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ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Fast, Bottom-Up Decision Tree Pruning Algorithm with Near-Optimal Generalization
In this work, we present a new bottom-up algorithmfor decision tree pruning that is very e cient requiring only a single pass through the given tree, and prove a strong performanc...
Michael J. Kearns, Yishay Mansour
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Multi-criteria Reinforcement Learning
Csaba Szepesvári, Zoltán Gábo...
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Bayesian Network Classification with Continuous Attributes: Getting the Best of Both Discretization and Parametric Fitting
In a recent paper, Friedman, Geiger, and Goldszmidt [8] introduced a classifier based on Bayesian networks, called Tree Augmented Naive Bayes (TAN), that outperforms naive Bayes a...
Moisés Goldszmidt, Nir Friedman, Thomas J. ...
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
An Efficient Boosting Algorithm for Combining Preferences
We study the problem of learning to accurately rank a set of objects by combining a given collection of ranking or preference functions. This problem of combining preferences aris...
Yoav Freund, Raj D. Iyer, Robert E. Schapire, Yora...
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Relational Reinforcement Learning
Relational reinforcement learning (RRL) is both a young and an old eld. In this paper, we trace the history of the eld to related disciplines, outline some current work and promis...
Kurt Driessens
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
The MAXQ Method for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
This paper presents a new approach to hierarchical reinforcement learning based on the MAXQ decomposition of the value function. The MAXQ decomposition has both a procedural seman...
Thomas G. Dietterich
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Multiagent Reinforcement Learning: Theoretical Framework and an Algorithm
In this paper, we adopt general-sum stochastic games as a framework for multiagent reinforcement learning. Our work extends previous work by Littman on zero-sum stochastic games t...
Junling Hu, Michael P. Wellman
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Feature Selection via Concave Minimization and Support Vector Machines
Computational comparison is made between two feature selection approaches for nding a separating plane that discriminates between two point sets in an n-dimensional feature space ...
Paul S. Bradley, Olvi L. Mangasarian
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Learning Collaborative Information Filters
Predicting items a user would like on the basis of other users' ratings for these items has become a well-established strategy adopted by many recommendation services on the ...
Daniel Billsus, Michael J. Pazzani