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DRR
2008
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Whole-book recognition using mutual-entropy-driven model adaptation
We describe an approach to unsupervised high-accuracy recognition of the textual contents of an entire book using fully automatic mutual-entropy-based model adaptation. Given imag...
Pingping Xiu, Henry S. Baird
UAI
2003
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Bayesian Hierarchical Mixtures of Experts
The Hierarchical Mixture of Experts (HME) is a well-known tree-structured model for regression and classification, based on soft probabilistic splits of the input space. In its o...
Christopher M. Bishop, Markus Svensén
UAI
2000
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Gaussian Process Networks
In this paper we address the problem of learning the structure of a Bayesian network in domains with continuous variables. This task requires a procedure for comparing different c...
Nir Friedman, Iftach Nachman
MP
2006
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Convergence theory for nonconvex stochastic programming with an application to mixed logit
Monte Carlo methods have been used extensively in the area of stochastic programming. As with other methods that involve a level of uncertainty, theoretical properties are required...
Fabian Bastin, Cinzia Cirillo, Philippe L. Toint
SIAMSC
2008
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ORBIT: Optimization by Radial Basis Function Interpolation in Trust-Regions
Abstract. We present a new derivative-free algorithm, ORBIT, for unconstrained local optimization of computationally expensive functions. A trust-region framework using interpolati...
Stefan M. Wild, Rommel G. Regis, Christine A. Shoe...