See a PPT file with videos at www.research.microsoft.com/users/jojic/FlexiblesSprites.htm We propose a technique for automatically learning layers of "flexible sprites" ...
Research in animal learning and behavioral neuroscience has distinguished between two forms of action control: a habit-based form, which relies on stored action values, and a goal...
Even the entire Web corpus does not explicitly answer all questions, yet inference can uncover many implicit answers. But where do inference rules come from? This paper investigat...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Jesse Davis, Oren Etzioni, D...
Abstract. The Bayesian approach to machine learning amounts to inferring posterior distributions of random variables from a probabilistic model of how the variables are related (th...
Data security is a critical issue for many organizations. Sensitive data must be protected from both inside and outside attackers. Access control policies and related mechanisms h...