| NIPS'1999 Volume 12 : Table of Contents |
| Sara Solla, Todd Leen, Klaus-Robert Muller (eds), MIT Press (2000) |
| Title Pages | |
| Table of Contents | |
| Preface | |
| NIPS Committees | |
| Reviewers |
| Recognizing Evoked Potentials in a Virtual Environment, Jessica D. Bayliss and Dana H. Ballard | |
| A Neurodynamical Approach to Visual Attention, Gustavo Deco and Josef Zihl | |
| Effects of Spatial and Temporal Contiguity on the Acquisition of Spatial Information, Thea B. Ghiselli-Crippa and Paul W. Munro | |
| Acquisition in Autoshaping, Sham Kakade and Peter Dayan | |
| Robust Recognition of Noisy and Superimposed Patterns via Selective Attention, Soo-Young Lee and Michael C. Mozer | |
| Perceptual Organization Based on Temporal Dynamics, Xiuwen Liu and DeLiang L. Wang | |
| Information Factorization in Connectionist Models of Perception, Javier R. Movellan and James L. McClelland | |
| Graded Grammaticality in Prediction Fractal Machines, Shan Parfitt, Peter Tino and Georg Dorffner | |
| Rules and Similarity in Concept Learning, Joshua B. Tenenbaum | |
| Evolving Learnable Languages, Bradley Tonkes, Alan Blair and Janet Wiles | |
| Learning Statistically Neutral Tasks without Expert Guidance, Ton Weijters, Antal van den Bosch and Eric Postma |
| A Generative Model for Attractor Dynamics, Richard S. Zemel and Michael C. Mozer | |
| Recurrent Cortical Competition: Strengthen or Weaken?, Peter Adorjan, Lars Schwabe, Christian Piepenbrock and Klaus Obermayer | |
| Effective Learning Requires Neuronal Remodeling of Hebbian Synapses, Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson and Eytan Ruppin | |
| Wiring Optimization in the Brain, Dmitri B. Chklovskii and Charles F. Stevens | |
| Optimal Sizes of Dendritic and Axonal Arbors, Dmitri B. Chklovskii | |
| Neural Representation of Multi-Dimensional Stimuli, Christian W. Eurich, Stefan D. Wilke and Helmut Schwegler | |
| Spiking Boltzmann Machines, Geoffrey E. Hinton and Andrew D. Brown | |
| Distributed Synchrony of Spiking Neurons in a Hebbian Cell Assembly, David Horn, Nir Levy, Isaac Meilijson and Eytan Ruppin | |
| Can VI Mechanisms Account for Figure-Ground and Medial Axis Effects?, Zhaoping Li | |
| Channel Noise in Excitable Neural Membranes, Amit Manwani, Peter N. Steinmetz and Christof Koch | |
| LTD Facilitates Learning in a Noisy Environment, Paul W. Munro and Gerardina Hernandez | |
| Memory Capacity of Linear vs. Nonlinear Models of Dendritic Integration, Panayiota Poirazi and Bartlett W. Mel | |
| Predictive Sequence Learning in Recurrent Neocortical Circuits, Rajesh P. N. Rao and Terrence J. Sejnowski | |
| A Recurrent Model of the Interaction Between Prefrontal and Inferotemporal Cortex in Delay Tasks, Alfonso Renart, Nestor Parga and Edmund T. Rolls | |
| Information Capacity and Robustness of Stochastic Neuron Models, Elad Schneidman, Idan Segev and Naftali Tishby | |
| An MEG Study of Response Latency and Variability in the Human Visual System During a Visual-Motor Integration Task, Akaysha C. Tang, Barak A. Pearlmutter, Tim A. Hely, Michael Zibulevsky and Michael P. Weisend | |
| Population Decoding Based on an Unfaithful Model, Si Wu, Hiroyuki Nakahara, Noboru Murata and Shun-ichi Amari |
| Spike-based Learning Rules and Stabilization of Persistent Neural Activity, Xiaohui Xie and H. Sebastian Seung | |
| A Variational Baysian Framework for Graphical Models, Hagai Attias | |
| Model Selection in Clustering by Uniform Convergence Bounds, Joachim M. Buhmann and Marcus Held | |
| Uniqueness of the SVM Solution, Christopher J. C. Burges and David J. Crisp | |
| Model Selection for Support Vector Machines, Olivier Chapelle and Vladimir N. Vapnik | |
| Dynamics of Supervised Learning with Restricted Training Sets and Noisy Teachers, A. C. C. Coolen and C. W. H. Mace | |
| A Geometric Interpretation of v-SVM Classifiers, David J. Crisp and Christopher J. C. Burges | |
| Efficient Approaches to Gaussian Process Classification, Lehel Csato, Ernest Fokoue, Manfred Opper, Bernhard Schottky and Ole Winther | |
| Potential Boosters?, Nigel Duffy and David Helmbold | |
| Bayesian Averaging is Well-Temperated, Lars Kai Hansen | |
| Regular and Irregular Gallager-zype Error-Correcting Codes, Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Tatsuto Murayama, David Saad and Renato Vicente | |
| Mixture Density Estimation, Jonathan Q. Li and Andrew R. Barron | |
| Statistical Dynamics of Batch Learning, Song Li and K. Y. Michael Wong | |
| Neural Computation with Winner-Take-All as the Only Nonlinear Operation, Wolfgang Maass | |
| Boosting with Multi-Way Branching in Decision Trees, Yishay Mansour and David McAllester | |
| Inference for the Generalization Error Claude Nadeau and Yoshua Bengio | |
| Resonance in a Stochastic Neuron Model with Delayed Interaction, Toru Ohira, Yuzuru Sato and Jack D. Cowan | |
| Understanding Stepwise Generalization of Support Vector Machines: a Toy Model, Sebastian Risau-Gusman and Mirta B. Gordon | |
| Lower Bounds on the Complexity of Approximating Continuous Functions by Sigmoidal Neural Networks, Michael Schmitt | |
| Noisy Neural Networks and Generalizations, Hava T. Siegelmann, Alexander Roitershtein and Asa Ben-Hur | |
| The Entropy Regularization Information Criterion, Alexander J. Smola, John Shawe-Taylor, Bernhard Scholkopf and Robert C. Williamson | |
| Probabilistic Methods for Support Vector Machines, Peter Sollich | |
| Algebraic Analysis for Non-regular Learning Machines, Sumio Watanabe | |
| Semiparametric Approach to Multichannel Blind Deconvolution of Nonminimum Phase Systems, L. Q. Zhang, Shun-ichi Amari and A. Cichocki |
| Some Theoretical Results Concerning the Convergence of Compositions of Regularized Linear Functions, Tong Zhang | |
| Robust Full Bayesian Methods for Neural Networks, Christophe Andrieu, Joao F. G. de Freitas and Arnaud Doucet | |
| Independent Factor Analysis with Temporally Structured Sources, Hagai Attias | |
| Gaussian Fields for Approximate Inference in Layered Sigmoid Belief Networks, David Barber and Peter Sollich | |
| Modeling High-Dimensional Discrete Data with Multi-Layer Neural Networks, Yoshua Bengio and Samy Bengio | |
| Robust Neural Network Regression for Offline and Online Learning, Thomas Briegel and Volker Tresp | |
| Reconstruction of Sequential Data with Probabilistic Models and Continuity Constraints, Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan | |
| Transductive Inference for Estimating Values of Functions, Olivier Chapelle, Vladimir N. Vapnik and Jason Weston | |
| The Nonnegative Boltzmann Machine, Oliver B. Downs, David J.C. MacKay and Daniel D. Lee | |
| Differentiating Functions of the Jacobian with Respect to the Weights, Gary William Flake and Barak A. Pearlmutter | |
| Local Probability Propagation for Factor Analysis, Brendan J. Frey | |
| Variational Inference for Bayesian Mixtures of Factor Analysers, Zoubin Ghahramani and Matthew J. Beal | |
| Bayesian Transduction, Thore Graepel, Ralf Herbrich and Klaus Obermayer | |
| Learning to Parse Images, Geoffrey E. Hinton, Zoubin Ghahramani and Yee Whye Teh | |
| Maximum Entropy Discrimination, Tommi Jaakkola, Marina Meila and Tony Jebara | |
| Topographic Transformation as a Discrete Latent Variable, Nebojsa Jojic and Brendan J. Frey | |
| An Improved Decomposition Algorithm for Regression Support Vector Machines, Pavel Laskov | |
| Algorithms for Independent Components Analysis and Higher Order Statistics, Daniel D. Lee, Uri Rokni and Haim Sompolinsky | |
| The Relaxed Online Maximum Margin Algorithm, Yi Li and Philip M. Long | |
| Bayesian Network Induction via Local Neighborhoods, Dimitris Margaritis and Sebastian Thrun | |
| Boosting Algorithms as Gradient Descent, Liew Mason, Jonathan Baxter, Peter Bartlett and Marcus Frean | |
| A Multi-class Linear Learning Algorithm Related to Winnow, Chris Mesterharm | |
| Invariant Feature Extraction and Classification in Kernel Spaces, Sebastian Mika, Gunnar Rätsch, Jason Weston, Bernhard Scholkopf, Alexander J. Smola and Klaus-Robert Muller | |
| Approximate Inference A lgorithms for Two-Layer Bayesian Networks, Andrew Y. Ng and Michael I. Jordan | |
| Optimal Kernel Shapes for Local Linear Regression, Dirk Ormoneit and Trevor Hastie | |
| Large Margin DAGs for Multiclass Classification, John C. Platt, Nello Cristianini and John Shawe-Taylor | |
| The Infinite Gaussian Mixture Model, Carl Edward Rasmussen | |
| v-Arc: Ensemble Learning in the Presence of Outliers, Gunnar Rätsch, Bernhard Scholkopf, Alexander J. Smola, Klaus-Robert Muller, Takashi Onoda and Sebastian Mika | |
| Nonlinear Discriminant Analysis Using Kernel Functions, Volker Roth and Volker Steinhage | |
| An Analysis of Turbo Decoding with Gaussian Densities, Paat Rusmevichientong and Benjamin Van Roy | |
| Support Vector Method for Novelty Detection, Bernhard Scholkopf, Robert C. Williamson, Alexander J. Smola, John Shawe-Taylor and John C. Platt | |
| Better Generative Models for Sequential Data Problems: Bidirectional Recurrent Mixture Density Networks, Mike Schuster | |
| Greedy Importance Sampling, Dale Schuurmans | |
| Bayesian Model Selection for Support Vector Machines, Gaussian Processes and Other Kernel Classifiers, Matthias Seeger | |
| Leveraged Vector Machines, Yoram Singer | |
| Agglomerative Information Bottleneck, Noam Slonim and Naftali Tishby | |
| Training Data Selection for Optimal Generalization in Trigonometric Polynomial Networks, Masashi Sugiyama and Hidemitsu Ogawa | |
| Predictive App roaches for Choosing Hyperparameters in Gaussian Processes, S. Sundararajan and S. Sathiya Keerthi | |
| On Input Selection with Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling, Peter Sykacek | |
| Building Predictive Models from Fractal Representations of Symbolic Sequences, Peter Tino and Georg Dorffner | |
| The Relevance Vector Machine, Michael E. Tipping | |
| Support Vector Method for Multivariate Density Estimation, Vladimir N. Vapnik and Sayan Mukherjee | |
| Dual Estimation and the Unscented Transformation, Eric A. Wan, Rudolph van der Merwe and Alex T. Nelson | |
| Correctness of Belief Propagation in Gaussian Graphical Models of Arbitrary Topology, Yair Weiss and William T. Freeman | |
| A MCMC Approach to Hierarchical Mixture Modelling, Christopher K. I. Williams | |
| Data Visualization and Feature Selection: New Algorithms for Nongaussian Data, Howard Hua Yang and John Moody |
| Manifold Stochastic Dynamics for Bayesian Learning, Mark Ziochin and Yoram Baram | |
| The Parallel Problems Server: an Interactive Tool for Large Scale Machine Learning, Charles Lee Isbell, Jr. and Parry Husbands | |
| An Oculo-Motor System with Multi-Chip Neuromorphic Analog VLSI Control, Oliver Landolt and Steve Gyger | |
| A Winner-Take-All Circuit with Controllable Soft Max Property, Shih-Chii Liu. | |
| A Neuromorphic VLSI System for Modeling the Neural Control of Axial Locomotion, Girish N. Patel, Edgar A. Brown and Stephen P. DeWeerth | |
| Bifurcation Analysis of a Silicon Neuron, Girish N. Patel, Gennady S. Cymbalyuk, Ronald L. Calabrese and Stephen P. DeWeerth |
| An Analog VLSI Model of Periodicity Extraction, Andre van Schaik | |
| An Oscillatory Correlation Frame work for Computational Auditory Scene Analysis, Guy J. Brown and DeLiang L. Wang | |
| Bayesian Modelling of fMRI lime Series, Pedro A. d. F. R. Hojen-Sørensen, Lars Kai Hansen and Carl Edward Rasmussen | |
| Neural System Model of Human Sound Localization, Craig T. Jin and Simon Carlile | |
| Spectral Cues in Human Sound Localization, Craig T. Jin, Anna Corderoy, Simon Carlile and Andre van Schaik | |
| Broadband Direction-Of-Arrival Estimation Based on Second Order Statistics, Justinian Rosca, Joseph O Ruanaidh, Alexander Jourjine and Scott Rickard | |
| Constrained Hidden Markov Models, Sam Roweis | |
| Online Independent Component Analysis with Local Learning Rate Adaptation, Nicol N. Schraudolph and Xavier Giannakopoulos | |
| Speech Modelling Using Subspace and EM Techniques, Gavin Smith, Joao F. G. de Freitas, Tony Robinson and Mahesan Niranjan |
| Search for Information Bearing Components in Speech, Howard Hua Yang and Hynek Hermansky | |
| Audio Vision: Using Audio-Visual Synchrony to Locate Sounds, John Hershey and Javier R. Movellan | |
| Bayesian Reconstruction of 3D Human Motion from Single-Camera Video, Nicholas R. Howe, Michael E. Leventon and William T. Freeman | |
| Emergence of Topography and Complex Cell Properties from Natural Images using Extensions of ICA, Aapo Hyvarinen and Patrik Hoyer | |
| An Information-Theoretic Framework for Understanding Saccadic Eye Movements, Tai Sing Lee and Stella X. Yu | |
| Learning Sparse Codes with a Mixture-of-Gaussians Prior, Bruno A. Olshausen and K. Jarrod Millman | |
| Hierarchical Image Probability (H1P) Models, Clay D. Spence and Lucas Parra | |
| Scale Mixtures of Gaussians and the Statistics of Natural Images, Martin J. Wainwright and Eero P. Simoncelli | |
| A SNoW-Based Face Detector, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Dan Roth and Narendra Ahuja |
| Managing Uncertainty in Cue Combination, Zhiyong Yang and Richard S. Zemel | |
| Robust Learning of Chaotic Attractors, Rembrandt Bakker, Jaap C. Schouten, Marc-Olivier Coppens, Floris Takens, C. Lee Giles and Cor M. van den Bleek | |
| Image Representations for Facial Expression Coding, Marian Stewart Bartlett, Gianluca Donato, Javier R. Movellan, Joseph C. Hager, Paul Ekman and Terrence J. Sejnowski | |
| Low Power Wireless Communication via Reinforcement Learning, Timothy X. Brown | |
| Learning Informative Statistics: A Nonparametnic Approach, John W. Fisher III, Alexander T. Ihier and Paul A. Viola | |
| Kirchoff Law Markov Fields for Analog Circuit Design, Richard M. Golden | |
| Learning the Similarity of Documents: An Information-Geometric Approach to Document Retrieval and Categorization, Thomas Hofmann | |
| Constructing Heterogeneous Committees Using Input Feature Grouping: Application to Economic Forecasting, Yuansong Liao and John Moody | |
| From Coexpression to Coregulation: An Approach to Inferring Transcriptional Regulation among Gene Classes from Large-Scale Expression Data, Eric Mjolsness, Tobias Mann, Rebecca Castano and Barbara Wold | |
| Churn Reduction in the Wireless Industry, Michael C. Mozer, Richard Wolniewicz, David B. Grimes, Eric Johnson and Howard Kaushansky | |
| Unmixing Hyperspectral Data, Lucas Parra, Clay D. Spence, Paul Sajda, Andreas Ziehe and Klaus-Robert Muller | |
| Application of Blind Separation of Sources to Optical Recording of Brain Activity, Holger Schoner, Martin Stetter, Ingo SchieBi, John E.W. Mayhew, Jennifer Lund, Niall McLoughlin and Klaus Obermayer | |
| Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems, Satinder Singh, Michael Kearns, Diane Litman and Marilyn Walker | |
| Image Recognition in Context: Application to Microscopic Urinalysis, Xubo B. Song, Joseph Sill, Yaser Abu-Mostafa and Harvey Kasdan | |
| Generalized Model Selection for Unsupervised Learning in High Dimensions, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan and Byron Dom |
| Learning from User Feedback in Image Retrieval Systems, Nuno Vasconcelos and Andrew Lippman | |
| An Environment Model for Nonstationary Reinforcement Learning, Samuel P. M. Choi, Dit-Yan Yeung and Nevin L. Zhang | |
| State Abstraction in MAXQ Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning, Thomas G. Dietterich | |
| Approximate Planning in Large POMDPs via Reusable Trajectories, Michael Kearns, Yishay Mansour and Andrew Y. Ng | |
| Actor-Critic Algorithms, Vijay R. Konda and John N. Tsitsiklis | |
| Bayesian Map Learning in Dynamic Environments, Kevin P. Murphy | |
| Policy Search via Density Estimation, Andrew Y. Ng, Ronald Parr and Daphne Koller | |
| Neural Network Based Model Predictive Control, Stephen Piche, Jim Keeler, Greg Martin, Gene Boe, Doug Johnson and Mark Gerules | |
| Reinforcement Learning Using Approximate Belief States, Andrés Rodriguez, Ronald Parr and Daphne Koller | |
| Coastal Navigation with Mobile Robots, Nicholas Roy and Sebastian Thrun | |
| Learning Factored Representations for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, Brian Sallans | |
| Policy Gradient Methods for Reinforcement Learning with Function Approximation, Richard S. Sutton, David McAllester, Satinder Singh and Yishay Mansour | |
| Monte Carlo POMDPs, Sebastian Thrun | |
| Index of Authors | |
| Keyword Index |