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IDA
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Estimating Squared-Loss Mutual Information for Independent Component Analysis
Abstract. Accurately evaluating statistical independence among random variables is a key component of Independent Component Analysis (ICA). In this paper, we employ a squared-loss ...
Taiji Suzuki, Masashi Sugiyama
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
PKDD
2009
Springer
155views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Dynamic Factor Graphs for Time Series Modeling
Abstract. This article presents a method for training Dynamic Factor Graphs (DFG) with continuous latent state variables. A DFG includes factors modeling joint probabilities betwee...
Piotr W. Mirowski, Yann LeCun
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
112views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Network bargaining: algorithms and structural results
We consider models for bargaining in social networks, in which players are represented by vertices and edges represent bilateral opportunities for deals between pairs of players. ...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Michael Kearns, Sanjeev Khanna
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Click-through prediction for news queries
A growing trend in commercial search engines is the display of specialized content such as news, products, etc. interleaved with web search results. Ideally, this content should b...
Arnd Christian König, Michael Gamon, Qiang Wu