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UAI
2003
13 years 8 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
NIPS
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Generalized Belief Propagation
In an important recent paper, Yedidia, Freeman, and Weiss [11] showed that there is a close connection between the belief propagation algorithm for probabilistic inference and the...
Jonathan S. Yedidia, William T. Freeman, Yair Weis...
UAI
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Variational Relevance Vector Machines
The Support Vector Machine (SVM) of Vapnik [9] has become widely established as one of the leading approaches to pattern recognition and machine learning. It expresses predictions...
Christopher M. Bishop, Michael E. Tipping
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
In search of an anonymous and secure lookup: attacks on structured peer-to-peer anonymous communication systems
The ability to locate random relays is a key challenge for peer-to-peer (P2P) anonymous communication systems. Earlier attempts like Salsa and AP3 used distributed hash table look...
Qiyan Wang, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov
BMCBI
2010
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Improving pairwise sequence alignment accuracy using near-optimal protein sequence alignments
Background: While the pairwise alignments produced by sequence similarity searches are a powerful tool for identifying homologous proteins - proteins that share a common ancestor ...
Michael L. Sierk, Michael E. Smoot, Ellen J. Bass,...