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...
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...
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...
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...
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...