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AAAI
1998
15 years 7 months ago
Bayesian Network Models for Generation of Crisis Management Training Scenarios
We present a noisy-OR Bayesian network model for simulation-based training, and an efficient search-based algorithm for automatic synthesis of plausible training scenarios from co...
Eugene Grois, William H. Hsu, Mikhail Voloshin, Da...
JMLR
2006
125views more  JMLR 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Linear Programming Relaxations and Belief Propagation - An Empirical Study
The problem of finding the most probable (MAP) configuration in graphical models comes up in a wide range of applications. In a general graphical model this problem is NP hard, bu...
Chen Yanover, Talya Meltzer, Yair Weiss
ICDM
2005
IEEE
117views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
On Learning Asymmetric Dissimilarity Measures
Many practical applications require that distance measures to be asymmetric and context-sensitive. We introduce Context-sensitive Learnable Asymmetric Dissimilarity (CLAD) measure...
Krishna Kummamuru, Raghu Krishnapuram, Rakesh Agra...
CG
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Biasing Monte-Carlo Simulations through RAVE Values
Abstract. The Monte-Carlo Tree Search algorithm has been successfully applied in various domains. However, its performance heavily depends on the Monte-Carlo part. In this paper, w...
Arpad Rimmel, Fabien Teytaud, Olivier Teytaud
JMLR
2010
173views more  JMLR 2010»
15 years 29 days ago
Elliptical slice sampling
Many probabilistic models introduce strong dependencies between variables using a latent multivariate Gaussian distribution or a Gaussian process. We present a new Markov chain Mo...
Iain Murray, Ryan Prescott Adams, David J. C. MacK...