NIPS*1996
Online Papers


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Text-Based Information Retrieval Using Exponentiated Gradient Descent,
Ron Papka, James P. Callan and Andrew G. Barto
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Why did TD-Gammon Work?,
Jordan B. Pollack and Alan D. Blair
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Neural Models for Part-Whole Hierarchies,
Maximilian Riesenhuber and Peter Dayan
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Temporal Low-Order Statistics of Natural Sounds,
H. Attias and C. E. Schreiner
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Reconstructing Stimulus Velocity from Neuronal Responses in Area MT,
Wyeth Bair, James R. Cavanaugh and J. Anthony Movshon
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3D Object Recognition: A Model of View-Tuned Neurons,
Emanuela Bricolo, Tomaso Poggio and Nikos Logothetis
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A Hierarchical Model of Visual Rivalry,
Peter Dayan
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Neural Network Models of Chemotaxis in the Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans,
Thomas C. Ferree, Ben A. Marcotte and Shawn R. Lockery
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Extraction of Temporal Features in the Electrosensory System of Weakly Electric Fish,
Fabrizio Gabbiani, Walter Metzner, Ralf Wessel and Christof Koch
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A Neural Model of Visual Contour Integration,
Zhaoping Li
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Learning Exact Patterns of Quasi-synchronization among Spiking Neurons from Data on Multi-unit Recordings,
Laura Martignon, Kathryn Laskey, Gustavo Deco and Eilon Vaadia
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Complex-Cell Responses Derived from Center-Surround Inputs: The Surprising Power of Intradendritic Computation,
Bartlett W. Mel, Daniel L. Ruderman and Kevin A. Archie
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Orientation Contrast Sensitivity from Long-range Interactions in Visual Cortex,
Klaus R. Pawelzik, Udo Ernst, Fred Wolf and Theo Geisel
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Statistically Efficient Estimations Using Cortical Lateral Connections,
Alexandre Pouget and Kechen Zhang
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An Architectural Mechanism for Direction-tuned Cortical Simple Cells: The Role of Mutual Inhibition,
Silvio P. Sabatini, Fabio Solari and Giacomo M. Bisio
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Cholinergic Modulation Preserves Spike Timing Under Physiologically Realistic Fluctuating Input,
Akaysha C. Tang, Andreas M. Bartels and Terrence J. Sejnowski
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A Model of Recurrent Interactions in Primary Visual Cortex,
Emanuel Todorov, Athanassios Siapas and David Somers
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Neural Learning in Structured Parameter Spaces - Natural Riemannian Gradient,
Shun-ichi Amari
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For Valid Generalization, the Size of the Weights is More Important than the Size of the Network,
Peter L. Bartlett
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Dynamics of Training,
Siegfried Bos and Manfred Opper
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Multilayer Neural Networks: One or Two Hidden Layers?,
G. Brightwell, C. Kenyon and Helene Paugam-Moisy
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Support Vector Regression Machines,
Harris Drucker, Chris J.C. Burges, Linda Kaufman, Alex Smola and Vladimir Vapnik
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Size of Multilayer Networks for Exact Learning: Analytic Approach,
Andre Elisseeff and Helene Paugam-Moisy
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The Effect of Correlated Input Data on the Dynamics of Learning,
Soren Halkjaer and Ole Winther
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Practical Confidence and Prediction Intervals,
Tom Heskes
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Statistical Mechanics of the Mixture of Experts,
Kukjin Kang and Jong-Hoon Oh
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MLP Can Provably Generalize Much Better than VC-bounds Indicate,
A. Kowalczyk and H. Ferra
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Radial Basis Function Networks and Complexity Regularization in Function
Learning, Adam Krzyzak and Tamas Linder
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An Apobayesian Relative of Winnow,
Nick Littlestone and Chris Mesterharm
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Noisy Spiking Neurons with Temporal Coding have more Computational Power than Sigmoidal Neurons,
Wolfgang Maass
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On the Effect of Analog Noise in Discrete-Time Analog Computations,
Wolfgang Maass and Pekka Orponen
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A Mean Field Algorithm for Bayes Learning in Large Feed-forward Neural Networks,
Manfred Opper and Ole Winther
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Removing Noise in On-Line Search using Adaptive Batch Sizes,
Genevieve B. Orr
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Are Hopfield Networks Faster than Conventional Computers?,
Ian Parberry and Hung-Li Tseng
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Hebb Learning of Features based on their Information Content,
Ferdinand Peper and Hideki Noda
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The Generalisation Cost of RAMnets,
Richard Rohwer and Michal Morciniec
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Learning with Noise and Regularizers in Multilayer Neural Networks,
David Sand and Sara A. Solla
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A Variational Principle for Model-based Morphing,
Lawrence K. Saul and Michael I. Jordan
