This article demonstrates the potential of using hierarchical Bayesian methods to relate models and data in the cognitive sciences. This is done using a worked example that consid...
Probabilistic latent semantic indexing (PLSI) represents documents of a collection as mixture proportions of latent topics, which are learned from the collection by an expectation...
Alexander Hinneburg, Hans-Henning Gabriel, Andr&eg...
We propose a novel unsupervised learning framework for activity perception. To understand activities in complicated scenes from visual data, we propose a hierarchical Bayesian mod...
Hierarchical penalization is a generic framework for incorporating prior information in the fitting of statistical models, when the explicative variables are organized in a hiera...
Marie Szafranski, Yves Grandvalet, Pierre Morizet-...
In this paper we propose an alternative interpretation of Bayesian learning based on maximal evidence principle. We establish a notion of local evidence which can be viewed as a c...