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ALT
2002
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
How to Achieve Minimax Expected Kullback-Leibler Distance from an Unknown Finite Distribution
Abstract. We consider a problem that is related to the “Universal Encoding Problem” from information theory. The basic goal is to find rules that map “partial information”...
Dietrich Braess, Jürgen Forster, Tomas Sauer,...
PAMI
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Latent-Space Variational Bayes
Variational Bayesian Expectation-Maximization (VBEM), an approximate inference method for probabilistic models based on factorizing over latent variables and model parameters, has ...
JaeMo Sung, Zoubin Ghahramani, Sung Yang Bang
ESANN
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Approximately unbiased estimation of conditional variance in heteroscedastic kernel ridge regression
In this paper we extend a form of kernel ridge regression for data characterised by a heteroscedastic noise process (introduced in Foxall et al. [1]) in order to provide approxima...
Gavin C. Cawley, Nicola L. C. Talbot, Robert J. Fo...
CEC
2011
IEEE
12 years 5 months ago
Stochastic Natural Gradient Descent by estimation of empirical covariances
—Stochastic relaxation aims at finding the minimum of a fitness function by identifying a proper sequence of distributions, in a given model, that minimize the expected value o...
Luigi Malagò, Matteo Matteucci, Giovanni Pi...
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Model-based function approximation in reinforcement learning
Reinforcement learning promises a generic method for adapting agents to arbitrary tasks in arbitrary stochastic environments, but applying it to new real-world problems remains di...
Nicholas K. Jong, Peter Stone