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Approximate inference using planar graph decomposition
Amir Globerson · Tommi Jaakkola

Thu Dec 07 10:40 AM -- 10:40 AM (PST) @

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Amir Globerson (Tel Aviv University, Google)

Amir Globerson is senior lecturer at the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University. He received a PhD in computational neuroscience from the Hebrew University, and was a Rothschild postdoctoral fellow at MIT. He joined the Hebrew University in 2008. His research interests include graphical models and probabilistic inference, convex optimization, robust learning and natural language processing.

Tommi Jaakkola (MIT)

Tommi Jaakkola is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He received an M.Sc. degree in theoretical physics from Helsinki University of Technology, and Ph.D. from MIT in computational neuroscience. Following a Sloan postdoctoral fellowship in computational molecular biology, he joined the MIT faculty in 1998. His research interests include statistical inference, graphical models, and large scale modern estimation problems with predominantly incomplete data.

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