Machine learning methods often face a tradeoff between the accuracy of discriminative models and the lower sample complexity of their generative counterparts. This inspires a need for hybrid methods. In this paper we present ...

The microbial communities of animal intestines are composed of dozens to hundreds of species and play important roles in host development, health and disease. Due to the complexity of these communities, the determinants ...

Humans and other mammals possess two remarkable abilities: the capacity to store and retrieve a seemingly boundless series of episodic memories, and the capacity to quickly make sense of and navigate their changing ...

Many large networked systems ranging from the Internet to ones deployed atop the Internet (e.g., Amazon) play critical roles in our daily lives. In these systems, individual nodes (e.g., a computer) establish a physical ...