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CORR
2010
Springer
109views Education» more  CORR 2010»
14 years 9 months ago
Polynomial Learning of Distribution Families
Abstract--The question of polynomial learnability of probability distributions, particularly Gaussian mixture distributions, has recently received significant attention in theoreti...
Mikhail Belkin, Kaushik Sinha
NECO
2010
154views more  NECO 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Role of Homeostasis in Learning Sparse Representations
Neurons in the input layer of primary visual cortex in primates develop edge-like receptive fields. One approach to understanding the emergence of this response is to state that ...
Laurent U. Perrinet
STOC
2010
ACM
261views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
An Improved LP-based Approximation for Steiner Tree
The Steiner tree problem is one of the most fundamental ÆÈ-hard problems: given a weighted undirected graph and a subset of terminal nodes, find a minimum weight tree spanning ...
Jaroslaw Byrka, Fabrizio Grandoni, Thomas Rothvoss...
EGICE
2006
15 years 1 months ago
Combining Two Data Mining Methods for System Identification
System identification is an abductive task which is affected by several kinds of modeling assumptions and measurement errors. Therefore, instead of optimizing values of parameters ...
Sandro Saitta, Benny Raphael, Ian F. C. Smith
FGR
2000
IEEE
141views Biometrics» more  FGR 2000»
15 years 1 months ago
Memory-Based Face Recognition for Visitor Identification
We show that a simple, memory-based technique for appearance-based face recognition, motivated by the realworld task of visitor identification, can outperform more sophisticated a...
Terence Sim, Rahul Sukthankar, Matthew D. Mullin, ...