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ICML
2006
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Learning algorithms for online principal-agent problems (and selling goods online)
In a principal-agent problem, a principal seeks to motivate an agent to take a certain action beneficial to the principal, while spending as little as possible on the reward. This...
Vincent Conitzer, Nikesh Garera
ICML
2006
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Deterministic annealing for semi-supervised kernel machines
An intuitive approach to utilizing unlabeled data in kernel-based classification algorithms is to simply treat unknown labels as additional optimization variables. For marginbased...
Vikas Sindhwani, S. Sathiya Keerthi, Olivier Chape...
ICML
2006
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic inference for solving discrete and continuous state Markov Decision Processes
Inference in Markov Decision Processes has recently received interest as a means to infer goals of an observed action, policy recognition, and also as a tool to compute policies. ...
Marc Toussaint, Amos J. Storkey
ICML
2005
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Beyond the point cloud: from transductive to semi-supervised learning
Due to its occurrence in engineering domains and implications for natural learning, the problem of utilizing unlabeled data is attracting increasing attention in machine learning....
Vikas Sindhwani, Partha Niyogi, Mikhail Belkin
ICML
1999
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Using Reinforcement Learning to Spider the Web Efficiently
Consider the task of exploring the Web in order to find pages of a particular kind or on a particular topic. This task arises in the construction of search engines and Web knowled...
Jason Rennie, Andrew McCallum