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CVPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Object-Based Image Retrieval Using the Statistical Structure of Images
We propose a new Bayesian approach to object-based image retrieval with relevance feedback. Although estimating the object posterior probability density from few examples seems in...
Derek Hoiem, Rahul Sukthankar, Henry Schneiderman,...
UAI
2001
15 years 7 months ago
Hypothesis Management in Situation-Specific Network Construction
This paper considers the problem of knowledgebased model construction in the presence of uncertainty about the association of domain entities to random variables. Multi-entity Bay...
Kathryn B. Laskey, Suzanne M. Mahoney, Ed Wright
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COLT
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Lower Bounds on the Sample Complexity of Exploration in the Multi-armed Bandit Problem
We consider the Multi-armed bandit problem under the PAC (“probably approximately correct”) model. It was shown by Even-Dar et al. [5] that given n arms, it suffices to play th...
Shie Mannor, John N. Tsitsiklis
GECCO
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Real-Coded Bayesian Optimization Algorithm: Bringing the Strength of BOA into the Continuous World
This paper describes a continuous estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) to solve decomposable, real-valued optimization problems quickly, accurately, and reliably. This is the...
Chang Wook Ahn, Rudrapatna S. Ramakrishna, David E...
UAI
2007
15 years 7 months ago
A System for Ontologically-Grounded Probabilistic Matching
This paper is part of a project to match descriptions of real-world instances and probabilistic models, both of which can be described at mulvel of abstraction and detail. We use ...
Rita Sharma, David Poole, Clinton Smyth