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NN
2002
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Bayesian model search for mixture models based on optimizing variational bounds
When learning a mixture model, we suffer from the local optima and model structure determination problems. In this paper, we present a method for simultaneously solving these prob...
Naonori Ueda, Zoubin Ghahramani
PROCEDIA
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
Two derivative-free optimization algorithms for mesh quality improvement
High-quality meshes are essential in the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs), which arise in numerous science and engineering applications, as the mesh quality aff...
Jeonghyung Park, Suzanne M. Shontz
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
Optimal Policies for Distributed Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— We consider the scenario of distributed data aggregation in wireless sensor networks, where each sensor can obtain and estimate the information of the whole sensing fi...
Zhenzhen Ye, Alhussein A. Abouzeid, Jing Ai
MOC
2011
15 years 1 months ago
An optimal adaptive mixed finite element method
Abstract. Various applications in uid dynamics and computational continuum mechanics motivate the development of reliable and ecient adaptive algorithms for mixed nite element m...
Carsten Carstensen, Hella Rabus
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
A-Functions: A generalization of Extended Baum-Welch transformations to convex optimization
We introduce the Line Search A-Function (LSAF) technique that generalizes the Extended-Baum Welch technique in order to provide an effective optimization technique for a broader s...
Dimitri Kanevsky, David Nahamoo, Tara N. Sainath, ...