@INPROCEEDINGS{fisher99b,
  author = {{Fisher~III}, J. W. and A. T. Ihler and P. Viola},
  editor = {S. A. Solla and T. K. Leen and K-R. M{\"u}ller},
  year = 2000,
  title = {Learning Informative Statistics: A Nonparametric Approach},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems 12}
}
@INPROCEEDINGS{ihler01,
  author = {A. T. Ihler and J. W. {Fisher~III} and A. S. Willsky},
  month = may,
  year = 2001,
  title = {Nonparametric estimators for online signature authentication},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing}
}
@TECHREPORT{sudderth02,
  author = {Erik B. Sudderth and Alexander T. Ihler and William T. Freeman and
           Alan S. Willsky},
  year = 2002,
  title = {Nonparametric Belief Propagation},
  number = {MIT//LIDS P-2551},
  institution = {MIT, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems}
}
@INPROCEEDINGS{ihler03a,
  author = {A. T. Ihler and J. W. {Fisher~III} and A. S. Willsky},
  month = apr,
  year = 2003,
  title = {Hypothesis testing over factorizations for data association},
  booktitle = {Information Processing in Sensor Networks},
  pages = {239--253}
}
@INPROCEEDINGS{ihler03b,
  author = {Ihler, A. T. and Sudderth, E. B. and Freeman, W. T. and Willsky, A. S.},
  year = 2004,
  title = {Efficient Multiscale Sampling from Products of {G}aussian Mixtures},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems 16},
  editor = "Sebastian Thrun and Lawrence Saul and Bernhard {Sch\"{o}lkopf}",
  publisher = "MIT Press",
  address = "Cambridge, MA",
}
@INPROCEEDINGS{sudderth03a,
  author = {E. B. Sudderth and A. T. Ihler and W. T. Freeman and A. S. Willsky},
  year = 2003,
  title = {Nonparametric Belief Propagation},
  booktitle = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
}
@INPROCEEDINGS{ihler04a,
  author = {A. T. Ihler and J. W. {Fisher~III} and R. L. Moses and A. S.
           Willsky},
  year = 2004,
  title = {Nonparametric Belief Propagation for Self-Calibration in Sensor
          Networks},
  booktitle = {Information Processing in Sensor Networks}
}
@INPROCEEDINGS{ihler04b,
  author = {A. T. Ihler and J. W. {Fisher~III} and R. L. Moses and A. S.
           Willsky},
  year = 2004,
  title = {Nonparametric Belief Propagation for Sensor Self-Calibration},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing}
}
@ARTICLE{ihler05a,
  author = {A. T. Ihler and J. W. {Fisher~III} and R. L. Moses and A. S.  Willsky},
  year = 2005,
  title = {Nonparametric Belief Propagation for Self-Calibration in Sensor
          Networks},
  journal = {IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communication}
  volume = 23,
  number = 4,
  pages = {809--819}
}
@TECHREPORT{ihler04d,
  author = {A. T. Ihler and J. W. {Fisher~III} and A. S. Willsky},
  year = 2004,
  title = {Communication-Constrained Inference},
  number = 2601,
  institution = {MIT, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems}
}
@INPROCEEDINGS{ihler04f,
  author = {A. T. Ihler and J. W. {Fisher~III} and A. S. Willsky},
  year = 2005,
  title = {Message Errors in Belief Propagation},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems 17},
  editor = {Lawrence K. Saul and Yair Weiss and {L\'{e}on} Bottou},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  address = {Cambridge, MA},
  pages = {609-616}
}
@ARTICLE{ihler04g,
  author = {A. T. Ihler and J. W. Fisher~III and A. S. Willsky},
  month = aug,
  year = 2004,
  title = {Nonparametric Hypothesis Tests for Statistical Dependency},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing},
  volume = 52,
  number = 8,
  pages = {2234--2249}
}
@ARTICLE{ihler05b,
  author = {A. T. Ihler and J. W. Fisher~III and A. S. Willsky},
  month = may,
  year = 2005,
  title = {Loopy Belief Propagation: Convergence and Effects of Message Errors},
  journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
  volume = 6,
  pages = {905--936}
}
@MISC{ihler-kde,
  author = {Alexander Ihler},
  title = {Kernel Density Estimation Toolbox for Matlab},
  url = {http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ihler/code/}
}
@inproceedings{siracusa05,
 title = {Estimating Dependency and Significance for High-Dimensional Data},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of {ICASSP} 2005 - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing},
