David Heckerman

Orcid: 0000-0002-4274-6084

Affiliations:
  • Amazon
  • Microsoft Research (former)


According to our database1, David Heckerman authored at least 140 papers between 1985 and 2023.

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ACM Fellow 2011, "For contributions to reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty.".

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2023
Heckerthoughts.
CoRR, 2023

2022
End-to-End Balancing for Causal Continuous Treatment-Effect Estimation.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2022

Why Did They Do That?
Proceedings of the Probabilistic and Causal Inference: The Works of Judea Pearl, 2022

2021
Likelihoods and Parameter Priors for Bayesian Networks.
CoRR, 2021

Parameter Priors for Directed Acyclic Graphical Models and the Characterization of Several Probability Distributions.
CoRR, 2021

Debiasing Concept-based Explanations with Causal Analysis.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021

2020
Debiasing Concept Bottleneck Models with Instrumental Variables.
CoRR, 2020

A Tutorial on Learning With Bayesian Networks.
CoRR, 2020

2019
Toward Accounting for Hidden Common Causes When Inferring Cause and Effect from Observational Data.
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol., 2019

Embedded Bayesian Network Classifiers.
CoRR, 2019

Exploiting High Dimensionality in Big Data.
Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2019

2018
Ensembles of Lasso Screening Rules.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 2018

Accounting for hidden common causes when inferring cause and effect from observational data.
CoRR, 2018

2016
Dependence and Relevance: A probabilistic view.
CoRR, 2016

2015
ConPADE: Genome Assembly Ploidy Estimation from Next-Generation Sequencing Data.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2015

Computational and statistical issues in personalized medicine.
XRDS, 2015

2014
Variations on undirected graphical models and their relationships.
Kybernetika, 2014

Modular Belief Updates and Confusion about Measures of Certainty in Artificial Intelligence Research.
CoRR, 2014

Literome: PubMed-scale genomic knowledge base in the cloud.
Bioinform., 2014

Greater power and computational efficiency for kernel-based association testing of sets of genetic variants.
Bioinform., 2014

2013
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (1993)
CoRR, 2013

Probabilistic Interpretations for MYCIN's Certainty Factors
CoRR, 2013

The Myth of Modularity in Rule-Based Systems
CoRR, 2013

The Role of Calculi in Uncertain Inference Systems
CoRR, 2013

The Compilation of Decision Models
CoRR, 2013

Practical and Theoretical Advances in Knowledge Acquisition of Probabilistic Networks
CoRR, 2013

A powerful and efficient set test for genetic markers that handles confounders.
Bioinform., 2013

2012
Inferring novel associations between SNP sets and gene sets in eQTL study using sparse graphical model.
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, 2012

2011
Correction for Hidden Confounders in the Genetic Analysis of Gene Expression (Abstract).
Proceedings of the UAI 2011, 2011

2009
PhyloDet: a scalable visualization tool for mapping multiple traits to large evolutionary trees.
Bioinform., 2009

Healthcare delivery in developing countries: challenges and potential solutions.
Proceedings of the Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, 2009

2008
A Tutorial on Learning with Bayesian Networks.
Proceedings of the Innovations in Bayesian Networks: Theory and Applications, 2008

Comparison of Immunogen Designs That Optimize Peptide Coverage: Reply to Fischer et al.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2008

Statistical Resolution of Ambiguous HLA Typing Data.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2008

Phylogenetic Dependency Networks: Inferring Patterns of CTL Escape and Codon Covariation in HIV-1 Gag.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2008

Shift-Invariant Adaptive Double Threading: Learning MHC II-Peptide Binding.
J. Comput. Biol., 2008

Continuous Time Dynamic Topic Models.
Proceedings of the UAI 2008, 2008

2007
Coping with Viral Diversity in HIV Vaccine Design.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2007

A Statistical Framework for Modeling HLA-Dependent T Cell Response Data.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2007

Leveraging Information Across HLA Alleles/Supertypes Improves Epitope Prediction.
J. Comput. Biol., 2007

Spam and the ongoing battle for the inbox.
Commun. ACM, 2007

Determining the Number of Non-Spurious Arcs in a Learned DAG Model: Investigation of a Bayesian and a Frequentist Approach.
Proceedings of the UAI 2007, 2007

2006
Considering Cost Asymmetry in Learning Classifiers.
J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2006

Learning MHC I - peptide binding.
Proceedings of the Proceedings 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2006, 2006

2005
An MDP-Based Recommender System.
J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2005

The First Conference on E-mail and Anti-Spam.
AI Mag., 2005

Using epitomes to model genetic diversity: Rational design of HIV vaccines.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18 [Neural Information Processing Systems, 2005

