We propose a novel a framework for deriving approximations for intractable probabilistic models. This framework is based on a free energy (negative log marginal likelihood) and ca...
We seek to both detect and segment objects in images. To exploit both local image data as well as contextual information, we introduce Boosted Random Fields (BRFs), which use boos...
Antonio Torralba, Kevin P. Murphy, William T. Free...
CoralCDN is a peer-to-peer content distribution network that allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand, all for the price of a cheap broad...
Michael J. Freedman, Eric Freudenthal, David Mazi&...
Flexible and dynamic environments are characterized by high independence from connection participants, low control over available services and high tolerance to communication fail...
Graph-based modeling has emerged as a powerful abstraction capable of capturing in a single and unified framework many of the relational, spatial, topological, and other characteri...