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JMLR
2012
13 years 2 months ago
Noise-Contrastive Estimation of Unnormalized Statistical Models, with Applications to Natural Image Statistics
We consider the task of estimating, from observed data, a probabilistic model that is parameterized by a finite number of parameters. In particular, we are considering the situat...
Michael Gutmann, Aapo Hyvärinen
ACL
2007
15 years 1 months ago
A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing
This paper presents a comparative study of five parameter estimation algorithms on four NLP tasks. Three of the five algorithms are well-known in the computational linguistics com...
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, Kristina...
ICIP
2005
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Parameter estimation of multi-dimensional hidden Markov models - a scalable approach
Parameter estimation is a key computational issue in all statistical image modeling techniques. In this paper, we explore a computationally efficient parameter estimation algorith...
Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li, James Ze Wang
WSC
2007
15 years 1 months ago
Simulation metamodels for modeling output distribution parameters
Metamodels are functions with calibrated parameters, used actions and simplifications of the simulation model. A metamodel exposes the system’s input-output relationship and ca...
Isabel R. Santos, Pedro R. Santos
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JCB
2007
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14 years 11 months ago
Statistical Estimation of Statistical Mechanical Models: Helix-Coil Theory and Peptide Helicity Prediction
Analysis of biopolymer sequences and structures generally adopts one of two approaches: use of detailed biophysical theoretical models of the system with experimentally-determined...
Scott C. Schmidler, Joseph E. Lucas, Terrence G. O...