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FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Faster Generation of Random Spanning Trees
In this paper, we set forth a new algorithm for generating approximately uniformly random spanning trees in undirected graphs. We show how to sample from a distribution that is wi...
Jonathan A. Kelner, Aleksander Madry
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Maximizing global entropy reduction for active learning in speech recognition
We propose a new active learning algorithm to address the problem of selecting a limited subset of utterances for transcribing from a large amount of unlabeled utterances so that ...
Balakrishnan Varadarajan, Dong Yu, Li Deng, Alex A...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Shrinkage estimation of high dimensional covariance matrices
We address covariance estimation under mean-squared loss in the Gaussian setting. Specifically, we consider shrinkage methods which are suitable for high dimensional problems wit...
Yilun Chen, Ami Wiesel, Alfred O. Hero
ICC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Laplace Transform-Based Method to Stochastic Path Finding
—Finding the most likely path satisfying a requested additive Quality-of-Service (QoS) value, such as delay, when link metrics are defined as random variables by known probabili...
Suleyman Uludag, Ziyneti Elif Uludag, Klara Nahrst...
ICDM
2009
IEEE
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Discriminative Mixed-Membership Models
Although mixed-membership models have achieved great success in unsupervised learning, they have not been widely applied to classification problems. In this paper, we propose a f...
Hanhuai Shan, Arindam Banerjee, Nikunj C. Oza