Variational methods are frequently used to approximate or bound the partition or likelihood function of a Markov random field. Methods based on mean field theory are guaranteed ...
Erik B. Sudderth, Martin J. Wainwright, Alan S. Wi...
Multistage residual vector quantizers (RVQ) with optimal direct sum decoder codebooks have been successfully designed and implemented for data compression. Due to its multistage s...
We propose a general method that parameterizes general surfaces with complex (possible branching) topology using Riemann surface structure. Rather than evolve the surface geometry...
Yalin Wang, Xianfeng Gu, Kiralee M. Hayashi, Tony ...
One difficulty that arises in abstract argument systems is that many natural questions regarding argument acceptability are, in general, computationally intractable having been c...
Let f be an integer valued function on a finite set V . We call an undirected graph G(V, E) a neighborhood structure for f. The problem of finding a local minimum for f can be phr...