Many problems require repeated inference on probabilistic graphical models, with different values for evidence variables or other changes. Examples of such problems include utilit...
The tertiary structure and biological function of a protein can be better understood given knowledge of the number and location of its disulfide bonds. By utilizing mass spectrome...
Timothy Lee, Rahul Singh, Ten-Yang Yen, Bruce Mach...
Joint attention is one of the most important cognitive functions for the emergence of communication not only between humans but also between humans and robots. In the previous wor...
Manydesign problems are solved using multiple levels of abstraction, wherea design at one level has combinatorially manychildren at the next level. A stochastic optimization metho...
Louis I. Steinberg, J. Storrs Hall, Brian D. Davis...
Abstract— We recast the problem of unconstrained continuous evolutionary optimization as inference in a fixed graphical model. This approach allows us to address several pervasi...
Christopher K. Monson, Kevin D. Seppi, James L. Ca...