NIPS*1998
Online Papers


Title Pages

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Evidence for a Forward Dynamics Model in Human Adaptive Motor Control,
Nikhil Bhushan and Reza Shadmehr
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Perceiving without Learning: From Spirals to Inside/Outside Relations,
Ke Chen and DeLiang L. Wang
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A Model for Associative Multiplication,
G. Bjorn Christianson and Suzanna Becker
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Facial Memory Is Kernel Density Estimation (Almost),
Matthew N. Dailey, Garrison W. Cottrell and Thomas A. Busey
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Multiple Paired Forward-Inverse Models for Human Motor Learning and Control,
Masahiko Haruno, Daniel M. Wolpert and Mitsuo Kawato
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Utilizing lime: Asynchronous Binding,
Bradley C. Love
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Mechanisms of Generalization in Perceptual Learning,
Zili Liu and Daphna Weinshall
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A Principle for Unsupervised Hierarchical Decomposition of Visual Scenes,
Michael C. Mozer
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Bayesian Modeling of Human Concept Learning,
Joshua B. Tenenbaum
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Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Learning, Spike liming and Neural Response Variability,
L. F. Abbott and Sen Song
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Contrast Adaptation in Simple Cells by Changing the Transmitter Release Probability,
Peter Adorjan and Klaus Obermayer
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Where Does the Population Vector of Motor Cortical Cells Point during Reaching Movements?,
Pierre Baraduc, Emmanuel Guigon and Yves Burnod
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Recurrent Cortical Amplification Produces Complex Cell Responses,
Frances S. Chance, Sacha B. Nelson and L. F. Abbott
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Neuronal Regulation Implements Efficient Synaptic Pruning,
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson and Eytan Ruppin
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Divisive Normalization, Line Attractor Networks and Ideal Observers,
Sophie Deneve, Alexandre Pouget and Peter E. Latham
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Synergy and Redundancy among Brain Cells of Behaving Monkeys,
Itay Gat and Naftali Tishby
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Analyzing and Visualizing Single-Trial Event-Related Potentials,
Tzyy-Ping Jung, Scott Makeig, Marissa Westerfield, Jeanne Townsend, Eric Courchesne and Terrence J. Sejnowski
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Spike-Based Compared to Rate-Based Hebbian Learning,
Richard Kempter, Wuifram Gerstner and J. Leo van Hemmen
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Signal Detection in Noisy Weakly-Active Dendrites,
Amit Manwani and Christof Koch
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The Role of Lateral Cortical Competition in Ocular Dominance Development,
Christian Piepenbrock and Klaus Obermayer
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Multi-Electrode Spike Sorting by Clustering Transfer Functions,
Dmitry Rinberg, Hanan Davidowitz and Naftali Tishby
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Modeling Surround Suppression in V1 Neurons with a Statistically Derived Normalization Model,
Eero P. Simoncelli and Odelia Schwartz
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Information Maximization in Single Neurons,
Martin Stemmler and Christof Koch
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The Effect of Correlations on the Fisher Information of Population Codes,
Hyoungsoo Yoon and Haim Sompolinsky
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Distributional Population Codes and Multiple Motion Models,
Richard S. Zemel and Peter Dayan
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Tractable Variational Structures for Approximating Graphical Models,
David Barber and Wim Wiegerinck
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Almost Linear VC Dimension Bounds for Piecewise Polynomial Networks,
Peter L. Bartlett, Vitaly Maiorov and Ron Meir
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Dynamics of Supervised Learning with Restricted Training Sets,
A. C. C. Coolen and David Saad
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Dynamically Adapting Kernels in Support Vector Machines,
Nello Cristianini, Cohn Campbell and John Shawe-Taylor
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Phase Diagram and Storage Capacity of Sequence-Storing Neural Networks,
A. During, A. C. C. Coolen and D. Sherrington
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Finite-Dimensional Approximation of Gaussian Processes,
Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate, Christopher K. I. Williams and Manfred Opper
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Linear Hinge Loss and Average Margin,
Claudio Gentile and Manfred K. Warmuth
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Unsupervised and Supervised Clustering: The Mutual Information between Parameters and Observations,
Didier Herschkowitz and Jean-Pierre Nadal
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Convergence of the Wake-Sleep Algorithm,
Shiro Ikeda, Shun-ichi Amari and Hiroyuki Nakahara
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The Belief in TAP,
Yoshiyuki Kabashima and David Saad
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Optimizing Classifers for Imbalanced Training Sets,
Grigoris Karakoulas and John Shawe-Taylor
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Inference in Multilayer Networks via Large Deviation Bounds,
Michael Kearns and Lawrence Saul
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Stationarity and Stability of Autoregressive Neural Network Processes,
