This paper investigates the problem of bootstrapping a statistical dialogue manager without access to training data and proposes a new probabilistic agenda-based method for simula...
Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, ...
Autonomous agents that learn about their environment can be divided into two broad classes. One class of existing learners, reinforcement learners, typically employ weak learning ...
We discuss the problem of finding a good state representation in stochastic systems with observations. We develop a duality theory that generalizes existing work in predictive sta...
Christopher Hundt, Prakash Panangaden, Joelle Pine...
Face detection systems have recently achieved high detection rates[11, 8, 5] and real-time performance[11]. However, these methods usually rely on a huge training database (around...
Quality control and resource optimization are challenging problems in peer-assisted video streaming systems, due to their large scales and unreliable peer behavior. Such systems a...