Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
Abstract. This paper presents an architecture that enables the recognizer to learn incrementally and, thereby adapt to document image collections for performance improvement. We ar...
Many recommendation and retrieval tasks can be represented as proximity queries on a labeled directed graph, with typed nodes representing documents, terms, and metadata, and labe...
The issue of initializing the model of a new student is of great importance for educational applications that aim at offering individualized support to students. In this paper we ...
There is an explosion of community-generated multimedia content available online. In particular, Flickr constitutes a 200-million photo sharing system where users participate foll...