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Papers


Submitted

10.   Holographic algorithms without matchgates, with J.M. Landsberg and S. Norine.


9.   Relations among conditional probabilities. Submitted (revising).

Some citations and discussion: Petrović, Rinaldo, and Fienberg, Slavković, Zhu, and Petrović.


Published

8.  Geometry of the restricted Boltzmann machine with M. A. Cueto and B. Sturmfels. To appear in Algebraic Methods in Statistics and Probability, (eds. M. Viana and H. Wynn), American Mathematical Society, Contemporary Mathematics (2010).


7.   Graphical models for correlated default, with I.O. Feliz, X.Guo, and B. Sturmfels. To appear in Mathematical Finance. Slides from a talk.

Some citations and discussion: Bayraktar and Yang.


6.   Comparing pattern detection methods in microarray time series of the segmentation clock, with M. Dequeant, S. Ahnert, H. Edelsbrunner, T. Fink, E. Glynn, G. Hattem, A. Kudlicki, Y. Mileyko, A. Mushegian, L. Pachter, M. Rowicka, A. Shiu, B. Sturmfels, and O. Pourquie, PLoS ONE 3(8): e2856 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002856.


5.   Convex rank tests and semigraphoids with L. Pachter, A. Shiu, B. Sturmfels, and O. Wienand, SIAM J. Discrete Math 23(3) 1117-1134, or here.

Some citations and discussion: Derksen and Fink.



4.   The Cyclohedron test for finding periodic genes with L. Pachter, A. Shiu, and B. Sturmfels, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 (2007) 1:21.

Some citations and discussion: Buck,   Forcey and Springfield.


3.   Three counterexamples on semigraphoids with R. Hemmecke, A. Shiu, B. Sturmfels and O. Wienand, Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 17 (2008) 239-257.

Some citations and discussion: Kahle,   Huber (forthcoming),   Niepert.


2.   Geometry of rank tests, with L. Pachter, A. Shiu, B. Sturmfels, and O. Wienand, in Proceedings of the Third European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2006.

Some citations and discussion: Postnikov, Reiner, and Williams,  Billera, Jia, and ReinerDevadoss,  Agnarsson and Morris.


1.   Equations defining hidden markov models, with N. Bray, Chapter 11 of Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology, Lior Pachter and Bernd Sturmfels, ed.s. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Our Conjecture 11.9 has reportedly been proved by Alexander Schoenhuth; see the paper.


On the arXiv


Books and theses

Geometry of conditional independence, my dissertation.



Workshop reports

Future Directions in Tensor-Based Computation and Modeling


AIM workshop on Geometry and representation theory of tensors for computer science, statistics and other areas.