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1993
13 years 6 months ago
Using Local Trajectory Optimizers to Speed Up Global Optimization in Dynamic Programming
Dynamic programming provides a methodology to develop planners and controllers for nonlinear systems. However, general dynamic programming is computationally intractable. We have ...
Christopher G. Atkeson
NIPS
1993
13 years 6 months ago
Convergence of Stochastic Iterative Dynamic Programming Algorithms
Recent developments in the area of reinforcement learning have yielded a number of new algorithms for the prediction and control of Markovian environments. These algorithms,includ...
Tommi Jaakkola, Michael I. Jordan, Satinder P. Sin...
NIPS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Local Algorithms for Approximate Inference in Minor-Excluded Graphs
We present a new local approximation algorithm for computing MAP and logpartition function for arbitrary exponential family distribution represented by a finite-valued pair-wise ...
Kyomin Jung, Devavrat Shah
NIPS
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Predicting Lifetimes in Dynamically Allocated Memory
Predictions oflifetimesofdynamicallyallocated objects can be used to improve time and space e ciency of dynamic memory management in computer programs. Barrett and Zorn 1993] used...
David A. Cohn, Satinder P. Singh
NIPS
1994
13 years 6 months ago
Using a neural net to instantiate a deformable model
Deformable models are an attractive approach to recognizing nonrigid objects which have considerable within class variability. However, there are severe search problems associated...
Christopher K. I. Williams, Michael Revow, Geoffre...