We investigate the class of splitting distributions as the composition of a singular multivariate distribution and a univariate distribution. It will be shown that most common parametric count distributions (multinomi...
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We investigate the class of splitting distributions as the composition of a singular multivariate distribution and a univariate distribution. It will be shown that most common parametric count distributions (multinomial, negative multinomial, multivariate hypergeometric, multivariate negative hypergeometric, ...) can be written as splitting distributions with separate parameters for both components, thus facilitating their interpretation, inference, the study of their probabilistic characteristics and their extensions to regression models. We highlight many probabilistic properties deriving from the compound aspect of splitting distributions and their underlying algebraic properties. Parameter inference and model selection are thus reduced to two separate problems, preserving time and space complexity of the base models. Based on this principle, we introduce several new distributions. In the case of multinomial splitting distributions, conditional independence and asymptotic normality properties for estimators are obtained. Mixtures of splitting regression models are used on a mango tree dataset in order to analyze the patchiness. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Networks of spiking neurons underpin the extraordinary information-processing capabilities of the brain and have become pillar models in neuromorphic artificial intelligence. Despite extensive research on spiking neur...
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Networks of spiking neurons underpin the extraordinary information-processing capabilities of the brain and have become pillar models in neuromorphic artificial intelligence. Despite extensive research on spiking neural networks (SNNs), most studies are established on deterministic models, overlooking the inherent nondeterministic, noisy nature of neural computations. This study introduces the noisy SNN (NSNN) and the noise-driven learning (NDL) rule by incorporating noisy neuronal dynamics to exploit the computational advantages of noisy neural processing. The NSNN provides a theoretical framework that yields scalable, flexible, and reliable computation and learning. We demonstrate that this framework leads to spiking neural models with competitive performance, improved robustness against challenging perturbations compared with deterministic SNNs, and better reproducing probabilistic computation in neural coding. Generally, this study offers a powerful and easy-to-use tool for machine learning, neuromorphic intelligence practitioners, and computational neuroscience researchers.
Improving the quality and coverage of the protein interactome is of tantamount importance for biomedical research, particularly given the various sources of uncertainty in high-throughput techniques. We introduce a st...
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Improving the quality and coverage of the protein interactome is of tantamount importance for biomedical research, particularly given the various sources of uncertainty in high-throughput techniques. We introduce a structure-based framework, Coev2Net, for computing a single confidence score that addresses both false-positive and false-negative rates. Coev2Net is easily applied to thousands of binary protein interactions and has superior predictive performance over existing methods. We experimentally validate selected high-confidence predictions in the human MAPK network and show that predicted interfaces are enriched for cancer -related or damaging SNPs. Coev2Net can be downloaded at http:***.
probabilistic methods such as mutual information and Bayesian networks have become a major category of tools for the reconstruction of regulatory relationships from quantitative biological data. In this chapter, we de...
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probabilistic methods such as mutual information and Bayesian networks have become a major category of tools for the reconstruction of regulatory relationships from quantitative biological data. In this chapter, we describe the theoretic framework and the implementation for learning gene regulatory networks using high-order mutual information via the MI3 method (Luo et al. (2008) BMC Bioinformatics 9, 467; Luo (2008) Gene regulatory network reconstruction and pathway inference from high throughput gene expression data. PhD thesis). We also cover the closely related Bayesian network method in detail. less
Graphics, uncertainty, and semantics are three approaches to building models. The combination of the three approaches is a way to develop a stronger modeling method. This article surveys the research efforts toward co...
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Graphics, uncertainty, and semantics are three approaches to building models. The combination of the three approaches is a way to develop a stronger modeling method. This article surveys the research efforts toward combining these aspects, which can be divided into two routes: One is to combine graphics and uncertainty as probabilistic graphical models and then incorporate semantics, and the other is to combine graphics and semantics and then incorporate probability to handle uncertainty. The models and methods involved in these efforts are introduced and their expressiveness, pros, and cons are discussed.
This study starts from the perspective of the challenges of machine learning, mainly explores the high-dimensional spatial structure and the overall data, and analyzes with the number of calculated data to find the op...
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This study starts from the perspective of the challenges of machine learning, mainly explores the high-dimensional spatial structure and the overall data, and analyzes with the number of calculated data to find the optimal solution. And then, this paper explores combined with the current hot topic that people concerned about to make people put more attention on the machine learning.
Recommender systems play an important role in providing personalized information to users and helping address the information overload problem. Recent research has considered social theories and studied the importance...
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(纸本)9781450349833
Recommender systems play an important role in providing personalized information to users and helping address the information overload problem. Recent research has considered social theories and studied the importance of social influence in social recommendation systems. However, many publications ignored the users' roles information or just considered some single roles. In fact, users often have many different roles. Besides, different types of users (users with different roles) might have different conformity tendency. Thus, this inspires us to study how conformity tendency changes with users' roles in recommender systems. We firstly formalize conformity influence by defining a utility function and then propose a probabilistic graphical model integrating both users' roles and conformity tendency, named as Role Conformity Recommender Systems (RCRS). We evaluate the proposed model on several real-world datasets. The experimental results show that our model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches.
In this work we present a new concept towards building reconstruction based on multi-aspect SAR (MASAR) data where we make use of the inherent redundancy and contradiction of MASAR data. Instead of treating every aspe...
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(纸本)9781467311601
In this work we present a new concept towards building reconstruction based on multi-aspect SAR (MASAR) data where we make use of the inherent redundancy and contradiction of MASAR data. Instead of treating every aspect seperately we perform a joint optimization on all available data. For this purpose we use probabilistic graphical model (PGM) as a declarative representation to encode our knowledge and to reconstruct the most likely objects in the scene.
The Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) is a novel class of evolutionary algorithms which is motivated by the idea of building probabilisticgraphicalmodel of promising solutions to represent linkage inf...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781457715860
The Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) is a novel class of evolutionary algorithms which is motivated by the idea of building probabilisticgraphicalmodel of promising solutions to represent linkage information between variables in chromosome. Through learning of and sampling from probabilisticgraphicalmodel, new population is generated and optimization procedure is repeated until the stopping criteria are *** this paper, the mechanism of the Estimation of Distribution Algorithms is *** existing EDAs are surveyed and categorized according to the probabilisticmodel they used,then the strengths and weakness and the future perspective of EDAs are concluded.
We introduce in this paper a novel non-blind speech enhancement procedure based on visual speech recognition (VSR). The latter is based on a generative process that analyzes sequences of talking faces and classifies t...
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(纸本)9781467369985
We introduce in this paper a novel non-blind speech enhancement procedure based on visual speech recognition (VSR). The latter is based on a generative process that analyzes sequences of talking faces and classifies them into visual speech units known as visemes. We use an effective graphicalmodel able to segment and label a given sequence of talking faces into a sequence of visemes. Our model captures unary potential as well as pairwise interaction;the former models visual appearance of speech units while the latter models their interactions using boundary and visual language model activations. Experiments conducted on a standard challenging dataset, show that when feeding the results of VSR to the speech enhancement procedure, it clearly outperforms baseline blind methods as well as related work.
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