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Inferring Elapsed Time from Stochastic Neural Processes
Misha Ahrens, Maneesh Sahani
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Fitted Q-iteration in continuous action-space MDPs
András Antos, Remi Munos, Csaba Szepesvari
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Variational Inference for Diffusion Processes
Cédric Archambeau, Manfred Opper, Yuan Shen, Dan Cornford, John Shawe-Taylor
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A Spectral Regularization Framework for Multi-Task Structure Learning
Andreas Argyriou, Charles A. Micchelli, Massimiliano Pontil, Yiming Ying
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Random Sampling of States in Dynamic Programming
Chris Atkeson, Benjamin Stephens
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Progressive mixture rules are deviation suboptimal
Jean-Yves Audibert
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DIFFRAC: a discriminative and flexible framework for clustering
Francis Bach, Zaid Harchaoui
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Optimal ROC Curve for a Combination of Classifiers
Marco Barreno, Alvaro Cardenas, J. D. Tygar
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Adaptive Online Gradient Descent
Peter Bartlett, Elad Hazan, Alexander Rakhlin
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One-Pass Boosting
Zafer Barutcuoglu, Phil Long, Rocco Servedio
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Comparing Bayesian models for multisensory cue combination without mandatory integration
Ulrik Beierholm, Konrad Kording, Ladan Shams, Wei Ji Ma
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On Sparsity and Overcompleteness in Image Models
Pietro Berkes, Richard Turner, Maneesh Sahani
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Near-Maximum Entropy Models for Binary Neural Representations of Natural Images
Matthias Bethge, Philipp Berens
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Incremental Natural Actor-Critic Algorithms
Shalabh Bhatnagar, Richard Sutton, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Mark Lee
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Invariant Common Spatial Patterns: Alleviating Nonstationarities in Brain-Computer Interfacing
Benjamin Blankertz, Motoaki Kawanabe, Ryota Tomioka, Friederike Hohlefeld, Vadim Nikulin, Klaus-Robert Müller
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Supervised Topic Models
David Blei, Jon McAuliffe
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Learning Bounds for Domain Adaptation
John Blitzer, Koby Crammer, Alex Kulesza, Fernando Pereira, Jennifer Wortman
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Feature Selection Methods for Improving Protein Structure Prediction with Rosetta
Ben Blum, Michael Jordan, David Kim, Rhiju Das, Philip Bradley, David Baker
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Multi-task Gaussian Process Prediction
Edwin Bonilla, Kian Ming Chai, Chris Williams
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The Tradeoffs of Large Scale Learning
Leon Bottou, Olivier Bousquet
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A Probabilistic Approach to Language Change
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Percy Liang, Thomas Griffiths, Dan Klein
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Unsupervised Feature Selection for Accurate Recommendation of High-Dimensional Image Data
Sabri Boutemedjet, Djemel Ziou, Nizar Bouguila
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FilterBoost: Regression and Classification on Large Datasets
Joseph K Bradley, Robert Schapire
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Simplified Rules and Theoretical Analysis for Information Bottleneck Optimization and PCA with Spiking Neurons
Lars Buesing, Wolfgang Maass
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The Distribution Family of Similarity Distances
Gertjan Burghouts, Arnold Smeulders, Jan-Mark Geusebroek
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Discriminative Keyword Selection Using Support Vector Machines
William Campbell, Fred Richardson
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Evaluating Search Engines by Modeling the Relationship Between Relevance and Clicks
Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones
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Subspace-Based Face Recognition in Analog VLSI
Gonzalo Carvajal, Waldo Valenzuela, Miguel Figueroa
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A learning framework for nearest neighbor search
Lawrence Cayton, Sanjoy Dasgupta
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Predicting human gaze using low-level saliency combined with face detection
Moran Cerf, Jonathan Harel, Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Christof Koch
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Adaptive Embedded Subgraph Algorithms using Walk-Sum Analysis
Venkat Chandrasekaran, Jason Johnson, Alan Willsky
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Parallelizing Support Vector Machines on Distributed Computers
Edward Chang, Kaihua Zhu, Hao Wang, Hongjie Bai, Jian Li, Zhihuan Qiu, Hang Cui
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Augmented Functional Time Series Representation and Forecasting with Gaussian Processes
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio
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Efficient Principled Learning of Thin Junction Trees
Anton Chechetka, Carlos Guestrin
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Regularized Boost for Semi-Supervised Learning
Ke Chen, Shihai Wang
