We present the concept of hierarchical instantiation for radiosity. This new method enables an efficient, yet accurate determination of the illumination in very large scenes, wher...
Abstract. We propose a thresholded ensemble model for ordinal regression problems. The model consists of a weighted ensemble of confidence functions and an ordered vector of thres...
Map-Reduce is a programming model that enables easy development of scalable parallel applications to process vast amounts of data on large clusters of commodity machines. Through ...
Hung-chih Yang, Ali Dasdan, Ruey-Lung Hsiao, Dougl...
Most of the existing approaches to collaborative filtering cannot handle very large data sets. In this paper we show how a class of two-layer undirected graphical models, called R...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Andriy Mnih, Geoffrey E. Hin...
Discriminative training has been a leading factor for improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance over the last decade. The traditional discriminative training, howev...