 author = {M. Siracusa and K. Tieu and A. Ihler and J. Fisher and A. Willsky},
 year = { 2005 },
 location = { Philadelphia (USA) },
 pages = {1085--1088},
 isbn={0-7803-8874-7}
 }
@INPROCEEDINGS{ihler05c,
  author = {Ihler, A. T. and J. W. Fisher~III and A. S. Willsky},
  month = jul,
  year = 2005,
  title = {Particle filtering under communications constraints},
  booktitle = {Proceedings, IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP)}
}
@ARTICLE{cetin06,
  author = {M. Cetin and L. Chen and J. Fisher and A. Ihler and R. Moses and M. Wainwright and A. Willsky},
  month = jul,
  year = 2006,
  title = {Distributed Fusion in Sensor Networks: A graphical models perspective},
  journal = {IEEE Signal Processing Magazine},
  volume = 23,
  number = 4, 
  pages = {43--55}
}
@INPROCEEDINGS{porteous06,
 title = {{G}ibbs sampling for coupled infinite mixture models in the stick-breaking representation},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of {UAI} 2006},
 author = {I. Porteous and A. Ihler and P. Smyth and M. Welling},
 month = jul,
 year = 2006,
 pages = {385--392},
 location = { Boston (USA) }
 }
@INPROCEEDINGS{ihler06a,
 author = {Alexander Ihler and Jon Hutchins and Padhraic Smyth},
 title = {Adaptive event detection with time-varying {P}oisson processes},
 booktitle = {KDD '06: Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining},
 year = {2006},
 isbn = {1-59593-339-5},
 pages = {207--216},
 location = {Philadelphia, PA, USA},
 doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1150402.1150428},
 publisher = {ACM Press},
 address = {New York, NY, USA}
 }
@INPROCEEDINGS{ihler06b,
  author = {Ihler, A. T. and Smyth, P. J.},
  year = 2007,
  pages = {625--632},
  title = {Learning time-intensity profiles of human activity using non-parametric {B}ayesian models},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems 19},
  editor = {B. Sch\"{o}lkopf and J. Platt and T. Hoffman},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  address = {Cambridge, MA}
}
@ARTICLE{ihler07a, 
 title = {Graphical Models for Statistical Inference and Data Assimilation},
 author = {A. Ihler and S. Kirshner and M. Ghil and A. Robertson and P. Smyth},
 month = jun,
 year = { 2007 },
 journal = {Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena},
 volume = 230,
 issue = {1--2},
 pages = {72--87}
 }
@INPROCEEDINGS{ihler07b,
 title = {Accuracy bounds for belief propagation},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of {UAI} 2007},
 author = {Alexander Ihler},
 month = jul,
 year = 2007
 }
@ARTICLE{ihler07c, 
 author = {Alexander Ihler and Jon Hutchins and Padhraic Smyth},
 title = {Learning to detect events with Markov-modulated Poisson processes},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data},
 volume = {1},
 number = {3},
 year = {2007},
 issn = {1556--4681},
 pages = {13},
 doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1297332.1297337},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 }
@incollection{camsap07,
 title = {Modeling count data from multiple sensors: a building occupancy model},
 author = {Jon Hutchins and Alexander Ihler and Padhraic Smyth},
 booktitle = {Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP)},
 month= dec,
 year = {2007}
}
@inproceedings{uai08,
  author    = {Umut A. Acar and Alexander T. Ihler and Ramgopal R. Mettu and {\"O}zg{\"u}r S{\"u}mer},
  title     = {Adaptive inference on general graphical models},
  booktitle = {UAI},
  year      = {2008},
  pages     = {1--8},
  ee        = {http://uai2008.cs.helsinki.fi/UAI_camera_ready/acar.pdf},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/uai/2008},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@incollection{nips07,
 title = {Adaptive Bayesian Inference},
 author = {Umut Acar and Alexander T. Ihler and Ramgopal R. Mettu and {\"O}zg{\"u}r S{\"u}mer},
 booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20},
 editor = {J.C. Platt and D. Koller and Y. Singer and S. Roweis},
 publisher = {MIT Press},
 address = {Cambridge, MA},
 pages = {1441--1448},
 year = {2008}
}
@PHDTHESIS{ihler-thesis,
  author = {Alexander T. Ihler},
  year = 2005,
  title = {Inference in Sensor Networks: Graphical Models and Particle Methods},
