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NIPS
1998
15 years 8 months ago
Convergence of the Wake-Sleep Algorithm
The W-S (Wake-Sleep) algorithm is a simple learning rule for the models with hidden variables. It is shown that this algorithm can be applied to a factor analysis model which is a...
Shiro Ikeda, Shun-ichi Amari, Hiroyuki Nakahara
ICML
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Accelerated dual decomposition for MAP inference
Approximate MAP inference in graphical models is an important and challenging problem for many domains including computer vision, computational biology and natural language unders...
Vladimir Jojic, Stephen Gould, Daphne Koller
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
A Geometric View of Conjugate Priors
In Bayesian machine learning, conjugate priors are popular, mostly due to mathematical convenience. In this paper, we show that there are deeper reasons for choosing a conjugate pr...
Arvind Agarwal, Hal Daumé III
AIS
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
User interfaces for communication bridges across the digital divide
regarding Social Intelligence Design in an abstraction and device called the SoftBridge. The SoftBridge allows communication to flow from endpoints through adapters, getting conver...
Edwin H. Blake, William D. Tucker
CANDC
2004
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Retrieving definitional content for ontology development
Ontology construction requires an understanding of the meaning and usage of its encoded concepts. While definitions found in dictionaries or glossaries may be adequate for many co...
Lawrence H. Smith, W. John Wilbur