In theories of cognition that view the mind as a system of interacting agents, there must be mechanisms for aggregate decision-making, such as voting. Here we show that certain vo...
Whitman Richards, H. Sebastian Seung, Galen Pickar...
In this paper, we study a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) approach to preference aggregation and voting when the set of alternatives has a multi-issue structure, and the voter...
Mixed Group Ranks is a parametric method for combining rank based classiers that is eective for many-class problems. Its parametric structure combines qualities of voting methods...
We consider the problem of estimating the parameters of a Gaussian or binary distribution in such a way that the resulting undirected graphical model is sparse. Our approach is to...
Onureena Banerjee, Laurent El Ghaoui, Alexandre d'...