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2004
14 years 11 months ago
On Modeling Profiles Instead of Values
We consider the problem of estimating the distribution underlying an observed sample of data. Instead of maximum likelihood, which maximizes the probability of the observed values...
Alon Orlitsky, Narayana P. Santhanam, Krishnamurth...
UAI
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Hybrid Influence Diagrams Using Mixtures of Truncated Exponentials
Mixtures of truncated exponentials (MTE) potentials are an alternative to discretization for representing continuous chance variables in influence diagrams. Also, MTE potentials c...
Barry R. Cobb, Prakash P. Shenoy
UAI
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Dependent Dirichlet Priors and Optimal Linear Estimators for Belief Net Parameters
A Bayesian belief network is a model of a joint distribution over a finite set of variables, with a DAG structure representing immediate dependencies among the variables. For each...
Peter Hooper
UAI
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Regret Minimizing Equilibria and Mechanisms for Games with Strict Type Uncertainty
Mechanism design has found considerable application to the construction of agent-interaction protocols. In the standard setting, the type (e.g., utility function) of an agent is n...
Nathanael Hyafil, Craig Boutilier
UAI
2004
14 years 11 months ago
A Bayesian Approach toward Active Learning for Collaborative Filtering
Collaborative filtering is a useful technique for exploiting the preference patterns of a group of users to predict the utility of items for the active user. In general, the perfo...
Rong Jin, Luo Si