— Metaheuristics such as Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and the Cross-Entropy method use probabilistic modelling and inference to generate candidate solutions in optimizat...
Marcus Gallagher, Ian Wood, Jonathan M. Keith, Geo...
We present a framework for efficient, accurate approximate Bayesian inference in generalized linear models (GLMs), based on the expectation propagation (EP) technique. The paramete...
Matthias Seeger, Sebastian Gerwinn, Matthias Bethg...
Abstract. Algorithms for probabilistic inference in Bayesian networks are known to have running times that are worst-case exponential in the size of the network. For networks with ...
Johan Kwisthout, Hans L. Bodlaender, Linda C. van ...
clustering of documents according to sharing of topics at multiple levels of abstraction. Given a corpus of documents, a posterior inference algorithm finds an approximation to a ...
David M. Blei, Thomas L. Griffiths, Michael I. Jor...
We present an analysis of concentration-of-expectation phenomena in layered Bayesian networks that use generalized linear models as the local conditional probabilities. This frame...