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EMNLP
2008
15 years 21 days ago
Modeling Annotators: A Generative Approach to Learning from Annotator Rationales
A human annotator can provide hints to a machine learner by highlighting contextual "rationales" for each of his or her annotations (Zaidan et al., 2007). How can one ex...
Omar Zaidan, Jason Eisner
NIPS
2001
15 years 19 days ago
Global Coordination of Local Linear Models
High dimensional data that lies on or near a low dimensional manifold can be described by a collection of local linear models. Such a description, however, does not provide a glob...
Sam T. Roweis, Lawrence K. Saul, Geoffrey E. Hinto...
UAI
2003
15 years 19 days ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
NIPS
2000
15 years 18 days ago
Generalized Belief Propagation
In an important recent paper, Yedidia, Freeman, and Weiss [11] showed that there is a close connection between the belief propagation algorithm for probabilistic inference and the...
Jonathan S. Yedidia, William T. Freeman, Yair Weis...
UAI
2000
15 years 18 days ago
Variational Relevance Vector Machines
The Support Vector Machine (SVM) of Vapnik [9] has become widely established as one of the leading approaches to pattern recognition and machine learning. It expresses predictions...
Christopher M. Bishop, Michael E. Tipping