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UAI
2004
15 years 7 months ago
Variational Chernoff Bounds for Graphical Models
Recent research has made significant progress on the problem of bounding log partition functions for exponential family graphical models. Such bounds have associated dual paramete...
Pradeep D. Ravikumar, John D. Lafferty
CSDA
2010
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15 years 6 months ago
Robust estimation of constrained covariance matrices for confirmatory factor analysis
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is a data anylsis procedure that is widely used in social and behavioral sciences in general and other applied sciences that deal with large qua...
E. Dupuis Lozeron, M. P. Victoria-Feser
IJAR
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Inference and risk measurement with the pari-mutuel model
We explore generalizations of the pari-mutuel model (PMM), a formalization of an intuitive way of assessing an upper probability from a precise one. We discuss a naive extension o...
Renato Pelessoni, Paolo Vicig, Marco Zaffalon
ANOR
2010
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15 years 3 months ago
Solving the Rectangular assignment problem and applications
The rectangular assignment problem is a generalization of the linear assignment problem (LAP): one wants to assign a number of persons to a smaller number of jobs, minimizing the ...
J. Bijsterbosch, A. Volgenant
BMCBI
2007
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SABERTOOTH: protein structural alignment based on a vectorial structure representation
Background: The task of computing highly accurate structural alignments of proteins in very short computation time is still challenging. This is partly due to the complexity of pr...
Florian Teichert, Ugo Bastolla, Markus Porto