We consider the problem of fitting a large-scale covariance matrix to multivariate Gaussian data in such a way that the inverse is sparse, thus providing model selection. Beginnin...
Onureena Banerjee, Laurent El Ghaoui, Alexandre d'...
We present a directed Markov random field (MRF) model that combines n-gram models, probabilistic context free grammars (PCFGs) and probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) fo...
Shaojun Wang, Shaomin Wang, Russell Greiner, Dale ...
Surrogate maximization (or minimization) (SM) algorithms are a family of algorithms that can be regarded as a generalization of expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms. There are...
The problemofmultipleglobalcomparisonin familiesof biologicalsequences has been wellstudied. Fewer algorithms have been developed for identifying local consensus patterns or motif...
Yuh-Jyh Hu, Suzanne B. Sandmeyer, Dennis F. Kibler
Search engine advertising has become a significant element of the Web browsing experience. Choosing the right ads for the query and the order in which they are displayed greatly a...