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ESANN
2003
15 years 2 months ago
Robust Vector Quantization for Burst Error Channels Using Genetic Algorithm
This paper presents a novel vector quantizer (VQ) design algorithm for a burst error channel (BEC). The algorithm minimizes the average distortion when the BEC is in normal state o...
Wen-Jyi Hwang, Chien-Min Ou, Chin-Ming Yeh
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TREC
2001
15 years 2 months ago
Keep It Simple Sheffield - A KISS Approach to the Arabic Track
Sheffield's participation in the inaugural Arabic cross language track is described here. Our goal was to examine how well one could achieve retrieval of Arabic text with the...
Mark Sanderson, Asaad Alberair
UAI
2001
15 years 2 months ago
The Optimal Reward Baseline for Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning
There exist a number of reinforcement learning algorithms which learn by climbing the gradient of expected reward. Their long-run convergence has been proved, even in partially ob...
Lex Weaver, Nigel Tao
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ISICT
2003
15 years 2 months ago
An evolutionary approach for reducing the energy in address buses
In this paper we present a genetic approach for the efficient generation of an encoder to minimize switching activity on the high-capacity lines of a communication bus. The appro...
Giuseppe Ascia, Vincenzo Catania, Maurizio Palesi,...
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ECCV
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Fast Optimization for Mixture Prior Models
Abstract. We consider the minimization of a smooth convex function regularized by the mixture of prior models. This problem is generally difficult to solve even each simpler regula...
Junzhou Huang, Shaoting Zhang, Dimitris N. Metaxas