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ICANN
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
On Estimating Mutual Information for Feature Selection
Abstract. Mutual Information (MI) is a powerful concept from information theory used in many application fields. For practical tasks it is often necessary to estimate the Mutual In...
Erik Schaffernicht, Robert Kaltenhaeuser, Saurabh ...
ICML
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
On Sparse Nonparametric Conditional Covariance Selection
We develop a penalized kernel smoothing method for the problem of selecting nonzero elements of the conditional precision matrix, known as conditional covariance selection. This p...
Mladen Kolar, Ankur P. Parikh, Eric P. Xing
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Convex Relaxations for Subset Selection
We use convex relaxation techniques to produce lower bounds on the optimal value of subset selection problems and generate good approximate solutions. We then explicitly bound the...
Francis Bach, Selin Damla Ahipasaoglu, Alexandre d...
TCBB
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Nature Reserve Selection Problem: A Tight Approximation Algorithm
The Nature Reserve Selection Problem is a problem that arises in the context of studying biodiversity conservation. Subject to budgetary constraints, the problem is to select a set...
Magnus Bordewich, Charles Semple
INFORMATICALT
1998
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On Local Bandwidth Selection for Density Estimation
This article gives ideas for developing statistics software which can work without user intervention. Some popular methods of bandwidth selection for kernel density estimation (the...
Rimantas Rudzkis, Mindaugas Kavaliauskas