Publications

Patrick Pletscher, Cheng Soon Ong & Joachim M. Buhmann
Entropy and Margin Maximization for Structured Output Learning
Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), 2010. To appear.
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@inproceedings{Pletscher:MaxEntMarg:2010,
  author    = {Pletscher, Patrick and Ong, Cheng Soon and
               Buhmann, Joachim M.},
  title     = {Entropy and Margin Maximization for Structured Output Learning},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on
               Marchine Learning ({ECML})},
  year      = {2010}
}

Patrick Pletscher, Cheng Soon Ong & Joachim M. Buhmann
Spanning Tree Approximations for Conditional Random Fields
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2009.
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@inproceedings{Pletscher:SpanningCRF:2009,
  author    = {Pletscher, Patrick and Ong, Cheng Soon and
               Buhmann, Joachim M.},
  title     = {Spanning Tree Approximations for Conditional Random Fields},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence and Statistics ({AISTATS}) 2009},
  year      = {2009},
  pages     = {408--415},
  editor    = {D. van Dyk and M. Welling},
  publisher = {JMLR: W\&CP 5},
  address   = {Clearwater Beach, Florida}
}

Matthew Brand & Patrick Pletscher
A conditional random field for automatic photo editing
Proceedings of the IEEE Conferencer on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008.
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@inproceedings{BrandP:CRFAutomaticPhotoEditing:2008,
  author    = {Matthew Brand and Patrick Pletscher},
  title     = {A conditional random field for automatic photo editing},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} Conference on Computer
               Vision and Pattern Recognition ({CVPR})},
  year      = {2008},
}

Isabelle Guyon, Jiwen Li, Theodor Mader, Patrick Pletscher, Georg Schneider & Markus Uhr
Competitive baseline methods set new standards for the NIPS 2003 feature selection benchmark
Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 28, Issue 12, September 2007, Pages 1438-1444.
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@article{GuyonLMPSU:BaselineMethods:2007,
  author    = {Isabelle Guyon and Jiwen Li and Theodor Mader and
               Patrick A. Pletscher and Georg Schneider and Markus Uhr},
  title     = {Competitive baseline methods set new standards for the
               {NIPS} 2003 feature selection benchmark},
  journal   = {Pattern Recognition Letters},
  volume    = {28},
  number    = {12},
  year      = {2007},
  issn      = {0167-8655},
  pages     = {1438--1444},
  doi       = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2007.02.014},
  publisher = {Elsevier Science Inc.},
  address   = {New York, NY, USA},
}

Patrick Pletscher
Model order selection: Criteria, inference strategies and an application to biclustering
Master's thesis, ETH Zurich, September 2007.
Supervised by Peter Orbanz and Prof. Buhmann.
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@mastersthesis{Pletscher:MAThesis:2007,
  author  = {Patrick Pletscher},
  title   = {{Model order selection: Criteria, inference
              strategies and an application to biclustering}},
  school  = {ETH Zurich},
  address = {Switzerland},
  year    = {2007},
  month   = {September},
}

Peptide Assignment Validation
Semester thesis in machine learning, 2006.
Supervised by Bernd Fischer and Prof. Buhmann.
[PDF] [talk] [BibTeX]

@misc{Pletscher:PeptideAssignmentValidation:2006,
  author  = {Patrick Pletscher},
  title   = {{Peptide Assignment Validation: Telling what's wrong without
              actually knowing what's right}},
  school  = {ETH Zurich},
  address = {Switzerland},
  year    = {2006},
  month   = {April},
  note    = {semester project report},
}

Adaptive Security of Compositions
Semester thesis in cryptography, 2005.
Supervised by Krzysztof Pietrzak and Prof. Maurer.
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@misc{Pletscher:AdaptiveSecurity:2005,
  author  = {Patrick Pletscher},
  title   = {{Adaptive security of compositions}},
  school  = {ETH Zurich},
  address = {Switzerland},
  year    = {2005},
  month   = {July},
  note    = {semester project report},
}