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NIPS
2008
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Using Bayesian Dynamical Systems for Motion Template Libraries
Motor primitives or motion templates have become an important concept for both modeling human motor control as well as generating robot behaviors using imitation learning. Recent ...
Silvia Chiappa, Jens Kober, Jan Peters
NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Improved Moves for Truncated Convex Models
We consider the problem of obtaining the approximate maximum a posteriori estimate of a discrete random field characterized by pairwise potentials that form a truncated convex mod...
M. Pawan Kumar, Philip H. S. Torr
SDM
2008
SIAM
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A Stagewise Least Square Loss Function for Classification
This paper presents a stagewise least square (SLS) loss function for classification. It uses a least square form within each stage to approximate a bounded monotonic nonconvex los...
Shuang-Hong Yang, Bao-Gang Hu
NETWORKING
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Construction of a Proxy-Based Overlay Skeleton Tree for Large-Scale Real-Time Group Communications
Abstract. We consider the problem of constructing a proxy-based overlay skeleton tree (POST) in the backbone service domain of a two-tier overlay multicast infrastructure. Spanning...
Jun Guo, Sanjay Jha
UAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Church: a language for generative models
Formal languages for probabilistic modeling enable re-use, modularity, and descriptive clarity, and can foster generic inference techniques. We introduce Church, a universal langu...
Noah Goodman, Vikash K. Mansinghka, Daniel M. Roy,...