On the Path to an Ideal ROC Curve: Considering Cost Asymmetry in Learning Classifiers.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2005

2004
Large-Sample Learning of Bayesian Networks is NP-Hard.
J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2004

ARMA Time-Series Modeling with Graphical Models.
Proceedings of the UAI '04, 2004

Joint Discovery of Haplotype Blocks and Complex Trait Associations from SNP Sequences.
Proceedings of the UAI '04, 2004

Graphical models for data mining.
Proceedings of the Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2004

Efficient approximations for learning phylogenetic HMM models from data.
Proceedings of the Proceedings Twelfth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/Third European Conference on Computational Biology 2004, 2004

2003
Targeted Advertising on the Web with Inventory Management.
Interfaces, 2003

Model-Based Clustering and Visualization of Navigation Patterns on a Web Site.
Data Min. Knowl. Discov., 2003

Learning Bayesian Networks From Dependency Networks: A Preliminary Study.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2003

Recommendation as a Stochastic Sequential Decision Problem.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2003), 2003

2002
The Learning-Curve Sampling Method Applied to Model-Based Clustering.
J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2002

Staged Mixture Modelling and Boosting.
Proceedings of the UAI '02, 2002

CFW: A Collaborative Filtering System Using Posteriors over Weights of Evidence.
Proceedings of the UAI '02, 2002

Autoregressive Tree Models for Time-Series Analysis.
Proceedings of the Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2002

2001
Accelerating EM for Large Databases.
Mach. Learn., 2001

An Experimental Comparison of Model-Based Clustering Methods.
Mach. Learn., 2001

Statistical Models for Data Mining.
Data Min. Knowl. Discov., 2001

Separating Appearance from Deformation.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference On Computer Vision (ICCV-01), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 7-14, 2001, 2001

The Learning Curve Method Applied to Clustering.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2001

Learning mixtures of smooth, nonuniform deformation models for probabilistic image matching.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2001

2000
A comparison of scientific and engineering criteria for Bayesian model selection.
Stat. Comput., 2000

Dependency Networks for Inference, Collaborative Filtering, and Data Visualization.
J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2000

Dependency Networks for Collaborative Filtering and Data Visualization.
Proceedings of the UAI '00: Proceedings of the 16th Conference in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, June 30, 2000

A Decision Theoretic Approach to Targeted Advertising.
Proceedings of the UAI '00: Proceedings of the 16th Conference in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, June 30, 2000

Targeted advertising with inventory management.
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-00), 2000

Visualization of navigation patterns on a Web site using model-based clustering.
Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, 2000

1999
Parameter Priors for Directed Acyclic Graphical Models and the Characteriration of Several Probability Distributions.
Proceedings of the UAI '99: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, July 30, 1999

Fast Learning from Sparse Data.
Proceedings of the UAI '99: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, July 30, 1999

On the geometry of DAG models with hidden variables.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 1999

1998
Anonymous Microsoft Web Data.
Dataset, October, 1998

Probabilistic relevance relations.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part A, 1998

Learning Mixtures of DAG Models.
Proceedings of the UAI '98: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1998

An Experimental Comparison of Several Clustering and Initialization Methods.
Proceedings of the UAI '98: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1998

The Lumière Project: Bayesian User Modeling for Inferring the Goals and Needs of Software Users.
Proceedings of the UAI '98: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1998

Inferring Informational Goals from Free-Text Queries: A Bayesian Approach.
Proceedings of the UAI '98: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1998

Empirical Analysis of Predictive Algorithms for Collaborative Filtering.
Proceedings of the UAI '98: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1998

A Tutorial on Learning with Bayesian Networks.
Proceedings of the Learning in Graphical Models, 1998

Asymptotic Model Selection for Directed Networks with Hidden Variables.
Proceedings of the Learning in Graphical Models, 1998

1997
Probabilistic Independence Networks for Hidden Markov Probability Models.
Neural Comput., 1997

Efficient Approximations for the Marginal Likelihood of Bayesian Networks with Hidden Variables.
Mach. Learn., 1997

Bayesian Networks for Data Mining.
Data Min. Knowl. Discov., 1997

Structure and Parameter Learning for Causal Independence and Causal Interaction Models.
Proceedings of the UAI '97: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1997

Models and Selection Criteria for Regression and Classification.
Proceedings of the UAI '97: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1997

A Bayesian Approach to Learning Bayesian Networks with Local Structure.
Proceedings of the UAI '97: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1997

Challenge: What is the Impact of Bayesian Networks on Learning?
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1997

1996
Causal independence for probability assessment and inference using Bayesian networks.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part A, 1996

