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ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Cultivating desired behaviour: policy teaching via environment-dynamics tweaks
In this paper we study, for the first time explicitly, the implications of endowing an interested party (i.e. a teacher) with the ability to modify the underlying dynamics of the ...
Zinovi Rabinovich, Lachlan Dufton, Kate Larson, Ni...
BIRD
2007
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
An Evaluation of Text Retrieval Methods for Similarity Search of Multi-dimensional NMR-Spectra
Abstract. Searching and mining nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)spectra of naturally occurring substances is an important task to investigate new potentially useful chemical compoun...
Alexander Hinneburg, Andrea Porzel, Karina Wolfram
ICML
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Information-theoretic metric learning
In this paper, we present an information-theoretic approach to learning a Mahalanobis distance function. We formulate the problem as that of minimizing the differential relative e...
Jason V. Davis, Brian Kulis, Prateek Jain, Suvrit ...
CDC
2009
IEEE
138views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
Beyond local optimality: An improved approach to hybrid model learning
Abstract-- Local convergence is a limitation of many optimization approaches for multimodal functions. For hybrid model learning, this can mean a compromise in accuracy. We develop...
Stephanie Gil, Brian Williams
ASSETS
2007
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Using participatory activities with seniors to critique, build, and evaluate mobile phones
Mobile phones can provide a number of benefits to older people. However, most mobile phone designs and form factors are targeted at younger people and middle-aged adults. To infor...
Michael Massimi, Ronald M. Baecker, Michael Wu