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JMLR
2012
11 years 10 months ago
Noise-Contrastive Estimation of Unnormalized Statistical Models, with Applications to Natural Image Statistics
We consider the task of estimating, from observed data, a probabilistic model that is parameterized by a finite number of parameters. In particular, we are considering the situat...
Michael Gutmann, Aapo Hyvärinen
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing
This paper presents a comparative study of five parameter estimation algorithms on four NLP tasks. Three of the five algorithms are well-known in the computational linguistics com...
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, Kristina...
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Parameter estimation of multi-dimensional hidden Markov models - a scalable approach
Parameter estimation is a key computational issue in all statistical image modeling techniques. In this paper, we explore a computationally efficient parameter estimation algorith...
Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li, James Ze Wang
WSC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Simulation metamodels for modeling output distribution parameters
Metamodels are functions with calibrated parameters, used actions and simplifications of the simulation model. A metamodel exposes the system’s input-output relationship and ca...
Isabel R. Santos, Pedro R. Santos
JCB
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Statistical Estimation of Statistical Mechanical Models: Helix-Coil Theory and Peptide Helicity Prediction
Analysis of biopolymer sequences and structures generally adopts one of two approaches: use of detailed biophysical theoretical models of the system with experimentally-determined...
Scott C. Schmidler, Joseph E. Lucas, Terrence G. O...