In this paper, we discuss generalized mixture models and related semi-supervised learning methods, and show how they can be used to provide explicit methods for unknown class infer...
Abstract. In this paper we unify divergence minimization and statistical inference by means of convex duality. In the process of doing so, we prove that the dual of approximate max...
We consider the problem of performing learning and inference in a large scale knowledge base containing imperfect knowledge with incomplete coverage. We show that a soft inference...
Nearly every structured prediction problem in computer vision requires approximate inference due to large and complex dependencies among output labels. While graphical models prov...
We model the overlay using linear capacity constraints, which accurately and succinctly capture overlay link correlations. We show that finding a maximum-bandwidth multicast tree...