Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
AI has many techniques and tools at its disposal, yet seems to be lacking some special "juice" needed to create a true being. We propose that the missing ingredients are ...
This paper describes a model of the emergence and the universal structural tendencies of vowel systems. Both are considered as the result of self-organisation in a population of l...
Several protocol efficiency metrics (e.g., scalability, search success rate, routing reachability and stability) depend on the capability of preserving structure even over the ch...
We extend stochastic context-free grammars such that the probability of applying a production can depend on the length of the subword that is generated from the application and sho...