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NECO
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
Bayesian Model Assessment and Comparison Using Cross-Validation Predictive Densities
In this work, we discuss practical methods for the assessment, comparison, and selection of complex hierarchical Bayesian models. A natural way to assess the goodness of the model...
Aki Vehtari, Jouko Lampinen
INFFUS
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
The statistical mechanics of belief sharing in multi-agent systems
- Many exciting, emerging applications require that a group of agents share a coherent view of the world given spatial distribution, incomplete and uncertain sensors, and communica...
Robin Glinton, Katia P. Sycara, David Scerri, Paul...
JMLR
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
An Alternative Prior Process for Nonparametric Bayesian Clustering
Prior distributions play a crucial role in Bayesian approaches to clustering. Two commonly-used prior distributions are the Dirichlet and Pitman-Yor processes. In this paper, we i...
Hanna M. Wallach, Shane Jensen, Lee Dicker, Kather...
TIT
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Information-theoretic key agreement of multiple terminals: part I
This is the first part of a two-part paper on information-theoretically secure secret key agreement. In this part, we study the secrecy problem under the widely studied source mod...
Amin Aminzadeh Gohari, Venkat Anantharam
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Sparse Recovery by Non-convex Optimization -- Instance Optimality
In this note, we address the theoretical properties of p, a class of compressed sensing decoders that rely on p minimization with p (0, 1) to recover estimates of sparse and compr...
Rayan Saab, Özgür Yilmaz