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NIPS
2003
15 years 1 months ago
Approximate Policy Iteration with a Policy Language Bias
We study an approach to policy selection for large relational Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). We consider a variant of approximate policy iteration (API) that replaces the usual...
Alan Fern, Sung Wook Yoon, Robert Givan
PAMI
2002
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14 years 11 months ago
Approximate Bayes Factors for Image Segmentation: The Pseudolikelihood Information Criterion (PLIC)
We propose a method for choosing the number of colors or true gray levels in an image; this allows fully automatic segmentation of images. Our underlying probability model is a hid...
Derek C. Stanford, Adrian E. Raftery
ECCC
2006
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14 years 12 months ago
Derandomizing the AW matrix-valued Chernoff bound using pessimistic estimators and applications
Ahlswede and Winter [AW02] introduced a Chernoff bound for matrix-valued random variables, which is a non-trivial generalization of the usual Chernoff bound for real-valued random...
Avi Wigderson, David Xiao
OOPSLA
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Modeling architectural patterns using architectural primitives
Architectural patterns are a key point in architectural documentation. Regrettably, there is poor support for modeling architectural patterns, because the pattern elements are not...
Uwe Zdun, Paris Avgeriou
PKAW
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Finding Relation between PageRank and Voter Model
Abstract. Estimating influence of a node is an important problem in social network analyses. We address this problem in a particular class of model for opinion propagation in whic...
Takayasu Fushimi, Kazumi Saito, Masahiro Kimura, H...