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AAAI
2010
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Reinforcement Learning Via Practice and Critique Advice
We consider the problem of incorporating end-user advice into reinforcement learning (RL). In our setting, the learner alternates between practicing, where learning is based on ac...
Kshitij Judah, Saikat Roy, Alan Fern, Thomas G. Di...
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HVEI
2010
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Statistical analysis of subjective preferences for video enhancement
Traditional Thurstone scaling (1927) constructs a perceptual scale from pairwise comparisons without providing statistical inferences. We show that subjective preferences for movi...
Russell L. Woods, PremNandhini Satgunam, P. Matthe...
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DAGSTUHL
2007
15 years 11 days ago
Sampling-based Approximation Algorithms for Multi-stage Stochastic Optimization
Stochastic optimization problems provide a means to model uncertainty in the input data where the uncertainty is modeled by a probability distribution over the possible realizatio...
Chaitanya Swamy, David B. Shmoys
NETWORKING
2007
15 years 10 days ago
Optimal Topology Design for Overlay Networks
Abstract. The topology creation is one of the most important step for the design of an overlay network. Traffic characteristic and volume, and behavior of nodes which can be sel...
Mina Kamel, Caterina M. Scoglio, Todd Easton
NIPS
2007
15 years 10 days ago
Contraction Properties of VLSI Cooperative Competitive Neural Networks of Spiking Neurons
A non–linear dynamic system is called contracting if initial conditions are forgotten exponentially fast, so that all trajectories converge to a single trajectory. We use contra...
Emre Neftci, Elisabetta Chicca, Giacomo Indiveri, ...