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Statistical Learning: Stability is Sufficient for Generalization and Necessary and Sufficient for Consistency of Empirical Risk Minimization
(2002-12-01)
Solutions of learning problems by Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) need to be consistent, so that they may be predictive. They also need to be well-posed, so that they can be used robustly. We show that a statistical ...
Organizing a Global Coordinate System from Local Information on an Amorphous Computer
(1999-08-29)
This paper demonstrates that it is possible to generate a reasonably accurate coordinate system on randomly distributed processors, using only local information and local communication. By coordinate systems we imply ...
Trans-membrane Signal Transduction and Biochemical Turing Pattern Formation
(1999-09-28)
The Turing mechanism for the production of a broken spatial symmetry in an initially homogeneous system of reacting and diffusing substances has attracted much interest as a potential model for certain aspects of ...
Nonparametric Belief Propagation and Facial Appearance Estimation
(2002-12-01)
In many applications of graphical models arising in computer vision, the hidden variables of interest are most naturally specified by continuous, non-Gaussian distributions. There exist inference algorithms for discrete ...
Amorphous Computing
(1999-08-29)
Amorphous computing is the development of organizational principles and programming languages for obtaining coherent behaviors from the cooperation of myriads of unreliable parts that are interconnected in unknown, ...
Boosting Image Database Retrieval
(1999-09-10)
We present an approach for image database retrieval using a very large number of highly-selective features and simple on-line learning. Our approach is predicated on the assumption that each image is generated by a ...
Leaderless Distributed Hierarchy Formation
(2002-12-01)
I present a system for robust leaderless organization of an amorphous network into hierarchical clusters. This system, which assumes that nodes are spatially embedded and can only talk to neighbors within a given radius, ...
Design and Control of an Anthropomorphic Robotic Finger with Multi-point Tactile Sensation
(2001-05-01)
The goal of this research is to develop the prototype of a tactile sensing platform for anthropomorphic manipulation research. We investigate this problem through the fabrication and simple control of a planar 2-DOF robotic ...
Improving Multi-class Text Classification with Naive Bayes
(2001-09-01)
There are numerous text documents available in electronic form. More and more are becoming available every day. Such documents represent a massive amount of information that is easily accessible. Seeking value in this huge ...
Predicate Dispatching in the Common Lisp Object System
(2001-05-01)
I have added support for predicate dispatching, a powerful generalization of other dispatching mechanisms, to the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). To demonstrate its utility, I used predicate dispatching to enhance Weyl, ...