— Smoothing and optimization approaches are an effective means for solving the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. Most of the existing techniques focus mainly ...
Gian Diego Tipaldi, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burg...
We propose a novel bound on single-variable marginal probability distributions in factor graphs with discrete variables. The bound is obtained by propagating local bounds (convex ...
Abstract: Locally weighted learning (LWL) is a class of techniques from nonparametric statistics that provides useful representations and training algorithms for learning about com...
Stefan Schaal, Christopher G. Atkeson, Sethu Vijay...
The paper presents a scheme for computing lower and upper bounds on the posterior marginals in Bayesian networks with discrete variables. Its power lies in its ability to use any ...
We present a novel method for approximate inference in Bayesian models and regularized risk functionals. It is based on the propagation of mean and variance derived from the Lapla...
Alexander J. Smola, Vishy Vishwanathan, Eleazar Es...