The rapid growth of geotagged social media raises new computational possibilities for investigating geographic linguistic variation. In this paper, we present a multi-level genera...
Jacob Eisenstein, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith,...
Sampling functions in Gaussian process (GP) models is challenging because of the highly correlated posterior distribution. We describe an efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo algori...
Michalis Titsias, Neil D. Lawrence, Magnus Rattray
We present a latent hierarchical structural learning method for object detection. An object is represented by a mixture of hierarchical tree models where the nodes represent objec...
Leo Zhu, Yuanhao Chen, Antonio Torralba, Alan Yuil...
This paper presents a study on Hierarchical Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm (HSAEA) using different global surrogate models for solving computationally expensive optimiza...
Zongzhao Zhou, Yew-Soon Ong, My Hanh Nguyen, Dudy ...
Based on a recent development in the area of error control coding, we introduce the notion of convolutional factor graphs (CFGs) as a new class of probabilistic graphical models. ...