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NIPS'1998 Volume 11 : Table of Contents
Michael Kearns, Sara Solla, David Cohn (eds), MIT Press (1999)
i Title Pages
v Table of Contents
xv Preface
xvii NIPS Committees
xix Reviewers

Part I Cognitive Science

0003 Evidence for a Forward Dynamics Model in Human Adaptive Motor Control,
Nikhil Bhushan and Reza Shadmehr
0010 Perceiving without Learning: From Spirals to Inside/Outside Relations,
Ke Chen and DeLiang L. Wang
0017 A Model for Associative Multiplication,
G. Bjorn Christianson and Suzanna Becker
0024 Facial Memory Is Kernel Density Estimation (Almost),
Matthew N. Dailey, Garrison W. Cottrell and Thomas A. Busey
0031 Multiple Paired Forward-Inverse Models for Human Motor Learning and Control,
Masahiko Haruno, Daniel M. Wolpert and Mitsuo Kawato
0038 Utilizing lime: Asynchronous Binding,
Bradley C. Love
0045 Mechanisms of Generalization in Perceptual Learning,
Zili Liu and Daphna Weinshall
0052 A Principle for Unsupervised Hierarchical Decomposition of Visual Scenes,
Michael C. Mozer

Part II Neuroscience

0059 Bayesian Modeling of Human Concept Learning,
Joshua B. Tenenbaum
0069 Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Learning, Spike liming and Neural Response Variability,
L. F. Abbott and Sen Song
0076 Contrast Adaptation in Simple Cells by Changing the Transmitter Release Probability,
Peter Adorjan and Klaus Obermayer
0083 Where Does the Population Vector of Motor Cortical Cells Point during Reaching Movements?,
Pierre Baraduc, Emmanuel Guigon and Yves Burnod
0090 Recurrent Cortical Amplification Produces Complex Cell Responses,
Frances S. Chance, Sacha B. Nelson and L. F. Abbott
0097 Neuronal Regulation Implements Efficient Synaptic Pruning,
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson and Eytan Ruppin
0104 Divisive Normalization, Line Attractor Networks and Ideal Observers,
Sophie Deneve, Alexandre Pouget and Peter E. Latham
0111 Synergy and Redundancy among Brain Cells of Behaving Monkeys,
Itay Gat and Naftali Tishby
0118 Analyzing and Visualizing Single-Trial Event-Related Potentials,
Tzyy-Ping Jung, Scott Makeig, Marissa Westerfield, Jeanne Townsend, Eric Courchesne and Terrence J. Sejnowski
0125 Spike-Based Compared to Rate-Based Hebbian Learning,
Richard Kempter, Wuifram Gerstner and J. Leo van Hemmen
0132 Signal Detection in Noisy Weakly-Active Dendrites,
Amit Manwani and Christof Koch
0139 The Role of Lateral Cortical Competition in Ocular Dominance Development,
Christian Piepenbrock and Klaus Obermayer
0146 Multi-Electrode Spike Sorting by Clustering Transfer Functions,
Dmitry Rinberg, Hanan Davidowitz and Naftali Tishby
0153 Modeling Surround Suppression in V1 Neurons with a Statistically Derived Normalization Model,
Eero P. Simoncelli and Odelia Schwartz
0160 Information Maximization in Single Neurons,
Martin Stemmler and Christof Koch
0167 The Effect of Correlations on the Fisher Information of Population Codes,
Hyoungsoo Yoon and Haim Sompolinsky

Part III Theory

0174 Distributional Population Codes and Multiple Motion Models,
Richard S. Zemel and Peter Dayan
0183 Tractable Variational Structures for Approximating Graphical Models,
David Barber and Wim Wiegerinck
0190 Almost Linear VC Dimension Bounds for Piecewise Polynomial Networks,
Peter L. Bartlett, Vitaly Maiorov and Ron Meir
0197 Dynamics of Supervised Learning with Restricted Training Sets,
A. C. C. Coolen and David Saad
0204 Dynamically Adapting Kernels in Support Vector Machines,
Nello Cristianini, Cohn Campbell and John Shawe-Taylor
0211 Phase Diagram and Storage Capacity of Sequence-Storing Neural Networks,
A. During, A. C. C. Coolen and D. Sherrington
0218 Finite-Dimensional Approximation of Gaussian Processes,
Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate, Christopher K. I. Williams and Manfred Opper
0225 Linear Hinge Loss and Average Margin,
Claudio Gentile and Manfred K. Warmuth
0232 Unsupervised and Supervised Clustering: The Mutual Information between Parameters and Observations,
Didier Herschkowitz and Jean-Pierre Nadal
0239 Convergence of the Wake-Sleep Algorithm,
Shiro Ikeda, Shun-ichi Amari and Hiroyuki Nakahara
0246 The Belief in TAP,
Yoshiyuki Kabashima and David Saad
0253 Optimizing Classifers for Imbalanced Training Sets,
Grigoris Karakoulas and John Shawe-Taylor
0260 Inference in Multilayer Networks via Large Deviation Bounds,
Michael Kearns and Lawrence Saul
0267 Stationarity and Stability of Autoregressive Neural Network Processes,
Friedrich Leisch, Adrian Trapletti and Kurt Hornik
0274 Computational Differences between Asymmetrical and Symmetrical Networks,
Zhaoping Li and Peter Dayan
0281 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
0288 Direct Optimization of Margins Improves Generalization in Combined Classifiers,
Llew Mason, Peter L. Bartlett and Jonathan Baxter
0295 On the Optimality of Incremental Neural Network Algorithms,
Ron Meir and Vitaly Maiorov
0302 General Bounds on Bayes Errors for Regression with Gaussian Processes,
Manfred Upper and Francesco Vivarelli
0309 Mean Field Methods for Classification with Gaussian Processes,
Manfred Upper and Ole Winther
0316 On-Line Learning with Restricted Training Sets: Exact Solution as Benchmark for General Theories,
H. C. Rae, Peter Sollich and A. C. C. Coolen
0323 Tight Bounds for the VC-Dimension of Piecewise Polynomial Networks,
Akito Sakurai
0330 Shrinking the Tube: A New Support Vector Regression Algorithm,
Bernhard Scholkopf, Peter L. Bartlett, Alex J. Smola and Robert Williamson
0337 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
0344 Learning Curves for Gaussian Processes,
Peter Sollich

Part IV Algorithms and Architecture

0351 A Theory of Mean Field Approximation,
Toshiyuki Tanaka
0361 Learning a Hierarchical Belief Network of Independent Factor Analyzers,
Hagai Attias
0368 Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines,
Kristin Bennett and Ayhan Demiriz
0375 Lazy Learning Meets the Recursive Least Squares Algorithm,
Mauro Birattari, Gianluca Bontempi and Hugues Bersini
0382 Bayesian PCA,
Christopher M. Bishop
0389 Learning Multi-Class Dynamics,
Andrew Blake, Ben North and Michael Isard
0396 Approximate Learning of Dynamic Models,
Xavier Boyen and Daphne Koller
0403 Fisher Scoring and a Mixture of Modes Approach for Approximate Inference and Learning in Nonlinear State Space Models,
Thomas Briegel and Volker Tresp
0410 Global Optimisation of Neural Network Models via Sequential Sampling,
Joao F. G. de Freitas, Mahesan Niranjan, Arnaud Doucet and Andrew H. Gee
0417 Efficient Bayesian Parameter Estimation in Large Discrete Domains,
Nir Friedman and Yoram Singer
0424 A Randomized Algorithm for Pairwise Clustering,
Yoram Gdalyahu, Daphna Weinshall and Michael Werman
0431 Learning Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Using an EM Algorithm,
Zoubin Ghahramani and Sam T. Roweis
0438 Classification on Pairwise Proximity Data,
Thore Graepel, Ralf Herbrich, Peter Bollmann-Sdorra and Klaus Obermayer
0445 Outcomes of the Equivalence of Adaptive Ridge with Least Absolute Shrinkage,
Yves Grandvalet and Stephane Canu
0452 Visualizing Group Structure,
Marcus Held, Jan Puzicha and Joachim M. Buhmann
0459 Source Separation as a By-Product of Regularization,
Sepp Hochreiter and Jurgen Schmidhuber
0466 Learning from Dyadic Data,
Thomas Hofmann, Jan Puzicha and Michael I. Jordan
0473 Sparse Code Shrinkage: Denoising by Nonlinear Maximum Likelihood Estimation,
Aapo Hyvarinen, Patrik Hoyer and Erkki Oja
0480 Restructuring Sparse High Dimensional Data for Effective Retrieval,
Charles Lee Isbell, Jr. and Paul Viola
0487 Exploiting Generative Models in Discriminative Classifiers,
Tommi S. Jaakkola and David Haussler
0494 Maximum Conditional Likelihood via Bound Maximization and the CEM Algorithm,
Tony Jebara and Alex Pentland
0501 A Polygonal Line Algorithm for Constructing Principal Curves,
Balazs Kegl, Adam Krzyzak, Tamas Linder and Kenneth Zeger
0508 Unsupervised Classification with Non-Gaussian Mixture Models Using ICA,
Te-Won Lee, Michael S. Lewicki and Terrence J. Sejnowski
0515 Learning a Continuous Hidden Variable Model for Binary Data,
Daniel D. Lee and Haim Sompolinsky
0522 Neural Networks for Density Estimation,
Malik Magdon-Ismail and Amir Atiya
0529 Exploratory Data Analysis Using Radial Basis Function Latent Variable Models,
Alan D. Marrs and Andrew R. Webb
0536 Kernel PCA and De-Noising in Feature Spaces,
Sebastian Mika, Bernhard Scholkopf, Alex J. Smola, Klaus-Robert Muller, Matthias Scholz and Gunnar Ratsch
0543 Very Fast EM-Based Mixture Model Clustering Using Multiresolution Kd-Trees,
Andrew W. Moore
0550 Replicator Equations, Maximal Cliques, and Graph Isomorphism,
Marcello Pelillo
0557 Using Analytic QP and Sparseness to Speed Training of Support Vector Machines,
John C. Platt
0564 Regularizing AdaBoost, Gunnar Ratsch,
Takashi Onoda and Klaus-Robert Muller
0571 Boxlets: A Fast Convolution Algorithm for Signal Processing and Neural Networks,
Patrice Y. Simard, Leon Bottou, Patrick Haffner and Yann Le Cun
0578 Batch and On-Line Parameter Estimation of Gaussian Mixtures Based on the Joint Entropy,
Yoram Singer and Manfred K. Warmuth
0585 Semiparametric Support Vector and Linear Programming Machines,
Alex J. Smola, Thilo T. Frieß and Bernhard Scholkopf
0592 Probabilistic Visualisation of High-Dimensional Binary Data,
Michael E. Tipping
0599 SMEM Algorithm for Mixture Models,
Naonori Ueda, Ryohei Nakano, Zoubin Ghabramani and Geoffrey E. Hinton
0606 Learning Mixture Hierarchies,
Nuno Vasconcelos and Andrew Lippman
0613 Discovering Hidden Features with Gaussian Processes Regression,
Francesco Vivarelli and Christopher K. I. Williams
0620 The Bias-Variance Tradeoff and the Randomized GACV,
Grace Wahba, Xiwu Lin, Fangyu Gao, Dong Xiang, Ronald Klein and Barbara Klein
0627 Basis Selection for Wavelet Regression,
Kevin R. Wheeler and Atam P. Dhawan
0634 DTs: Dynamic Trees,
Christopher K. I. Williams and Nicholas J. Adams
0641 Convergence Rates of Algorithms for Visual Search: Detecting Visual Contours,
A. L. Yuille and James M. Coughlan

Part V Implementation

0648 Blind Separation of Filtered Sources Using State-Space Approach,
Liqing Zhang and Andrzej Cichocki
0657 Analog VLSI Cellular Implementation of the Boundary Contour System,
Gert Cauwenberghs and James Waskiewicz
0664 Active Noise Canceling Using Analog Neuro-Chip with On-Chip Learning Capability,
Jung-Wook Cho and Soo-Young Lee
0671 A Micropower CMOS Adaptive Amplitude and Shift Invariant Vector Quantiser,
Richard J. Coggins, Raymond J. W. Wang and Marwan A. Jabri
0678 Optimizing Correlation Algorithms for Hardware-Based Transient Classification,
R. Timothy Edwards, Gert Cauwenberghs and Fernando J. Pineda
0685 VLSI Implementation of Motion Centroid Localization for Autonomous Navigation,
Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Vilctor Gruev and Mohammed Abdel Ghani
0692 A Neuromorphic Monaural Sound Localizer,
John G. Harris, Chiang-Jung Pu and Jose C. Principe
0699 An Integrated Vision Sensor for the Computation of Optical Flow Singular Points,
Charles M. Higgins and Christof Koch
0706 Computation of Smooth Optical Flow in a Feedback Connected Analog Network,
Alan Stocker and Rodney Douglas

Part VI Speech, Handwriting and Signal Processing

0713 A High Performance k-NN Classifier Using a Binary Correlation Matrix Memory,
Ping Zhou, Jim Austin and John Kennedy
0723 An Entropic Estimator for Structure Discovery,
Matthew Brand
0730 Coding Time-Varying Signals Using Sparse, Shift-Invariant Representations,
Michael S. Lewicki and Terrence J. Sejnowski
0737 Controlling the Complexity of HMM Systems by Regularization,
Christoph Neukirchen and Gerhard Rigoll
0744 Maximum-Likelihood Continuity Mapping (MALCOM): An Alternative to HMMs,
David A. Nix and John E. Hogden

Part VII Visual Processing

0751 Markov Processes on Curves for Automatic Speech Recognition,
Lawrence Saul and Mazin Rahim
0761 A Phase Space Approach to Minimax Entropy Learning and the Minutemax Approximations,
James M. Coughlan and A. L. Yuille
0768 Example-Based Image Synthesis of Articulated Figures,
Trevor Darrell
0775 Learning to Estimate Scenes from Images,
William T. Freeman and Egon C. Pasztor
0782 Learning to Find Pictures of People,
Sergey loffe and David Forsyth
0789 Attentional Modulation of Human Pattern Discrimination Psychophysics Reproduced by a Quantitative Model,
Laurent Itti, Jochen Braun, Dale K. Lee and Christof Koch
0796 A V1 Model of Pop Out and Asymmetty in Visual Search,
Zhaoping Li
0803 Support Vector Machines Applied to Face Recognition,
P. Jonathon Phillips
0810 Learning Lie Groups for Invariant Visual Perception,
Rajesh P. N. Rao and Daniel L. Ruderman
0817 General-Purpose Localization of Textured Image Regions,
Ruth Rosenholtz
0824 Probabilistic Image Sensor Fusion,
Ravi K. Sharma, Todd K. Leen and Misha Pavel
0831 Orientation, Scale, and Discontinuity as Emergent Properties of Illusory Contour Shape,
Karvel K. Thornber and Lance R. Williams

Part VIII Applications

0838 Classification in Non-Metric Spaces,
Daphna Weinshall, David W. Jacobs and Yoram Gdalyahu
0847 Making Templates Rotationally Invariant. An Application to Rotated Digit Recognition,
Shumeet Baluja
0854 Probabilistic Modeling for Face Orientation Discrimination: Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data,
Shumeet Baluja
0861 Adding Constrained Discontinuities to Gaussian Process Models of Wind Fields,
Dan Cornford, Ian T. Nabney and Christopher K. I. Williams
0868 Vertex Identification in High Energy Physics Experiments,
Gideon Dror, Halina Abramowicz and David Horn
0875 Familiarity Discrimination of Radar Pulses,
Eric Granger, Stephen Grossberg, Mark A. Rubin and William W. Streilein
0882 Fast Neural Network Emulation of Dynamical Systems for Computer Animation,
Radek Grzeszczuk, Demetri Terzopoulos and Geoffrey E. Hinton
0889 Call-Based Fraud Detection in Mobile Communication Networks Using a Hierarchical Regime-Switching Model,
Jaakko Hollmen and Volker Tresp
0896 Graph Matching for Shape Retrieval,
Benoit Huet, Andrew D. J. Cross and Edwin R. Hancock
0903 Scheduling Straight-Line Code Using Reinforcement Learning and Rollouts,
Amy McGovern and Eliot Moss
0910 Bayesian Modeling of Facial Similarity,
Baback Moghaddam, Tony Jebara and Alex Pentland
0917 Reinforcement Learning for Trading,
John Moody and Matthew Saffell
0924 Graphical Models for Recognizing Human Interactions,
Nuria M. Oliver, Barbara Rosario and Alex Pentland
0931 Independent Component Analysis of Intracellular Calcium Spike Data,
Klaus Prank, Julia Borger, Alexander von zur Muhlen, Georg Brabant and Christof Schofl
0938 Applications of Multi-Resolution Neural Networks to Mammography,
Clay D. Spence and Paul Sajda
0945 Robot Docking Using Mixtures of Gaussians,
Matthew M. Williamson, Roderick Murray-Smith and Volker Hansen

Part IX Control, Navigation and Planning

0952 Using Collective Intelligence to Route Internet Traffic,
David H. Wolpert, Kagan Turner and Jeremy Frank
0961 Robust, Efficient, Globally-Optimized Reinforcement Learning with the Parti-Game Algorithm,
Mohammad A. Al-Ansari and Ronald J. Williams
0968 Gradient Descent for General Reinforcement Learning,
Leemon Baird and Andrew W. Moore
0975 Non-Linear PI Control Inspired by Biological Control Systems,
Lyndon J. Brown, Gregory E. Gonye and James S. Schwaber
0982 Optimizing Admission Control while Ensuring Quality of Service in Multimedia Networks via Reinforcement Learning,
Timothy X. Brown, Hui Tong and Satinder Singh
0989 Viewing Classifier Systems as Model Free Learning in POMDPs,
Akira Hayashi and Nobuo Suematsu
0996 Finite-Sample Convergence Rates for Q-Learning and Indirect Algorithms,
Michael Kearns and Satinder Singh
1003 Exploring Unknown Environments with Real-Time Search or Reinforcement Learning,
Sven Koenig
1010 The Effect of Eligibility Traces on Finding Optimal Memoryless Policies in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes,
John Loch
1017 Learning Instance-Independent Value Functions to Enhance Local Search, Robert Moll, Andrew G. Barto,
Theodore J. Perkins and Richard S. Sutton
1024 Barycentric Interpolators for Continuous Space and Time Reinforcement Learning,
Remi Munos and Andrew W. Moore
1031 Risk Sensitive Reinforcement Learning,
Ralph Neuneier and Oliver Mihatsch
1038 Coordinate Transformation Learning of Hand Position Feedback Controller by Using Change of Position Error Norm,
Eimei Oyama and Susumu Tachi
1045 Learning Macro-Actions in Reinforcement Learning,
Jette Randlov
1052 Reinforcement Learning Based on On-Line EM Algorithm,
Masa-aki Sato and Shin Ishii
1059 A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm in Partially Observable Environments Using Short-Term Memory,
Nobuo Suematsu and Akira Hayashi
1066 Improved Switching among Temporally Abstract Actions,
Richard S. Sutton, Satinder Singh, Doina Precup and Balaraman Ravindran
1073 Experimental Results on Learning Stochastic Memoryless Policies for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes,
John K. Williams and Satinder Singh
1081 Index of Authors
1085 Keyword Index