A statistical estimator attempts to guess an unknown probability distribution by analyzing a sample from this distribution. One desirable property of an estimator is that its gues...
The probability that a term appears in relevant documents ( ) is a fundamental quantity in several probabilistic retrieval models, however it is difficult to estimate without rele...
Abstract. We introduce an extended computational framework for studying biological systems. Our approach combines formalization of existing qualitative models that are in wide but ...
Irit Gat-Viks, Amos Tanay, Daniela Raijman, Ron Sh...
—Inferring latent structures from observations helps to model and possibly also understand underlying data generating processes. A rich class of latent structures are the latent ...
Abstract. We address the problem of joint feature selection in multiple related classification or regression tasks. When doing feature selection with multiple tasks, usually one c...
Paramveer S. Dhillon, Brian Tomasik, Dean P. Foste...