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AAAI
1998
15 years 2 months ago
Bayesian Network Models for Generation of Crisis Management Training Scenarios
We present a noisy-OR Bayesian network model for simulation-based training, and an efficient search-based algorithm for automatic synthesis of plausible training scenarios from co...
Eugene Grois, William H. Hsu, Mikhail Voloshin, Da...
JMLR
2006
125views more  JMLR 2006»
15 years 1 months ago
Linear Programming Relaxations and Belief Propagation - An Empirical Study
The problem of finding the most probable (MAP) configuration in graphical models comes up in a wide range of applications. In a general graphical model this problem is NP hard, bu...
Chen Yanover, Talya Meltzer, Yair Weiss
ICDM
2005
IEEE
117views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2005»
15 years 7 months ago
On Learning Asymmetric Dissimilarity Measures
Many practical applications require that distance measures to be asymmetric and context-sensitive. We introduce Context-sensitive Learnable Asymmetric Dissimilarity (CLAD) measure...
Krishna Kummamuru, Raghu Krishnapuram, Rakesh Agra...
CG
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Biasing Monte-Carlo Simulations through RAVE Values
Abstract. The Monte-Carlo Tree Search algorithm has been successfully applied in various domains. However, its performance heavily depends on the Monte-Carlo part. In this paper, w...
Arpad Rimmel, Fabien Teytaud, Olivier Teytaud
JMLR
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Elliptical slice sampling
Many probabilistic models introduce strong dependencies between variables using a latent multivariate Gaussian distribution or a Gaussian process. We present a new Markov chain Mo...
Iain Murray, Ryan Prescott Adams, David J. C. MacK...