Friedrich Leisch, Adrian Trapletti and Kurt Hornik
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Computational Differences between Asymmetrical and Symmetrical Networks,
Zhaoping Li and Peter Dayan
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A Precise Characterization of the Class of Languages Recognized by Neural Nets under Gaussian and Other Common Noise Distributions
Wolfgang Maass and Eduardo D. Sontag
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Direct Optimization of Margins Improves Generalization in Combined Classifiers,
Llew Mason, Peter L. Bartlett and Jonathan Baxter
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On the Optimality of Incremental Neural Network Algorithms,
Ron Meir and Vitaly Maiorov
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General Bounds on Bayes Errors for Regression with Gaussian Processes,
Manfred Upper and Francesco Vivarelli
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Mean Field Methods for Classification with Gaussian Processes,
Manfred Upper and Ole Winther
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On-Line Learning with Restricted Training Sets: Exact Solution as Benchmark for General Theories,
H. C. Rae, Peter Sollich and A. C. C. Coolen
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Tight Bounds for the VC-Dimension of Piecewise Polynomial Networks,
Akito Sakurai
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Shrinking the Tube: A New Support Vector Regression Algorithm,
Bernhard Scholkopf, Peter L. Bartlett, Alex J. Smola and Robert Williamson
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Discontinuous Recall Transitions Induced by Competition Between Short- and Long-Range Interactions in Recurrent Networks,
N. S. Skantzos, C. F. Beckmann and A. C. C. Coolen
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Learning Curves for Gaussian Processes,
Peter Sollich
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A Theory of Mean Field Approximation,
Toshiyuki Tanaka
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Learning a Hierarchical Belief Network of Independent Factor Analyzers,
Hagai Attias
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Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines,
Kristin Bennett and Ayhan Demiriz
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Lazy Learning Meets the Recursive Least Squares Algorithm,
Mauro Birattari, Gianluca Bontempi and Hugues Bersini
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Bayesian PCA,
Christopher M. Bishop
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Learning Multi-Class Dynamics,
Andrew Blake, Ben North and Michael Isard
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Approximate Learning of Dynamic Models,
Xavier Boyen and Daphne Koller
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Fisher Scoring and a Mixture of Modes Approach for Approximate Inference and Learning in Nonlinear State Space Models,
Thomas Briegel and Volker Tresp
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Global Optimisation of Neural Network Models via Sequential Sampling,
Joao F. G. de Freitas, Mahesan Niranjan, Arnaud Doucet and Andrew H. Gee
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Efficient Bayesian Parameter Estimation in Large Discrete Domains,
Nir Friedman and Yoram Singer
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A Randomized Algorithm for Pairwise Clustering,
Yoram Gdalyahu, Daphna Weinshall and Michael Werman
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Learning Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Using an EM Algorithm,
Zoubin Ghahramani and Sam T. Roweis
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Classification on Pairwise Proximity Data,
Thore Graepel, Ralf Herbrich, Peter Bollmann-Sdorra and Klaus Obermayer
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Outcomes of the Equivalence of Adaptive Ridge with Least Absolute Shrinkage,
Yves Grandvalet and Stephane Canu
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Visualizing Group Structure,
Marcus Held, Jan Puzicha and Joachim M. Buhmann
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Source Separation as a By-Product of Regularization,
Sepp Hochreiter and Jurgen Schmidhuber
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Learning from Dyadic Data,
Thomas Hofmann, Jan Puzicha and Michael I. Jordan
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Sparse Code Shrinkage: Denoising by Nonlinear Maximum Likelihood Estimation,
Aapo Hyvarinen, Patrik Hoyer and Erkki Oja
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Restructuring Sparse High Dimensional Data for Effective Retrieval,
Charles Lee Isbell, Jr. and Paul Viola
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Exploiting Generative Models in Discriminative Classifiers,
Tommi S. Jaakkola and David Haussler
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Maximum Conditional Likelihood via Bound Maximization and the CEM Algorithm,
Tony Jebara and Alex Pentland
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A Polygonal Line Algorithm for Constructing Principal Curves,
Balazs Kegl, Adam Krzyzak, Tamas Linder and Kenneth Zeger
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Unsupervised Classification with Non-Gaussian Mixture Models Using ICA,
Te-Won Lee, Michael S. Lewicki and Terrence J. Sejnowski
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Learning a Continuous Hidden Variable Model for Binary Data,
Daniel D. Lee and Haim Sompolinsky
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Neural Networks for Density Estimation,
Malik Magdon-Ismail and Amir Atiya
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Exploratory Data Analysis Using Radial Basis Function Latent Variable Models,
Alan D. Marrs and Andrew R. Webb
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Kernel PCA and De-Noising in Feature Spaces,
Sebastian Mika, Bernhard Scholkopf, Alex J. Smola, Klaus-Robert Muller, Matthias Scholz and Gunnar Ratsch
