English
Related papers

Related papers: Space Partitioning and Regression Mode Seeking via…

200 papers

Random forest regression is a powerful non-parametric method that adapts to local data characteristics through data-driven partitioning, making it effective across diverse application domains. However, the piecewise constant nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ziyi Liu , Phuc Luong , Mario Boley , Daniel F. Schmidt

Partially recorded data are frequently encountered in many applications and usually clustered by first removing incomplete cases or features with missing values, or by imputing missing values, followed by application of a clustering…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-20 Emily M. Goren , Ranjan Maitra

Due to the progressive growth of the amount of data available in a wide variety of scientific fields, it has become more difficult to ma- nipulate and analyze such information. Even though datasets have grown in size, the K-means algorithm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-11 Marco Capó , Aritz Pérez , José Antonio Lozano

An efficient MCMC algorithm is presented to cluster the nodes of a network such that nodes with similar role in the network are clustered together. This is known as block-modelling or block-clustering. The model is the stochastic blockmodel…

Computation · Statistics 2012-11-09 Aaron F. McDaid , Thomas Brendan Murphy , Nial Friel , Neil J Hurley

Semisupervised methods inevitably invoke some assumption that links the marginal distribution of the features to the regression function of the label. Most commonly, the cluster or manifold assumptions are used which imply that the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-02 Martin Azizyan , Aarti Singh , Larry Wasserman

The mean shift iterative algorithm was proposed in 2006, for using the entropy as a stopping criterion. From then on, a theoretical base has been developed and a group of applications has been carried out using this algorithm. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-11 Roberto Rodríguez , Esley Torres , Yasel Garcés , Osvaldo Pereira , Humberto Sossa

We review the literature on algorithms for estimating the index space in a multi-index model. The primary focus is on computationally efficient (polynomial-time) algorithms in Gaussian space, the assumptions under which consistency is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-17 Joan Bruna , Daniel Hsu

Many mathematical modelling tasks (such as in Economics and Finance) are informed by data that is "found" rather than being the result of carefully designed experiments. This often results in data series that are short, noisy,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Stephen Wright , Colin Paterson

We propose an adaptive Metropolis-Hastings algorithm in which sampled data are used to update the proposal distribution. We use the samples found by the algorithm at a particular step to form the information-theoretically optimal mean-field…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 David H. Wolpert , Chiu Fan Lee

Distributed averaging, or distributed average consensus, is a common method for computing the sample mean of the data dispersed among the nodes of a network in a decentralized manner. By iteratively exchanging messages with neighbors, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Ryan Pilgrim , Junan Zhu , Dror Baron , Waheed U. Bajwa

Channel models for massive MIMO are typically based on matrices with complex Gaussian entries, extended by the Kronecker and Weichselberger model. One reason for observing a gap between modeled and actual channel behavior is the absence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Maximilian Arnold , Johannes Pfeiffer , Stephan ten Brink

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) consistently requires language and appearance semantics to more understand each other. The need becomes acute especially under hard situations. To achieve, existing works tend to resort to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Jiaxing Yang , Lihe Zhang , Jiayu Sun , Huchuan Lu

To minimize data movement, state-of-the-art parallel sorting algorithms use techniques based on sampling and histogramming to partition keys prior to redistribution. Sampling enables partitioning to be done using a representative subset of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Vipul Harsh , Laxmikant Kale , Edgar Solomonik

In todays world the request for very complex models for huge data sets is rising steadily. The problem with these models is that by raising the complexity of the models, it gets much harder to interpret them. The growing field of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-18 Alexander Gerharz , Andreas Groll , Gunther Schauberger

Data mining algorithms are originally designed by assuming the data is available at one centralized site.These algorithms also assume that the whole data is fit into main memory while running the algorithm. But in today's scenario the data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Aruna Govada , Bhavul Gauri , S. K. Sahay

The goal of the change-point detection is to discover changes of time series distribution. One of the state of the art approaches of the change-point detection are based on direct density ratio estimation. In this work we show how existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Mikhail Hushchyn , Andrey Ustyuzhanin

Kernel ridge regression is used to approximate the kinetic energy of non-interacting fermions in a one-dimensional box as a functional of their density. The properties of different kernels and methods of cross-validation are explored, and…

The goal of this paper is to present a new efficient image segmentation method based on evolutionary computation which is a model inspired from human behavior. Based on this model, a four layer process for image segmentation is proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Roohollah Aslanzadeh , Kazem Qazanfari , Mohammad Rahmati

In a number of situations, collecting a function value for every data point may be prohibitively expensive, and random sampling ignores any structure in the underlying data. We introduce a scalable optimization algorithm with no correction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Saeed Vahidian , Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Alexander Cloninger

Most current sampling algorithms for high-dimensional distributions are based on MCMC techniques and are approximate in the sense that they are valid only asymptotically. Rejection sampling, on the other hand, produces valid samples, but is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Marc Dymetman , Guillaume Bouchard , Simon Carter