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UAI
2003
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An Importance Sampling Algorithm Based on Evidence Pre-propagation
Precision achieved by stochastic sampling algorithms for Bayesian networks typically deteriorates in face of extremely unlikely evidence. To address this problem, we propose the E...
Changhe Yuan, Marek J. Druzdzel
UAI
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Collaborative Ensemble Learning: Combining Collaborative and Content-Based Information Filtering via Hierarchical Bayes
Collaborative filtering (CF) and contentbased filtering (CBF) have widely been used in information filtering applications, both approaches having their individual strengths and...
Kai Yu, Anton Schwaighofer, Volker Tresp, Wei-Ying...
UAI
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Exploiting Locality in Searching the Web
Published experiments on spidering the Web suggest that, given training data in the form of a (relatively small) subgraph of the Web containing a subset of a selected class of tar...
Joel Young, Thomas Dean
UAI
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Markov Random Walk Representations with Continuous Distributions
We propose a framework to extend Markov random walks (Szummer and Jaakkola, 2001) to a continuum of points. In this framework, the transition probability between two points is the...
Chen-Hsiang Yeang, Martin Szummer
UAI
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Strong Faithfulness and Uniform Consistency in Causal Inference
A fundamental question in causal inference is whether it is possible to reliably infer the manipulation effects from observational data. There are a variety of senses of asymptot...
Jiji Zhang, Peter Spirtes
UAI
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Renewal Strings for Cleaning Astronomical Databases
Large astronomical databases obtained from sky surveys such as the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys (SSS) invariably suffer from spurious records coming from artefactual effects of the t...
Amos J. Storkey, Nigel C. Hambly, Christopher K. I...
UAI
2003
14 years 1 months ago
The Revisiting Problem in Mobile Robot Map Building: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach
We present an application of hierarchical Bayesian estimation to robot map building. The revisiting problem occurs when a robot has to decide whether it is seeing a previously-bui...
Benjamin Stewart, Jonathan Ko, Dieter Fox, Kurt Ko...
UAI
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Learning Measurement Models for Unobserved Variables
Ricardo Bezerra de Andrade e Silva, Richard Schein...
UAI
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Learning Module Networks
Methods for learning Bayesian networks can discover dependency structure between observed variables. Although these methods are useful in many applications, they run into computat...
Eran Segal, Dana Pe'er, Aviv Regev, Daphne Koller,...
UAI
2003
14 years 1 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
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...