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BMCBI
2004
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15 years 4 months ago
Improvement of alignment accuracy utilizing sequentially conserved motifs
Background: Multiple sequence alignment algorithms are very important tools in molecular biology today. Accurate alignment of proteins is central to several areas such as homology...
Saikat Chakrabarti, Nitin Bhardwaj, Prem A. Anand,...
MP
2010
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15 years 3 months ago
Approximation algorithms for homogeneous polynomial optimization with quadratic constraints
In this paper, we consider approximation algorithms for optimizing a generic multi-variate homogeneous polynomial function, subject to homogeneous quadratic constraints. Such opti...
Simai He, Zhening Li, Shuzhong Zhang
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JMLR
2012
13 years 7 months ago
A Stick-Breaking Likelihood for Categorical Data Analysis with Latent Gaussian Models
The development of accurate models and efficient algorithms for the analysis of multivariate categorical data are important and longstanding problems in machine learning and compu...
Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Shakir Mohamed, Benjamin M....
SYNTHESE
2010
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15 years 3 months ago
Coherent choice functions under uncertainty
We discuss several features of coherent choice functions – where the admissible options in a decision problem are exactly those which maximize expected utility for some probabil...
Teddy Seidenfeld, Mark J. Schervish, Joseph B. Kad...
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ECSQARU
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Nonlinear Deterministic Relationships in Bayesian Networks
In a Bayesian network with continuous variables containing a variable(s) that is a conditionally deterministic function of its continuous parents, the joint density function for t...
Barry R. Cobb, Prakash P. Shenoy