Alexander Ihler

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
112 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Alexander Ihler is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Ihler has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 36 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 15 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Alexander Ihler's work include Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (43 papers), Machine Learning and Algorithms (28 papers) and Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference (14 papers). Alexander Ihler is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (43 papers), Machine Learning and Algorithms (28 papers) and Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference (14 papers). Alexander Ihler collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Ireland. Alexander Ihler's co-authors include Alan S. Willsky, Padhraic Smyth, John W. Fisher, Randolph L. Moses, Erik B. Sudderth, William T. Freeman, Arthur Asuncion, David Newman, Max Welling and Ian R. Porteous and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bioinformatics and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Ihler

104 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Nonparametric belief propagation for self-localization of sensor networks

2005 394 citations Alexander Ihler, John W. Fisher et al. profile →
Fast collapsed gibbs sampling for latent dirichlet allocation

2008 370 citations Alexander Ihler, Arthur Asuncion et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Hybrid Reactive Routing Protocol for Decentralized UAV Networks 2025 ·IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ·(unknown), Alexander Ihler, Elizabeth Serena Bentley, Sunil Kumar	1
2	Pipe Routing with Topology Control for Decentralized and Autonomous UAV Networks 2025 ·Drones ·(unknown), (unknown), Alexander Ihler, Elizabeth Serena Bentley, Sunil Kumar	1
3	A Cross-Layer, Mobility, and Congestion-Aware Routing Protocol for UAV Networks 2022 ·IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ·(unknown), Alexander Ihler, Elizabeth Serena Bentley, Sunil Kumar	10
4	Empirical Study of MC-Dropout in Various Astronomical Observing Conditions. 2019 ·Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ·(unknown), Alexander Ihler, D. Kirkby	2
5	Join Graph Decomposition Bounds for Influence Diagrams 2018 ·Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence ·Junkyu Lee, Alexander Ihler, Rina Dechter	2
6	ContextNet: Deep learning for Star Galaxy Classification 2018 ·International Conference on Machine Learning ·(unknown), D. Kirkby, Alexander Ihler, Javier Sánchez	3
7	Finite-sample Bounds for Marginal MAP 2018 ·Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence ·Qi Lou, Rina Dechter, Alexander Ihler	0
8	Dynamic Importance Sampling for Anytime Bounds of the Partition Function 2017 ·Neural Information Processing Systems ·Qi Lou, Rina Dechter, Alexander Ihler	7
9	Pushing forward marginal map with best-first search 2015 ·International Conference on Artificial Intelligence ·Radu Marinescu, Rina Dechter, Alexander Ihler	6
10	Incremental region selection for mini-bucket elimination bounds 2015 ·Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence ·(unknown), Alexander Ihler	1
11	Probabilistic variational bounds for graphical models 2015 ·neural information processing systems ·Qiang Liu, John W. Fisher, Alexander Ihler	8
12	Variational Planning for Graph-based MDPs 2013 ·Neural Information Processing Systems ·Qiang Cheng, Qiang Liu, Feng Chen, Alexander Ihler	11
13	Brain and muscle Arnt-like protein-1 (BMAL1) controls circadian cell proliferation and susceptibility to UVB-induced DNA damage in the epidermis 2012 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Mikhail Geyfman, Vivek Kumar, Qiang Liu, Rolando Ruiz, William Gordon, (unknown), Éric Le Cam, Sarah E. Millar, Padhraic Smyth, Alexander Ihler, Joseph S. Takahashi, Bogi Andersen	185
14	A cluster-cumulant expansion at the fixed points of belief propagation 2012 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Max Welling, (unknown), Alexander Ihler	3
15	Variational algorithms for marginal MAP 2011 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Qiang Liu, Alexander Ihler	21
16	Particle Filtered MCMC-MLE with Connections to Contrastive Divergence 2010 ·International Conference on Machine Learning ·Arthur Asuncion, Qiang Liu, Alexander Ihler, Padhraic Smyth	11
17	Learning with Blocks: Composite Likelihood and Contrastive Divergence 2010 ·International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics ·Arthur Asuncion, Qiang Liu, Alexander Ihler, Padhraic Smyth	24
18	Particle Belief Propagation 2009 ·International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics ·Alexander Ihler, David McAllester	74
19	Accuracy bounds for belief propagation 2007 ·Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence ·Alexander Ihler	15
20	Loopy Belief Propagation: Convergence and Effects of Message Errors 2005 ·Journal of Machine Learning Research ·Alexander Ihler, John W. Fischer, Alan S. Willsky	188

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