—This study illustrates the importance of assessing and accounting for time heterogeneity in longitudinal social network analysis. We apply the time heterogeneity model selection...
Sparse graphical models have proven to be a flexible class of multivariate probability models for approximating high-dimensional distributions. In this paper, we propose techniques...
Vincent Y. F. Tan, Sujay Sanghavi, John W. Fisher ...
Topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Correlated Topic Model (CTM) have recently emerged as powerful statistical tools for text document modeling. In this pap...
Duangmanee Putthividhya, Hagai Thomas Attias, Srik...
This paper explores how to exploit shape information to perform object class recognition. We use a sparse partbased model to describe object categories defined by shape. The spars...
Josephine Sullivan, Oscar M. Danielsson, Stefan Ca...
Local appearance models in the neighborhood of salient image features, together with local and/or global geometric constraints, serve as the basis for several recent and effective...