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NN
1998
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Soft vector quantization and the EM algorithm
The relation between hard c-means (HCM), fuzzy c-means (FCM), fuzzy learning vector quantization (FLVQ), soft competition scheme (SCS) of Yair et al. (1992) and probabilistic Gaus...
Ethem Alpaydin
NIPS
2000
13 years 10 months ago
Learning Continuous Distributions: Simulations With Field Theoretic Priors
Learning of a smooth but nonparametric probability density can be regularized using methods of Quantum Field Theory. We implement a field theoretic prior numerically, test its eff...
Ilya Nemenman, William Bialek
ECML
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Separating Precision and Mean in Dirichlet-Enhanced High-Order Markov Models
Abstract. Robustly estimating the state-transition probabilities of highorder Markov processes is an essential task in many applications such as natural language modeling or protei...
Rikiya Takahashi
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Approximated Structured Prediction for Learning Large Scale Graphical Models
In this paper we propose an approximated structured prediction framework for large scale graphical models and derive message-passing algorithms for learning their parameters effic...
Tamir Hazan, Raquel Urtasun
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Joint Spatial and Temporal Structure Learning for Task based Control
We present an example of a joint spatial and temporal task learning algorithm that results in a generative model that has applications for on-line visual control. We review work o...
Hilary Buxton, Kingsley Sage