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CEC
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—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...
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. The recently introduced family of natural evolution strategies (NES), a novel stochastic descent method employing the natural gradient, is providing a more principled alt...
NIPS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
We present four new reinforcement learning algorithms based on actor-critic and natural-gradient ideas, and provide their convergence proofs. Actor-critic reinforcement learning m...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) uses approximate gradients estimated from subsets of the training data and updates the parameters in an online fashion. This learning framework i...
ECML
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
This paper investigates a novel model-free reinforcement learning architecture, the Natural Actor-Critic. The actor updates are based on stochastic policy gradients employing Amari...