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JMLR
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
Covariance in Unsupervised Learning of Probabilistic Grammars
Probabilistic grammars offer great flexibility in modeling discrete sequential data like natural language text. Their symbolic component is amenable to inspection by humans, while...
Shay B. Cohen, Noah A. Smith
JMLR
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
Consistent Nonparametric Tests of Independence
Three simple and explicit procedures for testing the independence of two multi-dimensional random variables are described. Two of the associated test statistics (L1, log-likelihoo...
Arthur Gretton, László Györfi
CISS
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Unconstrained minimization of quadratic functions via min-sum
—Gaussian belief propagation is an iterative algorithm for computing the mean of a multivariate Gaussian distribution. Equivalently, the min-sum algorithm can be used to compute ...
Nicholas Ruozzi, Sekhar Tatikonda
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Understanding user behavior in large-scale video-on-demand systems
Video-on-demand over IP (VOD) is one of the best-known examples of “next-generation” Internet applications cited as a goal by networking and multimedia researchers. Without em...
Hongliang Yu, Dongdong Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao, Weimin ...
AC
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
The Importance of Aggregation
Abstract—The dynamics of the survival of recruiting fish are analyzed as evolving random processes of aggregation and mortality. The analyses draw on recent advances in the phys...
Robbert van Renesse