Models such as pairwise conditional random fields (CRFs) are extremely popular in computer vision and various other machine learning disciplines. However, they have limited expre...
Abstract. We consider the problem of learning stochastic tree languages, i.e. probability distributions over a set of trees T(F), from a sample of trees independently drawn accordi...
This paper establishes a connection between two apparently very different kinds of probabilistic models. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) models are used as "topic models&qu...
Graphical models are usually learned without regard to the cost of doing inference with them. As a result, even if a good model is learned, it may perform poorly at prediction, be...
In many applications of graphical models arising in computer vision, the hidden variables of interest are most naturally specified by continuous, non-Gaussian distributions. There...
Erik B. Sudderth, Alexander T. Ihler, William T. F...