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CVPR
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
Top-down visual saliency via joint CRF and dictionary learning
Top-down visual saliency facilities object localization by providing a discriminative representation of target objects and a probability map for reducing the search space. In this...
Jimei Yang, Ming-Hsuan Yang
ICDE
2012
IEEE
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Optimizing Statistical Information Extraction Programs over Evolving Text
—Statistical information extraction (IE) programs are increasingly used to build real-world IE systems such as Alibaba, CiteSeer, Kylin, and YAGO. Current statistical IE approach...
Fei Chen, Xixuan Feng, Christopher Re, Min Wang
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Parallelizing a Convergent Approximate Inference Method
Probabilistic inference in graphical models is a prevalent task in statistics and artificial intelligence. The ability to perform this inference task efficiently is critical in l...
Ming Su, Elizabeth Thompson
ACL
2011
13 years 4 months ago
Semi-supervised latent variable models for sentence-level sentiment analysis
We derive two variants of a semi-supervised model for fine-grained sentiment analysis. Both models leverage abundant natural supervision in the form of review ratings, as well as...
Oscar Täckström, Ryan T. McDonald
DAGM
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Empirical Comparison of Inference Algorithms for Graphical Models with Higher Order Factors Using OpenGM
Abstract. Graphical models with higher order factors are an important tool for pattern recognition that has recently attracted considerable attention. Inference based on such model...
Björn Andres, Jörg H. Kappes, Ullrich K&...
UAI
1996
14 years 1 months ago
Efficient Search-Based Inference for noisy-OR Belief Networks: TopEpsilon
Inference algorithms for arbitrary belief networks are impractical for large, complex belief networks. Inference algorithms for specialized classes of belief networks have been sh...
Kurt Huang, Max Henrion
UAI
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Probabilistic State-Dependent Grammars for Plan Recognition
Techniques for plan recognition under uncertainty require a stochastic model of the plangeneration process. We introduce probabilistic state-dependent grammars (PSDGs) to represen...
David V. Pynadath, Michael P. Wellman
UAI
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Efficient Inference in Persistent Dynamic Bayesian Networks
Numerous temporal inference tasks such as fault monitoring and anomaly detection exhibit a persistence property: for example, if something breaks, it stays broken until an interve...
Tomás Singliar, Denver Dash
DAGM
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
MAP-Inference for Highly-Connected Graphs with DC-Programming
The design of inference algorithms for discrete-valued Markov Random Fields constitutes an ongoing research topic in computer vision. Large state-spaces, none-submodular energy-fun...
Jörg H. Kappes, Christoph Schnörr
CISS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Network tomography based on additive metrics
Inference of the network structure (e.g., routing topology) and dynamics (e.g., traffic matrices, link performance) is an important component in many network design and management ...
Jian Ni, Sekhar Tatikonda