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Rapid Inference on a Novel AND/OR graph for Object Detection, Segmentation and Parsing
Yuanhao Chen, Long Zhu, Chenxi Lin, Alan Yuille, Hongjiang Zhang
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Cooled and Relaxed Survey Propagation for MRFs
Hai Leong Chieu, Wee Sun Lee, Yee Whye Teh
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How SVMs can estimate quantiles and the median
Andreas CHRISTMANN, Ingo Steinwart
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Second Order Bilinear Discriminant Analysis for single trial EEG analysis
Christoforos Christoforou, Paul Sajda, Lucas C. Parra
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An online Hebbian learning rule that performs Independent Component Analysis
Claudia Clopath, André Longtin, Wulfram Gerstner
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Inferring Neural Firing Rates from Spike Trains Using Gaussian Processes
John Cunningham, Byron Yu, Krishna Shenoy, Maneesh Sahani
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TrueSkill Through Time: Revisiting the History of Chess
Pierre Dangauthier, Ralf Herbrich, Tom Minka, Thore Graepel
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The Price of Bandit Information for Online Optimization
Varsha Dani, Thomas Hayes, Sham Kakade
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A general agnostic active learning algorithm
Sanjoy Dasgupta, Daniel Hsu, Claire Monteleoni
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Measuring Neural Synchrony by Message Passing
Justin Dauwels, François Vialatte, Tomasz Rutkowski, Andrzej Cichocki
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The rat as particle filter
Nathaniel Daw, Aaron Courville
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Efficient multiple hyperparameter learning for log-linear models
Chuong Do, Chuan-Sheng Foo, Andrew Ng
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Automatic Generation of Social Tags for Music Recommendation
Douglas Eck, Paul Lamere, Thierry Bertin-Mahieux, Stephen Green
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Bayesian binning beats approximate alternatives: estimating peri-stimulus time histograms
Dominik Endres, Mike Oram, Johannes Schindelin, Peter Foldiak
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A probabilistic model for generating realistic lip movements from speech
Gwenn Englebienne, Tim Cootes, Magnus Rattray
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Active Preference Learning with Discrete Choice Data
Brochu Eric, Nando De Freitas, Abhijeet Ghosh
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Catching Up Faster in Bayesian Model Selection and Model Averaging
Tim Van Erven, Peter Grunwald, Steven De Rooij
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Anytime Induction of Cost-sensitive Trees
Saher Esmeir, Shaul Markovitch
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Learning Visual Attributes
Vittorio Ferrari, Andrew Zisserman
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EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interaction: Improved Accuracy by Automatic Single-Trial Error Detection
Pierre Ferrez, José del R. Millán
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Optimal models of sound localization by barn owls
Brian Fischer
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A Bayesian Framework for Cross-Situational Word-Learning
Michael Frank, Noah Goodman, Joshua Tenenbaum
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Sequential Hypothesis Testing under Stochastic Deadlines
Peter Frazier, Angela Yu
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Learning the structure of manifolds using random projections
Yoav Freund, Sanjoy Dasgupta, Mayank Kabra, Nakul Verma
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Discovering Weakly-Interacting Factors in a Complex Stochastic Process
Charlie Frogner, Avi Pfeffer
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Kernel Measures of Conditional Dependence
Kenji Fukumizu, Arthur Gretton, Xiaohai Sun, Bernhard Schölkopf
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The discriminant center-surround hypothesis for bottom-up saliency
Dashan Gao, Vijay Mahadevan, Nuno Vasconcelos
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Learning Horizontal Connections in a Sparse Coding Model of Natural Images
Pierre Garrigues, Bruno Olshausen
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Iterative Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction with Manifold Sculpting
Michael Gashler, Dan Ventura, Tony Martinez
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On higher-order perceptron algorithms
Claudio Gentile, Fabio Vitale, Cristian Brotto
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Bayesian Inference for Spiking Neuron Models with a Sparsity Prior
Sebastian Gerwinn, Jakob Macke, Matthias Seeger, Matthias Bethge
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Predicting Brain States from fMRI Data: Incremental Functional Principal Component Regression
Sennay Ghebreab, Arnold Smeulders, Pieter Adriaans
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A configurable analog VLSI neural network with spiking neurons and self-regulating plastic synapses
Massimiliano Giulioni, Mario Pannunzi, Davide Badoni, Vittorio Dante, Paolo Del giudice
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Fixing Max-Product: Convergent Message Passing Algorithms for MAP LP-Relaxations
Amir Globerson, Tommi Jaakkola
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Competition Adds Complexity
Judy Goldsmith, Martin Mundhenk
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Expectation Maximization and Posterior Constraints
