— This paper presents a new reinforcement learning algorithm for accelerating acquisition of new skills by real mobile robots, without requiring simulation. It speeds up Q-learni...
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an increasingly popular web service for paying people small rewards to do human computation tasks. Current uses of MTurk typically post independent para...
Greg Little, Lydia B. Chilton, Max Goldman, Robert...
: For many readers, handling a physical book is an enjoyably exquisite part of the information seeking process. Many physical characteristics of a book—its size, heft, the patina...
Yi-Chun Chu, David Bainbridge, Matt Jones, Ian H. ...
We propose a cooking system that operates in an open environment. The system cooks a meal by pouring various ingredients into a boiling pot on an induction heating cooker and adju...
Yuta Sugiura, Daisuke Sakamoto, Anusha Indrajith W...