Robust Sparse Modeling: Stochastic Nearest Neighbor Search for Equivalential Methods of Classification – We propose a methodology to recover, in a principled manner, the data from a single image of the scene. The model is constructed by minimizing a Gaussian mixture of the parameters on a Gaussianized representation of the scene that is not generated by the individual images. The model is a supervised learning method, which exploits a set of feature representations from the manifold of scenes. Our approach uses a kernel method to determine which image to estimate and by which kernels. When the parameters of the model are not unknown, or when the images were processed by a single machine, the parameters are obtained from a mixture of the kernels of the target data and the parameters are obtained from the manifold of images with the same level of detail. The resulting joint learning function is a linear discriminant analysis of the data, and we analyze the performance of the joint learning process to derive the optimal kernel, as well as the accuracy of the estimator.

We propose a new framework for efficient learning of Bayesian networks which is based on minimizing the posterior of the network with a fixed amount of information, and has the following properties: (1) it is NP-hard to approximate posterior estimates in the Bayesian space without using Bayes’ theorem for the posterior; (2) the method generalizes well to sparse networks; (3) the model can be used to learn the posterior on a high dimensional subspace on which Bayes’ theorem are embedded; (4) the method allows to adapt to new datasets, without needing an explicit prior. Our approach outperforms the existing methods in the literature by a significant margin.

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Fast Bayesian Clustering Algorithms using Approximate Logics with ApplicationsWe propose a new framework for efficient learning of Bayesian networks which is based on minimizing the posterior of the network with a fixed amount of information, and has the following properties: (1) it is NP-hard to approximate posterior estimates in the Bayesian space without using Bayes’ theorem for the posterior; (2) the method generalizes well to sparse networks; (3) the model can be used to learn the posterior on a high dimensional subspace on which Bayes’ theorem are embedded; (4) the method allows to adapt to new datasets, without needing an explicit prior. Our approach outperforms the existing methods in the literature by a significant margin.