Julian Yarkony

Hello, I am Julian Yarkony. I am interested in variational inference and learning in Markov Random Fields. I hope you get a chance to read some of the publications below I have with my Doctoral Advisors Charless Fowlkes and Alexander Ihler. I am a 5th year PhD candidate at the University of California at Irvine. I am especially proud of the paper "Planar Cycle Covering Graphs" . It is a new algorithm for computing MAP estimates in binary planar Markov random fields. It represents the state of the art method known to me for the classic problem of computing MAP estimates in the Ising grids. Tightening MRF Relaxations with Planar Subproblems extends the methodology of planar cycle covering graphs to non-binary planar problems. My erdos number is 3.

I will be starting as a Post-Doc at UCI Santa Barbara in late summer of 2012 (meaning I will be Dr. Yarkony then). I will be a Post-Doc under Dr. Manjunath in the center for bio-image informatics.


Contacts

Julian E. Yarkony M.S.
PhD Student University of California Irvine
Candidate Of Philosophy
Donald Bren School ICS
Donald Bren Hall room 4021 Machine Learning and Computer Vision
jyarkony@uci.edu
443 834 3222

Publications

    2011
  1. J. Yarkony, R. Morshed, A. Ihler, C. Fowlkes. "Tightening MRF Relaxations with Planar Subproblems",UAI, Barcelona, Spain (July 2011). [pdf]

    2. This includes a correction that was facilitated by Dr. David Sontag.
  2. J. Yarkony, A. Ihler, C. Fowlkes. "Planar Cycle Covering Graphs", UAI, Barcelona, Spain (July 2011). [pdf]

  3. J. Yarkony, R. Morshed, A. Ihler, C. Fowlkes. "Planar Decompositions and Cycle Constraints",Workshop on Inference in Graphical Models with Structured Potentials, Colorado Springs, CO, (June 2011) [pdf]

    4. 2010
  4. J. Yarkony, C. Fowlkes, A. Ihler, "Covering Trees and Lower-bounds on Quadratic Assignment",CVPR, San Francisco, (June 2010) [pdf]

  5. H. Eshuis, J. Yarkony and F. Furche, "Fast computation of molecular RPA correlation energies using resolution-of-the-identity and imaginary frequency integration",Journal of Chemical Physics, (June 2010) [pdf]

  6. J. Yarkony "Masters Thesis, Covering Trees: New Variational Bounds on MAP Assignment in Markov Random Fields " [pdf] (March 2010)