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FOCS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Improving reinforcement learning function approximators via neuroevolution
Reinforcement learning problems are commonly tackled with temporal difference methods, which use dynamic programming and statistical sampling to estimate the long-term value of ta...
Shimon Whiteson
TSP
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Variance-component based sparse signal reconstruction and model selection
We propose a variance-component probabilistic model for sparse signal reconstruction and model selection. The measurements follow an underdetermined linear model, where the unknown...
Kun Qiu, Aleksandar Dogandzic
SIAMCO
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Consistent Approximations and Approximate Functions and Gradients in Optimal Control
As shown in [7], optimal control problems with either ODE or PDE dynamics can be solved efficiently using a setting of consistent approximations obtained by numerical discretizati...
Olivier Pironneau, Elijah Polak
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
New greedy myopic and existing asymptotic sequential selection procedures: preliminary empirical results
Statistical selection procedures can identify the best of a finite set of alternatives, where “best” is defined in terms of the unknown expected value of each alternative’...
Stephen E. Chick, Jürgen Branke, Christian Sc...