This paper proposes a novel Bayesian approximation inference method for mixture modeling. Our key idea is to factorize marginal log-likelihood using a variational distribution ove...
Real-valued random hidden variables can be useful for modelling latent structure that explains correlations among observed variables. I propose a simple unit that adds zero-mean G...
Many problems in vision involve the prediction of a class label for each frame in an unsegmented sequence. In this paper, we develop a discriminative framework for simultaneous se...
We develop latent Dirichlet allocation with WORDNET (LDAWN), an unsupervised probabilistic topic model that includes word sense as a hidden variable. We develop a probabilistic po...
This paper introduces a novel probabilistic activity modeling approach that mines recurrent sequential patterns from documents given as word-time occurrences. In this model, docum...