Training principles for unsupervised learning are often derived from motivations that appear to be independent of supervised learning. In this paper we present a simple unificatio...
Reinforcement learning algorithms can become unstable when combined with linear function approximation. Algorithms that minimize the mean-square Bellman error are guaranteed to co...
The use of Bayesian networks for classification problems has received significant recent attention. Although computationally efficient, the standard maximum likelihood learning me...
The use of domain knowledge in a learner can greatly improve the models it produces. However, high-quality expert knowledge is very difficult to obtain. Traditionally, researchers...
In this paper, we present a general machine learning approach to the problem of deciding when to share probabilistic beliefs between agents for distributed monitoring. Our approac...