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...
We consider spatial databases in the plane that can be defined by polynomial constraint formulas. Motivated by applications in geographic information systems, we investigate line...
Abstract. We propose a theory of time-bounded verification for realtime systems, in which verification queries are phrased over time intervals of fixed, bounded duration. We argue ...
In the layered-graph query model of network discovery, a query at a node v of an undirected graph G discovers all edges and non-edges whose endpoints have different distance from ...
A computational model for learning languages in the limit from full positive data and a bounded number of queries to the teacher (oracle) is introduced and explored. Equivalence, ...