This paper describes a model of the emergence and the universal structural tendencies of vowel systems. Both are considered as the result of self-organisation in a population of l...
We show that the log-likelihood of several probabilistic graphical models is Lipschitz continuous with respect to the p-norm of the parameters. We discuss several implications ...
— This paper proposes a computational model for phoneme acquisition by infants. Human infants perceive speech sounds not as discrete phoneme sequences but as continuous acoustic ...
Recent research has made significant progress on the problem of bounding log partition functions for exponential family graphical models. Such bounds have associated dual paramete...
Significant progress in clustering has been achieved by algorithms that are based on pairwise affinities between the datapoints. In particular, spectral clustering methods have ...