  school = {MIT}
}
@MASTERSTHESIS{ihler00,
  author = {Alexander T. Ihler},
  month = dec,
  year = 2000,
  title = {Maximally Informative Subspaces: Nonparametric Estimation for Dynamical Systems},
  school = {MIT}
}
@inproceedings{aistats09,
  author    = {Alexander Ihler and David McAllester},
  title     = {Particle Belief Propagation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence and Statistics ({AISTATS}) 2009},
  year      = {2009},
  pages     = {256--263},
  editor    = {D. van Dyk and M. Welling},
  publisher = {JMLR: W\&CP 5},
  address   = {Clearwater Beach, Florida}
}
@inproceedings{porteous08,
 author = {Porteous, Ian and Newman, David and Ihler, Alexander and Asuncion, Arthur and Smyth, Padhraic and Welling, Max},
 title = {Fast collapsed {G}ibbs sampling for latent {D}irichlet allocation},
 booktitle = {KDD '08: Proceeding of the 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining},
 year = {2008},
 isbn = {978-1-60558-193-4},
 pages = {569--577},
 location = {Las Vegas, Nevada, USA},
 doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1401890.1401960},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 }
@inproceedings{hutchins08,
 author = {Jon Hutchins and Alexander Ihler and Padhraic Smyth},
 title = {Probabilistic Analysis of a Large Scale Urban Traffic Sensor Data Set},
 booktitle = {Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data, LNCS \# 5840}
 year = {2008},
 pages = {94--114},
 publisher = {Springer},
 doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-12519-5_6}
 }
@article{lin09,
    author = {Lin, Kevin K. AND Kumar, Vivek AND Geyfman, Mikhail AND Chudova, Darya AND Ihler, Alexander T. AND Smyth, Padhraic AND Paus, Ralf AND Takahashi, Joseph S. AND Andersen, Bogi},
    journal = {PLoS Genet},
    publisher = {Public Library of Science},
    title = {Circadian Clock Genes Contribute to the Regulation of Hair Follicle Cycling},
    year = {2009},
    month = {07},
    volume = {5},
    url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1000573},
    pages = {e1000573},
    number = {7},
    doi = {10.1371/journal.pgen.1000573}
}        
@incollection{ssp09,
    title = {Adaptive Updates for MAP Configurations with Applications to Bioinformatics},
    author = {Umut Acar and Alexander T. Ihler and Ramgopal R. Mettu and {\"O}zg{\"u}r S{\"u}mer},
    booktitle = {IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP)},
    month= aug,
    year = {2009}
}
@incollection{allerton09,
   title = {A Low Density Lattice Decoder via Non-parametric Belief Propagation},
   author = {Danny Bickson and Alexander Ihler and Harel Avissar and Danny Dolev},
   booktitle = {Proc. Allerton Conf. on Comm. Control and Comp.},
   month= aug,
   year = {2009}
}
@TECHREPORT{tr09-06,
   author = {Alexander Ihler and David Newman},
   year = 2009,
   title = {Bounding Sample Errors in Approximate Distributed Latent {D}irichlet Allocation},
   number = 09-06,
   institution = {Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine}
}
@incollection{nips09,
   title = {Particle-based Variational Inference for Continuous Systems},
   author = {Alexander Ihler and Andrew Frank and Padhraic Smyth},
   booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22},
   editor = {Y. Bengio and D. Schuurmans and J. Lafferty and C. K. I. Williams and A. Culotta},
   pages = {826--834},
   year = {2009}
}
@article{chudova09,
    author = {Darya Chudova and Alexander Ihler and Kevin K. Lin and Bogi Anderson and Padhraic Smyth},
    journal = {Bioinformatics},
    publisher = {Oxford},
    title = {{B}ayesian detection of non-sinusoidal periodic patterns in circadian expression data},
    year = {2009},
    month = dec,
    volume = {25},
    number = {23},
    pages = {3114--3120},
    doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btp547}
}        
@article{liu10,
    author = {Qiang Liu and Kevin K. Lin and Bogi Anderson and Padhraic Smyth and Alexander Ihler},
    journal = {Bioinformatics},
    publisher = {Oxford},
    title = {Estimating Replicate Time-Shifts Using {G}aussian Process Regression},
    year = {2010},
    month = mar,
    volume = {26},
    number = {6},
    pages = {770--776},
    doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btq022}
}
