In an important recent paper, Yedidia, Freeman, and Weiss [11] showed that there is a close connection between the belief propagation algorithm for probabilistic inference and the...
Jonathan S. Yedidia, William T. Freeman, Yair Weis...
The class of algorithms for approximating reasoning tasks presented in this paper is based on approximating the general bucket elimination framework. The algorithms have adjustabl...
This paper describes a class ofprobabilistic approximation algorithms based on bucket elimination which o er adjustable levels of accuracy ande ciency. We analyzethe approximation...
d at a high abstraction level, and consists in an expectation-driven search starting from symbolic object descriptions and using a version of a distributed blackboard system for re...
Gian Luca Foresti, Vittorio Murino, Carlo S. Regaz...
Speakers in dialogue tend to adapt to each other by starting to use similar lexical items, syntactic structures, or gestures. This behaviour, called alignment, may serve important...