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ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Efficiently solving convex relaxations for MAP estimation
The problem of obtaining the maximum a posteriori (map) estimate of a discrete random field is of fundamental importance in many areas of Computer Science. In this work, we build ...
M. Pawan Kumar, Philip H. S. Torr
IJCNN
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Model Selection via Bilevel Optimization
— A key step in many statistical learning methods used in machine learning involves solving a convex optimization problem containing one or more hyper-parameters that must be sel...
Kristin P. Bennett, Jing Hu, Xiaoyun Ji, Gautam Ku...
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Modified MMI/MPE: a direct evaluation of the margin in speech recognition
In this paper we show how common speech recognition training criteria such as the Minimum Phone Error criterion or the Maximum Mutual Information criterion can be extended to inco...
Georg Heigold, Hermann Ney, Ralf Schlüter, Th...
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Q2: Memory-Based Active Learning for Optimizing Noisy Continuous Functions
This paper introduces a new algorithm, Q2, foroptimizingthe expected output ofamultiinput noisy continuous function. Q2 is designed to need only a few experiments, it avoids stron...
Andrew W. Moore, Jeff G. Schneider, Justin A. Boya...
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Active kernel learning
Identifying the appropriate kernel function/matrix for a given dataset is essential to all kernel-based learning techniques. A variety of kernel learning algorithms have been prop...
Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin