ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
We show a close relationship between the Expectation - Maximization (EM) algorithm and direct optimization algorithms such as gradientbased methods for parameter learning. We iden...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Relativized options combine model minimization methods and a hierarchical reinforcement learning framework to derive compact reduced representations of a related family of tasks. ...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
We study a class of overrelaxed bound optimization algorithms, and their relationship to standard bound optimizers, such as ExpectationMaximization, Iterative Scaling, CCCP and No...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
When the training instances of the target class are heavily outnumbered by non-target training instances, SVMs can be ineffective in determining the class boundary. To remedy this...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Naive Bayes is often used as a baseline in text classification because it is fast and easy to implement. Its severe assumptions make such efficiency possible but also adversely af...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
The paper explores a very simple agent design method called Q-decomposition, wherein a complex agent is built from simpler subagents. Each subagent has its own reward function and...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
A novel native stochastic local search algorithm for solving k-term DNF problems is presented. It is evaluated on hard k-term DNF problems that lie on the phase transition and com...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
A new method for classification is proposed. This is based on kernel orthonormalized partial least squares (PLS) dimensionality reduction of the original data space followed by a ...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
We investigate how stack filter function classes like weighted order statistics can be applied to classification problems. This leads to a new design criteria for linear classifie...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE