... on this idea by Williams and Rasmussen
( 199 6), Neal ( 199 7b), Barber and Williams ( 199 7) and Gibbs and MacKay
(2000), and will assess whether, for supervised regression and classification
tasks, ... speech and music modelling (Bar-Shalom and Fort-
mann, 198 8). Generalized radial basis functions (Poggio and Girosi, 198 9),
ARMA models (Wahba, 199 0) and variable metric...
... clustering algorithms, and neural
networks.
Why unify information theory and machine learning? Because they are
two sides of the same coin. In the 196 0s, a single field, cybernetics, was
populated by information ... scientists, and neuroscientists,
all studying common problems. Information theory and machine learning still
belong together. Brains are the ultimate compression...
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... channel, and a decoding
algorithm, and evaluate their probability of error. [The design of good
codes for erasure channels is an active research area (Spielman, 199 6;
Byers et al., 199 8); see ... distribution is Normal(0, v + σ
2
), since x and the noise
are independent random variables, and variances add for independent random
variables. The mutual information is:
I(X; Y ) =
dx...
... Maynard Smith and Sz´athmary
( 199 5), Maynard Smith and Sz´athmary ( 199 9), Kondrashov ( 198 8), May-
nard Smith ( 198 8), Ridley (2000), Dyson ( 198 5), Cairns-Smith ( 198 5), and
Hopfield ( 197 8).
19. 6 Further ... species and allows deleterious muta-
tions to be more rapidly cleared from the population (Maynard Smith, 197 8;
Felsenstein, 198 5; Maynard Smith, 198 8; Maynard Smit...
... impor-
tance sampling (Neal, 199 8).
2. ‘Thermodynamic integration’ during simulated annealing, the ‘accep-
tance ratio’ method, and ‘umbrella sampling’ (reviewed by Neal ( 199 3b)).
3. ‘Reversible jump ... The information learned
about P (x) after the algorithm has run for T steps is less than or equal to
the information content of a, since all information about P is mediated
by a....
... Miskin and MacKay, 2001). Further reading on
blind separation, including non-ICA algorithms, can be found in (Jutten and
Herault, 199 1; Comon et al., 199 1; Hendin et al., 199 4; Amari et al., 199 6;
Hojen-Sorensen ... Pearlmutter and Parra ( 199 6, 199 7).
There is now an enormous literature on applications of ICA. A variational free
energy minimization approach to ICA-like models is...
... Computational
Learning Theory, pp. 230–2 39. ACM.
Baum, E. B., and Smith, W. D. ( 199 3) Best play for imperfect
players and game tree search. Technical report, NEC, Prince-
ton, NJ.
Baum, E. B., and Smith, ... MIT Press.
Barnett, S. ( 197 9) Matrix Methods for Engineers and Scientists.
McGraw-Hill.
Battail, G. ( 199 3) We can think of good codes, and even de-
code them. In Euro...