Joao Graca, Kuzman Ganchev, Ben Taskar
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Unconstrained On-line Handwriting Recognition with Recurrent Neural Networks
Alex Graves, Santiago Fernandez, Marcus Liwicki, Horst Bunke, Juergen Schmidhuber
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A Kernel Statistical Test of Independence
Arthur Gretton, Kenji Fukumizu, Choon Hui Teo, Le Song, Bernhard Schölkopf, Alex Smola
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Discriminative Batch Mode Active Learning
Yuhong Guo, Dale Schuurmans
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Convex Relaxations of Latent Variable Training
Yuhong Guo, Dale Schuurmans
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Testing for Homogeneity with Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis
Zaid Harchaoui, Francis Bach, Moulines Eric
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Catching Change-points with Lasso
Zaid Harchaoui, Céline LEVY-LEDUC
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Computational Equivalence of Fixed Points and No Regret Algorithms, and Convergence to Equilibria
Elad Hazan, Satyen Kale
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Nearest-Neighbor-Based Active Learning for Rare Category Detection
Jingrui He, Jaime Carbonell
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Random Projections for Manifold Learning
Chinmay Hegde, Michael Wakin, Richard Baraniuk
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Regulator Discovery from Gene Expression Time Series of Malaria Parasites: a Hierachical Approach
José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Tjeerd Dijkstra, Tom Heskes
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Modeling homophily and stochastic equivalence in symmetric relational data
Peter Hoff
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Bayesian Policy Learning with Trans-Dimensional MCMC
Matthew Hoffman, Arnaud Doucet, Nando De Freitas, Ajay Jasra
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Ultrafast Monte Carlo for Statistical Summations
Michael Holmes, Alexander Gray, Charles Isbell
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Learning Monotonic Transformations for Classification
Andrew Howard, Tony Jebara
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What makes some POMDP problems easy to approximate?
David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee, Nan Rong
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Efficient Inference for Distributions on Permutations
Jonathan Huang, Carlos Guestrin, Leonidas Guibas
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Temporal Difference Updating without a Learning Rate
Marcus Hutter, Shane Legg
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Density Estimation under Independent Similarly Distributed Sampling Assumptions
Tony Jebara, Yingbo Song, Kapil Thadani
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Computing Robust Counter-Strategies
Michael Johanson, Martin Zinkevich, Michael Bowling
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Local Algorithms for Approximate Inference in Minor-Excluded Graphs
Kyomin Jung, Devavrat Shah
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Multi-Task Learning via Conic Programming
Tsuyoshi Kato, Hisashi Kashima, Masashi Sugiyama, Kiyoshi Asai
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Privacy-Preserving Belief Propagation and Sampling
Michael Kearns, Jinsong Tan, Jennifer Wortman
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Learning and using relational theories
Charles Kemp, Noah Goodman, Joshua Tenenbaum
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Learning with Tree-Averaged Densities and Distributions
Sergey Kirshner
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Hierarchical Apprenticeship Learning with Application to Quadruped Locomotion
J. Zico Kolter, Pieter Abbeel, Andrew Ng
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Selecting Observations against Adversarial Objectives
Andreas Krause, Brendan McMahan, Carlos Guestrin, Anupam Gupta
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Structured Learning with Approximate Inference
Alex Kulesza, Fernando Pereira
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A Randomized Algorithm for Large Scale Support Vector Learning
Krishnan Kumar, Chiru Bhattacharya, Ramesh Hariharan
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Statistical Analysis of Semi-Supervised Regression
John Lafferty, Larry Wasserman
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Extending position/phase-shift tuning to motion energy neurons improves velocity discrimination
Yiu Man Lam, Bertram Shi
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The Epoch-Greedy Algorithm for Multi-armed Bandits with Side Information
John Langford, Tong Zhang
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Convex Clustering with Exemplar-Based Models
Danial Lashkari, Polina Golland
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Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Action Spaces through Sequential Monte Carlo Methods
Alessandro Lazaric, Marcello Restelli, Andrea Bonarini
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Non-parametric Modeling of Partially Ranked Data
Guy Lebanon, Yi Mao
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Simulated Annealing: Rigorous finite-time guarantees for optimization on continuous domains
Andrea Lecchini-Visintini, John Lygeros, Jan Maciejowski
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Sparse deep belief net model for visual area V2
Honglak Lee, Chaitanya Ekanadham, Andrew Ng