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Online Learning from Finite Training Sets: An Analytical Case Study,
Peter Sollich and David Barber
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Support Vector Method for Function Approximation, Regression Estimation, and Signal Processing,
Vladimir Vapnik, Steven E. Golowich and Alex Smola
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The Learning Dynamcis of a Universal Approximator,
Ansgar H. L. West, David Sand and Ian T. Nabney
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Computing with Infinite Networks,
Christopher K. I. Williams
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Microscopic Equations in Rough Energy Landscape for Neural Networks,
K. Y. Michael Wong
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Time Series Prediction using Mixtures of Experts,
Assaf J. Zeevi, Ron Meir and Robert J. Adler
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Genetic Algorithms and Explicit Search Statistics,
Shumeet Baluja
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Consistent Classification, Firm and Soft,
Yoram Baram
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Bayesian Model Comparison by Monte Carlo Chaining,
David Barber and Christopher M. Bishop
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Gaussian Processes for Bayesian Classification via Hybrid Monte Carlo,
David Barber and Christopher K. I. Williams
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Regression with Input-Dependent Noise: A Bayesian Treatment,
Christopher M. Bishop and Cazhaow S. Qazaz
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GTM: A Principled Alternative to the Self-Organizing Map,
Christopher M. Bishop, Markus Svensen and Christopher K. I. Williams
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The CONDENSATION Algorithm - Conditional Density Propagation and Applications to Visual Tracking,
A. Blake and M. Isard
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Clustering via Concave Minimization,
P. S. Bradley, O. L. Mangasarian and W. N. Street
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Improving the Accuracy and Speed of Support Vector Machines,
Chris J.C. Burges and B. Scholkopf
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Estimating Equivalent Kernels for Neural Networks: A Data Perturbation Approach,
A. Neil Burgess
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Promoting Poor Features to Supervisors: Some Inputs Work Better as Outputs,
Rich Caruana and Virginia R. de Sa
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Self-Organizing and Adaptive Algorithms for Generalized Eigen-Decomposition,
Chanchal Chatterjee and Vwani P. Roychowdhury
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Representation and Induction of Finite State Machines using Time-Delay Neural Networks,
Daniel S. Clouse, C. Lee Giles, Bill G. Home and Garrison W. Cottrell
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488 Solutions to the XOR Problem,
Frans M. Coetzee and Virginia L. Stonick
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Minimizing Statistical Bias with Queries,
David A. Cohn
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MIMIC: Finding Optima by Estimating Probability Densities,
Jeremy S. de Bonet, Charles L. Isbell, Jr. and Paul Viola
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On a Modification to the Mean Field EM Algorithm in Factorial Learning,
A. P. Dunmur and D. M. Titterington
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Softening Discrete Relaxation,
Andrew M. Finch, Richard C. Wilson and Edwin R. Hancock
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Limitations of Self-organizing Maps for Vector Quantization and Multidimensional Scaling,
Arthur Flexer
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Continuous Sigmoidal Belief Networks Trained using Slice Sampling,
Brendan J. Frey
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Adaptively Growing Hierarchical Mixtures of Experts,
Juergen Fritsch, Michael Finke and Alex Waibel
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Balancing Between Bagging and Bumping,
Tom Heskes
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LSTM can Solve Hard Long lime Lag Problems,
Sepp Hochreiter and Jurgen Schmidhuber
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One-unit Learning Rules for Independent Component Analysis,
Aapo Hyvarinen and Erkki Oja
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Recursive Algorithms for Approximating Probabilities in Graphical Models,
Tommi S. Jaakkola and Michael I. Jordan
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Combinations of Weak Classifiers,
Chuanyi Ji and Sheng Ma
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Hidden Markov Decision Trees,
Michael I. Jordan, Zoubin Ghahramani and Lawrence K. Saul
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Unification of Information Maximization and Minimization,
Ryotaro Kamimura
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Unsupervised Learning by Convex and Conic Coding,
D. D. Lee and H. S. Seung
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ARC-LH: A New Adaptive Resampling Algorithm for Improving ANN Classifiers,
Friedrich Leisch and Kurt Hornik
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Bayesian Unsupervised Learning of Higher Order Structure,
Michael S. Lewicki and Terrence J. Sejnowski
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Source Separation and Density Estimation by Faithful Equivariant SOM,
Juan K. Lin, Jack D. Cowan and David G. Grier
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NeuroScale: Novel Topographic Feature Extraction using RBF Networks,
David Lowe and Michael E. Tipping
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Ordered Classes and Incomplete Examples in Classification,
Mark Mathieson
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Triangulation by Continuous Embedding,
Marina Meila and Michael I. Jordan
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Combining Neural Network Regression Estimates with Regularized Linear
Weights, Christopher J. Merz and Michael J. Pazzani
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A Mixture of Experts Classifier with Learning Based on Both Labelled and Unlabelled Data,
David J. Miller and Hasan S. Uyar
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Learning Bayesian Belief Networks with Neural Network Estimators,
Stefano Monti and Gregory F. Cooper
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Smoothing Regularizers for Projective Basis Function Networks,
John E. Moody and Thorsteinn S. Rognvaldsson
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Competition Among Networks Improves Committee Performance,
Paul W. Munro and Bambang Parmanto
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Adaptive On-line Learning in Changing Environments,
Noboru Murata, Klaus-Robert Muller, Andreas Ziehe and Shun-ichi Amari
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Using Curvature Information for Fast Stochastic Search,
Genevieve B. Orr and Todd K. Leen
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Maximum Likelihood Blind Source Separation: A Context-Sensitive Generalization of ICA,
Barak A. Pearlmutter and Lucas C. Parra
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A Convergence Prooffor the Softassign Quadratic Assignment Algorithm,
Anand Rangarajan, Alan Yuille, Steven Gold and Eric Mjolsness
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Second-order Learning Algorithm with Squared Penalty Term,
Kazumi Saito and Ryohei Nakano
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Monotonicity Hints,
Joseph Sill and Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa
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Training Algorithms for Hidden Markov Models using Entropy Based Distance Functions,
Yoram Singer and Manfred K. Warmuth
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Clustering Sequences with Hidden Markov Models,
Padhraic Smyth
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Fast Network Pruning and Feature Extraction by using the Unit-OBS Algorithm,
Achim Stahiberger and Martin Riedmiller
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Separating Style and Content,
Joshua B. Tenenbaum and William T. Freeman
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Early Brain Damage,
Volker Tresp, Ralph Neuneier and Hans Georg Zimmermann
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Probabilistic Interpretation of Population Codes,
Richard S. Zemel, Peter Dayan and Alexandre Pouget
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VLSI Implementation of Cortical Visual Motion Detection Using an Analog Neural Computer, Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Jan van der Spiegel,
Naomi Takahashi, Alyssa Apsel and Paul Mueller
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A Spike Based Learning Neuron in Analog VLSI,
Philipp Hafliger, Misha Mahowald and Lloyd Watts
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An Analog Implementation of the Constant Average Statistics Constraint For Sensor Calibration,
John G. Harris and Yu-Ming Chiang
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Analog VLSI Circuits for Attention-Based, Visual Tracking,
Timothy Horiuchi, Tonia G. Morris, Christof Koch and Stephen P. DeWeerth
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Dynamically Adaptable CMOS Winner-Take-All Neural Network,
Kunihiko Iizuka, Masayuki Miyamoto and Hirofumi Matsui
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An Adaptive WTA using Floating Gate Technology,
W. Fritz Kruger, Paul Hasler, Bradley A. Minch and Christof Koch
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A Micropower Analog VLSI HMM State Decoder for Wordspotting,
John Lazzaro, John Wawrzynek and Richard Lippmann
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Bangs, Clicks, Snaps, Thuds and Whacks: An Architecture for Acoustic Transient Processing,
Fernando J. Pineda, Gert Cauwenberghs and R. Timothy Edwards
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A Silicon Model of Amplitude Modulation Detection in the Auditory Brainstem,
Andre van Schaik, Eric Fragniere and Eric Vittoz
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Dynamic Features for Visual Speechreading: A Systematic Comparison,
Michael S. Gray, Javier R. Movellan and Terrence J. Sejnowski
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Blind Separation of Delayed and Convolved Sources,
Te-Won Lee, Anthony J. Bell and Russell H. Lambert
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A Constructive RBF Network for Writer Adaptation,
John C. Platt and Nada P. Matio
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A New Approach to Hybrid HMM/ANN Speech Recognition using Mutual Information Neural Networks,
G. Rigoll and C. Neukirchen
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Neural Network Modeling of Speech and Music Signals,
Alex Robel
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A Constructive Learning Algorithm for Discriminant Tangent Models,
Diego Sona, Alessandro Sperduti and Antonina Starita
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Dual Kalman Filtering Methods for Nonlinear Prediction, Smoothing and Estimation,
Eric A. Wan and Alex T. Nelson
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Ensemble Methods for Phoneme Classification,
Steve Waterhouse and Gary Cook
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Effective Training of a Neural Network Character Classifier for Word Recognition,
Larry Yaeger, Richard Lyon and Brandyn Webb
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Viewpoint Invariant Face Recognition using Independent Component Analysis and Attractor Networks,