Decision-theoretic case-based reasoning.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part A, 1996

Knowledge Representation and Inference in Similarity Networks and Bayesian Multinets.
Artif. Intell., 1996

Asymptotic Model Selection for Directed Networks with Hidden Variables.
Proceedings of the UAI '96: Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1996

Efficient Approximations for the Marginal Likelihood of Incomplete Data Given a Bayesian Network.
Proceedings of the UAI '96: Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1996

Decision-Theoretic Troubleshooting: A Framework for Repair and Experiment.
Proceedings of the UAI '96: Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1996

Bayesian Networks for Knowledge Discovery.
Proceedings of the Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining., 1996

Probabilistic and Bayesian Representations of Uncertainty in Information Systems: A Pragmatic Introduction.
Proceedings of the Uncertainty Management in Information Systems: From Needs to Solution., 1996

1995
Learning Bayesian Networks: The Combination of Knowledge and Statistical Data.
Mach. Learn., 1995

Decision-Theoretic Foundations for Causal Reasoning.
J. Artif. Intell. Res., 1995

On Finding a Cycle Basis with a Shortest Maximal Cycle.
Inf. Process. Lett., 1995

Editorial: real-world applications of uncertain reasoning.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 1995

Real-World Applications of Bayesian Networks - Introduction.
Commun. ACM, 1995

Bayesian Networks.
Commun. ACM, 1995

Decision-Theoretic Troubleshooting.
Commun. ACM, 1995

A Definition and Graphical Representation for Causality.
Proceedings of the UAI '95: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1995

Learning Bayesian Networks: A Unification for Discrete and Gaussian Domains.
Proceedings of the UAI '95: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1995

A Bayesian Approach to Learning Causal Networks.
Proceedings of the UAI '95: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1995

A Characterization of the Dirichlet Distribution with Application to Learning Bayesian Networks.
Proceedings of the UAI '95: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1995

Learning With Bayesian Networks (Abstract).
Proceedings of the Machine Learning, 1995

1994
A Decision-based View of Causality.
Proceedings of the UAI '94: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1994

A New Look at Causal Independence.
Proceedings of the UAI '94: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1994

Learning Gaussian Networks.
Proceedings of the UAI '94: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1994

1993
An Approximate Nonmyopic Computation for Value of Information.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 1993

Diagnosis of Multiple Faults: A Sensitivity Analysis.
Proceedings of the UAI '93: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1993

Causal Independence for Knowledge Acquisition and Inference.
Proceedings of the UAI '93: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1993

Inference Algorithms for Similarity Networks.
Proceedings of the UAI '93: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1993

1992
From certainty factors to belief networks.
Artif. Intell. Medicine, 1992

1991
Advances in Probabilistic Reasoning.
Proceedings of the UAI '91: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1991

Probabilistic similarity networks.
ACM Doctoral dissertation awards, MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-08206-8, 1991

1990
Probabilistic similarity networks.
Networks, 1990

A combination of cutset conditioning with clique-tree propagation in the Pathfinder system.
Proceedings of the UAI '90: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1990

Problem formulation as the reduction of a decision model.
Proceedings of the UAI '90: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1990

Similarity networks for the construction of multiple-faults belief networks.
Proceedings of the UAI '90: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1990

separable and transitive graphoids.
Proceedings of the UAI '90: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1990

1989
A Tractable Inference Algorithm for Diagnosing Multiple Diseases.
Proceedings of the UAI '89: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1989

Reflection and Action Under Scarce Resources: Theoretical Principles and Empirical Study.
Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Detroit, 1989

1988
A perspective on confidence and its use in focusing attention during knowledge acquisition.
Int. J. Approx. Reason., 1988

An empirical comparison of three inference methods.
Proceedings of the UAI '88: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1988

1987
Thinking Backward for Knowledge Acquisition.
AI Mag., 1987

A Bayesian Perspective on Confidence.
Proceedings of the UAI '87: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1987

On the Expressiveness of Rule-based Systems for Reasoning with Uncertainty.
Proceedings of the 6th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Seattle, 1987

1986
A backwards view for assessment.
Proceedings of the UAI '86: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1986

The myth of modularity in rule-based systems for reasoning with uncertainty.
Proceedings of the UAI '86: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1986

An axiomatic framework for belief updates.
Proceedings of the UAI '86: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1986

A Framework for Comparing Alternative Formalisms for Plausible Reasoning.
Proceedings of the 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Philadelphia, 1986

1985
The Inconsistent Use of Measures of Certainty in Artificial Intelligence Research.
Proceedings of the UAI '85: Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1985

Probabilistic Interpretation for MYCIN's Certainty Factors.
Proceedings of the UAI '85: Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1985


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