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1999
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Subdivision Surface Fitting to a Range of Points
The objective of this research is to apply the subdivision surface for surface fitting problems when generating surfaces from data points or polyhedral models. The basic idea is t...
Hiromasa Suzuki, Shingo Takeuchi, Fumihiko Kimura,...
NIPS
2003
15 years 5 months ago
Hierarchical Topic Models and the Nested Chinese Restaurant Process
We address the problem of learning topic hierarchies from data. The model selection problem in this domain is daunting—which of the large collection of possible trees to use? We...
David M. Blei, Thomas L. Griffiths, Michael I. Jor...
CAS
2004
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15 years 3 months ago
Why Model?
This lecture treats some enduring misconceptions about modeling. One of these is that the goal is always prediction. The lecture distinguishes between explanation and prediction a...
S. E. van der Leeuw
NIPS
2001
15 years 5 months ago
Estimating Car Insurance Premia: a Case Study in High-Dimensional Data Inference
Estimating insurance premia from data is a difficult regression problem for several reasons: the large number of variables, many of which are discrete, and the very peculiar shape...
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, J...
CIC
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Dynamic Characteristics of k-ary n-cube Networks for Real-time Communication
Overlay topologies are now popular with many emerging peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, to efficiently locate and retrieve information. In contrast, the focus of this work is to use ove...
Gerald Fry, Richard West