Alan Willsky

  1. The Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Hidden Semi-Markov Model.

    Authors: Alan Willsky, Matthew J. Johnson
    Subjects: Artificial Intelligence
    Abstract

    There is much interest in the Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Hidden Markov
    Model (HDP-HMM) as a natural Bayesian nonparametric extension of the
    traditional HMM. However, in many settings the HDP-HMM's strict Markovian
    constraints are undesirable, particularly if we wish to learn or encode
    non-geometric state durations.

  2. Energy-Latency Tradeoff for In-Network Function Computation in Random Networks.

    Authors: Animashree Anandkumar, Alan Willsky, Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás
    Subjects: Networking and Internet Architecture
    Abstract

    The problem of designing policies for in-network function computation with
    minimum energy consumption subject to a latency constraint is considered. The
    scaling behavior of the energy consumption under the latency constraint is
    analyzed for random networks, where the nodes are uniformly placed in growing
    regions and the number of nodes goes to infinity. The special case of sum
    function computation and its delivery to a designated root node is considered
    first.

  3. High Dimensional Structure Learning of Ising Models on Sparse Random Graphs.

    Authors: Animashree Anandkumar, Alan Willsky, Vincent Tan
    Subjects: Statistics
    Abstract

    We consider the problem of learning the structure of ferromagnetic Ising
    models Markov on sparse Erdos-Renyi random graph. We propose simple local
    algorithms and analyze their performance in the regime of correlation decay. We
    prove that an algorithm based on a set of conditional mutual information tests
    is consistent for structure learning throughout the regime of correlation
    decay. This algorithm requires the number of samples to scale as \omega(\log
    n), and has a computational complexity of O(n^5).

  4. Sequential Compressed Sensing.

    Authors: Dmitry Malioutov, Sujay Sanghavi, Alan Willsky
    Subjects: Information Theory
    Abstract

    Compressed sensing allows perfect recovery of sparse signals (or signals
    sparse in some basis) using only a small number of random measurements.
    Existing results in compressed sensing literature have focused on
    characterizing the achievable performance by bounding the number of samples
    required for a given level of signal sparsity.

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