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The papers below appear in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20 edited by J.C. Platt, D. Koller, Y. Singer and S. Roweis (2008).

Note that we have also included links to any supplementary material provided by the authors (see the [supplemental] links), as well as spotlight slides and audio ([slide], [audio]). These materials have NOT been subjected to the formal NIPS review process.


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
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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
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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
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Managing Power Consumption and Performance of Computing Systems Using Reinforcement Learning
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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
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Estimating disparity with confidence from energy neurons
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Modeling Natural Sounds with Modulation Cascade Processes
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Scene Segmentation with CRFs Learned from Partially Labeled Images
Jakob Verbeek, Bill Triggs
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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
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COFI RANK - Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Ranking
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Infinite State Bayes-Nets for Structured Domains
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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
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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
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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
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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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