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Very Fast EM-Based Mixture Model Clustering Using Multiresolution Kd-Trees,
Andrew W. Moore
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Replicator Equations, Maximal Cliques, and Graph Isomorphism,
Marcello Pelillo
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Using Analytic QP and Sparseness to Speed Training of Support Vector Machines,
John C. Platt
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Regularizing AdaBoost, Gunnar Ratsch,
Takashi Onoda and Klaus-Robert Muller
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Boxlets: A Fast Convolution Algorithm for Signal Processing and Neural Networks,
Patrice Y. Simard, Leon Bottou, Patrick Haffner and Yann Le Cun
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Batch and On-Line Parameter Estimation of Gaussian Mixtures Based on the Joint Entropy,
Yoram Singer and Manfred K. Warmuth
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Semiparametric Support Vector and Linear Programming Machines,
Alex J. Smola, Thilo T. Frieß and Bernhard Scholkopf
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Probabilistic Visualisation of High-Dimensional Binary Data,
Michael E. Tipping
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SMEM Algorithm for Mixture Models,
Naonori Ueda, Ryohei Nakano, Zoubin Ghabramani and Geoffrey E. Hinton
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Learning Mixture Hierarchies,
Nuno Vasconcelos and Andrew Lippman
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Discovering Hidden Features with Gaussian Processes Regression,
Francesco Vivarelli and Christopher K. I. Williams
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The Bias-Variance Tradeoff and the Randomized GACV,
Grace Wahba, Xiwu Lin, Fangyu Gao, Dong Xiang, Ronald Klein and Barbara Klein
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Basis Selection for Wavelet Regression,
Kevin R. Wheeler and Atam P. Dhawan
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DTs: Dynamic Trees,
Christopher K. I. Williams and Nicholas J. Adams
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Convergence Rates of Algorithms for Visual Search: Detecting Visual Contours,
A. L. Yuille and James M. Coughlan
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Blind Separation of Filtered Sources Using State-Space Approach,
Liqing Zhang and Andrzej Cichocki
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Analog VLSI Cellular Implementation of the Boundary Contour System,
Gert Cauwenberghs and James Waskiewicz
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Active Noise Canceling Using Analog Neuro-Chip with On-Chip Learning Capability,
Jung-Wook Cho and Soo-Young Lee
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A Micropower CMOS Adaptive Amplitude and Shift Invariant Vector Quantiser,
Richard J. Coggins, Raymond J. W. Wang and Marwan A. Jabri
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Optimizing Correlation Algorithms for Hardware-Based Transient Classification,
R. Timothy Edwards, Gert Cauwenberghs and Fernando J. Pineda
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VLSI Implementation of Motion Centroid Localization for Autonomous Navigation,
Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Vilctor Gruev and Mohammed Abdel Ghani
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A Neuromorphic Monaural Sound Localizer,
John G. Harris, Chiang-Jung Pu and Jose C. Principe
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An Integrated Vision Sensor for the Computation of Optical Flow Singular Points,
Charles M. Higgins and Christof Koch
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Computation of Smooth Optical Flow in a Feedback Connected Analog Network,
Alan Stocker and Rodney Douglas
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A High Performance k-NN Classifier Using a Binary Correlation Matrix Memory,
Ping Zhou, Jim Austin and John Kennedy
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An Entropic Estimator for Structure Discovery,
Matthew Brand
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Coding Time-Varying Signals Using Sparse, Shift-Invariant Representations,
Michael S. Lewicki and Terrence J. Sejnowski
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Controlling the Complexity of HMM Systems by Regularization,
Christoph Neukirchen and Gerhard Rigoll
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Maximum-Likelihood Continuity Mapping (MALCOM): An Alternative to HMMs,
David A. Nix and John E. Hogden
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Markov Processes on Curves for Automatic Speech Recognition,
Lawrence Saul and Mazin Rahim
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A Phase Space Approach to Minimax Entropy Learning and the Minutemax Approximations,
James M. Coughlan and A. L. Yuille
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Example-Based Image Synthesis of Articulated Figures,
Trevor Darrell
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Learning to Estimate Scenes from Images,
William T. Freeman and Egon C. Pasztor
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Learning to Find Pictures of People,
Sergey loffe and David Forsyth
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Attentional Modulation of Human Pattern Discrimination Psychophysics Reproduced by a Quantitative Model,
Laurent Itti, Jochen Braun, Dale K. Lee and Christof Koch
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A V1 Model of Pop Out and Asymmetty in Visual Search,
Zhaoping Li
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Support Vector Machines Applied to Face Recognition,
P. Jonathon Phillips
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Learning Lie Groups for Invariant Visual Perception,
Rajesh P. N. Rao and Daniel L. Ruderman
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General-Purpose Localization of Textured Image Regions,
Ruth Rosenholtz
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Probabilistic Image Sensor Fusion,
