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ECML
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
U-Likelihood and U-Updating Algorithms: Statistical Inference in Latent Variable Models
Abstract. In this paper we consider latent variable models and introduce a new U-likelihood concept for estimating the distribution over hidden variables. One can derive an estimat...
JaeMo Sung, Sung Yang Bang, Seungjin Choi, Zoubin ...
ICSE
2011
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Inference of field initialization
A raw object is partially initialized, with only some fields set to legal values. It may violate its object invariants, such as that a given field is non-null. Programs often ma...
Fausto Spoto, Michael D. Ernst
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CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 20 days ago
Learning to rank from Bayesian decision inference
Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
Jen-Wei Kuo, Pu-Jen Cheng, Hsin-Min Wang
FTML
2008
185views more  FTML 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference
The formalism of probabilistic graphical models provides a unifying framework for capturing complex dependencies among random variables, and building large-scale multivariate stat...
Martin J. Wainwright, Michael I. Jordan
SYNTHESE
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Informational versus functional theories of scientific representation
Recent work in the philosophy of science has generated an apparent conflict between theories attempting to explicate the nature of scientific representation. On one side, there are...
Anjan Chakravartty