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NIPS
2001
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PAC Generalization Bounds for Co-training
The rule-based bootstrapping introduced by Yarowsky, and its cotraining variant by Blum and Mitchell, have met with considerable empirical success. Earlier work on the theory of c...
Sanjoy Dasgupta, Michael L. Littman, David A. McAl...
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
TAP Gibbs Free Energy, Belief Propagation and Sparsity
The adaptive TAP Gibbs free energy for a general densely connected probabilistic model with quadratic interactions and arbritary single site constraints is derived. We show how a ...
Lehel Csató, Manfred Opper, Ole Winther
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
Modeling Temporal Structure in Classical Conditioning
The Temporal Coding Hypothesis of Miller and colleagues [7] suggests that animals integrate related temporal patterns of stimuli into single memory representations. We formalize t...
Aaron C. Courville, David S. Touretzky
NIPS
2001
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The g Factor: Relating Distributions on Features to Distributions on Images
We describe the g-factor which relates probability distributions on image features to distributions on the images themselves. The g-factor depends only on our choice of features a...
James M. Coughlan, Alan L. Yuille
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
A Maximum-Likelihood Approach to Modeling Multisensory Enhancement
The deep layers of the superior colliculus (DSC) integrate multisensory input and initiate an orienting response toward the source of stimulation. Multisensory response enhancemen...
H. Colonius, A. Diederich
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
A Parallel Mixture of SVMs for Very Large Scale Problems
Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are currently the state-of-the-art models for many classication problems but they suer from the complexity of their training algorithm which is at l...
Ronan Collobert, Samy Bengio, Yoshua Bengio
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
Convolution Kernels for Natural Language
We describe the application of kernel methods to Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems. In many NLP tasks the objects being modeled are strings, trees, graphs or other discre...
Michael Collins, Nigel Duffy
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
Estimating Car Insurance Premia: a Case Study in High-Dimensional Data Inference
Estimating insurance premia from data is a difficult regression problem for several reasons: the large number of variables, many of which are discrete, and the very peculiar shape...
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, J...
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
Playing is believing: The role of beliefs in multi-agent learning
We propose a new classification for multi-agent learning algorithms, with each league of players characterized by both their possible strategies and possible beliefs. Using this c...
Yu-Han Chang, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
On the Generalization Ability of On-Line Learning Algorithms
In this paper, it is shown how to extract a hypothesis with small risk from the ensemble of hypotheses generated by an arbitrary on-line learning algorithm run on an independent an...
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Alex Conconi, Claudio ...