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NIPS
2000
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On Reversing Jensen's Inequality
Jensen's inequality is a powerful mathematical tool and one of the workhorses in statistical learning. Its applications therein include the EM algorithm, Bayesian estimation ...
Tony Jebara, Alex Pentland
NIPS
1997
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Reinforcement Learning with Hierarchies of Machines
We present a new approach to reinforcement learning in which the policies considered by the learning process are constrained by hierarchies of partially specified machines. This ...
Ronald Parr, Stuart J. Russell
WSC
2000
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Avatar kinematics modeling for telecollaborative virtual environments
This paper introduced the application of a more efficient mathematical representation of the kinematics of avatars, or digital human beings, in telecollaborative virtual reality e...
Cristian Luciano, Pat Banerjee
AAAI
1996
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Building Steady-State Simulators via Hierarchical Feedback Decomposition
In recent years, compositional modeling and selfexplanatory simulation techniques have simplified the process of building dynamic simulators of physical systems. Building steady-s...
Nicolas F. Rouquette
ICGA
1993
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Genetic Programming of Minimal Neural Nets Using Occam's Razor
A genetic programming method is investigated for optimizing both the architecture and the connection weights of multilayer feedforward neural networks. The genotype of each networ...
Byoung-Tak Zhang, Heinz Mühlenbein