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NIPS
2007
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Measuring Neural Synchrony by Message Passing
A novel approach to measure the interdependence of two time series is proposed, referred to as “stochastic event synchrony” (SES); it quantifies the alignment of two point pr...
Justin Dauwels, François B. Vialatte, Tomas...
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Convex Clustering with Exemplar-Based Models
Clustering is often formulated as the maximum likelihood estimation of a mixture model that explains the data. The EM algorithm widely used to solve the resulting optimization pro...
Danial Lashkari, Polina Golland
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Boosting the Area under the ROC Curve
We show that any weak ranker that can achieve an area under the ROC curve slightly better than 1/2 (which can be achieved by random guessing) can be effi
Philip M. Long, Rocco A. Servedio
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
The discriminant center-surround hypothesis for bottom-up saliency
The classical hypothesis, that bottom-up saliency is a center-surround process, is combined with a more recent hypothesis that all saliency decisions are optimal in a decision-the...
Dashan Gao, Vijay Mahadevan, Nuno Vasconcelos
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Learning with Tree-Averaged Densities and Distributions
We utilize the ensemble of trees framework, a tractable mixture over superexponential number of tree-structured distributions [1], to develop a new model for multivariate density ...
Sergey Kirshner
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Continuous Time Particle Filtering for fMRI
We construct a biologically motivated stochastic differential model of the neural and hemodynamic activity underlying the observed Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) signal in Fu...
Lawrence Murray, Amos J. Storkey
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Augmented Functional Time Series Representation and Forecasting with Gaussian Processes
We introduce a functional representation of time series which allows forecasts to be performed over an unspecified horizon with progressively-revealed information sets. By virtue...
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Cluster Stability for Finite Samples
Over the past few years, the notion of stability in data clustering has received growing attention as a cluster validation criterion in a sample-based framework. However, recent w...
Ohad Shamir, Naftali Tishby
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier C...
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Bayesian Inference for Spiking Neuron Models with a Sparsity Prior
Generalized linear models are the most commonly used tools to describe the stimulus selectivity of sensory neurons. Here we present a Bayesian treatment of such models. Using the ...
Sebastian Gerwinn, Jakob Macke, Matthias Seeger, M...