Samy Bengio

Samy Bengio (PhD in computer science, University of Montreal, 1993) is a research scientist at Google since 2007. Before that, he was senior researcher in statistical machine learning at IDIAP Research Institute since 1999, where he supervised PhD students and postdoctoral fellows. His research interests span many areas of machine learning such as deep architectures, representation learning, sequence processing, speech recognition, image understanding, support vector machines, mixture models, large-scale problems, multi-modal (face and voice) person authentication, brain computer interfaces, and document retrieval.

He is the general chair for Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2018, the main conference venue for machine learning, was the program chair for NIPS in 2017, is action editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research and on the editorial board of the Machine Learning Journal, was program chair of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2015, 2016), general chair of BayLearn (2012-2015) and the Workshops on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interactions (MLMI'2004-2006), as well as the IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP'2002), and on the program committee of several international conferences such as NIPS, ICML, ICLR, ECML and IJCAI. More information can be found on his website.

Google Publications

Previous Publications

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    A Kernel Trick For Sequences Applied to Text-Independent Speaker Verification Systems

    J. Mariéthoz, S. Bengio

    Pattern Recognition, vol. 40 (2007)

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    A supervised learning approach based on STDP and polychronization in spiking neuron networks

    H. Paugam-Moisy, R. Martinez, S. Bengio

    European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ESANN (2007)

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    Discriminative Keyword Spotting

    J. Keshet, D. Grangier, S. Bengio

    ISCA Research Workshop on Non Linear Speech Processing, NOLISP (2007)

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    Estimating the Confidence Interval of Expected Performance Curve in Biometric Authentication Using Joint Bootstrap

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2007)

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    Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: Third International Workshop, MLMI'2006

    S. Renals, S. Bengio, J. G. Fiscus

    Springer-Verlag (2007)

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    Performance Generalization in Biometric Authentication Using Joint User-Specific and Sample Bootstraps

    N. Poh, A. Martin, S. Bengio

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), vol. 29 (2007)

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    A Discriminative Approach for the Retrieval of Images from Text Queries

    D. Grangier, F. Monay, S. Bengio

    European Conference on Machine Learning, ECML, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2006)

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    A Discriminative Approach for the Retrieval of Images from Text Queries

    D. Grangier, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2006)

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    A Max Kernel For Text-Independent Speaker Verification Systems

    J. Mariéthoz, S. Bengio

    Second Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication, MMUA (2006)

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    A Multitask Learning Approach to Document Representation using Unlabeled Data

    M. Keller, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2006)

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    A Neural Network to Retrieve Images from Text Queries

    D. Grangier, S. Bengio

    Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks: Biological Inspirations, ICANN, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2006)

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    Chimeric Users to Construct Fusion Classifiers in Biometric Authentication Tasks: An Investigation

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2006)

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    Database, Protocol and Tools for Evaluating Score-Level Fusion Algorithms in Biometric Authentication

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    Pattern Recognition, vol. 39 (2006), pp. 223-233

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    Discriminative Kernel-Based Phoneme Sequence Recognition

    J. Keshet, S. Shalev-Shwartz, S. Bengio, Y. Singer, D. Chazan

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech-ICSLP (2006)

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    Graph-Based Invariant Manifolds for Invariant Pattern Recognition with Kernel Methods

    A. Pozdnoukhov, S. Bengio

    International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR (2006)

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    Invariances in Kernel Methods: From Samples to Objects

    A. Pozdnoukhov, S. Bengio

    Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 27 (2006), pp. 1087-1097

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    Investigating Lexical Substitution Scoring for Subtitle Generation

    O. Glickman, I. Dagan, M. Keller, S. Bengio, W. Daelemans

    Tenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CONLL (2006)

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    Learning to Retrieve Images from Text Queries with a Discriminative Model

    D. Grangier, F. Monay, S. Bengio

    International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR (2006)

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    Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: Second International Workshop, MLMI'2005

    S. Renals, S. Bengio

    Springer-Verlag (2006)

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    Measuring the Performance of Face Localization Systems

    Y. Rodriguez, F. Cardinaux, S. Bengio, J. Mariéthoz

    Image and Vision Computing, vol. 24 (2006), pp. 882-893

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    Modeling Individual and Group Actions in Meetings With Layered HMMs

    D. Zhang, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Bengio, I. McCowan

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 8 (2006), pp. 509-520

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    Modeling Interactions from Email Communication

    D. Zhang, D. Gatica-Perez, D. Roy, S. Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, ICME (2006)

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    On Transforming Statistical Models for Non-Frontal Face Verification

    C. Sanderson, S. Bengio, Y. Gao

    Pattern Recognition, vol. 39 (2006), pp. 288-302

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    Posterior Based Keyword Spotting with A Priori Thresholds

    H. Ketabdar, J. Vepa, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech-ICSLP (2006)

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    Probabilistic Melodic Harmonization

    J.-F. Paiement, D. Eck, S. Bengio

    Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2006), pp. 218-229

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    Revisiting Doddington's Zoo: A Systematic Method to Assess User-dependent Variabilities

    N. Poh, S. Bengio, A. Ross

    Second Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication, MMUA (2006)

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    Semi-Supervised Kernel Methods for Regression Estimation

    A. Pozdnoukhov, S. Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2006)

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    User Authentication via Adapted Statistical Models of Face Images

    F. Cardinaux, C. Sanderson, S. Bengio

    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54 (2006), pp. 361-373

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    Using More Informative Posterior Probabilities for Speech Recognition

    H. Ketabdar, J. Vepa, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2006)

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    Writer Identification for Smart Meeting Room Systems

    M. Liwicki, A. Schlapbach, H. Bunke, S. Bengio, J. Mariéthoz, J. Richiardi

    Document Analysis Systems VII: 7th International Workshop, DAS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2006), pp. 186-195

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    A Discriminative Decoder for the Recognition of Phoneme Sequences

    D. Grangier, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2005)

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    A Graphical Model for Chord Progressions Embedded in a Psychoacoustic Space

    J.-F. Paiement, D. Eck, S. Bengio, D. Barber

    International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML (2005)

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    A Kernel Classifier for Distributions

    A. Pozdnoukhov, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2005)

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    A Neural Network for Text Representation

    M. Keller, S. Bengio

    Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks: Biological Inspirations, ICANN, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2005), pp. 667-672

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    A Novel Approach to Combining Client-Dependent and Confidence Information in Multimodal Biometrics

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    5th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2005), pp. 1120-1129

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    A Probabilistic Interpretation of SVMs with an Application to Unbalanced Classification

    Y. Grandvalet, J. Mariéthoz, S. Bengio

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 18, MIT Press (2005)

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    A Probabilistic Model for Chord Progressions

    J.-F. Paiement, D. Eck, S. Bengio

    International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR (2005)

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    A Score-Level Fusion Benchmark Database For Biometric Authentication

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    5th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2005), pp. 474-483

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    A Unified Framework for Score Normalization Techniques Applied to Text Independent Speaker Verification

    J. Mariéthoz, S. Bengio

    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12 (2005), pp. 532-535

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    Automatic Analysis of Multimodal Group Actions in Meetings

    I. McCowan, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Bengio, G. Lathoud, M. Barnard, D. Zhang

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), vol. 27 (2005), pp. 305-317

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    Benchmarking Non-Parametric Statistical Tests

    M. Keller, S. Bengio, S. Y. Wong

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 18, MIT Press (2005)

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    Boosting Word Error Rates

    C. Dimitrakakis, S. Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2005), pp. 501-504

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    Can Chimeric Persons Be Used in Multimodal Biometric Authentication Experiments?

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    Machine Learning for Multimodal Interactions: Second International Workshop, MLMI, Springer-Verlag (2005)

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    Can a Professional Imitator Fool a GMM-Based Speaker Verification System?

    J. Mariéthoz, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2005)

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    Detecting Group Interest-level in Meetings

    D. Gatica-Perez, I. McCowan, D. Zhang, Samy Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2005), pp. 489-492

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    Developing and Enhancing Posterior Based Speech Recognition Systems

    H. Ketabdar, J. Vepa, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Eurospeech-Interspeech (2005)

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    EER of Fixed and Trainable Fusion Classifiers: A Theoretical Study with Application to Biometric Authentication Tasks

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    6th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2005), pp. 74-85

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    Exploiting Hyperlinks to Learn a Retrieval Model

    D. Grangier, S. Bengio

    Proceedings of the NIPS 2005 Workshop on Learning to Rank

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    Extracting Information from Multimedia Meeting Collections

    D. Gatica-Perez, D. Zhang, S. Bengio

    7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, MIR (2005)

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    F-ratio Client-Dependent Normalisation for Biometric Authentication Tasks

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2005), pp. 721-724

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    Gradient-Based Estimates of Return Distributions

    C. Dimitrakakis, S. Bengio

    PASCAL Workshop on Principled Methods of Trading Exploration and Exploitation (2005)

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    Hierarchical Multi-Stream Posterior Based Speech Recognition System

    H. Ketabdar, H. Bourlard, S. Bengio

    Machine Learning for Multimodal Interactions: Second International Workshop, MLMI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2005)

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    How Do Correlation and Variance of Base Classifiers Affect Fusion in Biometric Authentication Tasks?

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53 (2005), pp. 4384-4396

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    Improving Fusion with Margin-Derived Confidence In Biometric Authentication Tasks

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    5th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2005), pp. 1059-1068

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    Improving Kernel Classifiers for Object Categorization Problems

    A. Pozdnoukhov, S. Bengio

    International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML, Workshop on Learning with Partially Classified Training Data (2005)

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    Inferring Document Similarity from Hyperlinks

    D. Grangier, S. Bengio

    Proceedings of the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM (2005)

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    Joint Training of Multi-Stream HMMs

    S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2005)

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    Kernel Matching Pursuit for Large Datasets

    V. Popovici, S. Bengio, J.-P. Thiran

    Pattern Recognition, vol. 38 (2005), pp. 2385-2390

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    Learning Influence Among Interacting Markov Chains

    D. Zhang, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Bengio, D. Roy

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 18, MIT Press (2005)

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    Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: First International Workshop, MLMI'2004

    S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    Springer-Verlag (2005)

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    Machine Learning for automatic environmental mapping: when and how?

    N. Gilardi, S. Bengio

    Automatic mapping algorithms for routine and emergency monitoring data. Report on the Spatial Interpolation Comparison (SIC2004) exercise, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg (2005), pp. 123-138

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    Modeling Interactions from Email Communication

    D. Zhang, D. Gatica-Perez, D. Roy, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2005)

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    Multi Channel Sequence Processing

    S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    Deterministic and Statistical Methods in Machine Learning: First International Workshop, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag (2005), pp. 22-36

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    On Accuracy/Robustness/Complexity Trade-Offs in Face Verification

    C. Sanderson, F. Cardinaux, S. Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA (2005), pp. 638-643

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    Online Adaptive Policies for Ensemble Classifiers

    C. Dimitrakakis, S. Bengio

    Neurocomputing, vol. 64 (2005), pp. 211-221

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    Semi-supervised Adapted HMMs for Unusual Event Detection

    D. Zhang, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Bengio, I. McCowan

    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR (2005)

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    Semi-supervised Meeting Event Recognition with Adapted HMMs

    D. Zhang, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Bengio, I. McCowan

    IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo, ICME (2005), pp. 611-618

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    The Expected Performance Curve

    S. Bengio, J. Mariéthoz, M. Keller

    International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML, Workshop on ROC Analysis in Machine Learning (2005)

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    A Gentle Hessian for Efficient Gradient Descent

    R. Collobert, S. Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2004), pp. 517-520

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    A Statistical Significance Test for Person Authentication

    S. Bengio, J. Mariéthoz

    Proceedings of Odyssey 2004: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

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    Boosting HMMs with an application to speech recognition

    C. Dimitrakakis, S. Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2004), pp. 621-624

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    Estimates of Parameter Distributions for Optimal Action Selection

    C. Dimitrakakis, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2004)

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    Estimating the Quality of Face Localization for Face Verification

    Y. Rodriguez, F. Cardinaux, S. Bengio, J. Mariéthoz

    IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP (2004), pp. 581-584

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    Evaluation of Formant-Like Features for Automatic Speech Recognition

    F. de Wet, K. Weber, L. Boves, B. Cranen, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), vol. 116 (2004), pp. 1781-1792

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    Extrapolating Single View Face Models for Multi-View Recognition

    C. Sanderson, S. Bengio

    International Conference on Intelligente Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processings, ISSNIP (2004), pp. 581-586

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    Face Authentication Competition on the BANCA Database

    K. Messer, J. Kittler, M. Sadeghi, M. Hamouz, A. Kostin, S. Marcel, S. Bengio, F. Cardinaux, C. Sanderson, N. Poh, Y. Rodriguez, K. Kryszczuk, J. Czyz, L. Vandendorpe, J. Ng, H. Cheung, B. Tang

    International Conference on Biometric Authentication, ICBA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2004), pp. 8-15

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    Face Authentication Test on the BANCA Database

    K. Messer, J. Kittler, M. Sadeghi, M. Hamouz, A. Kostin, F. Cardinaux, S. Marcel, S. Bengio, C. Sanderson, N. Poh, Y. Rodriguez, J. Czyz, L. Vandendorpe, C. McCool, S. Lowther, S. Sridharan, V. Chandran, R. P. Palacios, E. Vidal, L. Bai, L. Shen, Y. Wang, C. Yueh-Hsuan, L. Hsien-Chang, H. Yi-Ping, A. Heinrichs, M. Muller, A. Tewes, C. von der Malsburg, R. Wurtz, Z. Wang, F. Xue, Y. Ma, Q. Yang, C. Fang, X. Ding, S. Lucey, R. Goss, H. Schneiderman

    International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR (2004), pp. 523-532

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    Face Verification Using Adapted Generative Models

    F. Cardinaux, C. Sanderson, S. Bengio

    International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG (2004), pp. 825-830

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    HMM and IOHMM Modeling of EEG Rhythms for Asynchronous BCI Systems

    S. Chiappa, S. Bengio

    European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ESANN (2004)

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    Joint Decoding for Phoneme-Grapheme Continuous Speech Recognition

    M. Magimai Doss, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2004), pp. 177-180

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    Links Between Perceptrons, MLPs and SVMs

    R. Collobert, S. Bengio

    International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML (2004)

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    Modeling Individual and Group Actions in Meetings: a Two-Layer HMM Framework

    D. Zhang, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Bengio, I. McCowan, G. Lathoud

    IEEE Workshop on Event Mining at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR (2004)

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    Multimodal Group Action Clustering in Meetings

    D. Zhang, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Bengio, I. McCowan, G. Lathoud

    ACM Multimedia Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (2004)

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    Multimodal Speech Processing Using Asynchronous Hidden Markov Models

    S. Bengio

    Information Fusion, vol. 5 (2004), pp. 81-89

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    Noise-Robust Multi-Stream Fusion for Text-Independent Speaker Authentication

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    Proceedings of Odyssey 2004: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

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    Offline Recognition of Unconstrained Handwritten Texts Using HMMs and Statistical Language Models

    A. Vinciarelli, S. Bengio, H. Bunke

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), vol. 26 (2004), pp. 709-720

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    Online Policy Adaptation for Ensemble Classifiers

    C. Dimitrakakis, S. Bengio

    European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ESANN (2004)

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    Sequence Classification with Input-Output Hidden Markov Models

    S. Chiappa, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2004)

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    Significance Tests for Bizarre Measures in 2-Class Classification Tasks

    M. Keller, J. Mariéthoz, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2004)

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    Spectral Subband Centroids as Complementary Features for Speaker Authentication

    N. Poh, C. Sanderson, S. Bengio

    International Conference on Biometric Authentication, ICBA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2004), pp. 631-639

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    Statistical Transformation Techniques for Face Verification using Faces Rotated in Depth

    C. Sanderson, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2004)

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    Statistical Transformations of Frontal Models for Non-Frontal Face Verification

    C. Sanderson, S. Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP (2004), pp. 585-588

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    Tangent Vector Kernels for Invariant Image Classification with SVMs

    A. Pozdnoukhov, S. Bengio

    International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR (2004), pp. 486-489

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    The Expected Performance Curve: a New Assessment Measure for Person Authentication

    S. Bengio, J. Mariéthoz

    Proceedings of Odyssey 2004: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

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    Theme Topic Mixture Model: A Graphical Model for Document Representation

    M. Keller, S. Bengio

    PASCAL Workshop on Learning Methods for Text Understanding and Mining (2004)

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    Towards Computer Understanding of Human Interactions

    I. McCowan, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Bengio, D. Moore, H. Bourlard

    Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: First International Workshop, MLMI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2004), pp. 56-75

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    Towards Predicting Optimal Subsets of Base Classifiers in Biometric Authentication Tasks

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    Machine Learning for Multimodal Interactions: First International Workshop, MLMI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2004), pp. 159-172

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    Towards using hierarchical posteriors for flexible automatic speech recognition systems

    H. Bourlard, S. Bengio, M. Magimai Doss, Q. Zhu, B. Mesot, N. Morgan

    Proceedings of the DARPA EARS (Effective, Affordable, Reusable, Speech-to-text) Rich Transcription (RT'04) Workshop (2004)

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    Why Do Multi-Stream, Multi-Band and Multi-Modal Approaches Work on Biometric User Authentication Tasks?

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2004), pp. 893-896

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    A New Margin-Based Criterion for Efficient Gradient Descent

    R. Collobert, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2003)

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    An Alternative To Silence Removal For Text-Independent Speaker Verification

    J. Mariéthoz, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2003)

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    An Asynchronous Hidden Markov Model for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

    S. Bengio

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 15, MIT Press (2003), pp. 1237-1244

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    Augmenting Frontal Face Models for Non-Frontal Verification

    C. Sanderson, S. Bengio

    IEEE Multimodal User Authentication Workshop (2003)

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    Client Dependent GMM-SVM Models for Speaker Verification

    Q. Le, S. Bengio

    International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN/ICONIP, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag (2003), pp. 443-451

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    Comparison of four machine learning algorithms for spatial data analysis

    N. Gilardi, S. Bengio

    Mapping radioactivity in the environment - Spatial Interpolation Comparison 97, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg (2003), pp. 222-237

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    Face Verification Competition on the XM2VTS Database

    K. Messer, J. Kittler, M. Sadeghi, S. Marcel, C. Marcel, S. Bengio, F. Cardinaux, C. Sanderson, J. Czyz, L. Vandendorpe, S. Srisuk, M. Petrou, W. Kurutach, A. Kadyrov, R. Paredes, B. Kepenekci, F. B. Tek, G. B. Akar, F. Deravi, N. Mavity

    4th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2003), pp. 964-974

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    From Samples to Objects in Kernel Methods

    A. Pozdnoukhov, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2003)

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    Improving Face Authentication Using Virtual Samples

    N. Poh, S. Marcel, S. Bengio

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2003), pp. 233-236

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    Meeting Data Collection Specifications

    I. McCowan, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2003)

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    Modeling Human Interaction in Meetings

    I. McCowan, S. Bengio, D. Gatica-Perez, G. Lathoud, F. Monay, D. Moore, P. Wellner, H. Bourlard

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2003), pp. 748-751

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    Multi-Modal Audio-Visual Event Recognition for Football Analysis

    M. Barnard, J.-M. Odobez, S. Bengio

    IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, NNSP (2003), pp. 469-478

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    Multimodal Authentication using Asynchronous HMMs

    S. Bengio

    4th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2003), pp. 770-777

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    Non-Linear Variance Reduction Techniques in Biometric Authentication

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    IEEE Multimodal User Authentication Workshop (2003)

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    Offline Recognition of Large Vocabulary Cursive Handwritten Text

    A. Vinciarelli, S. Bengio, H. Bunke

    International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR (2003), pp. 1101-1105

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    On Automatic Annotation of Meeting Databases

    D. Gatica-Perez, I. McCowan, M. Barnard, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP (2003), pp. 629-632

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    Phoneme-Grapheme Based Speech Recognition System

    M. Magimai Doss, T. A. Stephenson, H. Bourlard, S. Bengio

    IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, ASRU (2003), pp. 94-98

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    Robust Features for Frontal Authentication in Difficult Image Conditions

    C. Sanderson, S. Bengio

    4th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2003), pp. 495-504

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    Robust Speech Recognition and Feature Extraction Using HMM2

    K. Weber, S. Ikbal, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    Computer, Speech and Language, vol. 17 (2003), pp. 195-211

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    Scalability Analysis of Audio-Visual Person Identity Verification

    J. Czyz, S. Bengio, C. Marcel, L. Vandendorpe

    4th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2003), pp. 752-760

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    Scaling Large Learning Problems with Hard Parallel Mixtures

    R. Collobert, Y. Bengio, S. Bengio

    International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), vol. 17 (2003), pp. 349-365

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    Speech & Face Based Biometric Authentication at IDIAP

    C. Sanderson, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard, J. Mariéthoz, R. Collobert, M.F. BenZeghiba, F. Cardinaux, S. Marcel

    International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME (2003), pp. 1-4

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    Textual Data Representation

    M. Keller, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2003)

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    The BANCA Database and Evaluation Protocol

    E. Bailly-Baillière, S. Bengio, F. Bimbot, M. Hamouz, J. Kittler, J. Mariéthoz, J. Matas, K. Messer, V. Popovici, F. Porée, B. Ruiz, J.-P. Thiran

    4th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2003), pp. 625-638

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    Towards Computer Understanding of Human Interactions

    I. McCowan, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Bengio, D. Moore, H. Bourlard

    Ambient Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Eindhoven (2003), pp. 235-251

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    Towards Robust and Adaptive Speech Recognition Models

    H. Bourlard, S. Bengio, K. Weber

    Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing, Springer-Verlag (2003), pp. 169-189

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    Variance Reduction Techniques in Biometric Authentication

    N. Poh, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2003)

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    A Comparative Study of Adaptation Methods for Speaker Verification

    J. Mariéthoz, S. Bengio

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP (2002)

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    A Multi-sample Multi-source Model for Biometric Authentication

    N. Poh, S. Bengio, J. Korczak

    IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, NNSP (2002), pp. 375-384

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    A Parallel Mixture of SVMs for Very Large Scale Problems

    R. Collobert, S. Bengio, Y. Bengio

    Neural Computation, vol. 14 (2002), pp. 1105-1114

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    A Parallel Mixture of SVMs for Very Large Scale Problems

    R. Collobert, S. Bengio, Y. Bengio

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 14, MIT Press (2002), pp. 633-640

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    A State-of-the-art Neural Network for Robust Face Verification

    S. Marcel, C. Marcel, S. Bengio

    COST275 Workshop on the advent of Biometrics on the Internet (2002)

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    Conditional Gaussian Mixture Models for Environmental Risk Mapping

    N. Gilardi, S. Bengio, M. Kanevski

    IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, NNSP (2002), pp. 777-786

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    Confidence Measures for Multimodal Identity Verification

    S. Bengio, C. Marcel, S. Marcel, J. Mariéthoz

    Information Fusion, vol. 3 (2002), pp. 267-276

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    Evaluation of Formant-Like Features for ASR

    K. Weber, F. de Wet, B. Cranen, L. Boves, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP (2002)

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    Hidden Markov Models and other Finite State Automata for Sequence Processing

    H. Bourlard, S. Bengio

    The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, Second Edition, The MIT Press (2002)

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    Hybrid generative-discriminative models for speech and speaker recognition

    Q. Le, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2002)

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    Improving Face Verification using Skin Color Information

    S. Marcel, S. Bengio

    Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR, IEEE Computer Society Press (2002), pp. 11-15

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    Increasing Speech Recognition Noise Robustness with HMM2

    K. Weber, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2002), pp. 929-932

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    Offline Cursive Word Recognition using Continuous Density Hidden Markov Models trained with PCA or ICA Features

    A. Vinciarelli, S. Bengio

    Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR, IEEE Computer Society Press (2002), pp. 81-84

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    Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP)

    H. Bourlard, T. Adali, S. Bengio, J. Larsen, S. Douglas

    IEEE Press (2002)

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    Scaling Large Learning Problems with Hard Parallel Mixtures

    R. Collobert, Y. Bengio, S. Bengio

    International Workshop on Pattern Recognition with Support Vector Machines, SVM, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag (2002), pp. 8-23

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    The BANCA Database and Experimental Protocol for Speaker Verification

    F. Porée, J. Mariéthoz, S. Bengio, F. Bimbot

    IDIAP (2002)

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    Torch: a modular machine learning software library

    R. Collobert, S. Bengio, J. Mariéthoz

    IDIAP (2002)