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Theoretical Analysis of Learning with Reward-Modulated Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity
Robert Legenstein, Dejan Pecevski, Wolfgang Maass
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Hippocampal Contributions to Control: The Third Way
Máté Lengyel, Peter Dayan
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A Unified Near-Optimal Estimator For Dimension Reduction in $l_alpha$ ($0<alphaleq 2$) Using Stable Random Projections
Ping Li, Trevor Hastie
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McRank: Learning to Rank Using Multiple Classification and Gradient Boosting
Ping Li, Christopher Burges, Qiang Wu
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Agreement-Based Learning
Percy Liang, Dan Klein, Michael Jordan
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Blind channel identification for speech dereverberation using l1-norm sparse learning
Yuanqing Lin, Jingdong Chen, Youngmoo Kim, Daniel Lee
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Mining Internet-Scale Software Repositories
Erik Linstead, Paul Rigor, Sushil Bajracharya, Cristina Lopes, Pierre Baldi
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Semi-Supervised Multitask Learning
Qiuhua Liu, Xuejun Liao, Lawrence Carin
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Boosting the Area under the ROC Curve
Phil Long, Rocco Servedio
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People Tracking with the Laplacian Eigenmaps Latent Variable Model
Zhengdong Lu, Miguel Carreira-Perpinan, Cristian Sminchisescu
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Support Vector Machine Classification with Indefinite Kernels
Ronny Luss, Alexandre DAspremont
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Consistent Minimization of Clustering Objective Functions
Ulrike Von Luxburg, Sebastien Bubeck, Stefanie Jegelka, Michael Kaufmann
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Receptive Fields without Spike-Triggering
Jakob Macke, Guenther Zeck, Matthias Bethge
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Fast and Scalable Training of Semi-Supervised CRFs with Application to Activity Recognition
Maryam Mahdaviani, Tanzeem Choudhury
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Transfer Learning using Kolmogorov Complexity: Basic Theory and Empirical Evaluations
M. M. Mahmud, Sylvian Ray
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Scan Strategies for Meteorological Radars
Victoria Manfredi, Jim Kurose
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A neural network implementing optimal state estimation based on dynamic spike train decoding
Omer Bobrowski , Ron Meir, Shy Shoham, Yonina Eldar
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Locality and low-dimensions in the prediction of natural experience from fMRI
Francois Meyer, Greg Stephens
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Learning to classify complex patterns using a VLSI network of spiking neurons
Srinjoy Mitra, Giacomo Indiveri, Stefano Fusi
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The Infinite Markov Model
Daichi Mochihashi, Eiichiro Sumita
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Stability Bounds for Non-i.i.d. Processes
Mehryar Mohri, Afshin Rostamizadeh
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Experience-Guided Search: A Theory of Attentional Control
Michael Mozer, David Baldwin
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An Analysis of Convex Relaxations for MAP Estimation
Pawan Mudigonda, Vladimir Kolmogorov, Philip Torr
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Continuous Time Particle Filtering for fMRI
Lawrence Murray, Amos Storkey
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Robust Regression with Twinned Gaussian Processes
Andrew Naish-Guzman, Sean Holden
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The Generalized FITC Approximation
Andrew Naish-Guzman, Sean Holden
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Contraction Properties of VLSI Cooperative Competitive Neural Networks of Spiking Neurons
Emre Neftci, Elisabetta Chicca, Giacomo Indiveri, Jean-Jeacques Slotine, Rodney Douglas
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Distributed Inference for Latent Dirichlet Allocation
David Newman, Arthur Asuncion, Padhraic Smyth, Max Welling
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Estimating divergence functionals and the likelihood ratio by penalized convex risk minimization
XuanLong Nguyen, Martin Wainwright, Michael Jordan
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Heterogeneous Component Analysis
Shigeyuki Oba, Motoaki Kawanabe, Klaus-Robert Müller, Shin Ishii
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Variational inference for Markov jump processes
Manfred Opper, Guido Sanguinetti
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CPR for CSPs: A Probabilistic Relaxation of Constraint Propagation
Luis E. Ortiz
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Modeling image patches with a directed hierarchy of Markov random fields
Simon Osindero, Geoffrey Hinton
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Kernels on Attributed Pointsets with Applications
Mehul Parsana, Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Chiru Bhattacharya, K. R. Ramakrishnan
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A Risk Minimization Principle for a Class of Parzen Estimators
Kristiaan Pelckmans, Johan Suykens, Bart De Moor
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Congruence between model and human attention reveals unique signatures of critical visual events
Robert Peters, Laurent Itti
