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UAI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
2004
We consider the problem of estimating the distribution underlying an observed sample of data. Instead of maximum likelihood, which maximizes the probability of the observed values...
SODA
2012
ACM
12 years 8 days ago
2012
ACM
We initiate the study of graph sketching, i.e., algorithms that use a limited number of linear measurements of a graph to determine the properties of the graph. While a graph on n...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Springer
This paper introduces a simple and very general theory of compressive sensing. In this theory, the sensing mechanism simply selects sensing vectors independently at random from a ...
NECO
2000
13 years 9 months ago
2000
The class of finite mixtures of multivariate Bernoulli distributions is known to be nonidentifiable, i.e., different values of the mixture parameters can correspond to exactly the...
IJAR
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
The AIS-BN algorithm [2] is a successful importance sampling-based algorithm for Bayesian networks that relies on two heuristic methods to obtain an initial importance function: -...