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Advantage of using a Proximal Point method

Jul 12 '13 at 20:32 Alexandre Passos ♦25541●54●278●421 (asked by zaxtax ♦1051●12●25●45 )

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Are there any models besides LDA where Collapsed Gibbs is used?

Sep 27 '12 at 06:17 Leon Palafox ♦4085●71●94●128 (asked by zaxtax ♦1051●12●25●45 )

lda mixture mcmc gibbs-sampling

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Online structure learning

Jun 26 '12 at 05:20 zaxtax ♦1051●12●25●45

structured-prediction online-learning

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Averaging weights in a distributed online learning problem?

Jun 28 '11 at 02:53 yoavg741●12●23●31 (asked by zaxtax ♦1051●12●25●45 )

structured-prediction online-learning optimization

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Good features for facial recognition

Dec 09 '10 at 16:32 zaxtax ♦1051●12●25●45

emotion features faces

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Resource on four-wheeled kinematics

Dec 07 '10 at 12:35 Brian Vandenberg824●21●37●46 (asked by zaxtax ♦1051●12●25●45 )

planning geometry robotics

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Good features for music recognition

Nov 18 '10 at 08:19 Andrew Rosenberg1737●7●25●40 (asked by zaxtax ♦1051●12●25●45 )

feature-selection audio music

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In which domains is Transfer Learning useful?

Nov 10 '10 at 10:32 Peter Prettenhofer525●1●9●11 (asked by zaxtax ♦1051●12●25●45 )

bayesian transfer-learning

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What are the best books on speech recognition?

Oct 13 '10 at 20:25 kapil_dalwani16●1●1●3 (asked by zaxtax ♦1051●12●25●45 )

nlp books speech

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Where can I find a multilingual POS tagger or parser?

Oct 11 '10 at 00:51 zaxtax ♦1051●12●25●45

nlp parser pos

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Significance of second smallest Eigenvector

Sep 26 '10 at 07:20 Alexandre Passos ♦25541●54●278●421 (asked by zaxtax ♦1051●12●25●45 )

clustering spectral linear-algebra community-dedection graphs

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What is the utility of Bregman divergence?

Sep 23 '10 at 13:49 Alexandre Passos ♦25541●54●278●421 (asked by zaxtax ♦1051●12●25●45 )

kl-divergence statistics theory measure

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What does it mean to take expectation over a distribution?

Where do I start in semantic parsing

Derivation of the Bethe entropy

Feature function in condition random field

How can I tell CRF++ classifier that a word x is captilized or understanding punctuations?

Good Books to Stochastic Processes

Modelling time until event

Draw Samples from a standard T distribution

Similarity metric for sparse data?

Text mining for Spanish text

SVM in high dimensional spaces

Batch Gradient Descent vs. Stochastic Gradient Descent

Building a gift recommendation engine

Mapping Facebook user interests to recommendations

Particle Filter and LDA

Let's talk about ICML 2011 and noteworthy papers

Bulk Download of Public Domain Images

Resources to learn machine learning algorithm briefly

Help with Reinforcement Learning

Dirichlet Process Textbook

MCMC and the inverse-Wishart distribution

what do you do to make sure your implementation of an algorithm 'works'? i.e., Testing

SVD or LSI significant terms

Good features for facial recognition

Improving NER results

How to become a good machine learning *programmer*?

Distance matrix based classification algorithms

How can I make this R function run faster?

Examples of data analysis with impressive results for non-machine learners

job prospects in machine learning/data mining

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emotion × 4
transfer-learning × 3
mixture × 3
parser × 3
bayesian × 3
pos × 3
optimization × 3
gibbs-sampling × 3
feature-selection × 2

planning × 2
music × 2
robotics × 2
books × 2
gradient-descent × 2
audio × 2
similarity × 2
svm × 2
speech × 2
geometry × 2

testing × 1
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log-likelihood × 1
stochastic × 1
proximal-operator × 1
ml × 1
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programming × 1
belief-propagation × 1
spectral × 1

graphical-models × 1
presentation × 1
machine-learning × 1
metric × 1
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design × 1
speed × 1
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