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Discriminative Log-Linear Grammars with Latent Variables
Slav Petrov, Dan Klein
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Neural characterization in partially observed populations of spiking neurons
Jonathan Pillow, Peter Latham
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Fast Variational Inference for Large-scale Internet Diagnosis
John Platt, Emre Kiciman, David Maltz
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Random Features for Large-Scale Kernel Machines
Ali Rahimi, Benjamin Recht
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Sparse Feature Learning for Deep Belief Networks
MarcAurelio Ranzato, Y-Lan Boureau, Yann LeCun
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Retrieved context and the discovery of semantic structure
Vinayak Rao, Marc Howard
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SpAM: Sparse Additive Models
Pradeep Ravikumar, Han Liu, John Lafferty, Larry Wasserman
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On Ranking in Survival Analysis: Bounds on the Concordance Index
Vikas Raykar, Harald Steck, Balaji Krishnapuram, Cary Dehing-Oberije, Philippe Lambin
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GRIFT: A graphical model for inferring visual classification features from human data
Michael Ross, Andrew Cohen
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Bayes-Adaptive POMDPs
Stephane Ross, Brahim Chaib-draa, Joelle Pineau
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Theoretical Analysis of Heuristic Search Methods for Online POMDPs
Stephane Ross, Joelle Pineau, Brahim Chaib-draa
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Learning the 2-D Topology of Images
Nicolas Le Roux, Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Lamblin, Marc Joliveau, Balázs Kégl
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Topmoumoute Online Natural Gradient Algorithm
Nicolas Le Roux, Pierre-Antoine Manzagol, Yoshua Bengio
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Object Recognition by Scene Alignment
Bryan Russell, Antonio Torralba, Ce Liu, Rob Fergus, William Freeman
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Probabilistic Matrix Factorization
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Andriy Mnih
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Using Deep Belief Nets to Learn Covariance Kernels for Gaussian Processes
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Geoffrey Hinton
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo with People
Adam Sanborn, Thomas Griffiths
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Linear programming analysis of loopy belief propagation for weighted matching
Sujay Sanghavi, Dmitry Malioutov, Alan Willsky
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Message Passing for Max-weight Independent Set
Sujay Sanghavi, Devavrat Shah, Alan Willsky
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Multiple-Instance Active Learning
Burr Settles, Mark Craven, Soumya Ray
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Cluster Stability for Finite Samples
Ohad Shamir, Naftali Tishby
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Better than least squares: comparison of objective functions for estimating linear-nonlinear models
Tatyana Sharpee
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Sparse Overcomplete Latent Variable Decomposition of Counts Data
Madhusudana Shashanka, Bhiksha Raj, Paris Smaragdis
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Collective Inference on Markov Models for Modeling Bird Migration
Daniel Sheldon, M.A. Saleh Elmohamed, Dexter Kozen
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A Constraint Generation Approach to Learning Stable Linear Dynamical Systems
Sajid Siddiqi, Byron Boots, Geoffrey Gordon
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Combined discriminative and generative articulated pose and non-rigid shape estimation
Leonid Sigal, Alexandru Balan , Michael Black
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Hidden Common Cause Relations in Relational Learning
Ricardo Silva, Wei Chu, Zoubin Ghahramani
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Ensemble Clustering using Semidefinite Programming
Vikas Singh, Lopamudra Mukherjee, Jiming Peng, Jinhui Xu
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The Value of Labeled and Unlabeled Examples when the Model is Imperfect
Kaushik Sinha, Mikhail Belkin
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An Analysis of Inference with the Universum
Fabian Sinz, Olivier Chapelle, Alekh Agarwal, Bernhard Schölkopf
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Bundle Methods for Machine Learning
Alex Smola, S V N Vishwanathan, Quoc Le
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Colored Maximum Variance Unfolding
Le Song, Alex Smola, Karsten Borgwardt, Arthur Gretton
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New Outer Bounds on the Marginal Polytope
David Sontag, Tommi Jaakkola
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An in-silico Neural Model of Dynamic Routing through Neuronal Coherence
Devarajan Sridharan, Brian Percival, John Arthur, Kwabena Boahen
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A Bayesian Model of Conditioned Perception
Alan Stocker, Eero Simoncelli
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Online Linear Regression and Its Application to Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Alexander Strehl, Michael Littman
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Loop Series and Bethe Variational Bounds in Attractive Graphical Models
Erik Sudderth, Martin Wainwright, Alan Willsky
