Abstract. We study predicate selection functions (also known as splitting rules) for structural decision trees and propose two improvements to existing schemes. The first is in cl...
We describe a new approach to real time learning of unknown functions based on an interpolating wavelet estimation. We choose a subfamily of a wavelet basis relying on nested hiera...
We introduce an algorithm that simultaneously estimates a classification function as well as its gradient in the supervised learning framework. The motivation for the algorithm is...
We consider the task of reinforcement learning in an environment in which rare significant events occur independently of the actions selected by the controlling agent. If these ev...
Past empirical work has shown that learning multiple related tasks from data simultaneously can be advantageous in terms of predictive performance relative to learning these tasks...