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INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
The Impact of Stochastic Noisy Feedback on Distributed Network Utility Maximization
—The implementation of distributed network utility maximization (NUM) algorithms hinges heavily on information feedback through message passing among network elements. In practic...
Junshan Zhang, Dong Zheng, Mung Chiang
NIPS
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Signal-to-Noise Ratio Analysis of Policy Gradient Algorithms
Policy gradient (PG) reinforcement learning algorithms have strong (local) convergence guarantees, but their learning performance is typically limited by a large variance in the e...
John W. Roberts, Russ Tedrake
PODC
2000
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Efficient atomic broadcast using deterministic merge
We present an approach for merging message streams from producers distributed over a network, using a deterministic algorithm that is independent of any nondeterminism of the syst...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Robert E. Strom
GECCO
2007
Springer
215views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
Addressing sampling errors and diversity loss in UMDA
Estimation of distribution algorithms replace the typical crossover and mutation operators by constructing a probabilistic model and generating offspring according to this model....
Jürgen Branke, Clemens Lode, Jonathan L. Shap...
IMC
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
On unbiased sampling for unstructured peer-to-peer networks
This paper addresses the difficult problem of selecting representative samples of peer properties (e.g., degree, link bandwidth, number of files shared) in unstructured peer-to-p...
Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick G. Duffield, S...