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JMLR
2012
11 years 10 months ago
2012
We describe a novel approach to quadrature for ratios of probabilistic integrals, such as are used to compute posterior probabilities. This approach offers performance superior t...
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2005
IEEE
—Particle filter is a powerful visual tracking tool based on sequential Monte Carlo framework, and it needs large numbers of samples to properly approximate the posterior density...
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2008
ACM
We consider analysis of complex stochastic models based upon partial information. MCMC and reversible jump MCMC are often the methods of choice for such problems, but in some situ...
ISPD
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
2012
ACM
Importance sampling is a popular approach to estimate rare event failures of SRAM cells. We propose to improve importance sampling by probability collectives. First, we use “Kul...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
2003
IEEE
The links between genetic algorithms and population-based Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are explored. Genetic algorithms (GAs) are well-known for their capability to opt...