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    Transforming the Feature Vectors to Improve HMM Based Cursive Word Recognition Systems

    A. Vinciarelli, S. Bengio

    IDIAP (2002)

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    Writer adaptation techniques in HMM based Off-Line Cursive Script Recognition

    A. Vinciarelli, S. Bengio

    Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 23 (2002), pp. 905-916

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    Writer adaptation techniques in HMM based Off-Line Cursive Script Recognition

    A. Vinciarelli, S. Bengio

    Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (2002), pp. 287-291

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    A Pragmatic View of the Application of HMM2 for ASR

    K. Weber, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    IDIAP (2001)

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    Comparison of Client Model Adaptation Schemes

    S. Bengio, J. Mariéthoz

    IDIAP (2001)

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    Evaluation of Biometric Technology on XM2VTS

    S. Bengio, J. Mariéthoz, S. Marcel

    IDIAP (2001)

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    HMM2- Extraction of Formant Features and their Use for Robust ASR

    K. Weber, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH (2001)

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    Learning the Decision Function for Speaker Verification

    S. Bengio, J. Mariéthoz

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP (2001), pp. 425-428

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    New Approaches Towards Robust and Adaptive Speech Recognition

    H. Bourlard, S. Bengio, K. Weber

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 13, MIT Press (2001), pp. 751-757

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    SVMTorch: Support Vector Machines for Large-Scale Regression Problems

    R. Collobert, S. Bengio

    Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 1 (2001), pp. 143-160

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    Speech Recognition Using Advanced HMM2 Features

    K. Weber, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    Proceedings of the Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, ASRU (2001), pp. 65-68

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    The use of predictive models of breeding bird assemblages for assessing and monitoring forest bird diversity

    J.-L. DesGranges, P. Agin, S. Bengio

    Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management at the Forest Management Unit Level, European Forest Institute Proceedings (2001), pp. 181-200

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    An EM Algorithm for HMMs with Emission Distributions Represented by HMMs

    S. Bengio, H. Bourlard, K. Weber

    IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland (2000)

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    Automatic Speech Recognition using Dynamic Bayesian Networks with both Acoustic and Articulatory Variables

    T. A. Stephenson, H. Bourlard, S. Bengio, A. C. Morris

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, ICSLP, Beijing, China (2000)

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    HMM2- A novel approach to HMM emission probability estimation

    K. Weber, S. Bengio, H. Bourlard

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, ICSLP, Beijing, China (2000)

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    Local Machine Learning Models for Spatial Data Analysis

    N. Gilardi, S. Bengio

    Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis, vol. 4 (2000), pp. 11-28

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    Modeling High-Dimensional Discrete Data with Multi-Layer Neural Networks

    Y. Bengio, S. Bengio

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 12, MIT Press (2000), pp. 400-406

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    On the Convergence of SVMTorch, an Algorithm for Large-Scale Regression Problems

    R. Collobert, S. Bengio

    IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland (2000)

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    Support Vector Machines for Large-Scale Regression Problems

    R. Collobert, S. Bengio

    IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland (2000)

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    Taking on the Curse of Dimensionality in Joint Distributions Using Neural Networks

    S. Bengio, Y. Bengio

    IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks, special issue on data mining and knowledge discovery, vol. 11 (2000), pp. 550-557

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    Stochastic Learning of Strategic Equilibria for Auctions

    S. Bengio, Y. Bengio, J. Robert, G. Bélanger

    Neural Computation, vol. 11 (1999), pp. 1199-1209

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    Dynamical resource reservation schemes in an ATM network using neural network-based traffic prediction

    S. Bengio, F. Clerot, A. Gravey, D. Collobert

    Proceedings of the IFIP Fifth International Workshop on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks, Kluwer B. V. (1997)

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    On the Optimization of a Synaptic Learning Rule

    S. Bengio, Y. Bengio, J. Cloutier, J. Gecsei

    Optimality in Biological and Artificial Networks?, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1997), pp. 265-287

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    Shared Context Probabilistic Transducers

    Yoshua Bengio, Samy Bengio, Jean-Francois Isabelle, Yoram Singer

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 10 (1997)

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    An EM Algorithm for Asynchronous Input/Output Hidden Markov Models

    S. Bengio, Y. Bengio

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP, Hong Kong (1996)

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    On the Prediction of Solar Activity Using Different Neural Network Models

    F. Fessant, S. Bengio, D. Collobert

    Annales Geophysicae, vol. 14 (1996), pp. 20-26

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    The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows - Part II: Genetic Search

    J.-Y. Potvin, S. Bengio

    INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol. 8 (1996), pp. 165-172

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    Training Asynchronous Input/Output Hidden Markov Models

    Y. Bengio, S. Bengio

    AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Issues in Learning Models of Dynamical Systems (1996)

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    Use of Modular Architectures for Time Series Prediction

    S. Bengio, F. Fessant, D. Collobert

    Neural Processing Letters, vol. 3 (1996), pp. 101-106

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    Utilisation de techniques de prédiction neuromimétiques pour la négotiation dynamique des paramètres de contrat de trafic dans un réseau ATM

    A. Gravey, S. Bengio, D. Collobert, F. Clerot

    France Telecom CNET, Lannion, France (1996)

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    A Connectionist System for Medium-Term Horizon Time Series Prediction

    S. Bengio, F. Fessant, D. Collobert

    International Workshop on Applications of Neural Networks to Telecommunications, IWANNT, Stockholm, Sweden (1995)

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    On the Search for New Learning Rules for ANNs

    S. Bengio, Y. Bengio, J. Cloutier

    Neural Processing Letters, vol. 2 (1995), pp. 26-30

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    A Genetic based Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

    J.-Y. Potvin, S. Bengio

    Centre de Recherche sur les Transports, Université de Montréal (1994)

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    Use of Genetic Programming for the Search of a New Learning Rule for Neural Networks

    S. Bengio, Y. Bengio, J. Cloutier

    Proceedings of the First Conference on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (1994), pp. 324-327

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    Generalization of a Parametric Learning Rule

    S. Bengio, Y. Bengio, J. Cloutier, J. Gecsei

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN'93, Springer-Verlag, Amsterdam, Nederlands (1993), pp. 502-502

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    Aspects théoriques de l'optimisation d'une règle d'apprentissage

    S. Bengio, Y. Bengio, J. Cloutier, J. Gecsei

    Actes de la conférence Neuro-Nîmes 1992, Nîmes, France

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    On the Optimization of a Synaptic Learning rule

    S. Bengio, Y. Bengio, J. Cloutier, J. Gecsei

    Conference on Optimality in Biological and Artificial Networks, Dallas, USA (1992)

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    Learning a Synaptic Learning Rule

    Y. Bengio, S. Bengio, J. Cloutier

    Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN, Seattle, USA (1991), pp. 969-974

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    Secure Implementation of Identification Systems

    S. Bengio, G. Brassard, Y. Desmedt, C. Goutier, J.-J. Quisquater

    Journal of Cryptology, vol. 4 (1991), pp. 175-183

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    A Neural Network to Detect Homologies in Proteins

    Y. Bengio, S. Bengio, Y. Pouliot, P. Agin

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, USA (1990)

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    Learning a Synaptic Learning Rule

    Y. Bengio, S. Bengio

    Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, Montreal (QC) Canada (1990)

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    Integrating Traditional and Intelligent Computerized Tutoring

    S. Bengio, C. Frasson, J. Gecsei

    Fourth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Cesme, Turkey (1989)

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    Utilisation de systèmes d'EAO dans des systèmes d'EIAO

    S. Bengio, C. Frasson, J. Gecsei

    Sixième Symposium Canadien sur la Technologie Pédagogique, Halifax, Canada (1989)

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    Special Uses and Abuses of the Fiat-Shamir Passport Protocol

    Y. Desmedt, C. Goutier, S. Bengio

    Advances in Cryptology, Crypto, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, Santa Barbara, USA (1988), pp. 21-39

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    Utilisation d'EAO dans des systèmes d'EIAO

    S. Bengio, C. Frasson

    Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, Montreal (QC) Canada (1988)

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    Aspects and Importance of Secure Implementations of Identification Systems

    S. Bengio, G. Brassard, Y. Desmedt, C. Goutier, J.-J. Quisquater

    Philips Research Laboratory, Brussel, Belgium (1987)