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2008
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Bounds on marginal probability distributions
We propose a novel bound on single-variable marginal probability distributions in factor graphs with discrete variables. The bound is obtained by propagating local bounds (convex ...
Joris M. Mooij, Hilbert J. Kappen
GECCO
2008
Springer
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Coordinate change operators for genetic algorithms
This paper studies the issue of space coordinate change in genetic algorithms, based on two methods: convex quadratic approximations, and principal component analysis. In both met...
Elizabeth F. Wanner, Eduardo G. Carrano, Ricardo H...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
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Large margin estimation of n-gram language models for speech recognition via linear programming
We present a novel discriminative training algorithm for n-gram language models for use in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. The algorithm uses large margin estimati...
Vladimir Magdin, Hui Jiang
IJAR
2008
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Unifying practical uncertainty representations. II: Clouds
There exist many tools for capturing imprecision in probabilistic representations. Among them are random sets, possibility distributions, probability intervals, and the more recen...
Sébastien Destercke, Didier Dubois, Eric Ch...
PRL
2008
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A large margin approach for writer independent online handwriting classification
This paper proposes a new approach for classifying multivariate time-series with applications to the problem of writer independent online handwritten character recognition. Each t...
Karthik Kumara, Rahul Agrawal, Chiranjib Bhattacha...