Dyadic data refers to a domain with two nite sets of objects in which observations are made for dyads, i.e., pairs with one element from either set. This type of data arises natur...
As the amount of textual information grows explosively in various kinds of business systems, it becomes more and more desirable to analyze both structured data records and unstruc...
Abstract: Transactional network data can be thought of as a list of oneto-many communications (e.g., email) between nodes in a social network. Most social network models convert th...
Some models of textual corpora employ text generation methods involving n-gram statistics, while others use latent topic variables inferred using the "bag-of-words" assu...
We show a close relationship between the Expectation - Maximization (EM) algorithm and direct optimization algorithms such as gradientbased methods for parameter learning. We iden...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...