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NIPS
1992
14 years 11 months ago
Hidden Markov Model} Induction by Bayesian Model Merging
This paper describes a technique for learning both the number of states and the topologyof Hidden Markov Models from examples. The inductionprocess starts with the most specific m...
Andreas Stolcke, Stephen M. Omohundro
SAC
2011
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A quasi-Newton acceleration for high-dimensional optimization algorithms
Abstract In many statistical problems, maximum likelihood estimation by an EM or MM algorithm suffers from excruciatingly slow convergence. This tendency limits the application of ...
Hua Zhou, David Alexander, Kenneth Lange
ICDM
2006
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
Stability Region Based Expectation Maximization for Model-based Clustering
In spite of the initialization problem, the ExpectationMaximization (EM) algorithm is widely used for estimating the parameters in several data mining related tasks. Most popular ...
Chandan K. Reddy, Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Bala Rajaratn...
AAAI
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Mixtures of Predictive Linear Gaussian Models for Nonlinear, Stochastic Dynamical Systems
The Predictive Linear Gaussian model (or PLG) improves upon traditional linear dynamical system models by using a predictive representation of state, which makes consistent parame...
David Wingate, Satinder P. Singh
BMCBI
2005
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14 years 9 months ago
Iterative approach to model identification of biological networks
Background: Recent advances in molecular biology techniques provide an opportunity for developing detailed mathematical models of biological processes. An iterative scheme is intr...
Kapil G. Gadkar, Rudiyanto Gunawan, Francis J. Doy...