We address the problem of learning the parameters in graphical models when inference is intractable. A common strategy in this case is to replace the partition function with its B...
In a multimodal optimization task, the main purpose is to find multiple optimal solutions (global and local), so that the user can have a better knowledge about different optima...
This paper presents HyFlex, a software framework for the development of cross-domain search methodologies. The framework features a common software interface for dealing with diff...
Gabriela Ochoa, Matthew R. Hyde, Timothy Curtois, ...
Social robots have to potential to serve as personal, organizational, and public assistants as, for instance, diet coaches, teacher’s aides, and emergency respondents. The succe...
Clinical reports often include descriptions of events in the patient’s medical history, as well as explicit or implicit temporal information about these events. We are working t...