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AI
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Parallelizing a Convergent Approximate Inference Method
Probabilistic inference in graphical models is a prevalent task in statistics and artificial intelligence. The ability to perform this inference task efficiently is critical in l...
Ming Su, Elizabeth Thompson
TIP
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A Recursive Model-Reduction Method for Approximate Inference in Gaussian Markov Random Fields
This paper presents recursive cavity modeling--a principled, tractable approach to approximate, near-optimal inference for large Gauss-Markov random fields. The main idea is to su...
Jason K. Johnson, Alan S. Willsky
NECO
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
Constrained Optimization for Neural Map Formation: A Unifying Framework for Weight Growth and Normalization
three different levels of abstraction: detailed models including ctivity dynamics, weight dynamics that abstract from the neural activity dynamics by an adiabatic approximation, an...
Laurenz Wiskott, Terrence J. Sejnowski
UAI
1997
13 years 9 months ago
A Scheme for Approximating Probabilistic Inference
This paper describes a class ofprobabilistic approximation algorithms based on bucket elimination which o er adjustable levels of accuracy ande ciency. We analyzethe approximation...
Rina Dechter, Irina Rish
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Constrained Optimalities in Query Personalization
Personalization is a powerful mechanism that helps users to cope with the abundance of information on the Web. Database query personalization achieves this by dynamically construc...
Georgia Koutrika, Yannis E. Ioannidis