We investigate a new, convex relaxation of an expectation-maximization (EM) variant that approximates a standard objective while eliminating local minima. First, a cautionary resu...
In this paper, we propose a novel multi-dimensional distributed hidden Markov model (DHMM) framework. We first extend the theory of 2D hidden Markov models (HMMs) to arbitrary ca...
Bayesian Kullback Ying—Yang dependence reduction system and theory is presented. Via stochastic approximation, implementable algorithms and criteria are given for parameter lear...
This paper presents a novel algorithm for document clustering based on a combinatorial framework of the Principal Direction Divisive Partitioning (PDDP) algorithm [1] and a simpli...
We develop a new algorithm, based on EM, for learning the Linear Dynamical System model. Called the method of Approximated Second-Order Statistics (ASOS) our approach achieves dra...