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UAI
2004
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On Modeling Profiles Instead of Values
We consider the problem of estimating the distribution underlying an observed sample of data. Instead of maximum likelihood, which maximizes the probability of the observed values...
Alon Orlitsky, Narayana P. Santhanam, Krishnamurth...
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
MOB-ESP and other Improvements in Probability Estimation
A key prerequisite to optimal reasoning under uncertainty in intelligent systems is to start with good class probability estimates. This paper improves on the current best probabi...
Rodney Nielsen
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
PAC-learning Bounded Tree-width Graphical Models
We show that the class of strongly connected graphical models with treewidth at most k can be properly efficiently PAC-learnt with respect to the Kullback-Leibler Divergence. Prev...
Mukund Narasimhan, Jeff A. Bilmes
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
"Ideal Parent" Structure Learning for Continuous Variable Networks
In recent years, there is a growing interest in learning Bayesian networks with continuous variables. Learning the structure of such networks is a computationally expensive proced...
Iftach Nachman, Gal Elidan, Nir Friedman
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Bayesian Learning in Undirected Graphical Models: Approximate MCMC Algorithms
Bayesian learning in undirected graphical models--computing posterior distributions over parameters and predictive quantities-is exceptionally difficult. We conjecture that for ge...
Iain Murray, Zoubin Ghahramani
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Convolutional Factor Graphs as Probabilistic Models
Based on a recent development in the area of error control coding, we introduce the notion of convolutional factor graphs (CFGs) as a new class of probabilistic graphical models. ...
Yongyi Mao, Frank R. Kschischang, Brendan J. Frey
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
An Empirical Evaluation of Possible Variations of Lazy Propagation
As real-world Bayesian networks continue to grow larger and more complex, it is important to investigate the possibilities for improving the performance of existing algorithms of ...
Andres Madsen
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
An Extended Cencov-Campbell Characterization of Conditional Information Geometry
We formulate and prove an axiomatic characterization of conditional information geometry, for both the normalized and the nonnormalized cases. This characterization extends the ax...
Guy Lebanon
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Pre-Selection of Independent Binary Features: An Application to Diagnosing Scrapie in
Suppose that the only available information in a multi-class problem are expert estimates of the conditional probabilities of occurrence for a set of binary features. The aim is t...
Ludmila I. Kuncheva, Christopher J. Whitaker, Pete...