are available for learni...
Background: This paper introduces the notion of optimizing different norms in the dual problem of support vector machines with multiple kernels. The selection of norms yields diff...