Machine teaching for bayesian learners in the exponential family

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhu, Xiaojin ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

APPROXIMATE ALGORITHMS; CONJUGATE-EXPONENTIAL FAMILY; EXPONENTIAL FAMILY; LEARNING GOALS; MACHINE LEARNERS; OPTIMAL TEACHING; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SUFFICIENT STATISTICS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899025815     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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