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AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Relative Entropy Policy Search
Policy search is a successful approach to reinforcement learning. However, policy improvements often result in the loss of information. Hence, it has been marred by premature conv...
Jan Peters, Katharina Mülling, Yasemin Altun
AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Finding Semantic Inconsistencies in UMLS using Answer Set Programming
We introduce a new method to find semantic inconsistencies (i.e., concepts with erroneous synonymity) in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). The idea is to identify the in...
Halit Erdogan, Olivier Bodenreider, Esra Erdem
AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Sequential Incremental-Value Auctions
We study the distributed allocation of tasks to cooperating robots in real time, where each task has to be assigned to exactly one robot so that the sum of the latencies of all ta...
Xiaoming Zheng, Sven Koenig
AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Parallel Depth First Proof Number Search
The depth first proof number search (df-pn) is an effective and popular algorithm for solving and-or tree problems by using proof and disproof numbers. This paper presents a simpl...
Tomoyuki Kaneko
AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Predicting the Importance of Newsfeed Posts and Social Network Friends
As users of social networking websites expand their network of friends, they are often flooded with newsfeed posts and status updates, most of which they consider to be understand...
Tim Paek, Michael Gamon, Scott Counts, David Maxwe...
AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Finite-State Controllers Based on Mealy Machines for Centralized and Decentralized POMDPs
Existing controller-based approaches for centralized and decentralized POMDPs are based on automata with output known as Moore machines. In this paper, we show that several advant...
Christopher Amato, Blai Bonet, Shlomo Zilberstein
AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Hydra: Automatically Configuring Algorithms for Portfolio-Based Selection
The AI community has achieved great success in designing high-performance algorithms for hard combinatorial problems, given both considerable domain knowledge and considerable eff...
Lin Xu, Holger Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown
AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
SixthSense: Fast and Reliable Recognition of Dead Ends in MDPs
The results of the latest International Probabilistic Planning Competition (IPPC-2008) indicate that the presence of dead ends, states with no trajectory to the goal, makes MDPs h...
Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld
AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Integrating Expert Knowledge and Experience
A major challenge in the field of AI is combining symbolic and statistical techniques. My dissertation work aims to bridge this gap in the domain of real-time strategy games.
Ben George Weber
AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Multi-Label Learning with Weak Label
Multi-label learning deals with data associated with multiple labels simultaneously. Previous work on multi-label learning assumes that for each instance, the "full" lab...
Yu-Yin Sun, Yin Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou