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SPEECH
1998
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15 years 6 months ago
Heteroscedastic discriminant analysis and reduced rank HMMs for improved speech recognition
We present the theory for heteroscedastic discriminant analysis (HDA), a model-based generalization of linear discriminant analysis (LDA) derived in the maximum-likelihood framewo...
Nagendra Kumar, Andreas G. Andreou
BSL
2004
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15 years 6 months ago
Notes on quasiminimality and excellence
This paper ties together much of the model theory of the last 50 years. Shelah's attempts to generalize the Morley theorem beyond first order logic led to the notion of excel...
John T. Baldwin
STOC
2009
ACM
102views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
Multiple intents re-ranking
One of the most fundamental problems in web search is how to re-rank result web pages based on user logs. Most traditional models for re-ranking assume each query has a single int...
Yossi Azar, Iftah Gamzu, Xiaoxin Yin
STOC
2009
ACM
167views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
Universally utility-maximizing privacy mechanisms
A mechanism for releasing information about a statistical database with sensitive data must resolve a trade-off between utility and privacy. Publishing fully accurate information ...
Arpita Ghosh, Tim Roughgarden, Mukund Sundararajan
DIS
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Abduction and the Dualization Problem
Computing abductive explanations is an important problem, which has been studied extensively in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related disciplines. While computing some abductiv...
Thomas Eiter, Kazuhisa Makino