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COLT
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Convergence of Discrete MDL for Sequential Prediction
We study the properties of the Minimum Description Length principle for sequence prediction, considering a two-part MDL estimator which is chosen from a countable class of models....
Jan Poland, Marcus Hutter
KDD
2009
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
CoCo: coding cost for parameter-free outlier detection
How can we automatically spot all outstanding observations in a data set? This question arises in a large variety of applications, e.g. in economy, biology and medicine. Existing ...
Christian Böhm, Katrin Haegler, Nikola S. M&u...
PKDD
2010
Springer
177views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
ITCH: Information-Theoretic Cluster Hierarchies
Hierarchical clustering methods are widely used in various scientific domains such as molecular biology, medicine, economy, etc. Despite the maturity of the research field of hie...
Christian Böhm, Frank Fiedler, Annahita Oswal...
DIS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Fast NML Computation for Naive Bayes Models
Abstract. The Minimum Description Length (MDL) is an informationtheoretic principle that can be used for model selection and other statistical inference tasks. One way to implement...
Tommi Mononen, Petri Myllymäki
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 1 days ago
Face Detection Based on Generic Local Descriptors and Spatial Constraints
In this paper we present an algorithm for face detection that is based on generic local descriptors (e.g. eyes). A generic descriptor captures the distribution of individual descr...
Veronika Vogelhuber, Cordelia Schmid