The task of estimating causal effects from non-experimental data is notoriously difficult and unreliable. Nevertheless, precisely such estimates are commonly required in many fiel...
Patrik O. Hoyer, Shohei Shimizu, Antti J. Kerminen...
We present a new framework based on walks in a graph for analysis and inference in Gaussian graphical models. The key idea is to decompose the correlation between each pair of var...
Dmitry M. Malioutov, Jason K. Johnson, Alan S. Wil...
The idea that context is important when predicting customer behavior has been maintained by scholars in marketing and data mining. However, no systematic study measuring how much t...
Cosimo Palmisano, Alexander Tuzhilin, Michele Gorg...
—Facial expression is a natural and powerful means of human communication. Recognizing spontaneous facial actions, however, is very challenging due to subtle facial deformation, ...
We introduce tiered clustering, a mixture model capable of accounting for varying degrees of shared (context-independent) feature structure, and demonstrate its applicability to i...