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NIPS
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Estimating Car Insurance Premia: a Case Study in High-Dimensional Data Inference
Estimating insurance premia from data is a difficult regression problem for several reasons: the large number of variables, many of which are discrete, and the very peculiar shape...
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, J...
SIBGRAPI
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Bayesian Estimation of Hyperparameters in MRI through the Maximum Evidence Method
Bayesian inference methods are commonly applied to the classification of brain Magnetic Resonance images (MRI). We use the Maximum Evidence (ME) approach to estimate the most prob...
Damian E. Oliva, Roberto A. Isoardi, Germán...
JAIR
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Convexity Arguments for Efficient Minimization of the Bethe and Kikuchi Free Energies
Loopy and generalized belief propagation are popular algorithms for approximate inference in Markov random fields and Bayesian networks. Fixed points of these algorithms have been...
Tom Heskes
STOC
2009
ACM
172views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Linear time approximation schemes for the Gale-Berlekamp game and related minimization problems
We design a linear time approximation scheme for the GaleBerlekamp Switching Game and generalize it to a wider class of dense fragile minimization problems including the Nearest C...
Marek Karpinski, Warren Schudy
WSC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Approximating Component Selection
Simulation composability is a difficult capability to achieve due to the challenges of creating components, selecting combinations of components, and integrating the selected comp...
Michael Roy Fox, David C. Brogan, Paul F. Reynolds...