@incollection{asuncion10a,
    title = {Learning with Blocks: Composite Likelihood and Contrastive Divergence},
    author = {Arthur Asuncion and Qiang Liu and Alexander Ihler and Padhraic Smyth},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on
                 Artificial Intelligence and Statistics ({AISTATS}) 2010},
    year = {2010},
    pages     = {0--0},
    editor    = {},
    publisher = {JMLR: W\&CP 5},
    address   = {}
}
@incollection{asuncion10b,
    title = {Particle Filtered MCMC-MLE with Connections to Contrastive Divergence},
    author = {Arthur Asuncion and Qiang Liu and Alexander Ihler and Padhraic Smyth},
    booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
    month= june,
    year = {2010},
    address   = {Haifa, Israel}
}
@incollection{yarkony10,
   title = {Covering Trees and Lower Bounds on Quadratic Assignment},
   author = {Julian Yarkony and Charless Fowlkes and Alexander Ihler},
   booktitle = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
   month= june,
   year = 2010,
   address = {San Francisco, CA, USA}
}
@incollection{liu10b,
   title = {Negative Tree-reweighted Belief Propagation},
   author = {Qiang Liu and Alexander Ihler},
   booktitle = {Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)},
   month= july,
   year = 2010,
   address = {Catalina Island, CA, USA}
}
@article{sudderth10,
   author = {Erik Sudderth and Alexander Ihler and Michael Isard and William Freeman and Alan Willsky},
   journal = {Communications of the ACM},
   title = {Nonparametric Belief Propagation},
   year = 2010,
   month = oct,
   volume = {53},
   number = {10},
   pages = {95--103},
}
@ARTICLE{tkde11,
author={Ihler, A. and Newman, D.},
journal={Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on},
title={Understanding Errors in Approximate Distributed Latent Dirichlet Allocation},
year={2011},
month={ },
volume={PP},
number={99},
pages={1},
keywords={},
doi={10.1109/TKDE.2011.29},
ISSN={1041-4347},
}
@incollection{liu11c,
   title = {Learning scale free networks by reweighted {L1} regularization},
   author = {Qiang Liu and Alexander Ihler},
   booktitle = {AI \& Statistics},
   month=apr,
   year =2011,
	 pages = {40-48},
   publisher = {JMLR: W\&CP 15},
   address = {Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA}
}
@incollection{xu11,
   title = {Multicore Gibbs Sampling in Dense, Unstructured Graphs},
   author = {Tianbing Xu and Alexander Ihler},
   booktitle = {AI \& Statistics},
   month=apr,
   year =2011,
   pages = {798-806},
   publisher = {JMLR: W\&CP 15},
   address = {Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA}
}
@incollection{foulds11,
   title = {Revisiting MAP Estimation, Message Passing and Perfect Graphs},
   author = {James Foulds and Nicholas Navaroli and Padhraic Smyth and Alexander Ihler},
   booktitle = {AI \& Statistics},
   month=apr,
   year =2011,
   pages = {278-286},
   publisher = {JMLR: W\&CP 15},
   address = {Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA}
}
@article{bickson11,
   author = {Danny Bickson and Dror Baron and Alexander Ihler and Harald Avissar and Danny Dolev},
   title = {Fault Detection via Nonparametric Belief Propagation},
   journal = {IEEE Trans. Signal Process.},
   year = {2011},
   month = jun,
   volume = {59},
   number = {6},
   pages = {2602-2613},
}
@incollection{sumer11,
   title = {Fast parallel and adaptive updates for dual-decomposition solvers},
   author = {\"Ozg\"ur S\"umer and Acar, Umut A. and Alexander Ihler and Mettu, Ramgopal R.}
   booktitle = {Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
   month=aug,
   year =2011,
   pages = {1076--1082},
   address = {San Francisco, CA, USA},
}
@InProceedings{liu11d,
  author =    {Qiang Liu and Alexander Ihler},
  title =     {Bounding the Partition Function using H\"older's Inequality },
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-11)},
  series =    {ICML '11},
  year =      {2011},
  editor =    {Lise Getoor and Tobias Scheffer},
  location =  {Bellevue, Washington, USA},
  isbn =      {978-1-4503-0619-5},
  month =     {June},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address =   {New York, NY, USA},
  pages=      {849--856},
}
@incollection{liu11e,
   title = {Variational algorithms for marginal {MAP}},
   author = {Qiang Liu and Alexander Ihler},
   booktitle = {Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)},
   fullbooktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-11)},
   month= july,
   year = 2011,
   location = {Barcelona, Spain}
   publisher = "AUAI Press",
   address = "Corvallis, Oregon",
   pages = "453-462"
}
@incollection{yarkony11a,
   title = {Planar cycle covering graphs},
   author = {Julian Yarkony and Alexander Ihler and Charless Fowlkes},
   booktitle = {Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)},
   fullbooktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-11)},
   month= july,
   year = 2011,
   location = {Barcelona, Spain}
   publisher = "AUAI Press",
   address = "Corvallis, Oregon",
   pages = "761-769"
} 
@incollection{yarkony11b,
   title = {Tightening {MRF} relaxations with planar subproblems},
   author = {Julian Yarkony and Ragib Morshed and Alexander Ihler and Charless Fowlkes},
   booktitle = {Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)},
   fullbooktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-11)},
   month= july,
   year = 2011,
   location = {Barcelona, Spain}
   publisher = "AUAI Press",
   address = "Corvallis, Oregon",
   pages = "770-777"
}

@article{sumer11b,
   author = {{\"Ozg\"ur S\"umer and Acar, Umut A. and Alexander Ihler and Mettu, Ramgopal R.},
   title = {Adaptive Exact Inference in Graphical Models},
   journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
   year = {2011},
   month = nov,
   volume = {12},
   pages = {3147-3186},
}
@incollection{flerova11,
   title = {Mini-bucket Elimination with Moment Matching},
   author = {Natasha Flerova and Alexander Ihler and Rina Dechter and Lars Otten},
   booktitle = {NIPS Workshop on Discrete Optimization (DiscML)},
   month=dec,
   year =2011,
}
@incollection{liu12a,
   title = {Distributed Parameter Estimation via Pseudo-likelihood},
   author = {Qiang Liu and Alexander Ihler},
   booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
   month=jun,
   year = 2012,
   pages = { },
   address = { }
}
@incollection{cheng12,
   title = {Approximating the Sum Operation for Marginal-MAP Inference},
   author = {Qiang Cheng and Feng Chen and Jianwu Dong and Wenli Xu and Alexander Ihler},
   booktitle = {Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
   month=jul,
   year = 2012,
   pages = { },
   address = { }
}
@incollection{frank12,
   title = {A Graphical Model Representation of the Track-Oriented Multiple Hypothesis Tracker},
   author = {Andrew Frank and Padhraic Smyth and Alexander Ihler},
   booktitle = {Proceedings, IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP)},
   month=aug,
   year =2012,
   pages = { },
   address = { }
}
@incollection{liu12b,
   title = {Belief Propagation for Structured Decision Making},
   author = {Qiang Liu and Alexander Ihler},
   booktitle = {Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)},
   fullbooktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Eight Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-12)},
   month= aug,
   year = 2012,
   location = {Catalina Island, USA}
   publisher = "AUAI Press",
   address = "Corvallis, Oregon",
   pages = ""
}
@incollection{welling12a,
   title = {A Cluster-Cumulant Expansion at the Fixed Points of Belief Propagation},
   author = {Max Welling and Andrew Gelfand and Alexander Ihler},
   booktitle = {Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)},
   fullbooktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Eight Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-12)},
   month= aug,
   year = 2012,
   location = {Catalina Island, USA}
   publisher = "AUAI Press",
   address = "Corvallis, Oregon",
   pages = ""
}
@incollection{ihler12a,
   title = {Join-graph based cost-shifting schemes},
   author = {Alexander Ihler and Natalia Flerova and Rina Dechter and Lars Otten},
   booktitle = {Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)},
   fullbooktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Eight Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-12)},
   month= aug,
   year = 2012,
   location = {Catalina Island, USA}
   publisher = "AUAI Press",
   address = "Corvallis, Oregon",
   pages = ""
}