With increasingly conceiving learning as a social activity, technological support must become more aware of the social context of the individual in order to be able to provide adeq...
Although semi-supervised learning has been an active area of research, its use in deployed applications is still relatively rare because the methods are often difficult to impleme...
Distance metric learning and nonlinear dimensionality reduction are two interesting and active topics in recent years. However, the connection between them is not thoroughly studi...
lative Novelty to Identify Useful Temporal Abstractions in Reinforcement Learning ?Ozg?ur S?im?sek ozgur@cs.umass.edu Andrew G. Barto barto@cs.umass.edu Department of Computer Scie...
Abstract. The nature of the activities that take place in Exploratory Learning Environments allow generating a variety of learner trajectories and makes difficult to develop a mod...