The classical probabilistic models attempt to capture the Ad hoc information retrieval problem within a rigorous probabilistic framework. It has long been recognized that the prim...
Internet supercomputing is becoming an increasingly popular means for harnessing the power of a vast number of interconnected computers. This comes at a cost substantially lower t...
Seda Davtyan, Kishori M. Konwar, Alexander A. Shva...
We consider the problem of continuously maintaining order sketches over data streams with a relative rank error guarantee . Novel space-efficient and one-scan randomised technique...
Eligibility traces have been shown to speed reinforcement learning, to make it more robust to hidden states, and to provide a link between Monte Carlo and temporal-difference meth...
Doina Precup, Richard S. Sutton, Satinder P. Singh
The computation of page importance in a huge dynamic graph has recently attracted a lot of attention because of the web. Page importance, or page rank is defined as the fixpoint o...