NIPS
2001
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2001
We propose a novel clustering method that is an extension of ideas inherent to scale-space clustering and support-vector clustering. Like the latter, it associates every data poin...
NIPS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
Classical statistical learning theory studies the generalisation performance of machine learning algorithms rather indirectly. One of the main detours is that algorithms are studi...
NIPS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
We describe an algorithm for automatically learning discriminative components of objects with SVM classifiers. It is based on growing image parts by minimizing theoretical bounds ...
NIPS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
Integration in the head-direction system is a computation by which horizontal angular head velocity signals from the vestibular nuclei are integrated to yield a neural representat...
NIPS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
We present a principled and efficient planning algorithm for cooperative multiagent dynamic systems. A striking feature of our method is that the coordination and communication be...
NIPS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
We address two open theoretical questions in Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning. The first concerns the efficacy of using function approximation to represent the state action ...
NIPS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning avoid some of the undesirable properties of the value function approaches, such as policy degradation (Baxter and Bartlett, 2001...
NIPS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
In many scientific and engineering applications, detecting and understanding differences between two groups of examples can be reduced to a classical problem of training a classif...
NIPS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
A mixed-signal paradigm is presented for high-resolution parallel innerproduct computation in very high dimensions, suitable for efficient implementation of kernels in image proce...
NIPS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
Statistical learning and probabilistic inference techniques are used to infer the hand position of a subject from multi-electrode recordings of neural activity in motor cortex. Fi...