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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2013
Nec Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Renqiang Min, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Yanjun Qi, Princeton, NJ (US);
NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for identifying combinatorial feature interactions, including capturing statistical dependencies between categorical variables, with the statistical dependencies being stored in a computer readable storage medium. A model is selected based on the statistical dependencies using a neighborhood estimation strategy, with the neighborhood estimation strategy including generating sets of arbitrarily high-order feature interactions using at least one rule forest and optimizing one or more likelihood functions. A damped mean-field approach is applied to the model to obtain parameters of a Markov random field (MRF); a sparse high-order semi-restricted MRF is produced by adding a hidden layer to the MRF; indirect long-range dependencies between feature groups are modeled using the sparse high-order semi-restricted MRF; and a combinatorial dependency structure between variables is output.