Ravi K. Sharma, Todd K. Leen and Misha Pavel
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Orientation, Scale, and Discontinuity as Emergent Properties of Illusory Contour Shape,
Karvel K. Thornber and Lance R. Williams
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Classification in Non-Metric Spaces,
Daphna Weinshall, David W. Jacobs and Yoram Gdalyahu
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Making Templates Rotationally Invariant. An Application to Rotated Digit Recognition,
Shumeet Baluja
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Probabilistic Modeling for Face Orientation Discrimination: Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data,
Shumeet Baluja
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Adding Constrained Discontinuities to Gaussian Process Models of Wind Fields,
Dan Cornford, Ian T. Nabney and Christopher K. I. Williams
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Vertex Identification in High Energy Physics Experiments,
Gideon Dror, Halina Abramowicz and David Horn
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Familiarity Discrimination of Radar Pulses,
Eric Granger, Stephen Grossberg, Mark A. Rubin and William W. Streilein
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Fast Neural Network Emulation of Dynamical Systems for Computer Animation,
Radek Grzeszczuk, Demetri Terzopoulos and Geoffrey E. Hinton
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Call-Based Fraud Detection in Mobile Communication Networks Using a Hierarchical Regime-Switching Model,
Jaakko Hollmen and Volker Tresp
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Graph Matching for Shape Retrieval,
Benoit Huet, Andrew D. J. Cross and Edwin R. Hancock
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Scheduling Straight-Line Code Using Reinforcement Learning and Rollouts,
Amy McGovern and Eliot Moss
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Bayesian Modeling of Facial Similarity,
Baback Moghaddam, Tony Jebara and Alex Pentland
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Reinforcement Learning for Trading,
John Moody and Matthew Saffell
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Graphical Models for Recognizing Human Interactions,
Nuria M. Oliver, Barbara Rosario and Alex Pentland
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Independent Component Analysis of Intracellular Calcium Spike Data,
Klaus Prank, Julia Borger, Alexander von zur Muhlen, Georg Brabant and Christof Schofl
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Applications of Multi-Resolution Neural Networks to Mammography,
Clay D. Spence and Paul Sajda
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Robot Docking Using Mixtures of Gaussians,
Matthew M. Williamson, Roderick Murray-Smith and Volker Hansen
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Using Collective Intelligence to Route Internet Traffic,
David H. Wolpert, Kagan Turner and Jeremy Frank
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Robust, Efficient, Globally-Optimized Reinforcement Learning with the Parti-Game Algorithm,
Mohammad A. Al-Ansari and Ronald J. Williams
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Gradient Descent for General Reinforcement Learning,
Leemon Baird and Andrew W. Moore
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Non-Linear PI Control Inspired by Biological Control Systems,
Lyndon J. Brown, Gregory E. Gonye and James S. Schwaber
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Optimizing Admission Control while Ensuring Quality of Service in Multimedia Networks via Reinforcement Learning,
Timothy X. Brown, Hui Tong and Satinder Singh
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Viewing Classifier Systems as Model Free Learning in POMDPs,
Akira Hayashi and Nobuo Suematsu
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Finite-Sample Convergence Rates for Q-Learning and Indirect Algorithms,
Michael Kearns and Satinder Singh
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Exploring Unknown Environments with Real-Time Search or Reinforcement Learning,
Sven Koenig
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The Effect of Eligibility Traces on Finding Optimal Memoryless Policies in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes,
John Loch
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Learning Instance-Independent Value Functions to Enhance Local Search, Robert Moll, Andrew G. Barto,
Theodore J. Perkins and Richard S. Sutton
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Barycentric Interpolators for Continuous Space and Time Reinforcement Learning,
Remi Munos and Andrew W. Moore
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Risk Sensitive Reinforcement Learning,
Ralph Neuneier and Oliver Mihatsch
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Coordinate Transformation Learning of Hand Position Feedback Controller by Using Change of Position Error Norm,
Eimei Oyama and Susumu Tachi
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Learning Macro-Actions in Reinforcement Learning,
Jette Randlov
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Reinforcement Learning Based on On-Line EM Algorithm,
Masa-aki Sato and Shin Ishii
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A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm in Partially Observable Environments Using Short-Term Memory,
Nobuo Suematsu and Akira Hayashi
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Improved Switching among Temporally Abstract Actions,
Richard S. Sutton, Satinder Singh, Doina Precup and Balaraman Ravindran
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Experimental Results on Learning Stochastic Memoryless Policies for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes,
John K. Williams and Satinder Singh
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Index of Authors

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Keyword Index

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