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Direct Importance Estimation with Model Selection and Its Application to Covariate Shift Adaptation
Masashi Sugiyama, Shinichi Nakajima, Hisashi Kashima, Paul Von Buenau, Motoaki Kawanabe
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Efficient Bayesian Inference for Dynamically Changing Graphs
Ozgur Sumer, Umut Acar, Alexander T. Ihler, Ramgopal R. Mettu
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A Game-Theoretic Approach to Apprenticeship Learning
Umar Syed, Robert Schapire
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Hierarchical Penalization
Marie Szafranski, Yves Grandvalet, Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux
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Receding Horizon Differential Dynamic Programming
Yuval Tassa, Tom Erez, William Smart
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Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with Coalescents
Yee Whye Teh, Hal Daume III, Daniel Roy
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Collapsed Variational Inference for HDP
Yee Whye Teh, Kenichi Kurihara, Max Welling
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Convex Learning with Invariances
Choon Hui Teo, Amir Globerson, Sam Roweis, Alex Smola
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Managing Power Consumption and Performance of Computing Systems Using Reinforcement Learning
Gerald Tesauro, Rajarshi Das, Hoi Chan, Jeffrey Kephart, David Levine, Freeman Rawson, Charles Lefurgy
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Optimistic Linear Programming gives Logarithmic Regret for Irreducible MDPs
Ambuj Tewari, Peter Bartlett
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The Infinite Gamma-Poisson Feature Model
Michalis Titsias
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A Bayesian LDA-based model for semi-supervised part-of-speech tagging
Kristina Toutanova, Mark Johnson
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Configuration Estimates Improve Pedestrian Finding
Duan Tran, David Forsyth
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Estimating disparity with confidence from energy neurons
Eric Kong-Chau Tsang, Bertram Shi
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Modeling Natural Sounds with Modulation Cascade Processes
Richard Turner, Maneesh Sahani
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Scene Segmentation with CRFs Learned from Partially Labeled Images
Jakob Verbeek, Bill Triggs
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Learning with Transformation Invariant Kernels
Christian Walder, Olivier Chapelle
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Stable Dual Dynamic Programming
Tao Wang, Daniel Lizotte, Michael Bowling, Dale Schuurmans
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Spatial Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Xiaogang Wang, Eric Grimson
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Boosting Algorithms for Maximizing the Soft Margin
Manfred Warmuth, Karen Glocer, Gunnar Rätsch
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COFI RANK - Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Ranking
Markus Weimer, Alexandros Karatzoglou, Quoc Le, Alex Smola
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Infinite State Bayes-Nets for Structured Domains
Max Welling, Ian Porteous, Evgeniy Bart
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Modelling motion primitives and their timing in biologically executed movements
Ben Williams, Marc Toussaint, Amos Storkey
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Exponential Family Predictive Representations of State
David Wingate, Satinder Singh Baveja
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A New View of Automatic Relevance Determination
David Wipf, Srikantan Nagarajan
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Classification via Minimum Incremental Coding Length (MICL)
John Wright, Yangyu Tao, Zhouchen Lin, Yi Ma, Heung-Yeung Shum
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Efficient Convex Relaxation for Transductive Support Vector Machine
Zenglin Xu, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Irwin King, Michael Lyu
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Discriminative K-means for Clustering
Jieping Ye, Zheng Zhao, Mingrui Wu
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Gaussian Process Models for Link Analysis and Transfer Learning
Kai Yu, Wei Chu
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Bayesian Co-Training
Shipeng Yu, Balaji Krishnapuram, Romer Rosales, Harald Steck, R. Bharat Rao
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The Noisy-Logical Distribution and its Application to Causal Inference
Alan Yuille, HongJing Lu
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Multiple-Instance Pruning For Learning Efficient Cascade Detectors
Cha Zhang, Paul Viola
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HM-BiTAM: Bilingual Topic Exploration, Word Alignment, and Translation
Bing Zhao, Eric P. Xing
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A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier Chapelle, Keke Chen, Gordon Sun
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Compressed Regression
Shuheng Zhou, John Lafferty, Larry Wasserman
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Predictive Matrix-Variate t Models
Shenghuo Zhu, Kai Yu, Yihong Gong
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Regret Minimization in Games with Incomplete Information
Martin Zinkevich, Michael Johanson, Michael Bowling, Carmelo Piccione
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