| NIPS'1998 Volume 11 : Table of Contents |
| Michael Kearns, Sara Solla, David Cohn (eds), MIT Press (1999) |
| Title Pages | |
| Table of Contents | |
| Preface | |
| NIPS Committees | |
| Reviewers |
| Evidence for a Forward Dynamics Model in Human Adaptive Motor Control, Nikhil Bhushan and Reza Shadmehr | |
| Perceiving without Learning: From Spirals to Inside/Outside Relations, Ke Chen and DeLiang L. Wang | |
| A Model for Associative Multiplication, G. Bjorn Christianson and Suzanna Becker | |
| Facial Memory Is Kernel Density Estimation (Almost), Matthew N. Dailey, Garrison W. Cottrell and Thomas A. Busey | |
| Multiple Paired Forward-Inverse Models for Human Motor Learning and Control, Masahiko Haruno, Daniel M. Wolpert and Mitsuo Kawato | |
| Utilizing lime: Asynchronous Binding, Bradley C. Love | |
| Mechanisms of Generalization in Perceptual Learning, Zili Liu and Daphna Weinshall | |
| A Principle for Unsupervised Hierarchical Decomposition of Visual Scenes, Michael C. Mozer |
| Bayesian Modeling of Human Concept Learning, Joshua B. Tenenbaum | |
| Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Learning, Spike liming and Neural Response Variability, L. F. Abbott and Sen Song | |
| Contrast Adaptation in Simple Cells by Changing the Transmitter Release Probability, Peter Adorjan and Klaus Obermayer | |
| Where Does the Population Vector of Motor Cortical Cells Point during Reaching Movements?, Pierre Baraduc, Emmanuel Guigon and Yves Burnod | |
| Recurrent Cortical Amplification Produces Complex Cell Responses, Frances S. Chance, Sacha B. Nelson and L. F. Abbott | |
| Neuronal Regulation Implements Efficient Synaptic Pruning, Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson and Eytan Ruppin | |
| Divisive Normalization, Line Attractor Networks and Ideal Observers, Sophie Deneve, Alexandre Pouget and Peter E. Latham | |
| Synergy and Redundancy among Brain Cells of Behaving Monkeys, Itay Gat and Naftali Tishby | |
| Analyzing and Visualizing Single-Trial Event-Related Potentials, Tzyy-Ping Jung, Scott Makeig, Marissa Westerfield, Jeanne Townsend, Eric Courchesne and Terrence J. Sejnowski | |
| Spike-Based Compared to Rate-Based Hebbian Learning, Richard Kempter, Wuifram Gerstner and J. Leo van Hemmen | |
| Signal Detection in Noisy Weakly-Active Dendrites, Amit Manwani and Christof Koch | |
| The Role of Lateral Cortical Competition in Ocular Dominance Development, Christian Piepenbrock and Klaus Obermayer | |
| Multi-Electrode Spike Sorting by Clustering Transfer Functions, Dmitry Rinberg, Hanan Davidowitz and Naftali Tishby | |
| Modeling Surround Suppression in V1 Neurons with a Statistically Derived Normalization Model, Eero P. Simoncelli and Odelia Schwartz | |
| Information Maximization in Single Neurons, Martin Stemmler and Christof Koch | |
| The Effect of Correlations on the Fisher Information of Population Codes, Hyoungsoo Yoon and Haim Sompolinsky |
| Distributional Population Codes and Multiple Motion Models, Richard S. Zemel and Peter Dayan | |
| Tractable Variational Structures for Approximating Graphical Models, David Barber and Wim Wiegerinck | |
| Almost Linear VC Dimension Bounds for Piecewise Polynomial Networks, Peter L. Bartlett, Vitaly Maiorov and Ron Meir | |
| Dynamics of Supervised Learning with Restricted Training Sets, A. C. C. Coolen and David Saad | |
| Dynamically Adapting Kernels in Support Vector Machines, Nello Cristianini, Cohn Campbell and John Shawe-Taylor | |
| Phase Diagram and Storage Capacity of Sequence-Storing Neural Networks, A. During, A. C. C. Coolen and D. Sherrington | |
| Finite-Dimensional Approximation of Gaussian Processes, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate, Christopher K. I. Williams and Manfred Opper | |
| Linear Hinge Loss and Average Margin, Claudio Gentile and Manfred K. Warmuth | |
| Unsupervised and Supervised Clustering: The Mutual Information between Parameters and Observations, Didier Herschkowitz and Jean-Pierre Nadal | |
| Convergence of the Wake-Sleep Algorithm, Shiro Ikeda, Shun-ichi Amari and Hiroyuki Nakahara | |
| The Belief in TAP, Yoshiyuki Kabashima and David Saad | |
| Optimizing Classifers for Imbalanced Training Sets, Grigoris Karakoulas and John Shawe-Taylor | |
| Inference in Multilayer Networks via Large Deviation Bounds, Michael Kearns and Lawrence Saul | |
| Stationarity and Stability of Autoregressive Neural Network Processes, Friedrich Leisch, Adrian Trapletti and Kurt Hornik | |
| Computational Differences between Asymmetrical and Symmetrical Networks, Zhaoping Li and Peter Dayan | |
| A Precise Characterization of the Class of Languages Recognized by Neural Nets under Gaussian and Other Common Noise Distributions Wolfgang Maass and Eduardo D. Sontag | |
| Direct Optimization of Margins Improves Generalization in Combined Classifiers, Llew Mason, Peter L. Bartlett and Jonathan Baxter | |
| On the Optimality of Incremental Neural Network Algorithms, Ron Meir and Vitaly Maiorov | |
| General Bounds on Bayes Errors for Regression with Gaussian Processes, Manfred Upper and Francesco Vivarelli | |
| Mean Field Methods for Classification with Gaussian Processes, Manfred Upper and Ole Winther | |
| On-Line Learning with Restricted Training Sets: Exact Solution as Benchmark for General Theories, H. C. Rae, Peter Sollich and A. C. C. Coolen | |
| Tight Bounds for the VC-Dimension of Piecewise Polynomial Networks, Akito Sakurai | |
| Shrinking the Tube: A New Support Vector Regression Algorithm, Bernhard Scholkopf, Peter L. Bartlett, Alex J. Smola and Robert Williamson | |
| Discontinuous Recall Transitions Induced by Competition Between Short- and Long-Range Interactions in Recurrent Networks, N. S. Skantzos, C. F. Beckmann and A. C. C. Coolen | |
| Learning Curves for Gaussian Processes, Peter Sollich |
| A Theory of Mean Field Approximation, Toshiyuki Tanaka | |
| Learning a Hierarchical Belief Network of Independent Factor Analyzers, Hagai Attias | |
| Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines, Kristin Bennett and Ayhan Demiriz | |
| Lazy Learning Meets the Recursive Least Squares Algorithm, Mauro Birattari, Gianluca Bontempi and Hugues Bersini | |
| Bayesian PCA, Christopher M. Bishop | |
| Learning Multi-Class Dynamics, Andrew Blake, Ben North and Michael Isard | |
| Approximate Learning of Dynamic Models, Xavier Boyen and Daphne Koller | |
| Fisher Scoring and a Mixture of Modes Approach for Approximate Inference and Learning in Nonlinear State Space Models, Thomas Briegel and Volker Tresp | |
| Global Optimisation of Neural Network Models via Sequential Sampling, Joao F. G. de Freitas, Mahesan Niranjan, Arnaud Doucet and Andrew H. Gee | |
| Efficient Bayesian Parameter Estimation in Large Discrete Domains, Nir Friedman and Yoram Singer | |
| A Randomized Algorithm for Pairwise Clustering, Yoram Gdalyahu, Daphna Weinshall and Michael Werman | |
| Learning Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Using an EM Algorithm, Zoubin Ghahramani and Sam T. Roweis | |
| Classification on Pairwise Proximity Data, Thore Graepel, Ralf Herbrich, Peter Bollmann-Sdorra and Klaus Obermayer | |
| Outcomes of the Equivalence of Adaptive Ridge with Least Absolute Shrinkage, Yves Grandvalet and Stephane Canu | |
| Visualizing Group Structure, Marcus Held, Jan Puzicha and Joachim M. Buhmann | |
| Source Separation as a By-Product of Regularization, Sepp Hochreiter and Jurgen Schmidhuber | |
| Learning from Dyadic Data, Thomas Hofmann, Jan Puzicha and Michael I. Jordan | |
| Sparse Code Shrinkage: Denoising by Nonlinear Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Aapo Hyvarinen, Patrik Hoyer and Erkki Oja | |
| Restructuring Sparse High Dimensional Data for Effective Retrieval, Charles Lee Isbell, Jr. and Paul Viola | |
| Exploiting Generative Models in Discriminative Classifiers, Tommi S. Jaakkola and David Haussler | |
| Maximum Conditional Likelihood via Bound Maximization and the CEM Algorithm, Tony Jebara and Alex Pentland | |
| A Polygonal Line Algorithm for Constructing Principal Curves, Balazs Kegl, Adam Krzyzak, Tamas Linder and Kenneth Zeger | |
| Unsupervised Classification with Non-Gaussian Mixture Models Using ICA, Te-Won Lee, Michael S. Lewicki and Terrence J. Sejnowski | |
| Learning a Continuous Hidden Variable Model for Binary Data, Daniel D. Lee and Haim Sompolinsky | |
| Neural Networks for Density Estimation, Malik Magdon-Ismail and Amir Atiya | |
| Exploratory Data Analysis Using Radial Basis Function Latent Variable Models, Alan D. Marrs and Andrew R. Webb | |
| Kernel PCA and De-Noising in Feature Spaces, Sebastian Mika, Bernhard Scholkopf, Alex J. Smola, Klaus-Robert Muller, Matthias Scholz and Gunnar Ratsch | |
| Very Fast EM-Based Mixture Model Clustering Using Multiresolution Kd-Trees, Andrew W. Moore | |
| Replicator Equations, Maximal Cliques, and Graph Isomorphism, Marcello Pelillo | |
| Using Analytic QP and Sparseness to Speed Training of Support Vector Machines, John C. Platt | |
| Regularizing AdaBoost, Gunnar Ratsch, Takashi Onoda and Klaus-Robert Muller | |
| Boxlets: A Fast Convolution Algorithm for Signal Processing and Neural Networks, Patrice Y. Simard, Leon Bottou, Patrick Haffner and Yann Le Cun | |
| Batch and On-Line Parameter Estimation of Gaussian Mixtures Based on the Joint Entropy, Yoram Singer and Manfred K. Warmuth | |
| Semiparametric Support Vector and Linear Programming Machines, Alex J. Smola, Thilo T. Frieß and Bernhard Scholkopf | |
| Probabilistic Visualisation of High-Dimensional Binary Data, Michael E. Tipping | |
| SMEM Algorithm for Mixture Models, Naonori Ueda, Ryohei Nakano, Zoubin Ghabramani and Geoffrey E. Hinton | |
| Learning Mixture Hierarchies, Nuno Vasconcelos and Andrew Lippman | |
| Discovering Hidden Features with Gaussian Processes Regression, Francesco Vivarelli and Christopher K. I. Williams | |
| The Bias-Variance Tradeoff and the Randomized GACV, Grace Wahba, Xiwu Lin, Fangyu Gao, Dong Xiang, Ronald Klein and Barbara Klein | |
| Basis Selection for Wavelet Regression, Kevin R. Wheeler and Atam P. Dhawan | |
| DTs: Dynamic Trees, Christopher K. I. Williams and Nicholas J. Adams | |
| Convergence Rates of Algorithms for Visual Search: Detecting Visual Contours, A. L. Yuille and James M. Coughlan |
| Blind Separation of Filtered Sources Using State-Space Approach, Liqing Zhang and Andrzej Cichocki | |
| Analog VLSI Cellular Implementation of the Boundary Contour System, Gert Cauwenberghs and James Waskiewicz | |
| Active Noise Canceling Using Analog Neuro-Chip with On-Chip Learning Capability, Jung-Wook Cho and Soo-Young Lee | |
| A Micropower CMOS Adaptive Amplitude and Shift Invariant Vector Quantiser, Richard J. Coggins, Raymond J. W. Wang and Marwan A. Jabri | |
| Optimizing Correlation Algorithms for Hardware-Based Transient Classification, R. Timothy Edwards, Gert Cauwenberghs and Fernando J. Pineda | |
| VLSI Implementation of Motion Centroid Localization for Autonomous Navigation, Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Vilctor Gruev and Mohammed Abdel Ghani | |
| A Neuromorphic Monaural Sound Localizer, John G. Harris, Chiang-Jung Pu and Jose C. Principe | |
| An Integrated Vision Sensor for the Computation of Optical Flow Singular Points, Charles M. Higgins and Christof Koch | |
| Computation of Smooth Optical Flow in a Feedback Connected Analog Network, Alan Stocker and Rodney Douglas |
| A High Performance k-NN Classifier Using a Binary Correlation Matrix Memory, Ping Zhou, Jim Austin and John Kennedy | |
| An Entropic Estimator for Structure Discovery, Matthew Brand | |
| Coding Time-Varying Signals Using Sparse, Shift-Invariant Representations, Michael S. Lewicki and Terrence J. Sejnowski | |
| Controlling the Complexity of HMM Systems by Regularization, Christoph Neukirchen and Gerhard Rigoll | |
| Maximum-Likelihood Continuity Mapping (MALCOM): An Alternative to HMMs, David A. Nix and John E. Hogden |
| Markov Processes on Curves for Automatic Speech Recognition, Lawrence Saul and Mazin Rahim | |
| A Phase Space Approach to Minimax Entropy Learning and the Minutemax Approximations, James M. Coughlan and A. L. Yuille | |
| Example-Based Image Synthesis of Articulated Figures, Trevor Darrell | |
| Learning to Estimate Scenes from Images, William T. Freeman and Egon C. Pasztor | |
| Learning to Find Pictures of People, Sergey loffe and David Forsyth | |
| Attentional Modulation of Human Pattern Discrimination Psychophysics Reproduced by a Quantitative Model, Laurent Itti, Jochen Braun, Dale K. Lee and Christof Koch | |
| A V1 Model of Pop Out and Asymmetty in Visual Search, Zhaoping Li | |
| Support Vector Machines Applied to Face Recognition, P. Jonathon Phillips | |
| Learning Lie Groups for Invariant Visual Perception, Rajesh P. N. Rao and Daniel L. Ruderman | |
| General-Purpose Localization of Textured Image Regions, Ruth Rosenholtz | |
| Probabilistic Image Sensor Fusion, Ravi K. Sharma, Todd K. Leen and Misha Pavel | |
| Orientation, Scale, and Discontinuity as Emergent Properties of Illusory Contour Shape, Karvel K. Thornber and Lance R. Williams |
| Classification in Non-Metric Spaces, Daphna Weinshall, David W. Jacobs and Yoram Gdalyahu | |
| Making Templates Rotationally Invariant. An Application to Rotated Digit Recognition, Shumeet Baluja | |
| Probabilistic Modeling for Face Orientation Discrimination: Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data, Shumeet Baluja | |
| Adding Constrained Discontinuities to Gaussian Process Models of Wind Fields, Dan Cornford, Ian T. Nabney and Christopher K. I. Williams | |
| Vertex Identification in High Energy Physics Experiments, Gideon Dror, Halina Abramowicz and David Horn | |
| Familiarity Discrimination of Radar Pulses, Eric Granger, Stephen Grossberg, Mark A. Rubin and William W. Streilein | |
| Fast Neural Network Emulation of Dynamical Systems for Computer Animation, Radek Grzeszczuk, Demetri Terzopoulos and Geoffrey E. Hinton | |
| Call-Based Fraud Detection in Mobile Communication Networks Using a Hierarchical Regime-Switching Model, Jaakko Hollmen and Volker Tresp | |
| Graph Matching for Shape Retrieval, Benoit Huet, Andrew D. J. Cross and Edwin R. Hancock | |
| Scheduling Straight-Line Code Using Reinforcement Learning and Rollouts, Amy McGovern and Eliot Moss | |
| Bayesian Modeling of Facial Similarity, Baback Moghaddam, Tony Jebara and Alex Pentland | |
| Reinforcement Learning for Trading, John Moody and Matthew Saffell | |
| Graphical Models for Recognizing Human Interactions, Nuria M. Oliver, Barbara Rosario and Alex Pentland | |
| Independent Component Analysis of Intracellular Calcium Spike Data, Klaus Prank, Julia Borger, Alexander von zur Muhlen, Georg Brabant and Christof Schofl | |
| Applications of Multi-Resolution Neural Networks to Mammography, Clay D. Spence and Paul Sajda | |
| Robot Docking Using Mixtures of Gaussians, Matthew M. Williamson, Roderick Murray-Smith and Volker Hansen |
| Using Collective Intelligence to Route Internet Traffic, David H. Wolpert, Kagan Turner and Jeremy Frank | |
| Robust, Efficient, Globally-Optimized Reinforcement Learning with the Parti-Game Algorithm, Mohammad A. Al-Ansari and Ronald J. Williams | |
| Gradient Descent for General Reinforcement Learning, Leemon Baird and Andrew W. Moore | |
| Non-Linear PI Control Inspired by Biological Control Systems, Lyndon J. Brown, Gregory E. Gonye and James S. Schwaber | |
| Optimizing Admission Control while Ensuring Quality of Service in Multimedia Networks via Reinforcement Learning, Timothy X. Brown, Hui Tong and Satinder Singh | |
| Viewing Classifier Systems as Model Free Learning in POMDPs, Akira Hayashi and Nobuo Suematsu | |
| Finite-Sample Convergence Rates for Q-Learning and Indirect Algorithms, Michael Kearns and Satinder Singh | |
| Exploring Unknown Environments with Real-Time Search or Reinforcement Learning, Sven Koenig | |
| The Effect of Eligibility Traces on Finding Optimal Memoryless Policies in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, John Loch | |
| Learning Instance-Independent Value Functions to Enhance Local Search, Robert Moll, Andrew G. Barto, Theodore J. Perkins and Richard S. Sutton | |
| Barycentric Interpolators for Continuous Space and Time Reinforcement Learning, Remi Munos and Andrew W. Moore | |
| Risk Sensitive Reinforcement Learning, Ralph Neuneier and Oliver Mihatsch | |
| Coordinate Transformation Learning of Hand Position Feedback Controller by Using Change of Position Error Norm, Eimei Oyama and Susumu Tachi | |
| Learning Macro-Actions in Reinforcement Learning, Jette Randlov | |
| Reinforcement Learning Based on On-Line EM Algorithm, Masa-aki Sato and Shin Ishii | |
| A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm in Partially Observable Environments Using Short-Term Memory, Nobuo Suematsu and Akira Hayashi | |
| Improved Switching among Temporally Abstract Actions, Richard S. Sutton, Satinder Singh, Doina Precup and Balaraman Ravindran | |
| Experimental Results on Learning Stochastic Memoryless Policies for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, John K. Williams and Satinder Singh | |
| Index of Authors | |
| Keyword Index |