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SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2008
ACM
Abstract. In this paper we discuss new adaptive proposal strategies for sequential Monte Carlo algorithms--also known as particle filters--relying on new criteria evaluating the qu...
NIPS
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
Many formal models of cognition implicitly use subjective probability distributions to capture the assumptions of human learners. Most applications of these models determine these...
RC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Abstract. In engineering applications, we need to make decisions under uncertainty. Traditionally, in engineering, statistical methods are used, methods assuming that we know the p...
DATE
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2010
IEEE
—The advanced sampling and variance reduction techniques as efficient alternatives to the slow crude-MC method have recently been adopted for the analysis of timing yield in dig...
PR
2011
12 years 10 months ago
2011
One of the main shortcomings of Markov chain Monte Carlo samplers is their inability to mix between modes of the target distribution. In this paper we show that advance knowledge ...