Marian Stewart Bartlett and Terrence J. Sejnowski
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Learning Temporally Persistent Hierarchical Representations,
Suzanna Becker
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Edges are the
Anthony J. Bell and Terrence J. Sejnowski
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Compositionality, MDL Priors, and Object Recognition,
Elie Bienenstock, Stuart Geman and Daniel Potter
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Learning Appearance Based Models: Mixtures of Second Moment Experts,
Christoph Bregler and Jitendra Malik
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Spatial Decorrelation in Orientation Tuned Cortical Cells,
Alexander Dimitrov and Jack D. Cowan
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Spatiotemporal Coupling and Scaling of Natural Images and Human Visual Sensitivities,
Dawei W. Dong
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Selective Integration: A Model for Disparity Estimation,
Michael S. Gray, Alexandre Pouget, Richard S. Zemel, Steven J. Nowlan and Terrence J. Sejnowski
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ARTEX: A Self-organizing Architecture for Classifying Image Regions,
Stephen Grossberg and James R. Williamson
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Contour Organisation with the EM Algorithm
J. A. F Leite and Edwin R. Hancock
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Visual Cortex Circuitry and Orientation Tuning,
Trevor Mundel, Alexander Dimitrov and Jack D. Cowan
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Representing Face Images for Emotion Classification,
Curtis Padgett and Garrison W. Cottrell
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Rapid Visual Processing using Spike Asynchrony,
Simon J. Thorpe and Jacques Gautrais
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Interpreting Images by Propagating Bayesian Beliefs,
Yair Weiss
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Salient Contour Extraction by Temporal Binding in a Cortically-based Network,
Shih-Cheng Yen and Leif H. Finkel
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An Orientation Selective Neural Network for Pattern Identification in Particle Detectors,
Halina Abramowicz, David Horn, Ury Naftaly and Carmit Sahar-Pikielny
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Adaptive Access Control Applied to Ethernet Data,
Timothy X. Brown
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Predicting Lifetimes in Dynamically Allocated Memory,
David A. Cohn and Satinder Singh
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Multi-Task Learning for Stock Selection,
Joumana Ghosn and Yoshua Bengio
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The Neurothermostat: Predictive Optimal Control of Residential Heating Systems,
Michael C. Mozer, Lucky Vidmar and Robert H. Dodier
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Sequential Tracking in Pricing Financial Options using Model Based and Neural Network Approaches,
Mahesan Niranjan
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A Comparison between Neural Networks and other Statistical Techniques for Modeling the Relationship between Tobacco andAlcohol and Cancer,
Tony Plate, Pierre Band, Joel Bert and John Grace
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Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Channel Allocation in Cellular Telephone Systems,
Satinder Singh and Dimitri Bertsekas
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Spectroscopic Detection of Cervical Pre-Cancer through Radial Basis Function Networks,
Kagan Turner, Nirmala Ramanujam, Rebecca Richards-Korturn and Joydeep Ghosh
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Interpolating Earth-science Data using RBF Networks and Mixtures of Experts,
Ernest Wan and Don Bone
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Multi-effect Decompositions for Financial Data Modeling,
Lizhong Wu and John E. Moody
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Multidimensional Triangulation and Interpolation for Reinforcement Learning,
Scott Davies
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Efficient Nonlinear Control with Actor-Tutor Architecture,
Kenji Doya
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Local Bandit Approximation for Optimal Learning Problems,
Michael O. Duff and Andrew G. Barto
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Reinforcement Learning for Mixed Open-loop and Closed-loop Control,
Eric A. Hansen, Andrew G. Barto and Shiomo Zilberstein
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Multi-Grid Methods for Reinforcement Learning in Controlled Diffusion
Processes, Stephan Pareigis
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Learning from Demonstration,
Stefan Schaal
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Exploiting Model Uncertainty Estimates for Safe Dynamic Control Learning,
Jeff G. Schneider
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Analytical Mean Squared Error Curves in Temporal Difference Learning,
Satinder Singh and Peter Dayan
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Learning Decision Theoretic Utilities through Reinforcement Learning,
Magnus Stensmo and Terrence J. Sejnowski
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On-line Policy Improvement using Monte-Carlo Search,
Gerald Tesauro and Gregory R. Galperin
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Analysis of Temporal-Difference Learning with Function Approximation,
John N. Tsitsiklis and Benjamin Van Roy
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Approximate Solutions to Optimal Stopping Problems,
John N. Tsitsiklis and Benjamin Van Roy
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Index of Authors

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Keyword Index

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