Recently, Portfolio Theory (PT) has been proposed for Information Retrieval. However, under non-trivial conditions PT violates the original Probability Ranking Principle (PRP). In...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
A system of stochastic differential equations is studied describing a compartmental carbon transfer model that includes uncertainties arising in the model from environmental and p...
— Max-product belief propagation is a local, iterative algorithm to find the mode/MAP estimate of a probability distribution. While it has been successfully employed in a wide v...
Causal reasoning is primarily concerned with what would happen to a system under external interventions. In particular, we are often interested in predicting the probability distr...
In a recent paper we introduced a modification of the adaptive beamformer orthogonal rejection test (ABORT) for adaptive detection of signals in unknown noise, by supposing under t...
Francesco Bandiera, Olivier Besson, Danilo Orlando...