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ESA
2006
Springer
139views Algorithms» more  ESA 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Stochastic Shortest Paths Via Quasi-convex Maximization
Abstract. We consider the problem of finding shortest paths in a graph with independent randomly distributed edge lengths. Our goal is to maximize the probability that the path len...
Evdokia Nikolova, Jonathan A. Kelner, Matthew Bran...
ICONIP
2004
13 years 9 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
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Medical Image Segmentation Based on Mutual Information Maximization
Abstract. In this paper we propose a two-step mutual informationbased algorithm for medical image segmentation. In the first step, the image is structured into homogeneous regions,...
Jaume Rigau, Miquel Feixas, Mateu Sbert, Anton Bar...
RECOMB
2006
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Maximal Accurate Forests from Distance Matrices
Abstract. We present a fast converging method for distance-based phylogenetic inference, which is novel in two respects. First, it is the only method (to our knowledge) to guarante...
Constantinos Daskalakis, Cameron Hill, Alexander J...
DBPL
2009
Springer
144views Database» more  DBPL 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
General Database Statistics Using Entropy Maximization
Abstract. We propose a framework in which query sizes can be estimated from arbitrary statistical assertions on the data. In its most general form, a statistical assertion states t...
Raghav Kaushik, Christopher Ré, Dan Suciu