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ECML
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Multi-armed Bandit Algorithms and Empirical Evaluation
The multi-armed bandit problem for a gambler is to decide which arm of a K-slot machine to pull to maximize his total reward in a series of trials. Many real-world learning and opt...
Joannès Vermorel, Mehryar Mohri
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AAAI
2008
15 years 5 months ago
Transferring Localization Models across Space
Machine learning approaches to indoor WiFi localization involve an offline phase and an online phase. In the offline phase, data are collected from an environment to build a local...
Sinno Jialin Pan, Dou Shen, Qiang Yang, James T. K...
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ICML
2003
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Optimizing Classifier Performance via an Approximation to the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Statistic
When the goal is to achieve the best correct classification rate, cross entropy and mean squared error are typical cost functions used to optimize classifier performance. However,...
Lian Yan, Robert H. Dodier, Michael Mozer, Richard...
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ICML
2005
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Dynamic preferences in multi-criteria reinforcement learning
The current framework of reinforcement learning is based on maximizing the expected returns based on scalar rewards. But in many real world situations, tradeoffs must be made amon...
Sriraam Natarajan, Prasad Tadepalli
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ECML
1993
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Context When Learning to Classify
This paper addresses the problem of classifying observations when features are context-sensitive, specifically when the testing set involves a context that is different from the t...
Peter D. Turney