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ICONIP
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Variational Information Maximization for Neural Coding
Abstract. Mutual Information (MI) is a long studied measure of coding efficiency, and many attempts to apply it to population coding have been made. However, this is a computationa...
Felix V. Agakov, David Barber
ICONIP
2004
15 years 5 months ago
An Auxiliary Variational Method
Variational methods have proved popular and effective for inference and learning in intractable graphical models. An attractive feature of the approaches based on the Kullback-Lei...
Felix V. Agakov, David Barber
NIPS
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Triangle Fixing Algorithms for the Metric Nearness Problem
Various problems in machine learning, databases, and statistics involve pairwise distances among a set of objects. It is often desirable for these distances to satisfy the propert...
Inderjit S. Dhillon, Suvrit Sra, Joel A. Tropp
IJCAI
2003
15 years 5 months ago
Modular self-organization for a long-living autonomous agent
The aim of this paper is to provide a sound framework for addressing a difficult problem: the automatic construction of an autonomous agent's modular architecture. We briefly...
Bruno Scherrer
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TREC
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Juru at TREC 2004: Experiments with Prediction of Query Difficulty
Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
Elad Yom-Tov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow...