Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM) are well-studied generative models. For image data, however, standard RBMs are suboptimal, since they do not exploit the local nature of image ...
We present a novel extension to Independent Component Analysis (ICA), where the data is generated as the product of two submodels, each of which follow an ICA model, and which comb...
Classifying the dialogue act of a user utterance is a key functionality of a dialogue management system. This paper presents a data-driven dialogue act classifier that is learned ...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eun Y. Ha, Robert Phillips...
Recently, the margin criterion has been successfully used for parameter optimization in graphical models. We introduce maximum margin based structure learning for Bayesian network...
— In this paper we provide experimental results and extensions to our previous theoretical findings concerning the combination of forecasts that have been diversified by three ...